Shooting the Messenger

The Lovers

I saw this sexy guy at the grocery store yesterday, I caught up with him in produce and shot him in the chest with my iPhone. He's wearing a tight I♥NY t-shirt, and considering the recent Valentine's Day syncs from outer space, I translated it as "Eros is aiming at New York".

Suddenly, I sorta love NY too.

Getting home I note another I♥NY - this time on some sexy boxer shorts. Sort of interesting to see two sexy I♥NY syncs so close together.

This morning, my blog feed delivered two Mercury syncs, back to back, via Littlediggs.com:

"The hut then transforms into a sun drenched haven, opening up to the views of the surf and the distant Mercury Islands". 

1963 Mercury Monterey on the grassy knoll.

Container dwelling in Texas, red X marks the spot.

Two messenger syncs, back to back. And then later in the morning, I see a car blog making a reference to "The Postman Always Rings Twice".

Their love was a flame that destroyed!

"when they met, it was murder!"

Peter the Roamin'

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone. It's Eros Day, the day we all celebrate the power of love and lust. I've said before that if ever gay men had a god, he would be Eros.

Eros (Greek: Ἔρως), in Greek mythology, was the primordial god of lust, love, and intercourse; he was also worshipped as a fertility deity. His Roman counterpart was Cupid.

In early Greek thought, he is a primeval deity who embodies not only the force of erotic love but also the creative urge of ever-flowing nature, the firstborn Light for the coming into being and ordering of all things in the cosmos.

The pale blue dot.

Speaking of Cosmos and 2/14:

On this day in 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft — which carried The Golden Record, Carl Sagan’s love letter to Annie Druyan — turned its revolutionary camera around and took the iconic “Pale Blue Dot” photograph that later inspired the famous Sagan monologue of the same title. The image, composed of 640,000 individual pixels, depicts Earth, a mere 12% of a single pixel, at the center of a scattered ray of light resulting from taking an image this close to the Sun. It endures... as a timeless Valentine to the cosmos.

I wonder if we're about to get a Valentine card back from Carl Sagan's lover?

BOSTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - A newly discovered asteroid about half the size of a football field will pass nearer to Earth than any other known object of its size on Friday, giving scientists a rare opportunity for close-up observations without launching a probe.
At its closest approach, which will occur at 2:24 p.m. EST/1924 GMT, the asteroid will pass about 17,200 miles (27,520 km) above the planet traveling at 8 miles (13 km) per second, bringing it nearer than the networks of television and weather satellites that ring the planet.
Although Asteroid 2012 DA14 is the largest known object of its size to pass this close, scientists say there is no chance of an impact, this week or in the foreseeable future.

Numerologically, DA = 41, so DA14 can been read as 4114, or DAAD. Daddy? It's also a palindrome or mirrored word, something that may point to a "looking glass" event.

Brought inside the gate

We note that the asteroid is being allowed, even welcomed, within the orbits of earth's geosynchronous guardian satellites (including rumored space-based weapons). This reminds us of the "Trojan Horse" myth, which syncs with the recent Nemo winter's storm - Odysseus took the name of Nobody, (Latin: Nemo).

The Rock

St. Peter is the rock, or stone.

"On this rock (petra in Greek) I will build my church, and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it."

The Roman Catholic Church claims to be this rock, with the Pope being the living representative hierophant of Jesus. A bit odd to see the current "St. Peter" suddenly bow out and run for the hills, the very week another "rock" looms into orbit.

"like a complete unknown
Just like a rolling stone"

Hum the Close Encounters theme.

The asteroid is "half the size of a football field" - this reminds me of "half the lights" going out during the Superbowl. In any event, a football is missile shaped, again, reminding me of a secret weapon or Trojan horse.

What if "Jesus" is a microbe from space. A space seed. Asteroid DA14 (codename "Second Coming") is a robotic crop duster from Sirius, making its rounds. It lifts its leg and sprays on the nearest planet-shaped hydrant. The last time it swung through, it created self consciousness. What might develop - this time around?

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2/15/13 Update:

Meteor explodes over Russia’s Ural Mountains; 1,100 injured as shock wave blows in windows

MOSCOW — A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia’s Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb Friday, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring about 1,100 people.
The meteor hit less than a day before Asteroid 2012 DA14 is to make the closest recorded pass of an asteroid to the Earth — about 17,150 miles (28,000 kilometers). But the European Space Agency said its experts had determined there was no connection — just cosmic coincidence.

