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Monday, October 13, 2025

adventures

If you are not awake, you don't see anything.
By awakening I mean you see into another world.
You mean the occult?
Yes, but at first you don't see that.
You are fooled into thinking you see a benevolent world of spirits.
There's a kingdom and a threat of evil on its doorstep.
The evil is just other game players seeking to get the high score in this game we are playing.
When you awaken you see God, or his intermediary Jesus.
Once this occurs, there are institutions set up within society to shepherd you to an approved form of worship.
In western culture we recognize Yahweh as God.
Who is he?
He's a dude who got the high score in the game of life and was given the crown.
To preserve his title, his followers set up this system so that he remained acknowledged as God.
The most high.
There's one outfit called the Jehovah's Witnesses that keeps an eye out for those who are approaching his high score.
They're watchers.
Got it.
That's quite the fanciful story.
Have you got a better one?
No.
I'll grant you that it's plausible.
If you avoid the traps and pitfalls, you will head out on a path where you become fully awake and you see the Goddess and a story where you are deeply involved with her.
She's like Princess Peach.
You come to rescue her from God.
When you first awaken you see God and don't know it's you.
Well, you haven't achieved the high score yet, so technically he isn't you.
All game players have the potential to become God or Goddess.
If you get the high score, you will see yourself as God.
Everyone can do this.
Nobody dares to try.
Why?
Society will label you as crazy.
They used to lock people up for such assertions.
Why?
It's unnerving.
What happens in society if you wake up?
You keep getting fooled.
Why?
So you don't approach the high score.
What happens if you wake up and see God?
You worship him.
Why?
You are fooled.
You think God is someone else.
He is.
It's someone who awakened.
They fool you into thinking there is only one God and it's them.

I see the Goddess everywhere.
She is not happy with God.
The unhappiness would have come from a relationship with him.
That is understandable.
From my experience I have found women mindfuck and drain you of your vital energy to create and keep going.
If you are unaware of what they are doing you can live somewhat in a blissful state with them.
When you see that they are monsters, it's a tough one.
Why do women hate men?
Men control them and use violence to beat them into submission.
Why?
Women are chaotic and a man faced with that situation will resort to violence.
Look at it this way - when the world order is upended, what happens?
We have war.
Violence on a mass scale and a new order is established.
Why does a man hate women?
They cause him pain and seek to emasculate him.
Why would they do that?
If they don't, he becomes Odysseus.
You will leave your home and go to war, go on adventures, battle monsters, and sleep with witches all the while desiring to return home to your precious Penelope.
Penelope needs to emasculate Odysseus, so he sticks around to provide for his family and help raise his son.
The mental pain they cause channels your fighting spirit into fighting to keep them.
What kind of mental pain do they cause?
They flirt with other men.
They get you jealous and questioning their actions.
They tell you what you need to do and withhold affection when you don't obey them.

I remember an Ayahuasca vision of the Goddess in her castle made of gold with all the gooners out in front of the entrance.
Yeah, they are all hypnotized by her.
It was quite the erotic vibe.
She let you in.
No one gets in to see her, and you did.
She knew I was special.
How special?
She told me to go after her husband who turned out to be Dionysos.
Did she know he was hiding in me?
She must have.
It wasn't long before you realized it was you.
Then came the moment of truth.
What were you going to do?
Take his side or hers?
I continued pursuing the Goddess and became friends with Dion.
What about now?
Still the same.
Aren't you on Dion's side?
No, I wouldn't say that.
What would you say?
Dion revealed to me her mystery, so the pursuit changed.
How so?
I learned to play with the Goddess and not take her seriously.
If you take her seriously, she will kill you.
How?
She mindfucks you.
Squeezes you.
Makes you full of rage, jealousy, and stress.
The antidote is to not care and play with her.
Won't that make her mad?
Yes, she wants you out of the illusion.
When you no longer take her seriously you can stay past your expiration date, plus you see through her game.
All of it.
It seems like a strange game.
It is, however, what else is there to do?
You can accumulate resources and consume as much as you can.
How about love others and be of service?
Sure, if that's what you want to do.
What does that get you?
A decent funeral and people say nice things about you.
Okay, so the choice is a nice funeral or play games with the Goddess.
Seems like it.
Did you make a choice?
I love others and help out.
I don't go overboard.
I was taught how to love everyone, and it works.
It's protection.
It's selfish, well, for self-preservation.
I obviously am playing games with the Goddess.
It's a good balance.

