No doubt there are skeptics out there that wonder if it is even possible for Mary, the mother of Jesus, to appear to simple folk who live in countries where Roman Catholic beliefs are unshakable. I wonder, too.
Third apparition
Juan Diego returned immediately to Tepeyac and, encountering the Virgin Mary reported the bishop’s request for a sign; she condescended to provide one on the following day (December 11).
Juan Diego, hoja religiosa, etching by José Guadalupe Posada, n.d. but possibly pre-1895
By Monday, December 11, however, Juan Diego’s uncle Juan Bernardino had fallen sick and Juan Diego was obliged to attend to him. In the very early hours of Tuesday, December 12, Juan Bernardino’s condition having deteriorated overnight, Juan Diego set out to Tlatelolco to get a priest to hear Juan Bernardino’s confession and minister to him on his death-bed.
Fourth apparition
In order to avoid being delayed by the Virgin and embarrassed at having failed to meet her on the Monday as agreed, Juan Diego chose another route around the hill, but the Virgin intercepted him and asked where he was going; Juan Diego explained what had happened and the Virgin gently chided him for not having had recourse to her. In the words which have become the most famous phrase of the Guadalupe event and are inscribed over the main entrance to the Basilica of Guadalupe, she asked: “¿No estoy yo aquí que soy tu madre?” (“Am I not here, I who am your mother?”). She assured him that Juan Bernardino had now recovered and she told him to climb the hill and collect flowers growing there. Obeying her, Juan Diego found an abundance of flowers unseasonably in bloom on the rocky outcrop where only cactus and scrub normally grew. Using his open mantle as a sack (with the ends still tied around his neck) he returned to the Virgin; she rearranged the flowers and told him to take them to the bishop. On gaining admission to the bishop in Mexico City later that day, Juan Diego opened his mantle, the flowers poured to the floor, and the bishop saw they had left on the mantle an imprint of the Virgin’s image which he immediately venerated.
Just so we are on the same page, this apparition happened about 10 years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The priests and monks imported the ideas of the Virgin Mary from Spain.
The shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe in Guadalupe, Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain was the most important of the shrines to the Virgin Mary in the medieval Kingdom of Castile. It is one of the many dark- or black-skinned Madonnas in Spain and is revered in the Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe, in the town of Guadalupe, from which numerous Spanish conquistadors stem.
The most popular etymology of the name “Guadalupe” is from the Arabic “Wadi” (river) and the Latin word “lupus” (wolf). Some find it unlikely that Arabic and Latin would be combined in this way, and suggest as an alternative the Arabic “Wadi-al-lub”, signifying a river with black stones in its bed.
Wikipedia
Ah, now we’re getting some place. Bernadette saw the Virgin Mary at a grotto containing water.
Up until 1858, Lourdes was a sleepy country town with a population of around 4,000 hosting an infantry garrison in the castle, a transit point to the waters at Barèges, Cauterets, Luz-Saint-Sauveur and Bagnères-de-Bigorre, and for mountaineers on their way to Gavarnie.
Then on 11 February 1858, the 14-year-old local girl Bernadette Soubirous claimed a beautiful lady appeared to her in the remote grotto of Massabielle. The lady later identified herself as the Immaculate Conception and the faithful believed her to be the Blessed Virgin Mary. She appeared 18 times, and by 1859 thousands of pilgrims were visiting Lourdes. A statue of Our Lady of Lourdes was erected at the site in 1864.
But then, the sightings of the three children of the Blessed Virgin in Portugal in the early 20th century makes no special mention of water nearby, or does it?
Since the 18th century, Fátima has been associated with events related to Marian apparitions. The first supposed apparition dates back to the mid 18th century in Ortiga, now a quarter of Fátima, when, according to popular belief, the Virgin Mary appeared to a young, mute shepherdess and asked for one of her sheep, causing the girl to speak in response. This event supposedly incited the creation of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Ortiga in 1758, which, in 1801, prompted Pope Pius VII to grant an indulgence to all pilgrims visiting the Marian shrine.
Later in the early 20th century, a similar event took place in which three local children, Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, purportedly saw visions of a woman known as Our Lady of Fátima, since believed by the Catholic Church to be the Virgin Mary. On 13 May 1917, whilst guarding their families’ sheep in the Cova da Iria, the children first claimed to have seen an apparition of a “lady dressed in white” and shining with a bright light.
I have previous written about Bernadette’s vision at Lourdes, and the children’s visions at Fatima.
