The enigma of planetary "exaltations" in astrology has been a focus of mine for many years. In that time, I have compiled a vast collection of data - enough to fill a sizeable book. After cogitating on the subject, it is now time to coalesce everything in a (hopefully) organized manner. My aim is to … Continue reading On the Exaltation of Mars – an introduction
On October 13 of 2015, the world changed. Well, the world of astronomy, at least. This was the day that the Atlantic magazine published a story entitled “The Most Mysterious Star in Our Galaxy.” The Atlantic broke the news to the general public that a major "citizen scientist" discovery was made concerning a nearby star … Continue reading On the Exaltation of Mars – Chapter 3.1 – Tabby’s Star
In Emersion's last entry on Shakespeare, the astrological sign Taurus was found at the center of our Oxfordian thesis for the true identity of this obvious pseudonym, "Shak-Speare". This is a continuation of that effort. Subscriber Content The Oxfordian thesis also claims that the 17th Earl of Oxford was the person using the pen name … Continue reading De Vere, Shakespeare, and Taurus – Encoded Within the First Folio?
2023 is the 400th anniversary of the First Folio, the common name for the extensive tome entitled Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. It was published posthumously, as we are told Mr. Shakespeare died in 1616, on April 23. There is no record of his date of birth, though it was thought that it … Continue reading Was William Shakespeare a Taurus, or was a Taurus Shakespeare?
... this is one from 20 years ago that attempts to connect Freemasonic symbolism and the Gateway Arch, via what I call "ritual" and/or "Masonic" astrology. The graphics are primitive, and some of the links are bad, but the gist of the work is still relevant, maybe. Photo courtesy of and © Robert F. Arteaga, … Continue reading Masonic Astronomy and the Saint Louis Gateway Arch
... something I wrote 20 years ago that compared the USA's official date of Earth Day to the Paschal computus ... Tuesday, April 22, 2003, was the 34th "official" Earth Day, the result of efforts by environmental activists and the late US Senator Gaylord Nelson. Why the Earth gets only one day instead of all … Continue reading Earth Day, Easter and the Exaltations of the Luminaries
We are all aware that Easter is a "moveable feast" that can fall on various calendar dates, unlike Christmas which falls on a fixed date. The reason for these seemingly arbitrary and meandering dates is a bit complicated, but the formula that the Vatican now uses only came to be a standard across Catholicism in … Continue reading On the Exaltation of Mars – Chapter 1.3 – The Crosses, Easter, and Mars
In the first two foundational parts of this series, I made the case for astro-numerological constructs in the tarot. In this part, we're going to look at some ancient astrological iconography that landed in the tarot, how this relates to all the tedious math we did in Part II, and the reasoning behind the constellational/zodiacal … Continue reading Astrological Elements of the Tarot (no, not what you’ve read before) – Part III
In Part I, I explained the true nature of the Star XVII card by decoding the classic tarot's astrological math and number symbolism. In this part, we will go a bit further with how the two most notorious irrational (mystical) numbers of pi π and phi ϕ are encoded in the deck, as well as … Continue reading Astrological Elements of the Tarot (no, not what you’ve read before) – Part II
The Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Pope Francis in 2022. As we learned in Ch 1.1, Benedict XVI announced his resignation from the Papacy on an important anniversary for the Vatican, and that this anniversary has astrological and calendrical implications which seem to be far from coincidental. He announced that he would step down officially … Continue reading On the Exaltation of Mars – Chapter 1.2 – The Pope Emeritus and the Jesuit from Argentina
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