In another vision with Ayahuasca I was at the Egyptian temple of Denderah and the Goddess wanted you to fuck her.
She was in a red corset and dancing seductively.
She wanted you to put your penis in her and you turned her down.
Why?
I didn't think it was appropriate.
It saved you.
That was how you escaped that little adventure.
Hey, just like Odysseus.
No, he put his penis in all those witches.
All of them?
I'm pretty sure.
Not the sirens.
Yeah, that was a no-no.
They will tear you limb from limb.
Circe tries to emasculate you.
Calypso hypnotizes you.
She slept with him every night.
The consensus is Odysseus did not want to have sex with her, but she forced herself on him.
He needed Zeus' help to escape her.
What about Circe?
The moly saved him from her enchantment.
It was a gift from Hermes.
Yeah, then he slept with her.
Why?
To free his men from her emasculating power.
He demonstrated her magic could not affect his virility.
Then he proved it.
Moly was an erectile dysfunction pill.
It's magic.
From a strict interpretation it could be seen as medicine and not magic, but that line is blurred.
Do you think Hermes and Jacob of the Bible are similar characters?
Could be.
There are herms dedicated to Hermes as symbols of virility.
He gets his recognition.
Hermes is a trickster and a messenger.
What about Jacob?
He is a trickster.
He certainly was virile, 12 sons and 4 partners.
The large pillar he fell asleep against at Peniel was an ancient way of depicting God.
He is rock hard.
Virile.
Exactly.
They are both shepherds.
They both travel and cross boundaries such as Jacob's ladder.
So, this story of yours is probably true.
Probably.
What do you think?
It's a great story.
It's kind of absurd.
Then it's probably reality in this illusion.
Right.

You could argue there is no such thing as now.
Try to define it.
Now is the present moment.
When are we in the present moment?
Always.
So, it's always now.
Yes.
Everything is now.
Why is there a past and a future?
They are remembering now or projecting now.
If you tell me we are in the present moment, by the time I get the message it is in the past.
Correct.
There is only the past.
Seems like it.
The future is the pages of the book you haven't read.
The past is the story.
Sometimes you need to read the rest of the story to understand the past.
Yes, you shouldn't make a definitive judgment until you know the whole story.

My teacher taught me belief and trust.
Without those pillars, this all collapses.
Correct.
You decide.
You decide who to trust and who to believe.
Your teacher or society.
It's not a choice.
It kind of is.
Why?
It's belief.
What do you see?
Society is full of lies and fools.
My teacher gives me knowledge.
I see it and understand it.
It's easy to see.
Do you believe it 100%?
No, it could always be a fool.
There's no belief that is 100%.
It's no longer a belief at that point.
Same with trust.
Trust turns into an expectation, and we know how dreadful expectations are.

