Jesus, Osiris, Attis, and More! Easter Message, 2024

New video: "Jesus, Osiris, Attis, and more! Easter Message, 2024."

I sincerely hope the message will be a blessing to you in some way.

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March Equinox 2024

 

image: Wikimedia commons (link).

The annual dance of the Earth and the Sun will bring us to the moment of March Equinox in approximately three more hours, at 0306 Greenwich time on 20 March, which will be 1406 in Melbourne, Australia on 20 March and 2306 on 19 March for the East Coast of North America (2006 on 19 March for the West Coast).

Equinox marks the moment when the center of the Sun crosses the Celestial Equator in the heavens, a conceptual circle in the sky which is 90-degrees "down" (South) of the North Celestial Pole, and 90-degrees "up" (North) from the South Celestial Pole.

Due to the tilt of the Earth relative to the plane of our Earth-Sun dance, the arc of the Sun's path travels successively North of this conceptual Celestial Equator during half of the year (from the March Equinox through to the June Solstice, and then on through to the September Equinox), and then South of the Celestial Equator during the other half of the year (from the September Equinox down to the December Solstice, and then back up to the March Equinox).

The "celestial mechanics" of this annual cycle forms one of the main foundational structures underlying the world's ancient myths. For a much more detailed explanation of the celestial mechanics behind the Solstices and Equinoxes, and discussion of how this cycle forms a critical framework for ancient myth, check out my online course entitled Celestial Mechanics and the Myths.

The observance of Easter is closely linked to the March Equinox. The formula and traditions regarding the selection of the date of Easter each year are rather complex (and are different between different branches of historical Christianity), but at their core they relate to the first Sunday following the first Full Moon after the March Equinox.

At the moment, the Moon is waxing (growing larger and stronger -- the celestial mechanics of the Moon cycle are also discussed at length in the course mentioned above), on its way towards a Full Moon on 25 March. That will be the first Full Moon following the Spring Equinox, and many Western literalist Christian churches will observe Easter on the following Sunday, which is 31 March 2024.

Interestingly, because the formula for determining the date of Easter differs in Eastern Orthodox churches, they will not observe Easter this year until May, after the Moon goes through one more complete cycle and reaches another Full Moon on 23 April.

The fact that the observance of Easter, following ancient traditions and formulas, is tied to the cycles of the Moon (as well as to the cycles of the Earth-Sun dance) shows beyond any doubt that this holiday is celestial in nature, and tied to events which take place in the great cycles of the heavens. This indisputable fact, all by itself, goes a long way towards demonstrating that the stories of Jesus and the disciples, including the story of the Crucifixion, are celestial in nature, and are in no sense literal and historical records of events involving flesh-and-blood men and women.

In a book entitled Who is this King of Glory? A Critical Study of the Christos-Messiah Tradition, Alvin Boyd Kuhn wrote:

It is a grave question whether the ecclesiastical system and movement known as Christianity has any right to its name. So far from being the cult that brought in a true Christ-worship for the first time in "heathen" darkness, it was indeed -- after the third century -- the one system that destroyed such a true worship. Ancient cults bent all effort upon the cultivation of the god within man. This is the nucleus of the only true Christianity.

This March Equinox is an outstanding opportunity to contemplate the riches of the ancient world-wide system of Star Myth entrusted to humanity by some ancient source predating even the most ancient cultures known to conventional history (already operating in the earliest known texts of ancient Egypt, ancient India, ancient Mesopotamia, and every other ancient culture we know about today).

Mistakenly taking these Star Myths literally has led to -- and continues to lead to -- an inversion of their true message and to the perpetration of untold crimes, oppression, and exploitation.

Sincerely wishing you blessings this Equinox day.

Total Solar Eclipse approaching!

Here is my most-recent video, entitled "Total Solar Eclipse, April 2024!"

On the New Moon of April, the Moon will pass between the Earth and the Sun along the Plane of the Ecliptic, creating a TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE along the line of totality during that New Moon.

This video explores the significance of a Total Solar Eclipse and why you don't want to miss it.

The video discusses the mythology of Ancient Egypt and the Contendings of Horus and Set. Some arguments from Jane B. Sellers are examined, including her analysis that the Contendings between Set and Horus dramatize the spectacular events of a Total Solar Eclipse.

I offer some of my celestial interpretation for the foundation of the Contendings (more can be found in my 2019 book, The Ancient World-Wide System).

Join us in Texas this April 6th through 9th for ECLIPSE AT THE CANYON, with music, star tours, presentations and a view of the Total Solar Eclipse within the Path of Totality!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eclipse-at-the-canyon-tickets-733419546607

NO to Genocide! NO to Empire!

Above is a new video I published earlier today entitled "NO to Genocide! NO to Empire!"

It demonstrates that the controlled media have now been handed their talking points and are trying to "spin away" the implications of the self-immolation by an active-duty US Air Force airman who declared that he would "no longer be complicit in genocide." The mainstream media studiously ignores the obvious question: "What did his duties involve, to make him feel so deeply complicity in the genocide?" Instead, the Washington Post has now published a piece by Ramesh Ponnuru, a consistent cheerleader for the US Empire and for neoliberalism and hyper-capitalism, which shows us what they have come up with so far: we shouldn't focus on this act of self-immolation because we are in the midst of a mental health crisis and too many young people are taking their own lives. He scolds the world that Aaron Bushnell is wrong about there being an ongoing genocide, and says we must not "imbue his suicide with a grandeur it does not deserve." Ironically but not surprisingly, Ramesh Ponnuru wrote an article for National Review in 2011 in which he definitely "imbued with grandeur" the act of self-immolation by a 26-year-old man in Tunisia which launched the so-called "Arab Spring." He even quoted approvingly another writer who said that the slap by the police which led Mohamed Bouazizi to light himself on fire in protest might come to be known as the "Slap Heard Round the World," a clear evocation of the "Shot Heard Round the World" which started the American Revolution against the British Empire (clearly "imbuing his suicide" with some "grandeur"). Shockingly but also not surprisingly, the New York Post has now published an article in which three journalists quote a long-time friend of Aaron Bushnell who says that Bushnell confided that he has seen evidence of US forces in the tunnels in Gaza, involved in the killing of Palestinians ("participating in the killings" is the exact quotation). The friend says Aaron Bushnell confided this information to him less than 24 hours before his act of self-immolation, and the friend also says he heard fear in Aaron Bushnell's voice when he talked about it, in a way that he had never heard before. It is not "un-American" to have serious questions about this entire incident, serious questions which the controlled media are not addressing (but which the controlled media are in fact obscuring and obfuscating and dragging in red herrings about the "noxious" views of Aaron Bushnell, and the danger of supposedly celebrating a suicide at a moment when suicide is on the rise and mental health is an increasing problem). It is also not un-American to perceive that the treatment of this particular incident indicates very strongly that the major American media is being controlled – in direct violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution in the Bill of Rights. Of course, the controlled media's treatment of the September 11 operation of 2001 also leads to the same conclusion, as does the controlled media's treatment of the Iran-Contra affair, the Jonestown massacre, the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, to name other prominent examples of ongoing control of the media and subversion of freedom of the press and the First Amendment. Looking at the self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell in protest of an ongoing genocide is not incompatible with concern over the rise of suicide and mental health issues in the United States and "the west." The cynical use of this particular tactic of spinning the story from Ramesh Ponnuru and the controlled media is obscene and objectionable and should be denounced, along with the denunciation and condemnation of the actions by the government of the United States to enable the criminal ethnic cleansing and murder of men, women and children in Palestine.