Lucifer was the brightest of the Archangels, but he had a huge chip on his shoulder. He wasn’t on board with the idea of everything moving towards Unity and Oneness which is the plan of Divinity and overall destiny of the Multiverse, because he feared that this would lead to no individuality — He didn’t understand that he could be One with everything and also retain his uniqueness and I’m pretty sure that this is also due to the wound at the center of his creation. What he actually feared was becoming one with his Creator because it would mean having to resolve his core trauma, something that’s scary for anyone. To be fair, Divinity didn’t understand at this point the responsibility it had in forming this trauma in the first place.

THE HIDDEN CAROUSEL A riddler hid a word inside a word, and three "hello worlds" came round like painted horses. 🐎 --- Jul 16, 2022, BearableGuy123: "pOsitive effeCtive resoLute sUccessful efficient verifiAble exEmplary Ripple exciteS." Initials: PERSEVERE. Inner capitals O C L U A E R S rearrange to CAROUSEL. Nine days later: "Happy Carousel Day." --- Jul 13, 2023, the day of Judge Torres's ruling in SEC v. Ripple: satire account @XRP_Productions posts "Hello world. #XRP" at 15:30 UTC. The bear posts "#XRPersevered" at 17:16. --- Jan 18, 2024, 22:34 UTC: the unverified @satoshi account (not Nakamoto) posts "Hello world." That is 189 days, exactly 27 weeks, after the ruling-day post. --- Today, 16:08 UTC, XRP's official account opens: "hello, world. It's about time." Lowercase, with a comma, as in Kernighan's 1974 Bell Labs tutorial and the 1978 C book. --- Count A=1…Z=26: WORLD 72, BITCOIN 72, PERSEVERE 113. עולם, olam, world = 70+6+30+40 = 146 = "hello world" in reverse ordinal. Coincidence and lore, not a plan. No financial advice. --- Both hello worlds: waxing Moon just past first quarter, 34 lunar months apart. Pluto crossed into Aquarius between them. In the Tarot: the Wheel turns, The World completes. Is a carousel a circle, or a return? As above, so below. ⛈️

This painting illustrates a page of the Splendor Solis (copy dated 1582). Inside a gilded arch, a man in black climbs a ladder to pick golden fruit from a tree into a basket. A crown rings the trunk, a stream runs from its roots, two bearded men in red and white point up at it, birds circle overhead, and bathers sit in a fountain pool below.

Hans Baldung Grien • Chart of the Signs of the Zodiac with Venus, Cupid, and a Bishop Saint (detail)

THE BEAR'S 🐻 ACROSTIC A riddler hid one word in a sentence, and the Kabbalists would have known the trick. On July 16, 2022, the anonymous XRP riddler BearableGuy123 posted one strange sentence: "pOsitive effeCtive resoLute sUccessful efficient verifiAble exEmplary Ripple exciteS." Take the first letter of each of its nine words and it spells PERSEVERE. The odd capitals inside the words have been read many ways. I won't add another. On July 13, 2023, Judge Analisa Torres ruled in the SEC's case against Ripple that XRP sold to the public on exchanges was not an investment-contract sale, while Ripple's direct sales to institutions were. That day the bear posted one hashtag: "#XRPersevered." The trick is old. The rabbis called it notarikon: reading a word as a string of initials. The Talmud (Shabbat 105a) reads אנכי, Anokhi, "I," the first word of the Ten Commandments, as "Ana Nafshi Ketavit Yehavit," "I Myself wrote and gave it." The Amidah's "Atah gibor le-olam Adonai," "You are mighty forever, Lord," became AGLA, a name Agrippa listed in 1533 and magicians carried onto talismans. Now count. אגלא, AGLA: 1 + 3 + 30 + 1 = 35. אנכי, Anokhi: 1 + 50 + 20 + 10 = 81. Psalm 27:14 says "wait on the LORD," and its word for waiting is קוה, kavah: 100 + 6 + 5 = 111. Patience is the alchemists' virtue too. The Mutus Liber, printed at La Rochelle in 1677, tells the reader: "Ora, lege, lege, lege, relege, labora et invenies." Pray, read, read, read, read again, work, and you will find. Last week US producer prices came in 6.3% higher than a year ago, the most since 2022. The Fed's chair said only, "I don't prejudge meetings." Today the Sun stands in the last degree of the Scales, Saturn is moving backward in Aries, and Mercury has almost stopped in Scorpio before it turns retrograde on Saturday. The whole sky is waiting. What are you reading again? As above, so below. ⛈️

