Ritual Olympics: The Locusts are Coming.

The Winter Olympics just wrapped up, and did so in style. We saw several Secret Sun Scrabble bases being hit (twins, Orange, etc etc) throughout the past two weeks, but I was particularly interested in the massive Orb/Pearl ritual, led by a gauntlet of young women dressed in cloaks and hoods.

No, seriously- check it out. And wonder with great admiration.

Those of you who have consumed way too much junk culture will immediately recognize that particular combination. Orbs are an old standby for different varieties of evil magicians; warlocks, sorcerers, witches, wizards. 

Which is exactly why it's so astonishing how wide out in the open all of this stuff is now, and how many ridiculous excuses the media shills are forced to concoct to explain it. 

I guess they're getting tired of doing so, which might be why dissenting voices are being methodically silenced on social media and so on.

And let's not forget this little display in New York City's Madison Square Park, the same spot in which the Watchers were installed for the Event Horizon exhibit.

15 year-old skater Alina Zagitova won Russia its first gold medal of the festival, with her flawless performance as the "Priestess of Fire. "

No, seriously. Priestess of Fire. I believe she even woke to light it.

Note thematic connection to the Sphinx in the Gucci Hallucination line for 2018. Which is the current world champ at Secret Sun Scrabble.

Zagitova (whose surname seems to mean "Sweet Girl") also put on a bravura performance dressed all in Scarlet (or Ruby, if you prefer), and glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls.

Some interesting messaging surrounding this girl. Keep an eye on her.

And on the other end of the spectrum altogether, there's that. But hey-- Scottish-born Angus Young ftw.

And of course, our old friend Chimera Q. McTransgene-Terror made another appearance in the closing ceremonies, just to give any little ones watching their required dose of nightmare fodder.

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS

I'm not going to get back into the Parkland situation per se but I did want to share a few pertinent details that have recently come to light.

We discussed the fact that this all took place on Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday and just before the New Moon, Chinese New Year and an solar eclipse. 

But Greg Ahrens, a USAF vet who does work on stellar alignments and major events for Richard C Hoagland's Enterprise Mission, ran the numbers on the time and location of the shootings and came up with some interesting data.

ALIGNMENTS: 2:21 PM EST, Observation from Parkland, Florida, 
Orion's Belt Stars RISING on E horizon 
(Alnitak minus 1°, Alnilam 0°, Mintaka plus 1°}
Saturn SETTING on SSW horizon 0°
Moon plus 33° above SW horizon
Venus plus 49° above SW horizon
Regulus minus 46° below NE horizon
Vega plus 27° above WNW horizon

Well, there are some numbers we've talked quite a bit about in the recent past, eh?  Make of all that what you will. 

I know I sure am.

But I do want to take a quick look at the woman the school was named after, an eccentric spinster from my old neck of the woods who came down to Florida and got involved in the environmental movement, specifically efforts to clean up the Everglades.

Douglas --a Scottish name meaning "Dark River"-- wrote an autobiography about her work entitled, appropriately enough, Voice of the River. 

So here again we're seeing these emerging archetypal dominants connected to the waters and to the feminine principle (give or take, in this particular instance) lurking in the background.

I did find this interesting, though; Douglas with a coterie of "dignitaries" dressed in ritualistic-looking robes for the "Venetian Ball."

Because a "Venetian Ball" is precisely what's depicted in Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut. 

And try this on for size, Sergeant:

The Carnival of Venice (Italian: Carnevale di Venezia) is an annual festival held in Venice, Italy. 

The Carnival ends with the Christian celebration of Lent, forty days before Easter, on Shrove Tuesday (Martedì Grasso or Mardi Gras), the day before Ash Wednesday.

Huh. Interesting. 

Here's another interesting little cascade of coincidentalism for you nice people out there. 

First, a couple years back the NRA debuted a new logo-- a battleflag, if you will-- that depicts a descending -- or falling-- eagle. I'm seeing a lot of it as the NRA slug it out with the media over the shootings.

We saw how the Stoneman Douglas Eagles use the exact same symbol as the newly-crowned Super Bowl Champions, the Philadelphia Eagles, only redone with the ruby-red colors of the school.

But where did the Eagles get the symbol from?

Oh. I see.

From the NRA.

What's it all about? You asking me? Seriously?

THERE'S LOCUSTS IN THERE

A reader pointed out that Wikipedia claims that the word Dubai means "baby locusts." According to the United Arab Emirates website that's essentially accurate:

Dubai: The name of this emirate and its capital came from the word “locust” (in Arabian “dibba” and diminutive - “ dubai"). 

It may be connected with the fact, that it was the place of locusts breeding, that like wet soil. According to the name of the district “Bur Dubai” (“locust well”) there was a well here long time ago. 

In fact it means "a place where the locusts breed." Thank you for that, D::Wave--your wry sense of humor never fails to tickle. 

Let's open our Bibles to the Revelation to St. John and see what it has to say about locusts: 

"The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were crowns of something like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.  

"And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle." -  The Revelation to St. John

Oh, what joy-- transgenic chimera locusts. My favorite.