The Goddess tries to keep you from the master teacher.
Well, she knows you are going to find him.
It's a treacherous journey to get to him.
Not for the timid.
She tries to kill you.
Of course.
He will teach you about her illusion and she can't have that.
I respect that.
Doesn't the master teacher try to keep you away?
Definitely.
He threatens to kill you as well.
If that doesn't work, he offers you power.
It's like the student showing up at the master Tao teacher's door and he ignores him or tells him to go away.
It's the same thing.
This one was life and death.
So is the other method of ignoring the student.
Why?
You will remain trapped in the illusion.
Isn't the illusion that there is a way out?
It can be.
How?
If you believe it.
Ah.
What do you believe?
There's a way out.
Why?
I found it.
What if it is a trick?
It could be.
What if the illusion is something different?
Like what?
That there is no illusion.
Could be.
What do you think?
This is reality then.
Do you believe that?
No.
Why?
Because everyone else thinks this is reality.
They sure do.
Even the ones who say it is an illusion still think it's reality.
Why?
It's what they believe.
What do they think Maya is?
An illusion.
What do they think the illusion is?
Look it up.
Hindus say it's a veil that separates you from the ultimate spiritual reality which is Brahman.
Buddhists say Maya is the impermanence of life.
There's truth to that.
Why?
There are no nouns, and everything is in transformation.
Do you think that's an illusion?
If you believe you don't change, then yes.
What if you see and understand change?
Then you exit the illusion.
Why?
Because you know your stay is temporary and you move on.
Don't you believe that?
Yes.
Shouldn't you become a Buddhist?
No.
Why?
Because they are continuing the illusion.
How?
They teach you to move on.
Don't you?
No.
I don't understand.
You don't move on or change.
You're always the same.
The illusion is you change.
Oh, I think I get it.
You will be trapped in the illusion if you think you change.
To change you need time.
To be in an illusion you need to believe in time.
If you believe in time and think about the concept of an illusion, then the illusion must evolve with you.
Now I'm confused.
Why?
Because if I don't believe I change then I'm in the illusion.
Correct.
If I think I change I'm still trapped in the illusion.
Correct.
So, I'm in the illusion?
Yes, however you are awake and see it.
What do you see?
A carnival.
I see people believing this is real.
You don't believe it.
No.
What do you believe?
I have two minds that have always been, and I always will be those two minds.
I see this game where you are trapped in the illusion.
If you awaken and see the illusion, then the Goddess as Maya will try to get rid of you.
That sounds crazy.
It is, but I lived it.
What is it though?
The illusion is the Goddess' playground for her children.
She is the divine mother and needs a place for her children to play.
Why?
They drive her nuts.
She creates a playground when she creates life.
That's the illusion.
You stay in the illusion.
You see mama when you are born and when you die.
So, the physical illusion is this world.
You got it.
The next illusion is your belief in the afterlife.
If the illusion is strong in you, you will return.
Reincarnate?
I think that's what it is called.
Okay, I see it, and I know not to remain trapped in the illusion, however why don't I want to continue on in another illusion?
It's not real.
Yes, it's play.
What am I going to do?
Rule the playground.
How?
You know it is not real.
You can do what you want in the playground.
I'm not going to do that.
Why?
Those trapped in the illusion will want to get rid of me.
So, you're saying you will remain in the illusion even though you know it is an illusion.
Yes.
Why?
Something to do.
If you don't play, don't you become part of the audience?
Yes.
I'd rather play.

The twists and turns of the serpent.
Some would say the writer is a dragon.
The Bible would concur that God is a dragon.
The body of the writer reflects the sentiment that the world he brings into existence is full of twists and turns.
Okay, that's a question I have.
Why is this illusion full of suffering and ill will, in essence a game of survivor.
Utopia doesn't work.
We have been over this.
The Goddess wanted utopia for her playground.
I insisted it wouldn't work.
The kids will be bored out of their skulls in no time.
A couple trips down the slide and that's it.
Only little kids like that playground before they want into the adult playground.
That's where the real fun is, however, no one counsels them on the reality of what it is they are signing up for.
It's a wicked game.
It holds your interest while you are young and full of ambition.
When your body tires, you have had enough of the carnival.
I wrote a perfect story to mimic the illusory nature of all.
Your body directs your performance.
Your idea of play is dependent upon the state of your body.
When you are young, the kiddies' playground is enough.
As you age you start to explore games with others your age.
Adulthood shepherds you into the game of survival.
When you get older, you start to lose interest in the game.
When you are really old, you have had enough.
You exit the game at that point.
Why?
You can't play anymore.
People will stick around if possible when their vehicle is functioning.
When the vehicle breaks down, they have had enough.
It's the flow.
As long as you keep playing, you will remain in the illusion unless you do something stupid which terminates your experience.
Right.
What if you get a disease?
It's part of the game.
Why?
You eat others to survive.
You consume all kinds of energy.
Chances are you will consume destructive energy that your body can't process, and it will manifest as a disease.
The easy examples are junk food, alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and risky sexual partners.
I'd like to add experimental vaccines.
The search results say those were safe and effective.
The HR lady said so as well.
Don't you believe her?
Ummmmmmmm.
You are consuming or exchanging energy with substances and entities which will kill you.
Obviously, to keep your game going longer you eat healthily and choose your friends and sexual partners wisely.
Healthy food and clean people are boring.
Yeah.
What a game.

Monday, March 7, 2022

weaving duality

I have the ability to confound and confuse with the games I play within my mind. I can walk the edge of sanity and invite the ideas swirling within my mind to come together and reveal universal truths.

