The (Un)Safe Way—Thoughts on the Arizona Massacre

It took me a few days to collect myself and my thoughts regarding the senseless tragedy that occurred in Tucson, Arizona this past Saturday.  

That the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and at least 18 others happened in a shopping center in front of a Safeway store where, clearly, the way was not safe at all is a morbid irony not lost on me.

Tucson Safeway with their old Pyramid Logo

This event has been dominating the television news cycles and the Internet alike, and rightfully so.  Like everyone else I've been watching and reading because I have a need to know the facts, but in my heart all I really want to do is close my eyes and turn away. 

I am anguished, horrified, disgusted, beyond weary, bone-tired of observing such cruel and heinous carnage in the name of...what? 

Sunday, I was reading the article above, and as I scrolled down the page my sync-detecting eyes did their duty by rote.  The fact that each of the fatally wounded victims' names contained Double Letters leapt off the page at me. 

Then there were the Biblical and 9/11 syncs, the "Congress on your Corner"/CC/33 sync, the NASA/Astronaut syncs, the Sun syncs, the Green syncs, the Oz syncs...just to name a few, all easily discernible in that one brief news story.

My mind was spinning, but  I couldn't even bring myself to try to analyze those numerous and blatant symbols here.  Somehow in my grieving mind it seemed disrespectful of the slain to relegate their deaths to a series of moves on an evil chessboard.  

[Note: Aferrismoon has written a more analytic post well worth reading.]

Then there was the perpetrator himself.  Loughner (aka Laughner), the Laughing Man, the Joker, the Fool. 

He's both a self-proclaimed "conscious dreamer" and a proponent of a subversive type of "magical thinking". 

Not the good kind of "magical thinking" like the The Secret Sun recently posted about.  Oh no, we're talking the bad kind that will get you admitted into the nearest mental ward post haste. 

At first I dared not post or Tweet.  Here I am writing about synchronistic resonance and archetypes and symbols in TV shows and Nostradamus' prophecies...uhm yeah...wouldn't want anyone to accuse me of that guy's brand of crazy, I thought. 

Finally, that twinge of fear subsided and I was simply left wondering what in the world is happening here? 

My thoughts couldn't help but revert to 9/11, a day none of us will ever forget.  Me sitting on the couch clutching the Good Book in trembling hands, wondering if the whole world was about to come apart.  And I didn't know a fraction then of what I know now.

For all of the wonderful, mystical, divine light we discover hidden beautifully in nature and numbers, within phrases and names, carved on ancient monuments the world over—the flip side still remains.

The most unthinkable, ugly, dense, dark collective Evil.  The Yin and the Yang fatefully intertwined. Always.

Times like these I have to ask myself:  Is it better to Know or not to Know?  To See or to remain blind? 

But for me the answer is always the same.  It is better to See, to Know.  Better to stumble along the often pain-filled Narrow Path of insights leading to Life than to walk the wide open road to oblivion.

However, if there is any way that the loving, light-filled humans on this planet can help to rapidly raise our Collective Consciousness far above the threshold of such Darkness, I hope we are actively doing it. 

I hope with all my heart.  More than that, I believe we are.

"But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to Life, and only a few find it."—Matthew 7:14

Crayola Offers Kids "Power over Dark and Light"

Just in time for Xmas, the commercial for Crayola's new Glow Station is a mindblowing 31-second mash of subliminal Synchromystic symbology for kids (and wizards) everywhere.

It opens with a shot of a pretty creepy Gothic-looking house and a woman's voice saying,

"Behold...the Power to rule the Dark and the Light."

The lights in the window of the house's top spire flashes eerily on and off.  Then cut to a shot panning a up a winding Staircase inside the house.

This mirrors the Masonic Spiral Staircase, Jacob's Ladder, the path the initiate takes to gain Enlightenment, and genetic transformation via the spiral of DNA. (see The Stairway to Sirius, Revisited)

At the top of the stairs is a Dog standing in front of an open Door with Light/Enlightenment pouring out of it. 

The Dark shadow over the Dog links it with Anubis, the dog-headed Egyptian god associated with Death (Darkness) and the escorter of souls through the "Door" to the Afterlife.  

This is another play on the juxtaposition of Dark/Light since the symbol of the Dog is also associated with Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.  It also ties to the earlier Stairway to Sirius sync.

Now we hear the Voice again saying,

"What you draw in the Dark glows in the Light."

