The Royal Wedding of the Birds and Bees: Chasing The Sapphire

Note: I had started this post yesterday morning

and was just about done when I had to run out.

Came online today to find breaking news that flows out of this

post as well as a similarly themed post at TheSyncWhole.

That's the way it goes.

We just entered a new year, Father Time (Saturn/Osiris) was reborn as the baby. The death/rebirth cycle has begun anew. Yet we're barely into 2011 and we're already being slammed with global animal deaths and all sorts of death imagery.

The first dying birds to make headlines were the Red-Winged Blackbirds. Kevin @Indradhanush42 tweets:

The short answer is yes, I think maybe it is "the death of death."

I've been putting off writing the promised post about Sapphires, a pattern I've been tracking for months now, but it seems it can't really wait any longer. I'm at a point where most of the patterns I've been watching are converging to such a degree that the context is getting more complicated and if I don't start explaining now, it'll be impossible for me to keep up this public forum and still make even a small amount of sense to those reading it.

Here are some important bullet point items to keep in mind:

• Bees always signal Saturn
• Obama's Eagles are always Phoenixes, as this recent Drudge conjunction reminds us:

• I have thought of Eco or ECCO or Echo as perhaps being indicative of the collective unconscious or the ID.
• In Japanese, "Iko" (pronounced "E"-"Ko" or ECO) means "Let's Go"

Okay, let's start there, since many are connecting these animal deaths with possible gulfstream changes due to the BP spill. I had said at the time of the BP spill that I expected to see Queen Beatrix's (Queen Bea/Bee) Shell Oil to play an important role in the aftermath. Then Shell begins a new campaign with the slogan "Let's Go" (Iko/Eco)

The clam shell (used by Shell as their logo) is associated with Venus. The transit of Venus gives us the 5-pointed star that everyone is so afraid of.

The 5-pointed star or pentagram is also on Rush's eclipse-resonating 2112 "Starman" album cover:

Goro Adachi is connecting the blackbirds with the British Royal Wedding via Venus' 5-pointed star. And, while I don't see things in quite the same fashion he does, I agree that the Phoenix is all over this thing. But first, let's look at the Sapphire engagement ring that made headlines.

That the ring was a sapphire again takes us to Echo. Literally, the first Echo.

This version of the myth even compares the sapphire ring to a fallen star. Hmm. Falling Stars. Keep that in mind. The same items continue to resonate strongly.

So who is getting married in this big ole Royal Wedding? Well, for my money it's the Ego and Id, but removing the symbol of a moment, we're talking of course about the Prince of W(h)ales...

Bees and Whales are interchangeable archetypes in my view, as I covered in an early Birds & Bees post.

Also noteworthy in "Sirens of Titan," is a spaceship called "The Whale." As I I had been looking at the fact that bees are perfect symbols for death/rebirth - bees have stingers and die after using them, they are potentially deadly themselves (see Killer Bees), but also are responsible for much life on this planet by pollinating the world's plantlife - I began seeing Bees and Whales as symbolically interchangeable, since there are Sperm Whales and Killer Whales. We also have "the belly of the whale" as a dark night of the soul orego-death experience. So, when the spaceship called "The Whale" popped up in this book, I took notice.
This theory was validated when, in the Radio8Ball show that synced so strongly in Part One, Twig Palace sings her song "Little Finger." She sings a line that reminds us of Lucky's four magic charms and Elton John's Levon, "Let's blow up big balloons and send them soaring into outer space." The next verse has the people reincarnated as Bumble Bees. In the verse after that she sings, "If our honey lives don't suit us, let's be killer whales instead."

In that same post, I covered the Tom Waits song "Fish and Bird." Those are the things popping up dead everywhere. Tom Waits is also the guy who sings "Always keep a Sapphire in your mind."

But, if Bees are Whales - and Bees signal Saturn - then so too must the Whales. So here we have our Prince of W(h)ales making news with his Sapphire Ring and Wiki tells us a little something about Sapphires:

Some etymologists propose an old Sanskrit origin to the Semitic word "sappir": a dark colored precious stone called "Shanipriya" (शनिप्रिय), from "shani" (शनि) meaning "Saturn" and "priya" (प्रिय), precious, i.e. "precious to Saturn".[1]

Terence McKenna taught all of us that ancient Mushroom cults used Honey as a preservative and that the Bee symbolism began to get incorporated into their imagery. Psychedelic mushrooms are known for bruising blue, so blue caps are associated with Magic Mushroom caps. Michael just put up a post at Gosporn about the Blackbirds and Goro, that featured the Prince of W(h)ales with his Blue Cap. So here we have another Bee=Whale indicator.

