The Hanged Man and Childhood's End

The Hanged Man tarot card has now been played. 

On 7/13/11 the girlfriend of multi-millionaire Arizona-based pharmaceutical company owner Jonah Shacknai was found hanging nude from the balcony of the historic Spreckels mansion where he lived in Coronado, CA.

Her hands and feet were bound.

In my two previous posts Those Crazy Twins and Lord Black and Lord White I identified the Divine Twins and the High Priestess tarot cards as revealed in current events. 

The timeline came from an online article by Jan Wicherink entitled "What the Tarot is Telling Us About 2012". 

Interestingly, Wicherink wrote that the last and most important Tarot card in the cycle of events leading up to the Great Celestial Conjunction of 2012 would be The Hanged Man.

Therefore, it was clear that prominent hanged man symbology should soon crop up in the news (the bound hands and feet being the giveaway).

One last card that reveals some interesting secrets about the End of Times and Second Coming of Christ, Card XII (12) the Hanged Man.  In card XII the Sacred Tree is depicted, the crossing of the ecliptic and Milky Way. The light radiated by the man’s head resembles the rays of the Sun. This Sun is placed on the Sacred Tree...the Sun on the ecliptic-Milky Way crossing.—What the Tarot is Telling Us About 2012

There is even more esoteric symbology in Crowley's version of The Hanged Man card in his Thoth Tarot deck.

Aleister Crowley is revealing that the Christian belief of the Second Coming of the historical figure Jesus Christ at the End of Times is identical to the death and rebirth of the Sun at the Great Celestial Conjunction.—What the Tarot is Telling Us About 2012

Another sync I noticed is that the name Shacknai is very similar to Shekhinah, a Hebrew word used to denote the "presence of God".

The Shekhinah is synonymous with the "Pillar of Cloud" that guided the Israelites out of Egypt.

Some believe the Shekhinah specifically represents the feminine attributes of the presence of God. 



The Shekhinah enters the Tabernacle in the form of a "holy pillar" of smoke.



Both of these definitions resonate with the idea of the Second Coming and the Return of the Divine Feminine. 

Similarly, the Biblical prophet Ezekial prophesied the Return of the Shekhinah in his vision of the Third Temple being built at the End Times (Ezek. 43:1-7).  

The mansion's location in Coronado, CA may also hold symbolic significance in that Coronado is Spanish for "The Crowned One".

This correlates to the 7th and highest Chakra level, the Crown.

Logo of Shacknai's Arizona-based company Medicis.



On 7/18/11, Shacknai's son passed away from injuries sustained from a fall down the stairs in the same mansion seven days earlier on 7/11/11.

Spreckels Mansion stairway (left). Masonic 2nd Degree tracing board (right).

The Kabbalah Society's description of the overall meaning of the 2nd Degree tracing board and its two pillars (as depicted above) coincides with the meaning of the Chakras and the Shekhinah:

The individual who embarks on the Second Degree is about to undertake some interior journey, an ascent through the soul and spirit. The Masonic Lectures assign characteristics to these two pillars which suggest they represent paired opposites: first, they are said to be a memorial of the Pillar of Cloud and the Pillar of Fire that guided the Children of Israel (by day and night, respectively) during the Exodus;—KabbalahSociety.org

The unfortunate imagery of a young boy falling to his death down a staircase could also denote something else.

Perhaps an ill-fated signifier of the beginning of the end of the Aeon of the Child?

UPDATE:

This event also happens to tie in with my conspiracy theory regarding the Powers That Be and Phoenix, Arizona.  Shacknai's business is based in Phoenix and his deceased girlfriend Rebecca Zahau was also from Phoenix.

In my previous post I created the following illustration to show how Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man figure can be overlaid atop a map of Arizona to find the power points.

Arizona/Virtuvian Man Map - Click to ENLARGE

Note that the Spreckels Mansion in Coronado, CA is located on an exact straight-line path connected to the Left Arm of the Vitruvian Man figure.

I also circled Quartzsite, AZ on the map (it's in the same vicinity of the Left Arm). 

Quartzsite has been all over the news recently for illegally arresting citizens and trying to implement martial law.

The locations imply that these events are yet more activations of power points connected to Arizona.

Crossing the Ecliptic with Lord Black and Lord White

The number II of the High Priestess tarot card is a reference to the constellation of the Gemini Twins who we just encountered earlier this week in the personages of the Winklevoss Twins (see the previous post: Those Crazy Twins—The Calm Before the Storm).

Overall, the card denotes the two Great Celestial Conjunctions (the Ecliptic and Milky Way intersecting to create a Cross in the sky) that will take place in 2012.