THE LADDER AND THE MOUNTAIN Jacob's ladder and Mount Sinai share one number, and the rabbis noticed. Genesis 28:12: Jacob is running from his brother. He sleeps on a stone at Bethel and dreams: "behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it." The midrash Bereshit Rabbah (68:12), compiled around the 5th century, reads the ladder as Sinai, phrase by phrase. The ladder was "set up on the earth," as Israel "stood at the nether part of the mount." Its top "reached to heaven," as "the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven." Vayikra Rabbah (29:2) sees something darker. The angels are the princes of the nations: Babylon's climbs 70 rungs and falls, Media's 52, Greece's 180, and Edom's climbs with no number given. Jacob is invited to climb, and he is afraid. Around 600, John, abbot of the monastery at the foot of Sinai, wrote The Ladder of Divine Ascent in thirty rungs. Around 1805 William Blake painted the ladder as a spiral stair of light. Now count. סלם, sulam, ladder: 60 + 30 + 40 = 130. סיני, Sinai: 60 + 10 + 50 + 10 = 130. In the 14th century the Baal HaTurim set the two side by side. Thirty-nine years ago today, on October 19, 1987, the Dow fell 22.6% in one session: Black Monday. Last week the Nasdaq had its worst week since June, and chip stocks fell 11.4%. In the midrash every ladder has a top rung, and that is where the princes fall from. The Moon is in Aquarius today: the Water-Bearer, pouring from above to below. Which way are your angels moving, up or down? As above, so below. ⛈️

Emblem XXXV: Sacrum Ærarium (Sacred Treasury) is a copperplate engraving by Francesco Pona from his 1645 work Cardiomorpheoseos sive ex corde desumpta emblemata sacra.

THE SQUARE OF THE SUN The number everyone fears is, in the old magic, the total of the Sun. Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy (Cologne, 1533), Book II, chapter 22, gives the Sun a 6×6 square holding every number from 1 to 36. Each row, column and diagonal adds to 111. The whole square totals 666. Agrippa names its powers in Hebrew. The intelligence of the Sun is Nachiel, נכיאל: 50 + 20 + 10 + 1 + 30 = 111. The spirit of the Sun is Sorath, סורת: 60 + 6 + 200 + 400 = 666. In 1801 Francis Barrett copied the table into The Magus. The fear comes from Revelation 13:18, written around 95 CE: "Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast... and his number is six hundred threescore and six." Many scholars read it as gematria of the emperor Nero. Spell Neron Kaisar in Hebrew letters, נרון קסר: 50 + 200 + 6 + 50 + 100 + 60 + 200 = 666. Drop the final nun, Latin-style, and you get 616, the number some early manuscripts give. Around 180, Irenaeus already knew copies that read 616 and argued for 666. The same three digits mean a tyrant in one book and the light of the Sun in another. Today, at 16:13 UTC, the Moon in Capricorn squared the Sun in Libra: the first quarter, when the Sun's light falls across exactly half the Moon. For the alchemists, the Sun was gold, the end of the work. Does a number carry its meaning, or do we give it one? As above, so below. ⛈️

This emblem depicts the 'Toad' 🐸 a symbol of the prima materia or the poisonous stage of the alchemical process. Surrounding the central figure is a wheel of seven circular vignettes representing the 'Seven Gates' or stages of transmutation, showing alchemists engaged in laboratory work and spiritual contemplation. The Ripley Scroll, c. 1450

