Category: Freemasonry
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
Astrology is foremost a study of celestial phenomena, and how it relates to the local world around us. It also considers things that are not phenomena, but instead purely mathematical, such as nodes and dark focal points, like the Black Moon, represented in charts with this glyph, the astrological symbol for the lunar apogee, or … Continue reading On the DC Obelisk – Part IV
A pentacle approximates the shape of the Washington Monument's pyramidion In Part I we learned that the Washington Monument encodes historic astrological alignments via the shape of its design and its symbolic moment of dedication. It does so through the pyramidion at the top which is based on the Golden Mean value, and is shaped … Continue reading On the DC Obelisk – Part II
When we look at monuments, we are looking at symbols that operate on multiple levels in both space and time. They commemorate past times, and they are also guides for the future. Nothing comes closer to achieving that than the Washington Monument in the USA's capital. Not only is it a tribute to the fellow … Continue reading On the DC Obelisk – Part I
In Part I, I laid out some astrological and astro-numerological elements of the 9/11 event that I thought were both interesting and probably unknown to researchers. 9/11 was a crime, and as such, any good investigator would have to look at the means, motive, and opportunity of any possible suspects to determine who might be … Continue reading The Metonic Return of 9/11 – Part II
It's hard to believe that 19 years have elapsed since the that day Building 7 collapsed for no good reason. So, I thought I'd refresh our memories on the astrological and astro-numeric pseudo-coincidences of that day, mostly because this stuff is yet to be explained properly, but also for the reason that some new "surprise" … Continue reading The Metonic Return of 9/11 – Part 1
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