A Christmas paper star.    This month Jupiter, Venus and Mars are all very bright in the sky. According to the account of Jesus birth the Magi followed a bright star to find the new born baby. It is not known what the star was but one explanation could be that it was  
a set of conjunctions of the planets Jupiter and Venus, and the bright star Regulus.    In this case, the mythologies associated with the objects become important.     Jupiter in Hebrew is known as ‘Sedeq’, which is often translated as meaning righteousness. Jupiter is also often viewed as being the 'king' of the planets.      Regulus itself is Latin for 'prince' or 'little king', and Venus is often viewed as a symbol of love, fertility and birth.      As such, the combination of these objects close in the sky could have led to the interpretation of the birth of the 'King of Kings'