I couldn't help but think of the post I did on "Kiki/Lala and the Blue Bird of Happiness" where we see Kiki in a Magic Blue Cap with a magical blue stone (sapphire?) that allows him to "see the world as it truly is."

Kiki is even able to see a 4-D expression of time:

He later ends up in "the world of dreams" which I mentioned looks kinda like the Norway Spiral.

Funny thing about the Norway Spiral, in his RedIce interview from last year, Freeman talked about a little known NASA project called CARE, launched by the BlackBrant XII, which was spraying Aluminum Oxide into the atmosphere. Freeman points out that the blue haze in the Norway Spiral may be due to it's Aluminum Oxide content.

Sapphire (Greek: σάπφειρος; sappheiros, "blue stone"[1]) is a gemstone variety of the mineral corundum, an aluminium oxide

In other words, the Norway Spiral may very well have actually been composed of Sapphires!

Sapphire is the birthstone associated with September - a month we now associate with Blue Lights:

We'll come back to 9/11, but first let's go back to Michael. He sent me an email a month or two back with this image and text:

I have about a zillion synchs about taking charge, making a choice, activate, blah blah. Here's a command that includes 911 and the reverse of 144, my totemic number. It includes the infamous (like anti-matter) Chase octagon. It's both a debit AND a Master Card. The master card is the Joker, it can be whatever you want it to be, just say the word. important. ACTIVATE! Activate your joker card.

"Don't dream it, be it" keeps coming back. I have this feeling that our egos are about to be given an amazing and wonderful choice, because that's what ego's do. We choose. we judge. I suspect that my dreams are about to come true, and so are everyone else's. Dream big.

Wonderful words from a wise man. However, there's more. What he didn't know was that the Chase card meant something to me as well. Since I have been tracking this Sapphire thing for almost a year, I was astounded when Chase introduced a credit card called "Sapphire"

He mentioned the "infamous Octagon" and we should remember that it is where Ultimate Fighting, our modern Colosseum games, are held. So, it is like a boxing-RING.

But, the Credit Card sync has been all over for me lately. I found it in Target (circumpunct) on a revamped version of Monopoly...

If you see the "Cards not Cash" as evidence of the "cashless society" conspiracy, then you've gotta love that they incorporated a big Yellow and Blue "MK" into the center of the gameboard. Priceless.

Remember, ECO/Iko is "Let's Go!" and now they've put a rocketship for you to GO and get on.

Now we spoke of Falling Stars and that's something we looked at a lot in Part4 of our Decemberment series, where we looked a little at the movie StarMan, starring Jeff Bridges. It was here that I noticed Credit Cards as integral to the plot.

The Starman explains to Jenny that he has three days to get to the rendezvous point, Arizona's Barringer Crater, or he will die. She teaches him how to drive a car and use credit cards, intending on escaping so he can continue his journey alone. However, as she is about to make her escape, she witnesses him miraculously resurrect a dead deer. Deeply moved, she resolves to help him at whatever cost.

A few days later I watched The Fisher King for like the bazillionth time and I see Jeff Bridges get on the phone and say that he is a representative from "major credit card companies." When asked which one he replies, "All of them." So Jeff is telling me he represents Credit Cards. That's a pretty strong Sync.

Will @satoriallme pointed out to me the 9/11 indicators in Big Lebowski, one of which is the scene where Jeff Bridges dates his check (symbolically equivalent to a debit card) September 11th while George Bush speaks in the background. Now, considering Echo's Sapphire Ring was a gift from Zeus, and Zeus is associated with the Eagle, I thought I should point out that former Eagles front-man Don Henley had a year 2000 album called Inside Job.

And we know how Jeff Bridges feels about the Eagles.

More plot from Starman:

The Starman uses their last quarters in a slot machine, which he manipulates in order to win the jackpot. The couple use their winnings to buy a new car to complete the drive to Winslow, Arizona, which is near Barringer Crater.

The Eagles, Take it Easy lyrics:

Well, I'm a standing on a corner

in Winslow, Arizona
and such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed
Ford slowin' down to take a look at me

Now we've got 8,000 doves dropping dead in a day. Don Henley did a duet w/ Stevie Nicks (his former girlfriend) on her Bella Donna album which features a Dove on the cover, has the infamous song Edge of 17 with the chorus "just like the white wing Dove" and their duet is all about the union of opposites - the beauty and the beast.