The pillars represent the Milky Way. The white and black colours of the pillars represent opposites, the two opposite sides on the Milky Way where the ecliptic and Milky Way cross. The dark pillar can be associated with the Dark Rift (hence the dark colour) near the Sagittarius-Scorpio nexus while the white pillar can be associated with the Gemini-Taurus nexus.—What the Tarot is Telling Us About 2012

The goddess Isis shown wearing the solar disk in between the bull horns represents the Sun moving on its path along the ecliptic.



The first conjunction will occur in Gemini at the Gemini-Taurus nexus on the summer solstice of June 21, 2012.

The 2nd conjunction will happen near the Sagittarius-Scorpio nexus on the winter solstice of Dec 21, 2012.  (NOTE:  The two Celestial Crosses, or XX, relate to the number 20 revealed in the previous post). 

Synchromystically, we can see confirmation of this scenario continuing to be played out for us in current events.  Namely, in the recent imprisonment of Lord Conrad Black conjoining with the capture of crime lord James "Whitey" Bulger. 

The Two Pillars have been set up in preparation for the 2012 great galactic alignments.

Lord Black (left) and Lord Whitey (right).  The Two Pillars. 

On June 22nd (one day after the 2011 summer solstice) James "Whitey" Bulger, a notorious fugitive Boston crime lord, was captured in Santa Monica, CA after 16 years on the lam.

Two days later on June 24th Lord Conrad Black, a media baron-turned-corporate criminal, was sentenced to 42 months in prison by a Chicago judge named Judge Amy St. Eve. 





Isis and the Biblical Eve are one and the same.  Thus "Judge St. Eve" syncs to another version of the Tarot II card (above) depicting Saint Eve sitting in judgement as Isis the High Priestess.

As discussed in the previous post, 42 is the Jupiter number and "42 months" equals the 3.5 year period prophesied in the Bible's book of Revelations.

It's also worth noting that like something out of a Batman movie the characters in this reality skit seem to know their roles and even dress the part. 

The white-haired Whitey Bulger showed up to court in a "white hooded sweatshirt". 

Alternately, Lord Conrad Black appeared in court wearing a dark suit.

I see the two lords as emblematic of the foundations, or pillars, of a corrupt ruling class—control through Dissemination of Disinformation (i.e. the Media) paired with control through Brute Force and Fear (i.e. the Mob). 

In their simultaneously orchestrated downfall maybe now we are witnessing the darker aspect of the Ouroboros, the Beast eating itself.

In the Ouroboros illustration above a Lion and an Eagle devour eachother as the "Two Witnesses", the Sun and Moon, look on.

Whitey Bulger had a well-known obsession with the Lion statues in front of the New York Public Library. Whenever he was in NYC he would have his lackeyes meet him there.

The Eagle could refer to the double-headed Eagle, a historical symbol of world dominance adopted by the Bilderberg Group of which Lord Conrad Black was a former Steering Committee member.

The synchs have been rolling in hot and heavy lately.  It's a strange time indeed when all viewpoints—religious, alchemical, new age, synchromystic, scientific—are leading to the same conclusions. 

I believe that point of convergence is the point of truth.

In this scenario it seems the corrupt world order is in the process of, perhaps unwittingly, destroying itself through its own trickery and misdeeds.

It is our job, then, simply to witness the events while standing strong in our convictions and continuing to shine forth the light of truth.

Death of a Raging Bull and All Hail the Larry King

The late U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke was known to many as the "Raging Bull".  His sudden death this week synchronistically aligns with the sacrificial Bull-slaying rituals of the ancient Mystery cults.

The Tauroctony scene (shown below) is the the central icon of the Mithraic Mystery cults.  It depicts Mithras killing a Bull with a short sword.  Other major identifying elements always present in the scene are a dog, a serpent, and a scorpion.

An analysis of the circumstances surrounding Holbrooke's death indicates that all the required elements for a Tauroctony scene were present.

Mithras' Sword - Frank Ruggiero has been appointed to replace the late Holbrooke. Ruggiero is is the Italian version of the Germanic name Roger meaning "renown for his sword".

The Dog and the Serpant - Ruggiero stated that both he and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were with Holbrooke at the time of his aortic dissection.  This identifies them as the Dog and the Serpent shown leaping toward the Bull's wounds in the Tauroctony scene.

The Scorpion - Hillary Clinton also plays a dual role in the scene. In the Tarot she resonates The High Priestess card.  The High Priestess reversed can indicate all the negative aspects of the astrological sign of Scorpio.  She is the vengeful Scorpion desmasculating the Bull. 

This dynamic is reflected in the fact that Holbrooke was a frontrunner for his dream job of U.S. Secretary of State in 2008 until Clinton struck a deal with the Obama administration to appoint her to the position.

Synchromystically, Holbrooke's death can also be tied to the retirement of Larry King (born 11/19/1933), the long-time host of CNN talk show Larry King Live.

