Our Australian terrier died suddenly on November 16. Oliver was well named (all love) and we are missing him like crazy. He was our "dog star", and since 17 is associated with Osiris and Sirius (the dog star), the day after was sort of nuts. I began wondering if he was somehow still alive, perhaps in another dimension, and maybe I could send him a message, or even bring him back.
My neighbor is an ex postal worker, and when we told him that Oliver had died, he told us how much he missed his old dog, Mercury. Both postal workers and Mercury are messengers!
We decided to have Oliver cremated at Precious Pets in Auburn, they have a winged logo. That was done on 11/22 - the 50th anniversary of the JFK King Kill. Angels are messengers. I began to associate fire with sending a message, or perhaps transportation, sort of like beaming up in Star Trek. Maybe Prometheus pissed off the gods because he gave mankind, not only a source of light and warmth, but a transmitter.
Making a study of sync, we often wind up with repeating numbers, colors, names, locations. They become important because we pay attention to them when they pop up. I have many of them, one of the strongest is the name Intrepid. I'm not sure where it began, but a few years ago I even named my computer Intrepid. When we moved to Port Townsend and discovered the wood stove in our new house was an Intrepid II, I figured that was a good sign.
The first Intrepid I was aware of was an America's Cup yacht, but there is also an Intrepid class starship (Voyager being the most famous) and even an aircraft carrier, currently serving as the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in NYC. There was also a Dodge Intrepid, which oddly enough is the staff car of the Chandler, AZ fire department, just south of Phoenix.
You know, that crazy bird who consumes itself in fire in order to be born again.
This winter I build fires in my little Intrepid II, and I wonder, am I also sending smoke signals to Sirius?
The Obama stars and stripes logo is known as "the stairway to Sirius", thanks to Christopher Knowles. The caduceus is the staff of Mercury, Hermes. The three stars above? Yes, the three kings of Sirius, the dog star.
6 comments:
My condolences for your loss of Oliver.
I first associate Oliver with the Charles Dickens novel, and plays and films based on the novel.
Oliver Twist, the protagonist of the story. He is a lonely orphan boy born in the workhouse.
Fagin, a conniving career criminal, takes in homeless boys and teaches them to pick pockets for him.
Taken straight from Wikipedia, I find it intriguing that this would be something worthy of nothing: "Although Dickens' novel has been called antisemitic in its portrayal of the Jew Fagin as evil, the production by Bart (himself a Jew) was more sympathetic and featured many Jewish actors in leading roles: Ron Moody (Ronald Moodnik), Georgia Brown (Lilian Klot), and Martin Horsey."
Deepest sympathies, Michael.
I often sync so hard with a lot of your stuff, but this...it's just cosmic sadness man - I have been registering Olive/Oliver/Olivia syncs and signs since 11/11.
Hugs
xo
Thanks for the comments, all. Loren, Interesting about the Dickens novel, I've seen the musical, but never read the book.
E: Oliver was 11.
Syrias A and B:
Dog star
Olivia
It's oddly not that comforting to find that my life is a fractal of Family Guy and Katy Perry fandom - I get the death without the fame, money and jokes. Great pumpkin, where are you?
We'll never be Royals . . .
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