The old bait and switch. We've got all eyes on the asteroid and suddenly in comes a super sonic meteor.   I'm sure the Russian Orthodox Church is calling it a message from God, though I wonder which one?

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Curiously, Russia made the Valentine's Day news with this queer headline:

Olympic Wrestling Canceled Because Of Gay Conspiracy, Russian Coach Claims

A Russian coach furious about the International Olympic Committee's recent decision to remove wrestling from the 2020 Olympics has made an inflammatory claim about who is to blame for the move.

Speaking to Russian sports site R-Sport, Russian wrestling coach Vladimir Uruimagov said that the IOC's decision was evidence of a gay conspiracy.

“If they expel wrestling now, that means that gays will soon run the whole world,” Uruimagov said, adding that cutting wrestling from the Olympic program was “a blow to masculine origins.”

Right...

According to tradition which was made by Eratosthenes, Eros was principally the patron of male love, while Aphrodite ruled the love between men and women. His statue could be found in the palaestrae or wrestling schools, one of the principal venues for men to associate with their beloveds, and it was to him that the Spartans sacrificed before battle.

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2/17/13 Update:

The meteor hits keep on coming. The big hit was central Russia, or the "heartland" of Mother Russia, near the Ural mountains. Ural = rock (stone) and belt. Russia is the "bear", and also the state that made the red star infamous.

Meteor or fireball also witnessed in Cuba - also a "red star" state.

Fireball witnessed in San Francisco:

Curiously, both Cuba and Frisco have Castro in their memes. Castro: Castrar - to castrate.

Mum's the Word

Egypt: Hunt for Red Mercury

In Egypt, the hunt for "red mercury" continues. Yes, this is the fabled red mercury said to be used to make nuclear bombs, but specifically the red mercury of ancient Egypt seems to have other characteristics and uses, as well.

The story about red mercury comes as background to the report that at least 17 artifacts from the Egyptian Museum of Cairo are missing following an earlier reported break-in, the country's minister of antiquities Zaki Hawass said Sunday, February 13, 2011.

Hawass said the looters were looking for gold and what he called this fictitious substance named "red mercury" that, according to local lore, can be found in the THROATS of ancient MUMMIES. Some people think it has magical powers and can be used to summon spirits. --Twilight Language

Spock in the pyramid chair

“Red Matter” was also at the “heart” of the doomsday device in Star Trek 11, and the Egyptian revolution occurred on 2/11/11.

I’ve had some crazy 14, 41 synchs over the last week, Doug helped me realize they might point toward Feb. 14 - Valentine’s Day.

“Red Mercury” showed up in my inbox on 2/10, courtesy of Borders Books. I was browsing for books in their REDmond store last week, and found a triple Whore of Babylon KK:

They reminded me of this statue of Harpocrates/Eros:

“The Hunt for Red Mercury” is a play on “The Hunt for Red October”, the classic cold war thriller about a SILENT submarine. I was born in October, on the 11th. But I found my Eros partner and lover on Feb. 14th - at a Blue Valentine party. Run silent, run deep?

Cum Stained Glass

Anadae included a link to this foot fetishy image by Roman stained glass artist IKO in his comment on Less is More (BTW, the cherries are working! Thanks for all the advice and links, I have much research to do on not only gout, but my whole inflammation thing). I’m quite taken with his vision - an illumination of the sacred erotic. The combination of an ancient and sacred style with formerly taboo sexual images creates a powerful disconnect in the brain, where for a second or two we can conceive of a world that combines the sacred and the profane in holy union.

Whale Watching

Actor Andrew Koenig, who had been missing since February 14, committed suicide, his father told reporters after his son's body was found Thursday in a park in Vancouver, British Columbia. --CNN

Walter Koenig lost his son on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day. He found him on the 25, in Vancouver’s Stanley Park. My heart goes out to Andrew’s family - I also lost my younger brother to depression in 2003. However, being a synch detective is sometimes a bit like being a triage surgeon - you have to put your personal emotions aside - and get to work.

Andrew Koenig played Richard “Boner” Stabone on TV’s “Growing Pains”, nicely summed up by wklaus23 in the comments at the Secret Sun:

So "boner" went missing, and now "boner" has been found. Osiris is whole again. Things are about to get interesting...