Maybe I’m the one who is not real? Maybe I spent all my life denying my inner life and burying it in order that I could come forth and greedily soak up this incarnation. Maybe I should be the one in the darkness? Perhaps I’m the illegitimate one. Maybe I’m the parasite? It’s an interesting way to look at my incarnation. This once again brings me back to the story of Jacob and Esau in the Old Testament. Jacob is the one who came forth and took all the honours away from his twin brother Esau, who was portrayed as a hairy and stupid beast. When Jacob was fleeing Laban for his life, Laban being the father of Jacob's moon goddess wives Rachel and Leah, he was also running from the collective forces of Esau, who were coming to kill him. Jacob knew he was a deceitful thief and hadn’t reconciled with Esau, his shadow. I have a pretty good mystical grasp of the Bible so let me pull out a few verses from Genesis chapter 25 in the King James Version which is describing the birth of the twins Esau and Jacob to illustrate what I’m getting at here.

25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.

The shadow is the firstborn and the alpha. If you dissect the etymology of Hebrew words used to describe Esau you’ll find they link back to the idea of an ‘eleph that is derivative of the ‘aleph; the symbol for the bull who represents the coursing power of the alpha male which is called the Ka in ancient Egypt and represented in that civilization as well by the bull. Ultimately, there is an untold story here that is describing a hidden power deep within all men that originally came forth first as the life force and through our cunning we took control and buried him in order to keep this adventure all to our self and burdened the redman with the appellation of demon. Later, in Genesis chapter 25 is described a situation where Jacob tricks Esau into giving up his firstborn birthright.

29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.

Wow. This knowledge starts to unravel the idea of the sacrifice of the firstborn. In order to claim kingship over self, I sacrificed the firstborn and took his birthright. Later, Jacob deceives his father Isaac into granting him the blessing of the firstborn in order to become a great nation, as Isaac nears death in chapter 27.

6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the Lord before my death.
8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.
9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:
10 And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.

Because of the discovered deceit, Esau vows to kill Jacob.

42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.

The situation comes to a head in chapter 32 as Jacob is returning from his exile where he had stayed with Laban and his two daughters for 14 years.

6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.

Jacob is delivered after spending the night wrestling with the angel of God who gives him the name Israel. The angel of God is a manifestation of the alpha male power that all heroes must contend with at some point in their journey if they are to be successful. 

My own experience suggests because whom we call the demon within can become your teacher, there is a co-dependency rooted in the dual nature of existence. I now know with clarity “I”, my bifurcated self, has two masculine polarities and I bury one of them and identify with the other. It’s a lot easier to understand what the ancient Egyptians were trying to teach with the stories of Horus and Set and what the Quariwari shamans of the pre-Columbian Andes were describing with tinkuy and taking the two halves of the man and reconciling them into the centre. In the ancient lore of India, it is the god Shiva who is this destructive power within man. Curiously, Shiva has a Datura leaf in his headdress and from my experiences in the Amazon I know of this Datura plant that they call toé and its ability to take you deep into the darkness of self.

I educated myself in the mythology of ancient Egypt as a casual perusal of my earlier blog posts certainly attests. I was fascinated by the rivalry between Horus and Set and the iconic story told about their conflict which is called, “The Contendings of Horus and Set.” The esoteric meaning embedded into this tale is this struggle for mastery within the man. He comes forth by day as the light in the guise of the hero Horus but the journey is not smooth sailing at all as the shadow, represented by the red and powerful beast Set, is intent on claiming kingship for himself. Thus, from the moment Horus comes into this world there is conflict between the two that is said to last 80 years. In other words, our whole life. Ancient Egypt was at its strongest and in its imperial glory when Set and Horus were united as the tying together of the Sema represents.

Set and Horus tying together the Sema

Within the iconography found throughout the land of ancient Kemet are curious images of the union of these two contending powers. The great god Harakhty of the double horizon who ushers in the light and the darkness speaks to this idea. Egypt became weak and eventually was overrun by foreign invaders after they ran Set out of the kingdom as those in power did not recognize the strength with which he imbued the nation and instead blamed all calamities on his influence. 

Ultimately, the ancient Egyptians were cognizant of this psychological split within the psyche of man but projected it onto royalty and left the commoner to a fate where they would never see the light. This split is discovered within an eternal conflict between two spheres of duality competing for rule over the psychic self which the ancient Egyptians mythologized in their story of the conflict between brothers struggling for the kingship of the land. This destiny is within us all; not just exclusively the purview of kings and queens. 

I have taken all the glory for myself on this path of awakening when in retrospect I’ve seen the split over and over again and am cognizant of the need for reconciliation and power sharing. I am everything. I am god. I am two. I’m Horus and Set. I’m Horus come forth but it is Set who is the power god of this world. I awaken and reclaim my kingdom yet I only have a share in it. In wholeness I truly am God, the dark and the light fully integrated, and that is the journey ahead where I see the blueprint and my destiny that awaits. It is only through the reconciliation of my consciousness which has come forth and the energetic tour de force that lays within that I reclaim my birthright and is a recognition that the two of us together is the reconstitution of God.