Again, the first birds to make news were the B;lackbirds. The Blackbird is a symbol of death and is the plane flown by X-Men. Ex-men=dead men or Died-on-the-Cross-Men. (Model number SR-71, 73 or SR-77!)

When I googled "X-Men Blackbird" I get this news of a new X-Men movie set being built with the Blackbird on freaking Jekyll Island! Not only does Jekyll bring us back to our dueling opposites (Jekyll and Hyde) but that is the locale where the Federal Reserve was birthed.

JamTech released an album called "Creature from Jeyll Island" with magic mushrooms on the cover on April 28th 2010.

That's the day before the "Flashforward" Day!

Now we're looking at a "mysterious 'Global Blackout' event" as connected to the bird deaths. On 1/11/11 (5 points of star) FX is premiering a show called Lights Out, about a boxer (boxing RING) and their promo materials have a man with one wounded eye resonating the wounded eye of the Egyptian-bird god.

Tagline: "Everybody loves a comeback"

Aeon of Horus?

The "global blackout" again echoes Green Lantern with his power-RING via "Blackest Night," the story I highlighted in the Ring-collage I made a month or two ago. And this also tells us of a "death of death" or Phoenix/Resurrection force as "the dead will rise."

Is this picture starting to make a little more sense?

BREAKING:

Drudge linked up the possible Astronaut's Wife shooter's YouTube account. Jared Lee "Loner" was a military recruit in Phoenix!

And he mentions Phoenix in connection with the Bible... Phoenix force Resurrection indeed!

This is Loner's YouTube profile. Who would write such a bio? Note the past tense mixed in.

And he writes about birds and "a comet or a meteoroid coming through the atmosphere."

Hmm. Weren't we just looking at that meme?

Smoke Signals of the Fire Bird

When I had first connected Smoke Signals to communication, I had done so in a mostly one-sided fashion. I saw smoke as something that obscured - and contemplated that it may be a harbinger of an internet shutdown. In that sense, at least on a micro-scale, I was correct. You may recall that I ended up losing my own internet connection for a while. However, there is that flip-side that I only touched on briefly: though smoke itself clouds our eyes, when it is harnessed, it can facilitate communication. A Smoke Signal is just that.

There's a ton of fire symbolism flying about lately, not the least of which was the manufactured Terry Jones 9/11 Koran-burning fiasco.

So let us peer into the smoke and try to read what it's telling us, eh?

Back in July we traveled through South Dakota, and stopped at the Crazy Horse Memorial. I had a dream the night before that I befriended and was playing with a wolf. I didn't know that I would end up on the land of the Dances with Wolves Lakota the next morning.

Alongside artwork featuring men communicating via smoke signals, there were images of peyote ceremonies. Not only did I see our old friend the Blue Bird, but he was there as a very literal representation of the smoke itself talking to us.

Since we're now looking at plant consciousness that is talking to us from the smoke, we see that these two patterns have a lot of overlap. And, just a few weeks ago, the peyote bird came back into my sights again. Melissa received a wedding gift via the mail from a friend that could not attend. I just thought it was a very pretty necklace and nothing more. But a few days ago, she asked me to help her put it on and the clasp caught my eye.

The bird shape, with the bird's head being used for the loop, gets cut down into the shape of a mushroom, does it not?

That reminds me, I looked into the etymology of the word "Ombudsman" the other day, for unrelated reasons. This bit struck me:

"The origin of the word is found in Old Norse umbuðsmann (accusative) and the word umbuds man, meaning representative (with the word umbud/ombud meaning proxy, that is someone who is authorized to act for someone else)"

Ask any hippie what they would consider to be "the Om-Bud," and I'm pretty sure I know what their answer would be. I'll give you a hint, it starts with 4 and ends in 20.

Now, cannabis and mushrooms are two different creatures and I don't want to over simplify the issue at hand, but "proxy, that is someone who is authorized to act for someone else," sure sounds a lot like words spoken by Terence McKenna and others. I used this quote once before but it bears repeating:

I couldn’t figure out whether the mushroom is the alien or the mushroom is some kind of technological artifact allowing me to hear the alien when the alien is actually light-years away, using some kind of Bell nonlocality principle to communicate. The mushroom states its own position very clearly. It says, ‘I require the nervous system of a mammal. Do you have one handy?’

-Terence McKenna

My own theories take "alien" to be the same as "other." That is not to say that alien intelligences may not exist off-world, simply that they are still a component of the universe (or myself) which I associate as being separate. It is no different if I speak of a man living down the block, or a lifeform living across the galaxy, or a mushroom spore or you the reader of this text right now. There is me AND there is you.