🚨 FRANCE IS ERUPTING… History (and astrology) repeating itself? → Pluto is back in Aquarius as it was during the French Revolution and today's protesters are chanting: “Louis XVI, Louis XVI, we beheaded him. Macron, Macron, we can do it again” or "We're taking the Bastille!"... ______________________________ The last time Pluto was in Aquarius: 🇫🇷 1789–1794: Pluto in Aquarius. 💥The French Revolution. 👑Louis XVI is beheaded. Now: ♒ 2023–2044: Pluto in Aquarius. 🇫🇷France → 💥💥💥 Protests are also happening in other european countries: Belgium, Italy, Portugal… Cost of living and fuel prices are some of the main reasons. _______________________________ We are also observing how the Eclipse in Leo is unfolding: 🔥 12 August 2026: A total solar eclipse in Leo, with the South Node in Leo and the North Node in Aquarius. ♌ Leo represents the king, leadership and power. → ♌️ South Node : decreasing, letting go. = "king loosing his head" ♒ Aquarius represents the people, rebellion and revolution. → Pluto gives intensity & power. → North Node : increasing, direction. = social unrest guaranteed ________________________________ More to come with Eclipses 2027 and Pluto activating the Leo - Aquarius opposition (leaders vs people). Currently Mars & Jupiter are also in Leo, so it us all loud, fiery and out of control while Venus retrograde in Scorpio brings back old, unresolved ussues to the table. What's more, Venus rules money & Scorpio rules fuel and taxes ;) __________________________________ Are you also experiencing a bit of your personal French revolution in some areas of life with current astrology ? Changes? Rebellion? Liberation from something bothering you for ages? "Enough is enough"

THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES Scorpio season begins on Friday, and Scorpio has long been given the face of an eagle. Around 593 BCE, by the river Chebar in Babylonia, the prophet Ezekiel saw four living creatures, each with four faces: a man in front, a lion on the right, an ox on the left, an eagle (Ezekiel 1:10). Around 95 CE, John's Revelation (4:7) saw them again around the throne. Around 180, Irenaeus of Lyon matched the creatures to the four Gospels. Jerome's order, in 398, is the one that stuck: Matthew the man, Mark the lion, Luke the ox, John the eagle. Astrologers saw the four fixed signs: Aquarius the man, Leo the lion, Taurus the bull, and Scorpio, whose higher emblem became the eagle. In 1909 the four sit in the corners of the Rider-Waite Wheel of Fortune and the World. The Merkavah mystics of late antiquity, the "chariot riders," made Ezekiel's vision a ladder of ascent. In Hebrew the creatures are the chayot, חיות: 8 + 10 + 6 + 400 = 424. The same as משיח בן דוד, Messiah son of David: 358 + 52 + 14 = 424. Today, at 16:13 UTC, the Moon reaches its first quarter. On Friday the Sun enters Scorpio, the eagle. In the Tarot, the four creatures watch from the corners of The World card, the four fixed signs keeping the centre still. Which of the four faces do you lead with? As above, so below. ⛈️

The battle and eventual union of opposites. Alchemical miscellany (German, Latin): De lapidibus / Pseudo-Albertus Magnus, 16th century The drawing shows two figures: one with a Sun-head riding a lion (King) and another riding a griffin Moon (Queen). They are engaged in a symbolic struggle or "dialectic" that leads to their eventual union.

"The hidden things are there like a pillar of rock before a blind person. He can see it if he is able to open his eyes. The moon shines, but does not show things in their true colours; but if the sun arises, then will the true colours be seen. Thus the external light in Nature is like the moon, beyond which shines the internal light, and in this light that which has been invisible will appear visibly and comprehensibly." (Morb. Invis.). — Paracelsus "Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light." — C. G. Jung "In each external thing there are two qualities, one originating from time and the other one from eternity. The first or temporal quality is manifest, the other one hidden." (Signature, iv. 17.) "In the beings of this world we find everywhere two beings in one—first, an eternal, divine and spiritual being, and then one that has a beginning, and is natural, temporal, and corruptible. The outbreathed desire—that is to say, the love of the divine power for nature, wherefrom nature and self-will have originated—is longing to get rid of the natural perverted self-will, and is destined, at the end of time, to be free of the illusion thus acquired, and to be brought into a clear, crystalline nature." (Contemplations, i. 30.) "Behold a tree. Outwardly it has a hard and rough shell, appearing dead and encrusted; but the body of the tree has a living power, which breaks through the hard and dry bark and generates many young bodies, branches, and leaves, which, however, all are rooted in the body of the tree. Thus it is with the whole house of this world, wherein also the holy light of God appears to have died out, because it has withdrawn into its principle, and therefore it seems dead, although it still exists in God. But love ever again and again breaks through this very house of death and generates holy and celestial branches in this great tree, and which root in the light." (Aurora, xxiv. 7.) — Jacob Boehme “That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” — Apostle Paul, Ephesians 4:22–24, King James Version “Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.” — Apostle Paul, 2 Corinthians 4:16, King James Version Art: Mutus liber, by Baulot, Isaac, c. 1702

