Black Moon Talk

I've talked about a Blue Moon, Fake Moon, Eclipse Moon, and heck, even being Mooned by a Gargoyle, but I've yet to talk about the Black Moon, and so here goes it. 

According to the folks at Living With The Moon, a Black Moon is a rather rare occasion (about every 2.5 years) and refers to the 2nd New Moon in one calendar month. 

So that's really all there is on the surface, but esoterically, wow!  A Black Moon is seen as a real turning point, either globally or in your private life. The key word here is "change."  And like the Winds of Change Bob Dylan sang about in the early 60's, a Black Moon means change or new directions when it hits. 

Of course, the Christian predict the return of Christ every chance they get, which is silly, since they've been doing this since the beginning of their faith, which really has to be a downer, and regarding the Black Moon it is no different, for example, for the Black Moon on Friday, September 30th, 2016, the Christian blog "Express" wrote: 

Warning BLACK MOON tonight: Astrological event to herald 'End of Days' and second coming

That writer went on to state: 

TONIGHT'S Black Moon could bring with it worldwide destruction and the second coming of Jesus Christ, Christians and conspiracy theorists have claimed.

Of course, again Jesus doesn't show, but that's okay for most of us.  

According to NASA the Black Moon is... wait, they don't define it because it is not a big deal; furthermore, the term "Black Moon" only goes back to 2016, because, well, it is only a month with two new moons in it.  Not an astronomical event. 

Historically, the theme of events from the recent "Black Moons" or  second new moon in a calendar month between 2010 and 2020 are:

*July 7th, 2011 - Moscow bans the book L. Ron Hubbard Scientology book. 

*January 30th, 2014 - French Socialist Party defeated in major upset. 

*October 30th, 2016 -  FBI announces it will be reviewing Liberal President Hillary Clinton's email, a month before the presidential election; which gives Donald Trump the presidential election a month later. 

*August 30th, 2019 -  DOJ report finding the FBI violated policy investigating Donald Trump in 2016. Pro-democracy protesters arrested in Hong Kong. 

 *August 22nd, 2025 - To Be Determined, but whatever it is, "Dark Moons" seems to be favor President Donald Trump. 

Finally, for the Pagan in us all, here is the Pagan definition according to 

Spiritually, the Black Moon is a powerful time for shadow work, release, and deep transformation as it combines and amplifies the energy of the New Moon and the Dark Moon. Whether you see it as the ultimate lunar reset or a chance to plant long-term intentions, the Black Moon’s energy invites you to go inward, shed what no longer serves you, and trust in the unseen process of growth.

The Egyptian Book of the Dead

The Egyptian Book of the Dead is a guidebook for travel through the afterlife. Each “Book of the Dead” was customized for a specific person, based on his life and wealth. None of the “spells” has any meaning in the world of the living. There was no “canon” of contents, and each copy’s main purpose was to be buried with the deceased. According to Egyptian beliefs, this would allow the dead person to take the text with him into the afterlife.

It should be noted that the term Book of the Dead is an extraordinarily loose translation. The more literal title of these writings is something like “Chapters for Coming Forth by Day.” An Egyptologist used the phrase “Book of the Dead” when publishing translations in the 1840s. Those translations were based on papyrus found in Egyptian tombs, many of which included some version of those “spells.”

The “spells” in the Book of the Dead were believed to be useful only in the afterlife. The purpose of the writings was to guide the dead person to paradise. The instructions included ways to avoid certain dangers, passwords to use around certain spirits, and the correct procedures for getting past obstacles. Some of the directions are relatively mundane. Some are simple. Others were incredibly intricate and detailed. None of them were meant as magic incantations for the living to use.

The contents of the Book of the Dead varied considerably from person to person. There was no mandatory set of inclusions or anything parallel to the canon of the Bible. In fact, each Book of the Dead was custom-written for that person. Individuals with differing social position, lifestyles, and professions might have books including very different material. In some cases, professional scribes compiled Books of the Dead with blank spaces to be filled in later with the name of a customer.