Now let’s put these three sightings together.
What is interesting to me is how these three events dovetail with each other, without having a direct planetary link for all three. In fact, I would suggest that the Mexican and Portuguese events are more connected than the Lourdes sighting by Bernadette. The reason for this is perhaps that there was physical proof that others witnessed. The Mexico City North Node is (almost) exactly conjunct the Fatima Midheaven. That has to count for something, right?
This exercise was intended to see if Chris Bledsoe’s visitation by the Lady in White is also connected.
At first glance, I thought, “no.” But maybe I was being too hasty. There are links, but they seem to be more in line with the “Miracle of the Sun” event at Fatima. So, that raises the question:
Are these apparitions connected to Unidentified Flying Objects?
Jury Deliberations Begin @ 11:28 am EDT (May 29, 2024)
Let’s not make too fine a point of this: Trump’s fate now rests with the 12 people of the jury in his election interference case in Manhattan, New York. Here’s the event chart:
It’s interesting that the Moon is conjunct the Descendant. Here’s Ellie’s YouTube video about that very thing, this morning. Notice that the Moon is reversed for the jury (second row of the Tarot reading).
I’m highlighting the Moon card being revealed at 15:30 of the video.
Now let’s see how this affects the defendant.
The two Ascendants are within 8° of each other. Is that significant? I think so.
“No One Comes to the Father, Except Through Me.” (John 14:6)
My understanding of this saying is that Jesus was hinting at his position in the Jewish Kabbalah Tree of Life, namely Beauty, the heart centre of the MIDDLE way. Some suggest that he never said this, because they ask, “Why would he?” Ah, that’s the rub. If the Gospel of John was written by someone who was steeped in Jewish mysticism, then this would be an interpretation of Christ’s mission on earth.
But there are other versions of the Tree of Life, this one being from the Essene morning and evening communions, as we have previously looked at, but without an illustration. Check this out:
Notice the small human figure sitting in front of the trunk of the Tree, with his lower half in the Earth and the upper half in the Air. Man’s dual nature is fully on display, here. The bridging part between the upper and lower is the heart. (Hint, hint: the number 7 is significant.)
Now, let’s return to the Kabbalah Tree of Life, with spiritual attributes.
Ah, “Compassion”. (Don’t you just love it when several thoughts converge?)
I was watching a YouTube video of Aaron Abke being interviewed for a channel called “Know Thyself”, which is quite significant, at least to me. He was quoting Essene beliefs, written by Philo in his book, “Every Good Man is Free”. Because I suspect that TJA is a past life of mine, this individual would have been my uncle.
To put this all into perspective, the Gospels, as recorded in the New Testament, could have been crafted with my help, since I had access to Philo’s manuscripts and research. It’s not a great stretch of the imagination. Josephus was not the only Jewish writer in the 1st century in the Common Era.
Since Philo’s birth and death details are also missing, I cannot confirm or deny a relationship to him.
I spend a great deal of my time, lately, reviewing YouTube videos that have a more ‘spiritual’ basis. Once in a while, I find someone (or something) that actually inspires me to dig further, like this:
Now, what makes this good for me is that Aaron Abke is another preacher’s kid, so I can relate to where he’s coming from. He has a great teacher vibe, so I thought it might be useful to do his birth chart.
This chart is rectified, based on his age when he got married and started preaching himself. There’s a double Yod pointing at Mars, which is not dependent on a correct birth time. And as I was rectifying the chart, a thought kept coming to me: is he a reincarnation of Jesus in the modern times in the USA?
Oh, lordy, lordy! I could barely believe my eyes when I saw this: their Ascendants are only 1° apart.
I can only point the way: the rest I’ll leave up to your own imagination.
Susan bought me a book last weekend. It was about Trump, but from the perspective of a right-wing political fan. I don’t want to read it. But I considered doing enough research on its author in order to form an objective opinion about him. However, the last five minutes of my dream this morning, just before waking up to the day, involved listening to someone important (with a family relationship to someone else in my work environment) and deciding not to say anything at all.
So, there you have it: my final words were, “I’m making no comment.”
Telos, the Underground Crystal City of the Lemurians
In the 1880s, Lemuria graduated from scientific hypothesis to pseudoscientific fact when Helena Blavatsky, the founder of theosophy, integrated it into her esoteric, proto-New Age belief system. Building on Haeckel’s theory, she proposed that Lemurians were the third “root race” of humanity.