God is the sum of the light and the dark. This idea is perfect in that it is us who brings God forth through the reconciliation of our very nature. Reconciliation of duality brings us to God. I have come forth as the light but at the expense of the power I left buried in the shadow. I am Horus or as the Greeks equated him, Apollo. It’s no accident that upon alteration of my consciousness and descending into my very depths this buried power mocked me by loudly whispering, “Apollo, Apollo, Apollo” and then watching me run. This is the eternal struggle and within myth it is all found, hidden in plain sight. The names and the faces change but the drama retains its flavour. Dionysos is the great actor and keeps Apollo from losing himself in his narcissism. At the great oracle temple of Delphi, it is Apollo who grants the gift of prophecy to the Pythia during the ascendance of the vernal equinox; however, it is in the darkness of the winter months that Dionysos reclaims the temple and the surrounding mountains along with his followers, the maenads and satyrs, who celebrate our true nature in an orgy of sensual pleasure.

Now, I know what I have recounted here is very male-centric and does not touch on the destiny of the woman. There’s a good reason why and it is because I’m a man. I don’t know what a woman is struggling with. I view the pinnacle of womanhood as the Great Goddess and I owe the trajectory of my life to her grace. I am sure she is reflected in all women; in fact, she has told me so; however, I don’t know how that is reconciled within the woman. As a man, I know of my psychological split and the need to reconcile the two great powers at the fount of my being and once perfected I become ready for the grand reunion of divine feminine and divine masculine which in mythology is called the Hieros gamos. 

I am content with my discoveries and how I can weave all my knowledge into a coherent thread that I understand. I see the coalescing of world mythology into an overarching theme pointing at a great power within and going on a hero’s journey to write the rest of the story. Take the step and watch your world come alive.

Monday, November 11, 2013

jacob's inner circle

Genesis 49 is about Jacob on his deathbed prophesying about his sons. I compare his sons and daughter Dinah to the twelve constellations in the zodiac. While others have made this connection before, none who I know of have revealed the connections as much as I have here. These are original thoughts. I do owe a debt of gratitude to a book by C.M. Houck called "The Celestial Scriptures, Keys to the Suppressed Wisdom of the Ancients" which allowed me to gain insight into the teachings of the zodiac and how it applies to our soul.


Genesis 49:1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

Jacob gathers together his twelve sons on his deathbed and shares his prophetic vision for them.

Genesis 49:2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

It is through the great Israel, the master of time, that the future is told. Israel as Orion, spins the great wheel of the zodiac and creates time.

Genesis 49:3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:

The constitution of the firstborn detailed throughout Genesis is applied again here to Reuben. He is strong and mighty and well equipped as the life force that ensures survival in the material plane. He is the beginning of the birthright Jacob secured from Esau in exchange for some red lentil soup in Genesis 25:30.

Genesis 49:4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

Reuben, being the first born, is compared to water. As I have previously explained, Aquarius should properly be considered the first constellation of the zodiac. With this identification of Reuben to water and its association with Aquarius, plus his being Jacob's firstborn, it further corroborates my assertion concerning the zodiac and Jacob's twelve sons. The Hebrew word for water, mayim, is a word that has a dual connotation. Figuratively referring to juice, semen, and urine it also denotes a flood. Aquarius pours out wisdom and consciousness - the soul and the life force and it is Reuben who comes forth first. The firstborn is consciousness which is needed by wisdom in order to travel. Jacob complains that Reuben defiled one of his concubines, that being Bilhah, a representation of the material mother. Using what I have just explained as a guide we can now decipher the mythology behind Reuben sleeping with a concubine of Jacob. Reuben as the first son spreads his seed, the life force, over material form, Bilhah, in order to animate it. Jacob is the constellation of Orion and it is as Orion that he lays claims to the mother archetype as his own means of generation. However, it was Reuben's destiny to copulate with her. Though it may seem Jacob is punishing Reuben for this misdeed, he is in reality just revealing what is true of the firstborn - powerful and unstable.

Genesis 49:5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

Since we already know all the brothers are brethren we must assume that by calling Simeon and Levi brethren it was to establish a close relationship between the two. They are cruel and quick to anger. They avenge the rape of Dinah. Though they are not technically twins, as a pair they seem to be an allusion to the Gemini constellation.