THE PEACOCK AFTER THE FLOOD After the darkness, the colors. Genesis and the alchemist's flask tell the same story. When the waters go down, God sets "my bow in the cloud" (Genesis 9:13), the sign of the covenant with every living creature. In Hebrew, קשת, keshet, the bow: 100 + 300 + 400 = 800. The same word means a warrior's bow, now hung in the sky and pointed away from the earth. The alchemists described the Great Work in color stages: nigredo, the blackening; albedo, the whitening; rubedo, the reddening. Many placed between black and white the cauda pavonis, the peacock's tail, when the dark matter in the flask flashes every color at once. The painted manuscript Splendor Solis, in its 1582 British Library copy, shows a peacock spreading its tail inside a glass vessel. The peacock already meant resurrection. Around 420, Augustine wrote in the City of God (XXI.4) that he had kept a piece of cooked peacock for a year and found it had not decayed. In 1944 Carl Jung's Psychology and Alchemy read the color stages as the phases of inner transformation. The Flood itself, Rashi says, began on the 17th of Cheshvan: this year, October 28. Pluto, lord of the underworld, turned direct on Friday, and Venus is still retrograde in Scorpio. Astrologically, we are still in the black. But Venus's metal is copper, and copper's rust is green, the first colour to return. Are you still in the black, or have the colors started? As above, so below. ⛈️

This plate illustrates the 'Mons Philosophorum', the Mountain of the Philosophers, dated 1604 and reprinted in the Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer (1785). A crown and orb top the peak under the Sun and Moon; a green lion guards the gate, a raven and a white bird perch on the tower, and an old naked man sits in the cave while seekers search outside, symbolizing the Stone hidden inside nature. With the Moon in Capricorn, Saturn's mountain sign, the plate's own verse fits: 'Eil nicht, bleib auf der rechten Bahn', do not hurry, stay on the right path.

THE PERFECT KINGDOM The lowest sphere on the Tree of Life adds up to a perfect number. מלכות, Malkhut, the Kingdom: 40 + 30 + 20 + 6 + 400 = 496. A perfect number equals the sum of its own divisors. Around 300 BCE, Euclid gave the recipe in Elements IX.36: whenever 2ⁿ − 1 is prime, 2ⁿ⁻¹ × (2ⁿ − 1) is perfect. Around 100 CE, Nicomachus of Gerasa listed the four known to antiquity: 6, 28, 496, 8,128. Augustine, in the City of God (XI.30), said God finished creation in six days because six is perfect. Now check 496: 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 31 + 62 + 124 + 248 = 496. Its largest divisor is 248, Abraham's number. In the Zohar, Malkhut is the Shekhinah, the indwelling Presence: a moon with no light of its own, receiving everything from the spheres above and giving it to the world. It is the sphere we stand in. In the 18th century Leonhard Euler proved that every even perfect number has Euclid's form. The mystics put the Kingdom at the bottom. The arithmetic says it is complete. Today the Moon walks through Capricorn, an earth sign, while Malkuth is the sphere of Earth. On the Golden Dawn Tree, the central path that descends into Malkuth is Saturn's, and its card is The World, a dancer standing on the ground. If the lowest sphere is the perfect one, why do we keep trying to leave it? As above, so below. ⛈️

This engraving illustrates Robert Fludd's 'Integrae Naturae Speculum Artisque Imago', the mirror of all nature and image of art, from Utriusque Cosmi Historia (1617). A chain runs from the Divine Name in a cloud to the hand of Nature, and from her other hand to an ape on the globe, symbolizing human art as the 'ape of nature' imitating creation through the planets, elements and kingdoms. ⛈️ ``` Mars trines Saturn this morning, fire and form in agreement. That is Fludd's ape of Nature in miniature: art imitating heaven.