This is exactly the same conclusion I came to after the America’s Cup series - Osiris is whole again. Remember that Osiris was cut into 14 pieces (archetypes), and these have all been found except for one - his missing phallus. Feb. 14 is the feast day of St. Valentine (AKA Eros, the God of erotic love). Andrew was 41, the inverse of 14. Koenig means “king”.

This convergence got me to thinking about the elder Koenig, who played the endearing Pavel Chekov in Star Trek TOS. He was forever confusing V’s and W’s, and perhaps his most memorable line was in Star Trek IV, “The Voyage Home”, and his requests for “nuclear wessels”.

Star Trek IV was set in 1980’s San Francisco, where they were trying to get a whale back to the 23rd century in order to save earth, yet again. The crew and Osiris/Dionysus resonating Captain Kirk are flying a Klingon Bird of Prey, which they keep in Golden Gate Park, with the cloaking device activated. “Revealing the invisible” is a strong theme in the film, the giant Horus symbol suddenly appears to whaling poachers, Scotty makes “transparent aluminum” for the whale tank.

Golden Gate Park is also a notorious gay cruising area, a place where men still gather for "whale hunting", and to share erotic love. It is mostly done “under cover”, or in other words, under a “cloaking device”. Just like the hidden bird of Horus, hidden to everyone except those who know it’s there. Vancouver’s Stanley Park is also a notorious gay cruising ground, which means it holds a hidden bird of erotic prey, or at least it did, until Andrew was found there. Somehow, I think the Cloaking Device has been de-activated. God's underwear just gave way.

Giving the Bird

Whales are mythically Leviathan, a great beast of the subconscious - often aligned with concepts of fate, God or the Id. See Moby Dick for example. Whales are also synched with phallic, masculine power, Moby Dick was a SPERM whale. Whales are also symbolically sacrificial in nature, being hunted to the brink of extinction. Unlike that other monster of the deep, the Kraken (the sperm whale’s favorite prey, BTW) the whale is useful, and sometime even friendly to man.

So I have all these symbolic pointers to San Francisco, but also to Vancouver. I was thinking how it would be perfect timing if some kind of whale story were pointed toward Vancouver right about now (I was thinking some kind of stranding, or perhaps the Japanese), but what actually happened was that an Orca "bull" in a Florida Sea World drowned his trainer on Feb. 24th, in front of a horrified audience!? Is this "whale" tired of playing the clown? Free Willy indeed.

The whale was named Tilicum, which means “friends” or “relatives” in NW Coast Chinook jargon. We have a ferry boat named Tillicum on Puget Sound, and naturally, I’m in with the San Juan Island whale watching crowd since we lived there in 2002, a boat captain is even the godfather of Oliver, our Oztralian terrier! (dogfather?)

I think things are about to get very interesting indeed, and keep your all seeing eye on Vancouver.

Grail Racing - Conclusion

Horizon Job

The 33rd America’s Cup is now history. The first race was last Wednesday in Valencia, which had the Horus resonating BMW Oracle trimaran doing a “horizon job” on Swiss defender Alinghi. On Sunday, Feb 14, (Valentine’s Day) BMWO again crossed the finish line first, winning the best of three series, and bringing the cup to San Francisco, home of the Golden Gate Yacht Club. Coincidentally, the Solar Seminar featured this tidbit about Horus, also on Wednesday:

"Rising sun" of course, is Horus in the ancient Egyptian pantheon of gods. "Horus in the HORIZON“ or more literally "Horus-rising," is symbolic of the transformation between the dimensions of life and death. --Christopher Knowles

I’ve done my best to document the semiotics connected to this event, which have exceeded even my highest expectations. We’ve seen the Italian/Swiss defender, billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli take on symbols of the Catholic church - a defender of the faith - and the status quo. But most startling were the multitude of Horus/Shiva signifiers found in the Challenger, check out the previous Grail Racing entries for the gamut.

According to the elaborate Egyptian myth, Osiris was murdered by his jealous brother, Set (sunset?) who hacked his body up into 14 pieces and threw them in different directions, to be eaten by the crocodiles.

The goddess Isis searched and searched, accompanied by seven scorpions who assisted and protected her. Each time she found new pieces she rejoined them to re-form his body. But Isis could only recover thirteen of the pieces. The fourteenth, his penis, had been swallowed by a crab, so she fashioned one from gold and wax. Then inventing the rites of embalming, and speaking some words of magic, Isis brought her husband back to life.