Despite those wide variations, there was a “typical” version of the Book of the Dead used from around 1600 BC until the time of Christ. The only similarity between these writings and the Bible is that both are collections of separate texts. The Egyptian Book of the Dead was not a primary religious source or authority in Egyptian religion.

Among the more famous contents of a typical book of the dead are descriptions of how souls might hope to enter paradise. One especially famous passage, known as “Spell 125,” describes a convoluted process of answering questions, while naming and describing deities and spirits. This must be done correctly to arrive at the point where one’s heart is weighed on a balance—this determines if the deceased is worthy of paradise. This ornate ritual includes naming some 42 judges, each concerned with a unique sin or virtue.

What to know more?  You will, trust me, when death comes knocking. 

~~ Eso Terry 

 

Dreaming Changes Everything, or not.

If you are a reading of EsotericDaily.com, then you know the importance of dreams.  And here I go again trying to relate their importance.  For those not familiar with my dream history, here is an overview: I once posted a post in a dream; and don't know when, where, or how.  Then I wrote about how an old friend who died some years before, came to me in a dream and asked me to lie down on futon beside him.  Which I didn't, and know if I had I would have died.  I told him "I'm not ready," and didn't die down beside him. 

Of the hundreds of dreams I've interpreted, my favorite is Dream #689.  In that dream I cross the infamous "bridge" we all come across in our dreams. If you haven't crossed you dream bridge yet, please do.  In simple terms, the bridge in your dream is that person, job, or faith in your life that is holding you back. Once you awaken to that, you will live. 

Today, I want to write about people who woke up from sleep with a new life.  Yes, it happens. 

Caedmon, (c. 657-684), wrote the oldest surviving English language poem, which wikipedia deciphers as :

Nū scylun hergan     hefaenrīcaes Uard, metudæs maecti     end his mōdgidanc, uerc Uuldurfadur,     suē hē uundra gihuaes, ēci dryctin     ōr āstelidæ hē ǣrist scōp     aelda barnum heben til hrōfe,     hāleg scepen. Thā middungeard     moncynnæs Uard, eci Dryctin,     æfter tīadæ fīrum foldu,     Frēa allmectig.

Now [we] shall honour / heaven-kingdom's guardian, the measurer's might / and his mind's plan, the work of the father of glory / as he of each wonder, eternal lord, / the origin established, he first created / for the children of men  heaven for a roof, / holy creator. Then Middle-earth / mankind's guardian, eternal Lord, / after bestowed the lands to men, / Lord almighty.

Caedmon was an illiterate herdsman, who went to sleep one night, and in his dream a stranger appeared to him singing the “verses which he had never heard.” When Caedmon awoke, he was a poet and wrote his very educated poems. 

That's not all, a google search will given you many others, of which here are a few:

Elias Howe (inventor of the sewing machine): Struggling to design a functional sewing machine needle, Howe reportedly had a dream in which he was being attacked by cannibals with spears that had holes near the tips. This image inspired him to place the needle's eye near its point, enabling the invention of the modern sewing machine.

Dmitri Mendeleev (creator of the Periodic Table): After days of working on organizing the known elements, Mendeleev is said to have fallen asleep at his desk and dreamed of a table where all the elements fell into place according to their properties.

Friedrich August Kekulé (discoverer of the benzene ring structure): Kekulé is said to have envisioned the cyclic structure of benzene in a daydream, seeing a snake biting its own tail.

Albert Einstein (developer of the Theory of Relativity): Legend has it that Einstein's dreaming of sledding down a mountainside at high speeds, causing the stars to change, contributed to his realization that the same event could be observed differently from different perspectives, according to Reader's Digest Asia.

Frederick Banting (discoverer of insulin): Banting's dream about an experiment with a dog's pancreas and isolating the substance that could treat diabetes reportedly spurred the development of insulin.

