The Reddening

We have symbolically completed the final stage of the alchemical process known as Rubedo or the "reddening".

I first mentioned this in a previous post back in July.  Now, in November we are seeing the culmination of the reddening via the U.S. mid-term election results.

The "reddening" of America on November 4th

The Empire State Building turns RED for election day 2014.

The fact that the reddening process spanned from July to November was no coincidence.

The first letters of the months July, August, September, October, and November spell out the name JASON, as in Jason and the Argonauts.

Jason's mythical quest to obtain the "golden fleece" is often used as a metaphor for alchemical endeavors.

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Recall that Rubedo ("redness") represents the fourth and final major stage in the alchemical magnum opus or great work.

It's fitting then that one week earlier Taylor Swift released her fifth album '1989', marking a definitive end of her fourth album 'Red'.

On November 3rd, One World Trade Center tower was officially opened to the public for the first time since 9/11.

The WTC opening ritual heavily signified the culmination or completion of one process and, possibly, the rebirth of something new.

Another symbol used to represent Rubedo is the phoenix as reflected in the phoenix rising imagery of the upcoming release of "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay" movie.

From a psychological view according to Jung, the reddening stage represents the merging of the ego and the Self.  It is the point at which the self discovers its true nature and manifests in a state of wholeness. (see the Mask of God post 'Rubedo').

The Rubedo was also alluded to on the two latest episodes of Sleepy Hollow in the form of Jincan, a red poison made from the blood of scorpions and the other most deadly venomous creatures in the world after they fight one another to the death inside the bottle.

"Although the opposites flee from one another they nevertheless strive for balance...
They do this by wearing each other out: the one eats the other like the two dragons or the
other ravenous beasts of alchemical symbolism." (from The Mask of God, 'Rubedo')

The one eats the other

I do think there is something new on the horizon for this world, but it's not in the form of the same-old establishment.

As the character Red Reddington (played by James Spader) stated on a recent episode of the TV show 'The Blacklist', the current system of governance is "an operatic perversion of righteous intent".

Regardless of how things may appear, the empire has ended. And what will emerge in in its place will be something altogether unexpected. I can't wait to see.

22/Tau Ascension: The Final Journey

On July 24-25th a river in China turned red overnight. This was a symbolic reflection of a similar incident that occurred in 2006 when China's YELLOW River turned red.

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Alchemically speaking, we are collectively leaving the yellowing stage (see my previous post The Color Yellow) and entering the final stage of the process known as Rubedo or the "reddening".

IOSIS = ISIS

Whatever journey we're on I believe we're still taxiing down the runway and ramping up to take flight (despite several tragic attempts/crashes over the past few months).

We are poised to break through and cross some type of spiritual barrier, if only in our own hearts and minds.

My last post was about ISIS, the Number 22, and the Tau symbol, and this post is a continuation to show how things are converging.

Crossing the Border (Transmutation/Transfiguration)

22 year-old supermodel Andreja Pejic announced that she'd
officially transitioned from male to female.

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"I am returning to my father..."—(John 20:17)

Tau

The Final Journey

22 feet underneath the WTC a ship was found.

PHOENIX = MOCKINGJAY

Arizona and the Sun Kingdom Conspiracy: Part II

Digging deeper into the mystery surrounding the Arizona Massacre, it becomes clear that the area is rife with very specific magical, alchemical, and religious symbolism.

Let's begin by re-visiting my map of the Phoenix-Tucson area overlayed with the Vitruvian Man figure. 

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[ CLICK HERE to open the Interactive Version of the Map ]

On the Interactive Map, Click any Marker to see more Detailed Info
When the map opens, Refresh switch to FullScreen view

In Part I we went through an overview of the map's general layout.  This time we will only focus on the Arms of the figure:

The Left Arm:

The Left Arm represents the Path of Fortune (also the Left-Hand Path of Black Magic and the Occult).  On the map, it runs through the city of Casa Grande (translation: The Great House) and the Fortuna Foothills.

This symbolizes the link between the wisdom of the Tarot "Fortune" cards and the twelve symbolic "Houses" of Astrology. 

The Right Arm:

The Right Arm represents the Alchemical Path (also the Right-Hand Path of White Magic).  On the map it passes first through the city of Benson, AZ, then the city of Los Cruces, NM, to end in the Rubledo Mountains.

- Benson, AZ is the real life town Humphrey travel through in the 1947 film noir Dark Passage also starring Lauren Bacall (in the movie it is fictitiously named "Benton, Arizona").  It was based on a novel of the same name. 

"Benson, Arizona" is also the name of the theme song to the movie Dark Star.

The term "Dark Passage" is a synchromystic reference to the Dark Night of the Soul, or the Nigredo.  Nigredo is the 1st stage of the Alchemical journey of transformation.  In the Jungian archetypal schema, Nigredo is the Shadow.

- Los Cruces, NM is home to both NASA's White Sands Missile Test Facility and the Basilica of San Albino the "White Saint".

This strong association with the color White signifies the state of alchemical transformation known as the Whitening, or the Albedo.  Albedo is the 2nd stage of the Alchemical journey, the purification process that follows the Decomposition of Nigredo.

“The loosening up of cramped and rigid attitudes corresponds to the solution and separation of the elements by the aqua permanens… the water is a soul or spirit, that is a psychic “substance,” which now in its turn is applied to the initial material. The situation is now gradually illuminated as is a dark night by the rising moon…this dawning light corresponds to the albedo”. ---Carl Jung

- The 3rd stage of the Alchemical journey is Citrinitas, or Yellowness.   It is referred to as the "transmutation of silver into gold" or "yellowing of the lunar consciousness."  The entire area could be representative this stage since it is known as the Valley of the Sun.

- Just northwest of Los Cruces, NM lie the Robledo Mountains.  The name of the mountain range is very similar to Rubedo, the Reddening.  Rubedo is the 4th major stage in the "Alchemical opus" where enlightened consciousness and the total fusion of spirit and matter is achieved.

In my very first post on this blog Michael Jackson and Shiva, I wrote that in Jackson's many physical changes we may have been witnessing a synchromystic manifestation of the journey of Alchemical transformation in a human form. 

Now, in the Arizona landscape we are seeing the same process manifested in a geographical sense.

On the map the Southern route (running in a straight line south from Nogales, AZ to Hermosillo, SON) represents The Spiritual Path.

It follows the route of the annual religious pilgrimage from Nogales to Magdalena de Kino, then connects to the cities of Santa Ana (Mary Magdalene's mother), Altar (representing worship/Sacrifice) and Hermosillo (representing Hermes/The Messenger). 

These cities are each located in the Mexican state of Sonora = SON/SUN + AURA.

A line connecting them forms the letter "Y" (the letter that can FLY, the "savior god" symbol). 

All of these elements (Mary Magdalene, Saint Anne, the Altar, the Messenger, and the SON/SUN) combine to point to the Christ as redeemer and/or the concept of Christ Consciousness.

[ In my Next Post...a Quatrain from the Book of Nostradamus that ties it all together. ]

Michael Jackson and Shiva: Part I

On a personal note, I've had a spiritual connection with MJ all my life so it's only appropriate that I was led by the Pop Syncs to make The King of Pop the topic of my first post. Props to Jake Kotze for the inspiration.

My premise is that MJ resonates the Hindu divinity Shiva, especially in the depiction of Shiva as Nataraja (Lord of the Dance).

Shiva Nataraja, the Lord of the Dance. Photo by Thomas Ruedas.