Aided by Charles W. Leadbeater, a theosophist who claimed knowledge of Lemuria via “astral clairvoyance,” William Scott-Elliot elaborated on Blavatsky’s vision of Lemuria and its root races. In The Lost Lemuria (1904), Scott-Elliot placed Lemuria in the Pacific, and described the Lemurians as 15 feet tall, brown-skinned, and flat-faced, with bird-like sideways vision. They could walk backward and forward with similar ease and reproduced with eggs. Interbreeding with animals eventually produced ape-like ancestors to some of the human races.
The idea that the Lemurians had come to Mount Shasta, where they lived underground in an incredible metropolis known as Telos, the City of Light, was further popularized by Rosicrucian author Harvey Spencer Lewis, in his 1931 book, Lemuria: The Lost Continent of the Pacific.
This smacks a little bit of Battlestar Galactica, but some sensitives have been in touch with a Lemurian who goes by the name of Adama. Here is a impression of him:
Other people have seen UFOs in the region of Mt. Shasta. Is that credible?
His nose had taken a bit of a beating, but this image looks like it had been re-plastered. Maybe someone cut off his nose to spite his face. (Check out the cover of his book.)
Now, you must be wondering why I should even look at this individual from the mists of time. It’s simple: he was the one who made Rome an continuation of Troy, through his main character, Aeneas.
The Aeneid (/ɪˈniːɪd/ ih-NEE-id; Latin: Aenē̆is [ae̯ˈneːɪs] or [ˈae̯neɪs]) is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. Written by the Roman poet Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, the Aeneid comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of Aeneas’ wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem’s second half tells of the Trojans’ ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.
The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad. Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas’ wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and his description as a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous pietas, and fashioned the Aeneid into a compelling founding myth or national epic that tied Rome to the legends of Troy, explained the Punic Wars, glorified traditional Roman virtues, and legitimised the Julio-Claudian dynasty as descendants of the founders, heroes, and gods of Rome and Troy.
The Aeneid is widely regarded as Virgil’s masterpiece and one of the greatest works of Latin literature.
So, in other words, Virgil was a propagandist for Augustus Caesar.
This chart is totally randomized. But I’m not surprised to see the following aspects: Sun conjunct Mercury, both in opposition to the Moon; Jupiter inconjunct Neptune and the Moon (forming a Yod); Uranus conjunct Pluto (both as the apex of Yods, formed by inconjuncts to Venus conjunct the Midheaven and the Capricorn Ascendant.) Of course, some of these aspects are speculative, due to an unknown birth time. However, you couldn’t ask for a clearer image of a publicist for the burgeoning Roman Empire.
What does Virgil have to do with Me?
I’d be glad to answer that question…
Probably not very much, but my natal Saturn conjunct his natal North Node could be a hint at ‘something’. Also, Virgil’s ‘fatal’ Pluto is within 3° of my natal Pluto. My natal Uranus is conjunct his natal Part of Fortune. Finally, my natal Mercury is conjunct his natal Saturn. But is that enough?
To me, having to study the Aeneid in high school was a memory bank ‘thing’. I ‘knew’ it was a legend and not necessarily based on reality, but I also knew that it was important for the Roman population to be able to boast that they were the inheritors of Trojan blood. That’s how ‘histories’ are created.
Sometimes, you just have to take the bull by the horns and ride the beast. Or, should I say dolphins?
It was the documentary film I watched yesterday on YouTube that finally convinced me of my previous suspicions. (I’ve added the full video as a comment on my post about Titus perhaps being Jesus reincarnated.) It’s the use of the symbol anchor with a dolphin wrapped around it that did it for me.
I’m satisfied that all this has come to light. Now I can put aside my fears that I was deluding myself.
My daily calendar reminded me of this event. To show you what went on, here’s the speculative chart.
The inconjuncts pointing at Mars would be active for the whole day. Mark Twain joked that he was born in the year when the comet appeared, and he would die when it came back around. Turns out he was right. It has a regularity that is something that makes it a ‘marker’ of history.
I’m Beginning to Resemble a Comic Strip Character
Milquetoast (1937?)
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Susan bought me a book last weekend. It was about Trump, but from the perspective of a right-wing political fan. I don’t want to read it. But I considered doing enough research on its author in order to form an objective opinion about him. However, the last five minutes of my dream this morning, just before waking up to the day, involved listening to someone important (with a family relationship to someone else in my work environment) and deciding not to say anything at all.
So, there you have it: my final words were, “I’m making no comment.”