The 5th month called Av on the Hebrew calendar, God’s calendar stands for Simeon who was the 2nd son of Jacob born by Leah, as it is written in Genesis 29:33.

According to the Hebrew alphabet letter, Simeon represents the Hebrew letter called Hei, which means; Revelation, take seed, be broken. also this alphabet letter is equivalent to the number 5 (the number of God’s grace).

According to the Jewish (Hebrew) studies of kabbalah the zodiac sign of Simeon is Leo (aryeh).

In Deuteronomy 33 Moses blesses Israel, but Simeon was the only tribe he did not pronounce a blessing over.

It could be because of Moses frustration with the tribe of Simeon over their involvement in the sin of baal Pe’or, when Baalam gave evil councel to Baalam to send midianite women into the camp of the children of Israel.

It was Shimon (Simeon’s) idolatry Numbers 23:14 with foreign women and prostitution which resulted in his great evil (when the plague was released in Numbers 25:1-18). If you divide Shimon name (sham and avon) into two words, it spells “there is iniquity, i.e. sin”

Jacob speks over the tribe of Simeon in Genesis 33:5-7 “Simeon and Levi are brothers- their swords are weapons of violence.

Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly, for they have killed men in their anger and hamstrung oxen as they pleased.

Cursed be their anger, so fierce, and their fury, so cruel! I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel.

Leo, the Lion, is the zodiac sign for the month of Av and the tribe of Simeon.

The lion hovers as a symbol over Av, the most mournful month on the Hebrew calendar,
the month in which the Jewish people twice suffered the destruction of their temple and were twice exiled from their land.

Its zodiac sign is the lion, Leo, which the midrash sees as appropriate in many ways:

Israel suffered punishments because it did not heed the words of God, of whom it is said,

“A lion has roared,  Who can but fear?” (Amos 3:8).

The prophet Jeremiah described Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian destroyer of the First Temple has a lion in the verse “The lion has come up from his thicket: The destroyer of nations has set out” (Jeremiah 4:7).

And the Temple itself, like Jerusalem, is called Aries, the lion of God, as in “Ah, Ariel, Ariel” (Isaiah 29:1).

Most of the evil, (the destroying of God’s first and second temple, the bringing back of the evil report by the ten spies into the camp of Israel, the persecuting of Israel or the Jewish nation in Europe), all these evil events that intended to destroy God’s faith, people and religion all took place in this month of Av. and thus making the month into a time of mourning.

In the prophetic end time days of Hamashiach, this same month of “Av” (Zodiac sign of the month of Av) will also become the month or sign in which the evil energies of hate, Anti Semitism against God’s people and religion will be transformed and converted into the joy, the celebration and the acceptance of God’s people and God’s religion.

By: Apostle A. Ngabo