Our commonly recognized ampersand character is a typographic ligature - the combination of two very loaded letters.

ET is the other. This AND That.

"ET phone Om"

We have spent much time looking over the fire-in-the mind pentecost symbolism, but these images remind us that is just as important that we talk of a fire in the heart, as well as a fire in the mind.

"Paranoia happens when you start getting messages via the third eye chakra

with out opening the heart first."

-A Few Shots to Shaman, May 25th

Of course we want our synapses to FIRE....

But what of other elements? WATER on the brain is something we are told we surely do not want. And no one likes being called an AIRhead.

But, EARTH is also seen as positive. While "Healing The Divide," Tom Waits and the Saturnian Kronos Quartet tell us we should always keep a diamond in our mind:

In another song, Get Behind The Mule, he mentions the importance of keeping "a Sapphire in your mind." The sapphire is something I've been collecting notes on for months, but I'm not ready to say what it means yet. I'm thinking it goes back to this image from the first time I wrote about the blue bird:

Another thing that hit me the other day was that the flaming tongues sprouting from the heads of those in the Pentecost images...

...sure look like they've got an idea as to what's going on.

Is the lightbulb, as symbol of our modern flame, a hint to a new sort of divine light, aided by our technological advancements? The internet and computer intelligences have helped me get to the point where I am now. How about you?

Maybe it's a little bit of everything. All of the others. Maybe we're being aided by plant intelligence, and computer intelligence, and extra-terrestrial intelligence, and animal intelligence - even insect.

"Holy Spirit, Batman, my cosmic awareness is tingling."

Now, if you ask me, I'd say we basically have two possibilities. One, is that we're all one infinite consciousness and all these seemingly different entities are an illusion (as are you and I). The other option, is that we are all intertwined, yet separate - and that we need to start looking at ways to coexist in symbiotic relationships.

Spider-Man, the comic character who should know better since he's got those flaming tongues sprouting from his head, put a dangerous spin on the term "symbiotic" for a whole generation if not more.

In the third movie, the black costume just basically lands in Spider-Man's lap with no explanation. It was an alien lifeform that was carried here on a falling meteorite, just like mushrooms may actually have been. (This also syncs nicely with the Flaming Hare, Fiery Birth, iCrator and Step-Ember posts as well as a powerful dream I had two nights ago).

The original comic version of the "symbiotic costume" is a little different. He gets the new alien costume during Marvel's "Secret War"

Interesting that we should be having this conversation while we are currently in the midst of our own Secret War, as narrated by Christopher Knowles.

An interesting factoid from the comic run, the symbiotes were harmed by two things, Fire and Sonics, both of which have become increasingly important symbols in my work.

Click here if you really need a fix of super-geeky symbiote history, but suffice it to say that Spider-Man comics make symbiotic relationships seem evil. Parasitic even.

We've all been in relationships that were one-sided, we've all been taken advantage of. But we should never confuse that with a symbiotic relationship. True symbiotic relationships are founded on trust and love, they provide us with the opportunity to live in harmony.

Whether we are one single universal awareness, or an intricately connected web of individuals who then make up something larger, or a seemingly paradoxical combination of the two - is not something we need to argue over at the moment, since the moral is really the same either way.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

King Donkey Kong and the Twin Towers return with a Bang

Before we begin, I'd recommend listening to the Syncromystic Roundtable that went down the other night, hosted by Kevin Tinfoil. Speakers include Jake Kotze, Kevin Halcott, Will Morgan, myself in the second hour, and a bunch of others. The show comes in at exactly 3 hours and 14 minutes, resonating Pi, and brings up many of the topics we're going to discuss today.

Since we've been talking about Big Bangs over the last few posts, let's start with today's newspaper. 44 years after JFK was shot, we get this story of a big "bang" at JFK airport.

Then there's this collage I made which visually ties together the 44th president and the big-bang-generating CERN, along with the anti-matter they created and the SyncWhole's look at the return of the Ring.

This is a play on "Return of the King" from Lord of the Rings, and it seems that a King of sorts is returning. Namely King Kong. Remember, that series also included The Two Towers, which seem to be intricately tied into this pattern.

In the Roundtable, Will brings up syncs revolving around Jeff Bridges and King Kong and the Twin Towers, as they tie into 9/11. He then relates this to the 9/11 connections that have been found in the Super Mario Brothers movie.

I made the point that Mario made his debut fighting Donkey Kong, a King Kong resonator if there ever was one.

The very next day, as I'm reading a story about the Moon, which itself seems to always pop up in connection with the Twin Towers, I see this ad at the top of the screen.