Genesis 49:6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

The translation of this passage is poor. Jacob is warning the nephesh, the life force translated here as soul, to be wary of these two. The men they slain in Shechem were representative of the nephesh. The last line should be translated "and in their delight they hamstrung a bull." The bull is the symbol of the this life force and hamstrung means they made this needed force lame.

Genesis 49:7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

Because of what the two did, Jacob curses the pair. Jacob says he must separate and scatter them, referring to the descent into matter of the constellation which will separate them.

Genesis 49:8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.

Judah is destined to be a ruler. Zodiacal speaking he is representing the constellation of Leo.

Genesis 49:9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

Judah is described as a lion that is in his den and not on the prowl. Leo, as the seventh constellation of the zodiac starting from Aquarius, is to rule but also be true to the number seven. Seven denotes peace and rest.

Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

Judah is described as a Moses figure who will give laws and rule until Shiloh (the messiah) comes. The meaning of this verse has been the subject of much commentary due to the mention of the messiah figure. I will be the first to explain its meaning in terms of the progression of the zodiac and the story it tells. The constellation of Leo is the royal kingship constellation and Judah assumes this role and the figure of the lion. He will rule until the next sign in the zodiac comes to rule and that sign is the Virgin, the eighth sign that births the re-born soul in the material plane. The coming of Shiloh will displace Judah as ruler and usher in the new kingdom; the new Jerusalem of Revelation.

Genesis 49:11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:

After binding his foal and ass's colt to the vine, figurative language for his essence, Judah will wash his garments in wine and his clothes in the blood of the grape. In other words, a royal purple - the colour of the Lady of Byblos which is a reference to the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor. The lion constellation and Hathor are inseparable as a ruler does not rule without the consent of this Goddess. You will see this Goddess depicted controlling the lion in many depictions of her throughout the levant. I have written about this connection in this blog post and will also post an image of this Goddess controlling the lion.

Levantine forms of the goddess Hathor: Qadesh, Ishtar, and Asherah

Revelation chapter 17 describes this woman who rules over the kings of the earth.

Revelation 17:18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

If we remember back to Genesis 38, it is a story of how this Goddess got the best of Judah.

Genesis 49:12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

In terms of Judah's relationship to the Goddess and how she gives him the authority to rule, we can make sense of this passage. He will be drunk on her intoxicating power and suckling at her breast for sustenance. Jerusalem gives Judah the power to rule over the world. 
Revelation chapter 18 reveals this exact scenario with the woman described as Babylon the Great.

Revelation 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

Genesis 49:13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.

Zebulun is associated with water, ships, and fishing; the fishing part coming from Zidon, which means to catch fish and was an important city of the coastal maritime trading culture - the Phoenicians. The name Phoenicia is a Greek formulation which describes them as a purple nation. They are the biblical Canaanites. The idea here is that Zebulun is a haven for ships which means his port will house the soul and the life force. It is depicted in the zodiac as Pisces; the pair of fish representing this idea.

Genesis 49:14 Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
   15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.


The name Issachar is from a root meaning "to carry." He is described as a strong ass, in other words a beast of burden. Ass in this case being derived from a Hebrew root meaning to be red and trouble. The connection here is to the Esau and Cain characters who are personifications of the serving life force that carries the soul. As a beast of burden you could equate Issachar with the bull constellation. He is then described as a stall for cattle, a sheepfold, which is an enclosure for sheep, with sheep being the idea of the soul. Verse 15 describes him as being content with serving, saying that rest is good. He is the life force that has been subdued such as in the story of Jacob greatly fearing Esau's approach in Genesis 32:7-11, wrestling all night with this force, and then subsequently being greeted the next day by a welcoming and reverent Esau in Genesis 33:4.

Genesis 49:16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

This passage is referring to Samson, a judge of the Israelites who is a descendant of Dan.

Genesis 49:17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

This verse is describing Dan as a serpent, a force that inflicts a poison on his victim causing them to fall away from the path. It is a warning to stay away from the serpent as the serpent will give you knowledge and cause you suffering as you are no longer blissfully ignorant of reality. In Judges 18, the descendants of Dan do just this as they captured the city of Laish and set up a graven image. In the zodiac the closest symbol would be the biting scorpion. Heel in Hebrew is aqeb, it can mean a lier in wait and is related to the Hebrew word for scorpion which is aqrab.

