Why I say "Happy Holly Days" and not "Merry Christmas."

Yes, it is that beautiful time of year again when we hang holly around the house.   The Christian lore says something about how the holly tree provided the wood for the cross of Christ, and its thorny berries are the drops of His blood.   Yeah, right.  We pagans know it is another Christian lie.  Truth is, the holly leaves and flowers were used as decorations during the Roman Festival called Saturnalia.  The feast was originally held on the 17th of December, but grew in popularity to become the central popular feast of the year and was extended to cover seven days.  During this period all normal social conventions were overthrown; slaves dressed and acted like freemen, no work activities were conducted, and the usual moral and sexual codes were set aside while presents were exchanged and the entire population indulged in feasting, drinking and general merry-making. 


And so, yes, it is why I say, Happy Holly Days!  And ho, ho, ho, at the office Christmas party with a most mischievous grin. 

On Nostradamus's Birthday, I wonder about Trump.

It was on this date in the year 1503 that the famous French prophet and astrologer Michel de Nostradamus was born in Saint Remy de Provence. He experienced many psychic visions during his childhood and later studied the Holy Kabbalah, astrology, astronomy, medicine, and mathematics.  The first collection of his uncannily accurate visions, written in the form of rhymed quatrains, was published in the year 1555.  Three years later, a second and larger collection of his prophecies -- reaching into the year 3797 -- was published.  Nostradamus died on July 1, 1566. 

In Monsieur Nostradamus's writings, there were three great leaders called Anti-Christ.   The first, undoubtedly was Napoleon, and the second, called "Hiser" in the writings, was Adolf Hitler.  The third has yet to come, or... has he?  

I'm just saying.

Look for vampires today!

Each year on this night (according to ancient legend), vampires in Rumania* are believed to rise up from their graves ater a year-long sleep and walk the Earth in search of human blood.  Garlic and crucifixes are hung on doors and windows for protection.

In ancient Egypt, the Feast of Hathor as Sekhmet was held each year on this day.  It honored the lion-headed goddess of battle, who was also the consort of the moon-god Ptah.

Conversely speaking, Vampires are not always people returning from the dead, but sometimes are merely living sorcerers out for a good time.

*English uses both forms, Rumanian and Romanian, to denote the Romance-speaking population in the South-Eastern Europe north of the Danube, which was traditionally referred as Vlachs (or Wallachians). Both forms were adopted by the mid 19th century when the principalities of Wallachia and Moldova were unified to form a new state, Rumania or Romania. The forms Rumania and Rumanian were prevailing till the second half of the 20th century, when the forms with "o" gradually became more popular.

Are we building a modern day Noah's Ark for the Alt Right?

Are we building a modern day Noah's Ark? And if so, by and who for?

On May 20, 2015, the US military launched the unmanned X-37B plane and it has been circling the Earth on a top-secret mission with no details on when it'll come back to land. This isn't the first time we've launched such a flight according to space.com, there was a mission in 2011 which spent 468 days orbiting the earth.  Then there was another mission that spent 675 days in orbit without so much as a hint to its purpose.  Each mission appears to get longer and longer. 

Why would we want to orbit in space above the earth for years?  One reason of course is space travel.  You know, the two years or so it would take to get to Mars.  And if this is truly the reason, more power to them; however, there is another possibility.  And you won't like it.

The first possibility for long-term flight above the Earth might be to protect the human race from a natural disaster such as an asteroid headed right for us: not too far fetch considering that only last month an asteroid popped out of nowhere and came within a few miles of hitting the earth.  Could happen.

So, what if this X-37B is a safety flight to put humans in space above the earth to rotate the ten or fifteen years it might take for pockets of habitable Earth to open up for a return to begin repopulating our species?   Interesting thought to say the least.  Not a bad idea really, a modern day Noah's ark, but instead of two of every animal, two of every race. That could be a beautiful thing.  Unfortunately, with today's Neo Nazis in the USA and Brexit in England, highly doubtful.  The more alarming possibility is it is a tool to correct the Nazi Problem.  

Much has been written about the new Alt Right.  Which isn't actually new to some of us who believe the Nazi Party never died. And with this Neo Nazi resurgence in the USA, one has to wonder if Putin and Trump know about this outer space escape and are planning to use it to allow a massive extension to take place on Earth only to return to populate the planet with Orange people?

They definitely see things the same way!

Think about it. 

von Neumann and the computer

Red Rectangle: a message from god?

An image of star HD 44179, surrounded by an extraordinary structure known as the Red Rectangle.

This image was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA 

The source of the red light emitted by the Red Rectangle baffled scientists for more than 30 years. The same kind of red emission was seen throughout the Milky Way and in other galaxies, but scientists weren't sure what created it. The mystery was finally solved in 2007: The glow comes from strange activity at the molecular level inside clusters of dust.

According to Space.com, the star at the center of the Red Rectangle is similar to Earth's sun and is responsible for those evenly spaced lines as it releases gas and other material to create the nebula and its distinctive shape. NASA experts now believe the star is also a close binary (meaning it has a stellar partner), and is surrounded by a dense area of dust, according to the statement.
The star at the center of the Red Rectangle will eventually leave behind a hot white dwarf that will give off brilliant ultraviolet radiation that will cause the surrounding gas to glow.





I'm glad they settled that.  Still looks like an angel message from god to me.


Dr TV Boogie

UFO in the mountains?

A story appeared at the Drudge Report and linked to the Mirror on Thursday suggesting that the Arizona mountains are harboring an unidentified flying object.

So here are the details from that story:

The story says someone who was "flying" around on Google Earth discovered the alleged UFO. The coordinates place it near the Arizona-New Mexico border in a place called Swaggart Springs. The Google Earth screen capture shows some sort of structure and parked next to it is a white SUV. Roads seem to be non-existant in the area, but, that doesn't really mean much. 