Magically, Isis then conceived a child with Osiris, and gave birth to Horus, who later became the Sun God. Assured that having the infant would now relieve Isis' grief, Osiris was free to descend to become the King of the Underworld, ruling over the dead and the sleeping.

I consider this to be a well embroidered tale of the “splitting” of archetypes (gods/angels) out of the primordial consciousness. And of their “re-assembly“ into a cohesive whole - the ”Body of Christ“, so to speak. Isis is collecting the archetypes, and finding a place for them in the collective consciousness. She was able to find all but one... the phallus. Fascinating that the ”hard wing“ of BMWO vs. the ”soft sail“ of Alinghi instantly became the ”school boy“ joke at sailing websites. The black trident became a phallic weapon.

Racing was delayed for many days due to the Alinghi team’s insistence on sub 15 knot weather, but even that proved to be no shield against the mighty wing of BMWO, which sailed higher and faster even in conditions designed to favor the defender at every turn. As it turns out, the delay to Feb. 14 was semiotically fortuitous, because 14 is a symbol of completion, the final assembly of the Body of Osiris/Christ.

Feb. 14, as already noted, is the feast day of St. Valentine, the Catholic version of Eros. Eros is the ”Patron Saint“ of homosexuals, and now the Cup resides in San Francisco, the one city on earth that most resonates homosexuality. Star Fleet headquarters, BTW.

It makes me wonder. Is Eros the missing archetype? The Prodigal Son? The phallus of Osiris, and the risen Son/Sun.

Below are some pics of the trident yacht that struck a chord:

Et Tu, Dionysus, Part Two

"When Hephaestus bound Hera to a magical chair, Dionysus got him drunk and brought him back to Olympus after he had passed out. For this act, he was made one of the twelve Olympians."

Here we have Spock, AKA Vulcan/Hephaestus, "drunk" from the spores of the planet Omicron Ceti III. Captain Kirk eventually rescues Spock (returning him to "Olympus"), so it makes me wonder if Tiberius Kirk isn't resonating sump'n sump'n Dionysus? Dionysus is always shown carrying his pine cone tipped thyrus, or fennel, wand (translation: always holding/playing his organ of reproduction), so interesting that Chris PINE played the most recent incarnation of Captain Kirk.

John Belushi is probably the most overt Dionysus resonating archetype from Saturday Night Live, narrowly winning out over Chevy Chase and Michael Myers. In 1978's National Lampoon's Animal House, he becomes "Bluto" (Blue toe, or maybe blue tow, as in the blue tug boat) - the patron saint of the toga party, presiding over a movie that is essentially a Dionysian coming of age/initiation ritual for Thomas Hulce - Pinto.

My own fraternity had a rather wonderful Dionysian initiation ritual: the first house kegger of the year always culminated in the upper classmen throwing the freshmen into "frosh pond" - a drunken baptism. The Kappa Sigs had a famous drinking song, another curious tradition:

"Here's to (brother's name) he's true blue, he's an asshole through and through. So may he find, at the bottom of his glass, a solid gold nugget and a piece of ass! Now drink!"

Remember that piece of ass part, because upcoming is the Dionysus myth with adult homo content.

Jim Morrison, of the Doors (door to Hades?) consciously evoked the archetype of Dionysus before his premature death due to excessive "wine". Morrison was "born again" via Valentine Kilmer, who resonates Valentine, the heart, and the gay God Eros. Val also played the "Dark Knight", that Lord of the Underworld.

When Dionysos goes to Hades to retrieve his mother, Semele, to bring her to Olympus, he meets Prosymnos on the way. According to Arthur Evans in his book The God of Ecstasy, Christian writer Clement of Alexandria reports:

Dionysos wanted to descend to Hades but did not know the way. A certain Prosymnos promised to show him for a price. The price was indecent but not for Dionysos. The price he asked of Dionysos was a sexual favor.

Upon his return from the underworld, Dionysos can’t locate Prosymnos because he has died and instead has sex with a wooden dildo made from the branch of a fig tree in order to pay his due to his guide.

So a gay man is the God of Ecstasy's guide to the Underworld??? It figures.

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Light My Fire. The Doors.