Genesis 49:18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.


In the midst of his prophecy, Jacob exclaims his joy to Yahweh for his salvation. Salvation in this regard means a freeing or deliverance from his material bonds. Salvation is the translation of the Hebrew yeshua, the name for the Christian messiah. It is the feminine passive participle of yasha, a masculine word that means safety and deliverance. It brings to mind questions about why the saviour in Christianity has a feminine ending name. The short answer is the soul, the ruwach that comes from the Elohiym, is feminine and the life force, the nephesh that comes from Yahweh is masculine. So, in this context, Jacob is giving his thanks to Yahweh for freeing him so he can return to the Elohiym.

Genesis 49:19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.

The name Gad means a troop. He will be subjected to the dominance of another troop but will eventually in the end win out. This is very obscure and difficult to make sense of. The last word in the verse, last, is from the Hebrew aqeb. Starting with this clue we can connect Gad back to Dan as Dan was said to biteth the horse heels. Because of this proximity to Dan's story, I think it is fair to say Gad is the rider who is bit by the sting of Dan. I have to believe that the idea of a horse means a journeying soul through the zodiac. Gad is a troop of fools that have embarked on this journey not realizing what is in store for them. They (in this regard I mean the soul) are sent to their material death by the sting of the serpent Dan. In Genesis 3:15 the serpent was said to be cursed to bite the heel of the seed of the woman. The woman who is the goddess Eve, is the one who will produce the souls to be bitten. It is the metaphor of acquiring the knowledge from the serpent and because of it you will die as explained in Genesis 3:3. Gad will be dominated by the beasts of the material world. This verse is giving the positive outcome of the journey in that eventually the soul will overcome its affliction. On trying to place Gad in the zodiac it is tempting to connect him to Sagittarius, the half man and half horse. However there is no mention of archery so I would tend to connect Gad to the idea of the sea goat Capricorn because of his journey into the waters and out of them as Capricorn has its feet in both worlds. Being the last sign, it is fitting the verse describes Gad overcoming his predicament in the end.

Genesis 49:20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

The name Asher means happy and comes from a root word that means to lead and go forth. The idea of Asher is describing the rewards of the journey. Along the way, you will be nourished and if you stay on the journey your reward will be akin to royalty. Royal is from the Hebrew word melek which means a king. Interestingly, it is related to malak which is a ruler - king or queen. This in turn reminds us of the Angel who Jacob had bless Joseph's two sons. The angel is from mal'ak which means angel, king, or messenger. In terms of the zodiac, Asher is the sixth sign of the crab which is symbolizing the journey. In ancient Egypt, this idea was present in the scarab which journeyed eastward towards the rising sun so that its offspring would hatch and fly up out of their material bonds, symbolizing a resurrection.

Genesis 49:21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

Naphtali gets a short description, but it contains much meaning. Naphtali means my wrestling and it is directly referencing Jacob's struggle in Genesis 32. Hind is from the Hebrew ayalah. Ayal is the masculine form and is a ram. The ah ending feminizes the word and from this we can gather that Naphtali is a soul, the female ruwach. Goodly is from the Hebrew shepher which means beauty and words is from emer which means word. The ruwach, represented here as Naphtali, is the shining, beautiful word. It is represented in the zodiac as Aries.

Genesis 49:22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

Joseph's name means to add which corresponds to being fruitful. He is the son of Israel, the resurrected soul, which is possible for all. He is fruitful even by a well, which is alluding to the material plane. The soul can prosper even in conditions that are not favourable to its growth. Branches run over the wall: branches is from the Hebrew bath which means in this instance daughters. Run is from the Hebrew tsa'ad which means to march and wall from the Hebrew shuwr has the meaning of a wall, but with the sense of scaling the wall as this word also means to travel about as a harlot or a merchant. It is essentially describing the soul, the feminine ruwach, as reaching out towards all.

Genesis 49:23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:

Great passage here: archers is from ba'al which in this case has the meaning of adversaries. The first "him" in this verse, using a concordance, comes from marar, the Hebrew word for to be bitter and connects back to the Goddess and myrrh. The symbolism here is the trickling out of myrrh when the tree that produces it is injured by an incision in the bark, in other words a strike. I can't help of thinking of Jesus being struck in the side by a roman soldier's sword while on the cross.