Otto Loewi (discoverer of chemical neurotransmission): Loewi dreamed of an experiment involving a frog's heart that helped him demonstrate the chemical transmission of nerve impulses, leading to his Nobel Prize win.    

That's all I have to share today, so dream, for life is but a dream. 

When Death Comes Knocking: A Prediction of Death for one of today's World Leaders.

Eso Terry Sings The Blues

What I have to say today is based on a creative project I did, or should I say, found.  I was cleaning up old media the other day and found a song I sang over twenty years ago called, "When Death Comes Knocking."  It's a reminder that no matter what we have or who we think we are, there is no escaping it.  And the thought came to me that the world leaders today seem to be oblivious of this fact by their actions of threatening nuclear war and starvation to get their way.

Then the thought came to me, "One of them will die in office before 2030."  What if they knew this?  

I ended the video with the song "Three Blind Mice" because the three major leaders, Trump, Putin, Xi, are definitely blind to this fact.  On another note, no matter how much better they think they are than us, ha, ha, the joke is on them when death comes knocking. 

Tarquin the last King in Rome

Let’s go back in time boys and girls, way back, back to the last time Trump's spirit might have appeared on our planet.  The time was around 534 years BCE in Ancient Rome when King Tarquin’s misuse of power brought down the monarchy system and gave Rome its first Republic.  You see, King Tarquin already had a reputation of unsavory character when he seized the throne by murdering his predecessor, King Servius Tullius.  As new ruler, King Tarquin, “on day one,” arrested a number of patricians on phony charges so he could take their wealthy estates for himself.  This greediness alienated many in the country, but until his son, Sextus, raped the wife of the noted patriot Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, no one did anything about it.  Eventually, however, the patriot of the day along with other leading nobleman, locked Tarquin and his disturbed children out of the city and dissolved his kingship.

First King Tarquin Now Trump

The Roman fathers then proceeded to create a completely new kind of government, one based on the wishes and votes of the common citizen. Yes, a true democracy.   

The Best Tarot Documentary Ever.

 

My Protection From the Annabelle Doll

IN this weekend's news I read about the Annabelle Doll Handler Dan Rivera, who passed away while traveling with the haunted doll. As you can guess, we here at Esoteric Daily understand the power of spirits, how they can pop up anywhere, anytime, and if you are have no protection, you are screwed.  Before I go into how I keep these spirits away from me, let's look at the Annabelle Doll story. 

Annabelle's history goes back to the owners Ed and Lorraine Warren who received the doll from a 28-year-old student nurse who claimed the doll could move by itself and exhibited malicious and frightening behavior. Over time, the Warrens publicized various claims about Annabelle: supposedly the doll inflicted "psychic slashes" that drew blood from victims, caused a priest who insulted the doll to run his car into a tree, and stabbed a homicide detective, forcing him into early retirement. In 2025, the Warrens' estate promoted online reports that the doll had "disappeared" as part of a viral marketing campaign for a tour called 'Devils on the Run,' showcasing items from the Warrens Occult Museum. "The doll was never missing," said Tony Spera the Director of New England Society for Psychic Research. "We had taken the doll on a brief tour to several locations, so paranormal enthusiasts could witness the real Annabelle."

Which brings us to July 2025, where 'Devils on the Run' tour organizer and host Dan Rivera died in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania while transporting the doll.  His cause of death has not been revealed, but does that matter? Rivera let in the spirits which took over his life and ended it early. This could be karmic retribution, or the greed from making money off the dolls spirit.  Whatever, he is dead and you can bet it has something to do with Annabelle.   

I've posted on possessed dolls before, for instance, there was the Stormy Daniels court testimony of her possessed doll and how it "moved around the room at night." Truth is, objects, things, even air can be possessed by demons.  I've written about gargoyles being possessed and causing men to jump off buildings, and of course, the many stories of murder caused by demon, or Satan possessions.  It happens, and if you are not careful, that harmless Japanese Geisha lamp you buy at an estate sale, can be an Ouija board to death. 

