Well, weirdo Indie artists like Grimes are one thing, but what do you do when one of the biggest superstars in the entire world makes a video bursting at the seams with all these crazy Emergent Archetypal Dominants® I've been bashing my head bloody for the better part of two years trying to open people's eyes to?
I guess bash my head some more.
I wasn't going to go back into this clip, but that sick bassline kind of planted a worm in my ear. And even if she's pushing 50, Jenny from the Block is still a lot of fun to look at. And while I might be bored to tears by this decadent Fashion Week sensibility, several millions of other people don't seem to be.
Secret Sun readers realize that Pearls are a big, big part of the New Messaging. We've seen Cardi B decked out in pearl necklaces (what else is new?) but it seems that you need someone with a high Q rating to really embed the symbology in the inner minds of the masses. Hence the star of the show being rather well-encrusted with them.
The video opens with this foxy young lady, looking identical to any random priestess at an ancient Mystery ritual. Like, I don't know, during the Need-Fire. Or perhaps the Midsummer Fires.
AND OF FUCKING COURSE, she's crowned with a Garland of dropped pearls. Did she wake to light those fires with her Pearly dropped pearls?
Well, with dropped Pearls and a lit fire, what else do we need?
How about TWINS?
You heard me. TWINS. No, you're not dreaming.
You heard me. TWINS. No, you're not dreaming.
And there's those Ruby lips with little rhinestones that look like stars-- Ruby stars. Are those meant to be 8's or infinity's? Still working on that.
Here is Extra-Credit Wisdom: Those Eyes, That Mouth.
Here is Extra-Credit Wisdom: Those Eyes, That Mouth.
Obviously, the color story for the video is white. Is it a Pale Clouded White? I don't think so, but I'm open to correction.
And there's the GIANT PEARL motif again. Is that meant to symbolize the super-neutrino from the String of Pearls that rose with an Ice-Pulse from the snows of Antarctica last year? The question answers itself.
Because do remember that Ariana Grande (AKA "Mini-JLo") was prancing around with the very same icon in a video not so long ago.
And JLo uses the Giant Pearl as her crystal ball as she plays a Carnival fortune-teller. Meaning she pretends to be a Oracle. Or a Sibyl. Or a Precog, or whatever.
Just in case that rings a bell, what with the Twins and the Rubys and Pearls and everything.
Do you understand now?
Extra Initiate Sychro-Credit: Mensa - Dorado.
Extra Initiate Sychro-Credit: Mensa - Dorado.
Here's the same icon, only Twinned.
And then we travel through the Stargate. Or the supercharged Blazars travel through the Supervoid, whatever.
(BTW Have I mentioned that "Supervoid" is a Metal af band name?)
On the other side of the Stargate is this curiously-decorated carousel. Note that our pal SN1987A seems to well-represented here. As is Regulus.
Compare and contrast.
Note all the ladies are all riding a Pale Horse.
This calls for a mind with wisdom. And an abundance of caution.
So, we have the Supernova, what's that other motif there?
With those rams horns and everything? Where have I see that before?
Oh, of course. It's Jupiter Ammon. Who else?
I mean, what fairground carousel isn't decked out with friezes of ancient Greco-Syro-Egypto-Libyan gods of worldwide conquest and untrammeled lust, right?
I mean, what fairground carousel isn't decked out with friezes of ancient Greco-Syro-Egypto-Libyan gods of worldwide conquest and untrammeled lust, right?
We see this pose a few times.
Here it is from a side angle.
And this young contortionist here, striking this pose.
Which looks oddly familiar as well.
Extra message to the initiates: Here's what it says.
OG Sunsters and Freemles will recognize the iconography on loan from the Second Degree Tracing Board, depicting the Stairway to Sirius.
This mask looks oddly familiar as well.
I can't quite place it at the moment.
And as we saw before, we have the depiction of Lyra, with what looks like a cosplayer from the Court of the Sun King playing an archangel. Is the other woman meant to symbolize Vega?
Either way, there's our Strings of Pearls. Also note her cuffs look like feathers. Just feathers, not feathers-oar-blades.
Of course, we've been talking a lot about albinism as it pertains to the Shimmer, but here's an example of non-Shimmly albinism with bonus Pearls.
Then there's this object, which looks very familiar...
Especially as it pertains to Advanced Fraserology.
Then there's this object, which looks very familiar...
...or should.
Especially as it pertains to Advanced Fraserology.
And here's the old, reliable "Masonic Christ" riff. I think they worked this bone up to throw over to Vigilant Citizen. Or maybe it's just a case of the piper-payer calling the tune.
And do note that the director here- Jora Frantzis-- is no stranger to throwing rudimentary Masonic bones to those folks who don't read The Secret Sun.
And as it happens, she's no stranger to putting "many hidden messages" in her videos. Which goes without saying.
Note "Medicine" premiered on the eve of the 115th Anniversary of the dictation of the Liber Al Vegis and the Black Hole Sun premiered on the 115th anniversary of its completion.
Remember that "Medicine" also premiered on the 25th anniversary of the discovery of Kurt Cobain's corpse and the US television premiere of Our Lady and Her Unmercenary Musicians, both of which occurred on the 90th anniversary of the first Liber Al Vegis sessions.
Oh, and get this...
...the Black Hole Sun was first announced on April 2nd...
...the 35th anniversary of the initial release of "Pearly Dewdrops' Drop."
Oh, and get this...
...the 35th anniversary of the initial release of "Pearly Dewdrops' Drop."
Note also that the Black Hole Sun looks not unlike a rooster-eye. This is all connected and I'm delusional enough to believe I'm starting to get a handle on it. For some reason, it all seems to be tied to cosmic events such as supernovas and meteor showers and black holes, as I explained in the article on the Book of Revelation.
The Black Hole Sun was imaged by a network of telescopes, including the array in Atacama (where the Pearly Dewdrops were first sighted in 1987) and an array at Amundsen-Scott, where the Dewdrop from Orion's Sword rose last year, or where it was detected to have risen.
Do I think it's a coincidence that a video so blatantly drawing on the same thematic elements as "Pearly Dewdrop's Drop" premiered this week?
I suppose it's possible, but that's one hell of a coincidence.