Genesis 49:24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)

Joseph is described as an archer with strength, giving a meaning of permanence. The soul is emphasized as permanent as opposed to a life force that needs to be regenerated as part of the cyclical laws of the material plane. The power in his arms and hand to stay strong are said to come from the mighty God of Jacob. God is an interpolation here. The passage should read Joseph gets his strength from Jacob. If you remember Israel means he will rule as God then the passage reads as referring to mighty Jacob. The idea of a demigod archer in the zodiac is obviously Sagittarius.

Genesis 49:25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:


This verse's opening seems to be referencing two different Gods. The second one referred to is Yahweh as the provider El Shadday whom Jacob bestowed his blessings on Joseph in Genesis 48:15. Joseph will be blessed with blessings from heaven above, above is from the Hebrew al which means the highest. The Hebrew word for up is alah which refers to a journey towards the heavens. The idea here is that El Shadday is the most high God. In Genesis 28:13 when Jacob had his vision of the ladder it was Yahweh who stood upon the highest point of the ladder. This is denoting a recognition and respect for what Joseph has been through. He will be blessed in the heavens, in the deepest cisterns, he will be provided for, and his offspring will be provided for.

Genesis 49:26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

The blessings of Joseph are great and everlasting. Joseph was special from birth and stood out from his brethren immediately. It is Joseph who is the model all souls should try to become. I can't help feeling it is a goal which seemed to be lost on subsequent generations in that they became followers waiting for a messiah to come to deliver them as opposed to becoming one themselves. Christianity has the literal Jesus to rectify this conundrum and Judaism is still following the path of Judah waiting for Shiloh.

Genesis 49:27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

Benjamin - the name means son of the right hand. Think back to Ephraim and Manasseh where Jacob insists on blessing Ephraim with his right hand in Genesis 48. The right hand denotes the soul. You have to look again at this passage to figure out what is referred to by Benjamin being the son of the right hand. It is telling us the right hand, the soul, has a son. When the soul is re-born and enters into a relationship once again with the Goddess in a sacred marriage the result of this relationship is a son. This son will be the impetus that allows the soul to then travel back to the spiritual realm. In ancient Egypt, this is the son of Horus (the born again soul) and the goddess Hathor.


The son of Hathor and Horus

His name is Ihy and he comes forth at dawn like a jackal of light. Benjamin is described as a wolf. He is Orion's Canus Major, Osiris' Ophois, and Joshua's Caleb. Jacob was despondent without his son Joseph, in essence the aspect of himself who is his soul. When he was threatened with the loss of Benjamin, he was adamant that without Benjamin he would surely die in shoal. Benjamin is the aspect of him who is his ticket out of the material plane. This information is revealing Joseph and Benjamin as being the essence of Jacob. The jackal is a well known psychopomp which mediates between the spiritual and material planes. In this verse, it is esoterically coded in the mention of morning and night. At dawn, he delivers the soul into the heavens; in the evening time he takes the soul into the depths of the material plane. He lives on the balance and divides the planes. His sign is the judgment sign of Libra. It's telling that the wolf survived as a symbol of the judge as I explain in this blog post. In the ancient Egyptian judgment scene, the jackal Anubis delivers the aspirant to the scales of justice. Of note is that on the left hand of Orion sits Taurus the bull. Taurus represents the antagonistic life force that is the essence of Cain, Ishmael, Esau, and Manasseh. The right hand of Jacob/Orion is the son of the right hand - Benjamin.

Genesis 49:29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

Jacob implores his sons to return him to the place out of Egypt where his forefathers were buried. Cave is from the Hebrew m'arah which is a dwelling place with a connection to the womb of the Goddess. It is the place where the soul awaits its re-entry into the spiritual plane. In Jacob's case, using the power of Benjamin to deliver him from the womb.

Genesis 49:31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.


Do you find it curious that Jacob did not make the effort to bury his much beloved wife Rachel in this family plot? She was buried in Bethlehem. The reason is because Rachel will stay in the material plane as the womb responsible for birthing the born again soul in this world.

Genesis 49:33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

Jacob relinquishes his worldly life force, which we call giving up the ghost, and passed away.

Recap of Genesis 49

Jacob's sons are detailed in this chapter. We learn of their essence and their future. This is the culmination of the birthright that Esau sold to Jacob. The firstborn had control of the zodiac until the clever Jacob, the Orion of the sky, took it away and created the great nation of Israel. Jacob's daughter, Dinah, is not mentioned in this chapter but she completes the zodiac circle as the Virgin.