Now, how do I keep myself clean?  It is by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.  By doing so I am protected by ten demon daughters who are sworn to protect those of us who believe in the Lotus Sutra.  Of course this is not the only way to receive protection, but it is one you can have now by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo three times. No shit, it works.

Happy chanting, 

~~Eso Terry   

The Message of the Gargoyles

Since the Covid-19 virus I’ve been home a lot, as we all have.  I thought I would use this time to catch up on work, but instead I sit here glued to the TV watching news reports of rising deaths, falling stock prices, and a presidential lies.  My only break from this constant stream of bad news is looking out my living-room window at the old building across the street. The building was built by a wealthy businessman in the early 20th century who believed putting gargoyles on the ledges would bring him good luck.  The logic didn't work because the building opened in 1929 a week before the  Great Depression.  The faces of the gargoyles are rumored to be the faces the owner made as he jumped to his death from the building after losing everything he had in the stock crash.  I was told this story when I first leased my room and it didn't mean much to me then, but now, faced with my own Great Depression to deal with a hundred years later I had to know more about this creepy, yet reassuring creature staring back at me from outside my window. 

Most of the stories I found on the history of gargoyles pointed to a town in France outside of Paris called Rouen.  The story tells of a dragon that lived in the Sene river and terrorized the town by eating people along the river banks and burning ships trying to pass.  The dragon's name... you guessed it...  Gargouille.

The legend goes that around the year 600 AD a Christian monk named Romanus came to town and defeated the dragon and delivered the dead beast to the town's people who immediately  decided to burn it.  The body of the dragon went up in flames quickly, but the head and neck wouldn't burn.  Taking this as a sign from God, the towns people mounded the head and neck of the dragon on a village wall as a reminder of God’s great power.  This practice soon spread from town to town and the neck and head of Gargouille became the model of today's gargoyle.

The word Gargoyle comes from the French word Gargouille and so it should be no surprise that the oldest gargoyles standing today are found in France.  These gargoyles are on Cathedrals and are a part of what is called Scripture in Stone.  According to most scholars, these gargoyles were placed on religious structures to preach the gospels to the illiterate and warring classes by putting the fear of hell in them.  Others believe the gargoyles are demons of lost souls placed there to scare away greater demons.  Regardless of the reason, all the great cathedrals of France have them. 

The two greatest of these cathedrals are Notre Dame and Chartres.  The gargoyles of Notre Dame are rumored to take flight after dark and watch over the cafes of Paris.  The gargoyles of Chartres are said to watch over the countryside to scare away oncoming threats. 

As I have already mentioned, the word Gargoyle is from the Old French word Gargouille which means throat.  If you look at most of the old Gargoyles you'll see they have long necks with a head at the end in the form of a long spout.  The English words gurgle and gargle share the same French root as the word gargoyle.  This really makes sense because in architecture any drainpipe leaning off the side of a building is called a gargoyle.  Conversely,  if a stone carving does not carry water but does have a horrible face or image on it architects call it a grotesques.

Ostara (1901) by Johannes Gehrts. Spring feasts were held to honour the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre/Ostara.

Although gargoyles and grotesques placed on cathedrals are believed to be of Christian origin, a closer look does tell another story.  A closer look tells the story of how a winter's solstice celebration became the birth of a savoir; and, how a Spring feast once held to honor the goddess Eostre became the resurrection Easter Sunday meal.  Stonemasons who had passed from being an apprentice to a journeyman knew this and so worked out their own ideas in their carvings.  They were, in a sense, independent artist and so were free to do pretty much as they liked.  So why then did they choose to place so many pagan images on the religious buildings of their day?  Could it be they still held onto the old beliefs in secret.  After much research, I for one believe the carvings were a message for those with eyes to see.  A prime example of this are the many gargoyles of The Green Man, also known as The Jack in the Green, who was the pagan god of tree worship and can be found in the many grotesques wearing crowns of leaves and branches.