In the Roman Empire of the 2nd to 4th centuries, Taurobolium was a Bull-killing cult act performed by initiates of the Mysteries of Magna Mater.

The Bull was chased and overcome prior to being sacrificed to ensure the regeneration and purification of the Emperor and the Empire.  

In 1994, Larry King infamously provided live TV coverage of the police "chasing" O.J. Simpson's white Bronco (NOTE: a Mechanical Bull is also known as a Bucking Bronco).

King's trademark suspenders and EYEglasses identify him as one of the two initiates kneeling before the High Priest/Emperor on The Hierophant tarot card. 

In another nice sync, The Hierophant is also associated with occult initiations and is ruled by the astrological symbol Taurus, the Bull.  Crowley's version of the card (below, right) even features a Tauroctony motif.

Although The Hierophant follows The Emperor in the major arcane of the Tarot, together they represent one power structure working in tandem through politics (the religion of the Government). 

In this sense, Larry King as one of the Hierophant's initiates represents the EYE of the public helping to reinforce the Emperor's politics on the world. 

Larry King Live was broadcast all over the world on CNN International. 



CNN International Logo as compared to an inverted Scorpio symbol.

The show's significant impact on world views was even noted by Richard Holbrooke himself. He was quoted as telling King:

"I know that your program is watched carefully in Belgrade, probably the most watched program available to the leadership in Belgrade, and I hope they hear your suggestion and respond positively to it.”

If King is the archetypal EYE of public politics, then Holbrooke was, as an article in TIME called him, the "Archetype of American Diplomacy".  

His dying mission was to end the war in Afghanistan and he was notoriously dogged in his lifelong pursuit of world peace. 

Holbrooke's struggle links synchromystically to the 1980 movie classic Raging Bull starring Robert De Niro as failed boxing prizefighter Jake LaMotta. 

Eleleth at the Kosmos Idikos blog confirms De Niro's connection to the Bull/Beast.  He writes: 

Robert De Niro, as a personification of the Beast (the dark, masculine Ego), is lost and adrift in the world, desperately searching for the Beauty--that is, the feminine principle of Love--that ever eludes his grasp.

Like De Niro's character Jake LaMotta, Holbrooke is the failed prizefighter who dies with his hard fought efforts to bring the principle of Love/Peace to Afghanistan unfulfilled.

The name LaMotta also means "dweller by a fortified stronghold" which links Holbrooke to The Five of Cups in the Tarot and syncs with the Five (V) of The Hierophant card.

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai collaborated with Holbrooke to try to strike a peace accord. 

Holbrooke and Afghan President Hamid Karzai

On 10/11/2010 Karzai was interviewed via satellite on Larry King Live.

In the interview King tows the "Emperor's" line by suggesting the Taliban is an "undefeatable force", Obama's drawdown of troops is tantamount to abandonment, and Karzai is a delusional manic depressive.

Richard Holbrooke died on 12/13/10.  Three days later on 12/16/10 Larry King retired at the age of 77, ending his show after 25 (2+5=7) years on air.

British journalist and TV personality Piers Morgan has been selected to replace King on CNN.

Piers Morgan was born Piers O'Meara on 3/30/1965 (3/3/11=33) and his name (Piers=pierce) is yet another sync wink to the sacrificial "piercing" or stabbing of the Bull. 

We can also find a synchromystic link to him in historical fantasy author Katherine Kurtz's (K2) series of Deryni novels. 

One of the fictional Eleven Kingdoms in the Deryni series is named Meara, and Kurtz's two most recent books are  In the King's Service (2003) and Childe Morgan (2006).

On January 1, 2011 (11/11), Piers Morgan will "fill the King's suspenders", thus sealing his place as the second initiate on The Hierophant tarot card---the Childe Morgan in the King's service.

Rutter wrote:

"We might even justifiably say that the taurobolium, rather than a rite effectual in itself was a symbol of paganism. It was a rite apparently forbidden by the Christian emperors and thus became a hallmark of the pagan nobility in their final struggle..."

Therefore, the Bull sacrifice can be seen as an act of defiance against God, a move by The Powers that Be born of desperation at seeing the Political, Religious, and Economic control structures they have so careful crafted now at risk of crumbling.

The Zoroastrian tradition speaks of the "destructive spirit" Ahriman (aka Angra Mainyu).

Ahriman slays the Primal Bull...but the battle goes on, with mankind caught in the middle, whose duty it remains to withstand the forces of evil through good thoughts, words and deeds.

The Raging Bull has died and the Larry King Live(s).  Who will prevail in this battle?

Special Thanks and Recommended Reading:

Special thanks to Eleleth at the Kosmos Idikos blog for his Tarot insights.