So, what could this image depict? It could be a housing structure of some sort. It could be an inflatable of some sort. It could be a UFO. It could be nothing.

Here are the map coordinates for those of you who want to do your own satellite imagery interpretation: 31° 26′ 43″ N 109° 04′ 30″ W

All Fools' Day

The month of Venus begins with April Fool's Day (also known as All Fools' Day), an occasion for playing practical jokes on friends, family, and coworkers.  This custom dates back to olden times when inmates of insane asylums were allowed out in the streets for one day each year for the sadistic amusement of those who were (supposedly) normal.

And for your Fool's Day enjoyment, a visit to the mental hospital.

Happy beginning of Nowruz

Nowruz, the annual Iranian New Year celebration begins on this date and continues for thirteen days.  Bonfires are lit and sacred rituals involving eggs and mirrors are performed.

A Pagan religious festival was held each year on this day in ancient Mesopotamia to celebrate the sacred union of the God and Goddess, and to give thanks for the creation of the human race.

Get over it: Easter has nothing to do with Christ.

Easter gets its name from a Pagan god, some say Ishtar, but here at Esoteric Daily, we prefer Oestre.  They are the same stories told to different tribes before Christianity stole the festivity in name of their Myth.  Nonetheless, here is the real reason for the season: Spring, rebirth, fertility.  

Yes, the Teutonic goddess of spring and the dawn, whose name is spelled Oestre or Eastre (the origin of the word "east" comes from various Germanic, Austro-Hungarian words for dawn that share the root for the word "aurora" which means " to shine"). Modern pagans have generally accepted the spelling "Ostara" which honors this goddess as our word for the Vernal Equinox. The 1974 edition of Webster's New World Dictionary defines Easter thus: "orig., name of pagan vernal festival almost coincident in date with paschal festival of the church; Eastre, dawn goddess; 1. An annual Christian festival celebrating the resurrection of Jesus, held on the first Sunday after the date of the first full moon that occurs on or after March 21." The Vernal Equinox usually falls somewhere between March 19th and 22nd (note that the dictionary only mentions March 21st, as opposed to the date of the actual Equinox), and depending upon when the first full moon on or after the Equinox occurs, Easter falls sometime between late-March and mid-April.

Because the Equinox and Easter are so close, many Catholics and others who celebrate Easter often see this holiday (which observes Christ's resurrection from the dead after his death on Good Friday) as being synonymous with rebirth and rejuvenation: the symbolic resurrection of Christ is echoed in the awakening of the plant and animal life around us. But if we look more closely at some of these Easter customs, we will see that the origins are surprisingly, well, pagan! Eggs, bunnies, candy, Easter baskets, new clothes, all these "traditions" have their origin in practices which may nothing to do with the Christian holiday.

For example, the traditional coloring and giving of eggs at Easter is a Pagan ritual.  Period.  Eggs are clearly one of the most potent symbols of fertility, and spring is the season when animals begin to mate and flowers and trees pollinate and reproduce. In England and Northern Europe, eggs were often employed in folk magic when women wanted to be blessed with children. There is a great scene in the film The Wicker Man where a woman sits upon a tombstone in the cemetery, holding a child against her bared breasts with one hand, and holding up an egg in the other, rocking back and forth as she stares at the scandalized (and very uptight!) Sargent Howie. Many cultures have a strong tradition of egg coloring; among Greeks, eggs are traditionally dyed dark red and given as gifts.

As for the Easter egg hunt, a fun game for kids, I have heard at least one pagan teacher say that there is a rather scary history to this. As with many elements of our "ancient history, " there is little or no factual documentation to back this up. But the story goes like this: Eggs were decorated and offered as gifts and to bring blessings of prosperity and abundance in the coming year; this was common in Old Europe. As Christianity rose and the ways of the "Old Religion" were shunned, people took to hiding the eggs and having children make a game out of finding them. This would take place with all the children of the village looking at the same time in everyone's gardens and beneath fences and other spots.

Thanksgiving Warning

Thanksgiving Warning!!!

Yes, Thanksgiving, that American day of feast we originally celebrated with Native Americans as we plotted their demise by stuffing them with Tryptophan, which just happens to be the same amino acid found in many sleeping potions of day such as Spirulina, which, any warlock of the day would have told you (if asked instead of burned), to be wary of for those feeding you Törökország, for it is  sleeping potion known to make one sleepy before the night -- and also, will eventually help in avoiding boring-ass American Football games on the telly.

So, as you raise your glass and say a prayer with those who are feeding you Turkey, be cautious of your nap.  Or should I say, What's In Your Teepee?


Dr. TVBoogie

Happy Halloween

So the sixth man to walk on the moon comes clean about aliens: they're real.

That's right, Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon during the 1971 Apollo 14 mission stated in a recent interview with Mirror Online that the aliens dismantled our nuclear bombs to save the planet from self-destruction. He added, “I have spoken to many Air Force officers who worked at these silos during the Cold War. They told me UFOs were frequently seen overhead and often disabled their missiles. Other officers from bases on the Pacific coast told me their [test]missiles were frequently shot down by alien spacecraft. There was a lot of activity in those days.”

So hows that for some truth.  I'm telling you, any day now the government is coming clean on this and stories like this are just our conditioning for it.   I figure maybe a few more new "distraction" toys first like maybe an iRing for your nose or new chemical food additive to anesthetize us from being too pissed about the centuries of lies and unnecessary wars.

Get ready, I'm dragging me someone out of their war-profiteering home and demanding a refund.

Dr. TVBoogie