Another common image from paganism that is found on many cathedrals is the multi-face grotesques that represents Diana the virgin goddess and protector of childbirth.  Historically, Diana made up a triad with two other Roman deities: Egeria the water nymph, and Virbius, the woodland god.  These three-faces of the gods to the cults were once worshiped as the Christian holy trinity, that is, until the Pope realized their true meaning and so had the practice banned.   Still, the Pope left the pagan symbols on the cathedrals as to not upset the will of the people; seems, even the Pope had a thing for our pagan past. 

So, along with diverting rainwater and scaring off evil spirits, gargoyles seemed to me to be a way for the artist who placed them there to tell the story of the old religion; the old Pagan religion before the Christian church came along and gave the town's people the choice to convert to the new Man God, or, well... die.  Knowing this, it's easy to see that these gargoyles are pagan messengers reminding us of the truth that all the Money God could not defeat.   The natural religion in all of us that didn't need a priest for forgiveness.  The natural religion in all of us that isn't a Man God, but both a man and woman god.  The god of the trees, the wind, the earth; Gaia: the god in each of us.   

Looking at the gargoyle outside my window now made sense.  It wasn't a talisman of luck, scarer of demons, or messenger for god.  No, it was more; the messenger of truth.  A truth to not concern myself with the lies and craziness of the world today for they have always been there and always will be.  The truth, as our ancestors knew, wasn't in their powerful lies, large cathedrals, or love of money.  No,  truth was in the whistling wind and swaying trees.  The real god, the god inside of us, the earth god, Gaia.  And she is speaking to us now.  And the gargoyles, like the trees and the wind, are part of her message.  

I no longer needed to watch the news to know what was happening with the Covid-19 virus.  I had all the news I needed outside my window.  Everything is as it should be.  The message of the gargoyles. 

~~ Dr. TV Boogie

Watch What You Say. Please. Words Can Kill You!

I have reported on the power of suggestion before, for instance how Glenn Miller wrote,"By the time you receive this letter we shall be in Paris, barring of course a nose-dive into the channel," moments before his fatal flight that "nose-dived into the channel and killed him.  In that same post I wrote about the final song on Lynard Skinnards record with the title "Smell of Death," before the lead singer died in a plane crash, and of course, John Lennon's "I just had to let it go," on his final record before being Crucified by a bullet that killed him in New York. 

Most recently I wrote about the coinkydint when Jimmy Buffett recently died just in time for Labor Day weekend, which was the title of his first big hit.  And now, it has come to my attention that I missed one regarding the rock singer Janis Joplin.  It has been noted in the blogosfere that her last song was the Mercedes Benz song where Janis sang:

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends...

She ends the song with "That's It."

A few weeks later she died of a drug overdose. 

Some will say this is a reach and was nothing to do with the words.  To which I remind us all, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1.1)."  Yes, the Logos, which all philosophers spoke of before the New Testament. 

So I'll remind you all once more to watch your words, for to speak words is to create worlds.  Or as Confucius said, “He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” He also said, "When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.”And since we are on Confucius, how about this one, "Those who know, do not talk. Those who talk, do not know."

So shut the f'uc up. 

That's the beginning for me. 

 

Mercedes Benz

Song by Janis Joplin

I'd like to do a song of great social and political import
It goes like this

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends
So, oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV?
Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me
I wait for delivery each day until three
So, oh, Lord, won't you buy me a color TV?

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town?
I'm counting on you Lord, please don't let me down
Prove that you love me and buy the next round
Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town?
Everybody

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends
So, oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

That's it

 

Houdini Never Died

 Houdini Never Died, he's still with us now.  Look, over there, it's a bird! A Plane! Houdini!