The Book of DieselThe Light Before the Gospel“In the seventh year the sky offered a pattern none of them could dismiss and none could fully explain. Their agreement was not certainty. It was a shared willingness to risk being corrected by the road.”
The Book of Diesel · Gospel Threshold Edition v4.5
Open reconstructionThe chapter is literary theology rather than recoverable event history.
No historical source states that Matthew’s Magi prepared for seven years; this is narrative construction.
All astronomical observations and personal events are fictional.