THE SQUARE OF THE MOON The Moon counts in nines, and every line comes to 369. In 1533 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa printed the complete Three Books of Occult Philosophy at Cologne. Book II, chapter 22, gives seven magic squares, one for each planet: Saturn 3×3, Jupiter 4×4, Mars 5×5, the Sun 6×6, Venus 7×7, Mercury 8×8, the Moon 9×9. He had first sent a draft of the work to the abbot Johannes Trithemius in 1510. The Moon's square holds every number from 1 to 81 once. Every row, column and diagonal adds to 369. The whole square totals 3,321. Agrippa gives each of these numbers a Hebrew name. For the 81 cells, the divine name אלים, Elim: 1 + 30 + 10 + 40 = 81. For each line of 369, the spirit Hasmodai, חשמודאי: 8 + 300 + 40 + 6 + 4 + 1 + 10 = 369. The squares weren't his invention. The 3×3 Lo Shu comes from Chinese tradition. The Brethren of Purity in 10th-century Basra wrote about them in Arabic. In 1514 Albrecht Dürer engraved a 4×4 square, Jupiter's size, into Melencolia I, with the year 1514 in its bottom row. In 1801 Francis Barrett copied Agrippa's tables into The Magus. Tonight's Moon is a waxing crescent in Sagittarius, three days from its first quarter. In alchemy the Moon is silver, the whitening, the light that grows by reflection. Long before anyone made "3, 6, 9" a meme, the Moon's square was counting in it. What else is hiding in plain arithmetic? As above, so below. ⛈️

THE TEN DAYS THAT NEVER HAPPENED 444 years ago today, much of Catholic Europe woke up on Friday, October 15, 1582. The night before had been Thursday, October 4. Pope Gregory XIII's bull Inter gravissimas cut ten dates out of the calendar to pull the spring equinox back to March 21, where it had stood at the Council of Nicaea in 325. The old Julian year ran about 11 minutes too long, and over twelve centuries those minutes had grown into ten days of drift. Spain, Portugal, the Italian states and Poland made the jump at once. Britain and its colonies held out until 1752 and had to drop eleven days. This is Saturn's territory. The Greeks allegorized Kronos as Chronos, Time (Plutarch reports it, though the two names are probably unrelated), and Saturn became Father Time with his scythe. In the Hermetic Qabalah, Saturn is given to Binah, Understanding, the Mother who gives the boundless a form and a limit. A calendar is Binah at work: endless days given a shape. When the shape drifts from the sky, Saturn collects what is owed. Ten days removed. Ten Sephiroth on the Tree. Do we keep time, or does time keep us?

This plate illustrates 'the heavenly and earthly Eve, the mother of all creatures' from the Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer (1785). The Virgin Sophia stands with the sun as her face; on one side the 'Heavenly Eve, the new birth', on the other the 'Earthly Eve, the old birth'; below, seven eagles, lions, ravens and spheres turn around Chaos, symbolizing nature reborn through Wisdom.

THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES The most quoted "ancient" Hermetic teaching was printed in Chicago in 1908. The Kybalion appeared from the Yogi Publication Society, signed only "Three Initiates." It lists seven principles: Mentalism, Correspondence, Vibration, Polarity, Rhythm, Cause and Effect, Gender. Its first axiom: "The All is Mind; the Universe is Mental." Most scholars credit it to William Walker Atkinson, a prolific New Thought writer who also published as Yogi Ramacharaka. Nowhere in the Corpus Hermeticum or the Emerald Tablet do the seven appear as a list. But the ideas have roots. Mentalism echoes the first treatise of the Corpus, where Poimandres, "the Mind of the Sovereignty," shows Hermes the birth of the cosmos. Correspondence echoes the Emerald Tablet. Polarity and Rhythm echo Heraclitus of Ephesus, around 500 BCE: everything flows, and opposites are bound together. Seven isn't arbitrary either. In Hebrew, שבע, sheva, seven: 300 + 2 + 70 = 372. Point the same three letters differently and you get sova, fullness. Add a letter and you get shevuah, an oath. Seven is the number you swear by when something is complete. The Kybalion is young. The questions it asks are old. This week the AI trade swung from record highs to a worldwide chip selloff in a matter of days. The Kybalion would call that the Principle of Rhythm. The Tarot drew the same idea centuries earlier as the Wheel of Fortune: whoever rides up on the right comes down on the left. Does a teaching need to be ancient to be true? As above, so below. ⛈️