The idea of Donkey Kong being connected to falling towers, is made all the more clear by this Jenga set:

And let us not forget that while we just had a new blue moon, we also had a new blue moon goddess, in the story of the sapphire ring.

Even Spider-Man, whose movie was edited to take out a scene where he spins a web between the Two Towers, peeks at us from the top of the paper. I find this even more interesting, since our roundtable conversation spoke of "The Sync Web" being connected to "Cloud Computing" and Melissa had just told me that day that the Japanese word for "Spider" is the same as "Cloud." To push that thought a step further, the Greek myth of Arachne also involves Athena spinning a beautiful tapestry out of "the silk of the clouds" before she turns Arachne into a Spider. Hmm.

The night after the roundtable, I get into an email conversation with Michael from Gosporn, where we talk about Back to the Future and Rainbow Bridges and all the fun stuff syncheads talk about. He sent me a picture of from a coffee shop, that he thought went well with the K2 "tear in the fabric of space" cartoon from my post K2 SyncStorm goes Pop! - the same post that featured my grandfather's helmet from the construction of the World Trade Center (which I later realized reads CIA):

And also connected King Kong to Pi, through this poster with the address 227:

Something about the image he sent me reminded me of a photo I took last April. I dug through my old photos to find it:

I guess I took the picture because it had a bunch of circumpuncts and pointed stars and the number 17. So, I send Michael the email, but then I realized that I used the metaphor of gears to relate to the SyncWeb or Cloud. I say, okay, maybe that was in my subconscious and move on with my night. Melissa and I decide to go out for dinner. We walk around and pass this poster:

Not only do the gears look the same, but the word "Toys" reminds me of the movie of the same title. The movie "Toys" has also been shown by Jake to have strange connections to the Twin Towers.

Oh, sorry to distract, but since we're talking of Toys, I should point out that Lego just put out its newest in the Atlantis line - something we've looked at before. As long as we're talking about 9/11 stargates, check out this "Portal to Atlantis" shaped like the Pentagon:

Anyway, gears right? As soon as we pass that Toys/Gears ad, we walk past this other poster:

We then go to one of our absolute favorite places to eat. A place appropriately named "Mario's" with a sign reading "Boom" outside:

Boom, being similar to "Bang" or "Pop" or even "Pow" - also happens to be the name of the realtor who brokers the property we are negotiating to open the Pointe of Symmetry Art Center. A realtor named "Boom" -> Big Bang to start Reality. :)

"Pow" also resonates with the Mario Bros, through their first Atari game:

This would be just fun, but then the kid at the table next to me starts playing Mario Kart and I see that he's racing across the Rainbow Bridge!

And what is he drinking but Pink soda Pop. Ha.

Hadn't I just been talking to Michael about both the Rainbow Bridge and the Pink energy of Green Lantern's "Star Sapphire" character? Not to mention the obvious POP! connection.

But what should flash on the TV at Mario's restaurant, but a commercial for a K2-resonating show called Kid VS Kat. The words "Kat to the Future" comes across the screen in the logo style of Back to the Future! I found the show on YouTube and it's filled with 88-resonant circled Hs and Green glowing lights, alien mushrooms and tons of other syncs.

Not to mention, that this is another Disney cartoon that shows Time Travel resulting in an authoritarian future, much like the one we looked at in Darkwing Duck.

Wiki tells us that this was Season 2, Episode 8. Giving us the two 8s or 88.

Original airdates: November 6, 2010 (Canada) / November 23, 2010 (U.S.A)

Bear in mind that, that very morning I woke up wanting a Milky Way candy bar like I've never wanted anything before. I went to a deli and bought one, but it was old and chalky. I went back and said to the guy, "I'm giving this back to you and taking something else." Melissa suggested a KitKat. From KitKat to Kid vs Kat. That's the kind of day I had.

It should also be noted that Melissa's name in Japanese is Mari and her last initial was "O" before we got married. I used to call her MariO after we started eating at that restaurant.

But now, her name is Melissa (meaning "Bee") Green. So she's now actually the Green Hornet, which also syncs with K2 or Kato.

There's another place in our neighborhood, also called Mario's and he makes no secret about his connection to Pi.

So the King/Ring and all that is making a return big time. What that means for us remains to be seen. But, based on the Back to the Future and King Kong syncs, I'd say we have to calm the beast inside of us, learn to not fly off the handle like Marty, and all that goodness. Otherwise we end up as monsters.

This is the video I made a bit back, mentioned in the roundtable, which connects Saddam to Mario and teaches us that very lesson: