September 2015 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse will take place on September 28, 2015. It is the latter of two total lunar eclipses in 2015, and the final in a tetrad. Other eclipses in the tetrad are those of April 15, 2014, October 8, 2014, and April 4, 2015. Wikipedia Much of the Blood […]
Category Archives: Archeo-Astronomy
Ruminations on shamanism, Greeks, geeks, science, philosophy, mathematics, mythology and more…
He bound the 22 letters of the Torah to his tongue and he revealed to him their mystery he drew them in water he flamed them in fire he agitated them with breath he burned them with the seven planets he directed them with the twelve constellations from the Sefer Yetzirah, Book of Creation Most […]
In looking for the astronomical anchor for the women’s side of the archeo-astronomical path of initiation, it occurred to me that the Morning Star is prominent in Revelations and there are twelve gateways made of single pearls (stars) in the heavenly city. I thought that I’d take a look at the list of stars whose […]
I have taken notice of my recent fit of posting music videos and realized that getting not only some of the bone chips off my cranial nerves, but also more of the residue of heavy metal from my mercury fillings out of my inner ear makes music much more enjoyable. There are times when sound […]
The Pythagoreans considered all mathematical science to be divided into four parts: one half they marked off as concerned with quantity, the other half with magnitude; and each of these they posited as twofold. A quantity can be considered in regard to its character by itself or in its relation to another quantity, magnitudes as […]
‘At the core of the treatise there was one idea: God is light… The universe, born of an irradiance, a downward spilling burst of luminosity and the light emanating from the primal Being established every created being in an immutable place. But it united all beings, linking them with love, flooding the entire world, establishing […]
We start off the chapter on yellow with a brief mention that many alchemists did not include the stage of yellow, especially in the later years of alchemy’s heyday, but moved directly from white to red. Hillman, who was himself trained as a Jungian analyst, suggests that Jung included the yellow because he was fond […]
Thank you for your interest in my blog. The contents of this post have been integrated into my series Rune Stances and Creation Stories I hope to have the first volume out this fall (2018) While I am on my archeo-astronomical kick, one of my hypothesis is that the mythology around King Arthur is […]
The hexagon is called the mother of all rune shapes, which made no sense to me until I found out about the constellation of the Winter Hexagon, also known as the Hoop of Nations. The six stars that mark the points of the Winter Hexagon are: Pollux in Gemini Procyon in Canis Minor Sirius in […]
Since I am seeking a universal template for the quest, and a repeating motif in fairy tales is a circular room with mysterious doorways that will only open at the right time for the right person, I decided my circular room would be the wheel of the heavens. The eight stars from the medieval astrolabe […]
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