Throughout the video there are several scenes of a boy standing against a wall while another kid draws things over his head, including: 

Lightening Rods and 666's...

A Lightening Rod is the weapon of Zeus/ Jupiter.  It's also the symbol for Enlightenment of Spirit on The Tower Card in the Tarot deck (see Rocks and Runes - Ride the Lightening).

...And an Angel's Halo followed by Devil's Horns.

In another scene they draw angel wings at a girl's back.  Note the continual play on Opposites:  Dark/Light, Good/Bad, Girl/Boy.

As the Voice later reminds us, "It's the Best of Both Worlds all on one canvas".

In the Dark the pictures glow Green, a color associated with Osiris, the Egyptian god of the Afterlife.

Osiris ruled both Death (Darkness) and Rebirth/Resurrection (Light).

Next, a girl draws a Heart in the Light.  In the Darkness/Death the Heart turns Green and a boy draws a menacing Smiley Face inside it. 

This links to Green being the traditional color of the Heart Chakra.

It's also another sync to Anubis who decided the fate of dead souls by weighing their Heart against the feather of Ma'at.

The Smiley Face symbol is a sync wink to a rare Astrological conjunction that forms a "Smile in the Sky".  Jupiter, Venus, and the crescent Moon were aligned on December 1, 2008.  An alignment of Mars, Venus, Saturn, and the Moon occurred on August 18, 2010. 

The Look at All the Happy Creatures blog relates the Smiley Face to a tear in the fabric of space, a Stargate.

In another scene the kids hold up a picture of a Caterpillar's face (another Smiley Face) in the same frame with an Open Door.

This symbolizes entering the stage of  Rebirth/Transformation just as a Caterpillar enters a cocoon to tranforms into a Butterfly.

The next scene shows a girl standing against the wall as a Crown is drawn over her head.  Inside the Crown are four jewels with one lit up brightly like a Star.  Her hair is also strongly emphasized.

The Hair Crowns the head signaling that she is an Hair/Heir to the Throne of Joy/Jupiter/The Bright Star (see The Return of the Ring).

Next the kids rock out in the Dark as a boy plays a glowing pic of a guitar that really looks more like a Star.  They are celebrating the crowning.

Flash to more subliminal 666 images.

Next up is a pretend x-ray showing some Fish swimming around in the boy's stomach. 

This reflects the myth of Osiris (also the Greek god Pan) becoming Fish-like from the waist down in the Nile River after being attacked by Typhon.

We hear the Voice again saying: "Give the gift of wonder, adventure, and Dreams", emphasizing the Dream-like quality of the Transformation experience.

Flash to the product box with a kid drawing a grinning Shark (another menacing Smiley Face) with a Star for an Eye. 

The Crayola logo is also shown as a Smiley Face with a Rainbow for the smile.  This demonstrates the movement over the Rainbow or through the Rainbow Bridge/Stargate of Transformation.

Flash to a spinning white Cube.  The multi-colored circles on each face is a variation of the Rainbow Bridge theme.  The Cube itself may be Metatron's Cube which is a symbol for the Soul.

The children's faces inside the circles make them Portholes/Portals further revealing the Soul Cube/Rainbow Bridge as a Stargate.

Flash to final shot of the Rainbow Smiley Face logo next to the phrase "Give everything imaginable" with the word Give written inside a Green/Osiris ribbon. 

That slogan reminded me of song lyrics I wrote about in a previous post:

And I never wanted anything from you
Except everything you had
And what was left after that too
---from "The Dog Days are Over" by Florence and the Machine

Crayola's website describes the toy's drawing tool as a "Crystal Light Wand" that lets you make "luminous freehand drawings". 

Here the word Luminous is a reference to the Illuminati and Freehand to Freemasonry.  Freehand/Handfree is also an allusion to the dismembered hand (see Talk to the Disembodied Hand).

The Wand is a symbol frequently associated with Magic and Wizardry (think Merlin or Harry Potter). 

Ancient Egyptians often buried Magic Wands inside tombs as a tool to help the dead souls through their journey in the Afterlife.  And the fact that it's made of Crystal may be a reference to Atlantis. 

Maybe this type of symbology is planted in ads to induce subversive subliminal thoughts. 

Or perhaps marketers just know that our minds pick up on certain Universal Consciousness symbols so they pack commercials with them simply to get sales.

I'll explore more on the topic of Marketing and Symbology in a later post.