Symbols on the Lance of Michael and their meaning.
Despite the fact this lance is an angelic weapon, the runes on it are not enochian. Two of them are alchemical symbols, the third is the nordic rune.
The first symbol is Phosphorus - Alchemists were fascinated by phosphorus because it seemed capable of holding light. Another interesting property of phosphorus is its ability to burn in air.
Although copper was commonly associated with Venus, the planet was called Phosphorus when it glowed brightly at dawn.
Well, we know that Venus is called the morning star, which is associated with the image of Lucifer. So i think phosphorus represents Lucifer in this spell.
Arsenic "in the everlasting image of the swan" - arsenic was a well-known poison during medieval period, so the swan symbol might not make much sense - unlikely you recall that the element is a metalloid. Like other elements in the group, arsenic can transform from one phisycal appearance to another. Cygnets turn into swans, arsenic transform itself too.
Arsenic can mean both poisoning and transformation (or transition).
Odal - the only non-alchemical symbol here - is a nordic rune that means inheritance, family. Sometimes compared to atta - "Father". In this case, rune Odal represents God or his power.
So what do we have?
These runes create magic, as Ramiel said in the series. And literally these symbols can mean two things: Lucifer is poisoned by the power of God, or Lucifer returns to God - if we look at the second meaning of arsenic. (if we assume that a slow death is Michael's attempt to make Lucifer have time to repent. And the fact that this magic is removed when the lance breaks, perhaps means that Michael gave Lucifer the opportunity to apologize).
Now that I’m finally moved and things are at least vaguely stable, I’ll actually be able to get back to my late season alchemy rewatch of SPN! Still super tempted to just ff’d through Fizzy Water’s scenes at least where he’s alone. Adding The Winchesters to the rewatch list, too! Yes, it’s mostly to see Jack again, but he’s one of the most pagan things about the final seasons tho he obviously has the Christ imagery too. I will still never get over Jack being the Orphic Egg and Alex having the one Futhark rune that symbolizes the Cosmic Ice Egg tattooed on his arm. I may have shrieked a little when I found that out.
I was just trying to figure out why human + bird wings = angel, when angels are like celestial beings, then I realized it must be by the alchemy that happens when angel grace/angel frequency merges with a human being's DNA, joining with a vessel. It unlocks something in the genetic code. Boom, GATTACA, you get wings now. Enjoy being a hybrid. Even if the wings are on another frequency I like the idea of them taking that shape.
Trying to sit here thinking of how my antis are negotiating events in their head to run from the truth right now. Spiral narrative. Tarot. Alchemy. The One. The Path of One. 13 tracks put together in a surprise order. Radio interference. Ticks and leeches. Queen bee. Art of Dying. Reflections. Rocky. The ego. Context. Traxxverse. Find the Queen. Magic Sex Chicken. All of it.
Like. OK. let's say they disbelieve origin stories. ok but what does that leave them as an option. am I just. So closely resonant to their brainwaves and thoughtforms and so good at this show that I knew all this shit in advance by a year or in some cases years?
Because like. even if I was lying about origins, I still have.... [points at all of the above]. So that still means I'm "speculating" correctly long before anything was ever released. Meaning my brain would be sharing the same story braincells as these authors.
So where, oh where, do they see an escape hatch where if they scream at me they can scream it away? Worst case in their own minds I've vibrated into the supernatural dimension to become a psychic attached to Robbie's mental basket. Or, realistically, I've been telling the truth the whole time.
Guys. The end is coming whether you like it or not. I told you LONG BEFORE my fellow worker bee did: Nothing can stop what's coming. Stand down, go home, and enjoy whatever life you have left. That's only a threat if you fear what's coming. And if you fear it, it's over, you lost, go home.
genuinely funny that for all of 2po's itk posing he's about to get blindsided. SPN ripping off the bandaid needed to flush the fandom liars, projection machines, conmen and more out. The authors are over your bullshit, guys. 100%. Direct. Like that context shit? 2po and those like him better take that as @ them personally, because this is in fact personal. They can't tell you that, but I can. You've attacked and fought them for years, and now, this is revenge. And some of us were more than happy to help.
Goodbye, you lying sons of bitches, you extortionists, doxxers, career liars and grifters. Goodbye, you agenda'ed bastards that think you can warp the truth however you want. Goodbye. It's time for a new empire. Long Live The GenderBending Queen.
(update he tweeted shortly after the post)
A terminal fandom disease, a plague, the lot of you. We're ripping out the rot at the root. We're opening that gay door. And you're going to cope. imagine if the fandom was as selfish seasons 10-13 for the Wayward fan pitch. Which antis like 2po also hide that Berens picked up AS a fan pitch, and nobody wailed about credits.
I don't find it a coincidence that the people that grift thousands out of fandom are obsessed with credits as proof. Well, yeah. People who believe in nothing but themselves and their material gain can't comprehend doing what's right for free simply because it is right.
Some of us actually stand for something. Believe in something. And fight for what we want instead of complaining all day. Even if it takes years. Even if it takes falling down again and again. There's a reason it's a representation battle, not a representation parkwalk, and that doesn't work if every man tries to be an island for himself. Sometimes, life is complicated, and sometimes, you Just Help whether you get benefit for it. Because it was what was the right thing to do. Because you knew the Truth. Because you listened.
You guys may understand the concept some day.
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The real truth you missed is that for the last several years 2po was trying to argue with me and deny real things that came true, he was basically arguing with those same authors, because some of us don't just suddenly care when convenient. Some of us fight for years without looking for attention like the scripthunt members do.
And 2po is so set on his bad biases he convinced himself he got access, rather than for example wigglebox bitching and moaning her entire time in POLOL about never getting access, and his weird spies that fled when I nailed down 2po's doxxing attack all only having base permissions like lmfao bro. Perspective. You are years behind and clueless. The sooner you accept that the sooner you're going to understand what's happening. You didn't HAVE the context to understand the double-S tweet of Berens intentional mispellings being a silly slapfight with Meg Fitz over her giant bees and the fact that she spells Cas with two S'es, that even if they aren't credited they're all idea sharing still. And you'd know it's meg if you knew meg's interests.
Deep down even wigglebox knows that I used to prioritize speaking with the authors. She did not have access to the results, and I think she only possibly saw the one voice message from Bobo if she saw any at all, but she has to be aware that I chose a different path than they did and the potential that pass opened. She just does not want to look into that opening. Because she chose the wrong path. And it's everybody in script hunt
Amazing the things that can be done if you spend your time and years treating creatives like human beings rather than robots to abuse for demands, project intention at, or try to treat like a direct info spout. You want to know the reason you guys can't get info for crap? Every single one of you sounds like a desperate fan when you try to talk to them instead of appreciating their own work or interests. That's why you guys lost. You never wanted to listen. And that's the plot.
I do not envy the trap he's made for himself and his followers. It quite literally makes them the villains of the fandom story. And he's successfully manipulated people against the truth and the creatives for years, and now they have no choice but to deny deny deny deny until the bitter end or accept the truth I've told them for years. And it's that you guys are the problem. And you need to either grow up and accept the truth or go away and find a show you actually not just enjoy, but understand.
Wouldn't it be funny if this Cult Spiral Narrative and my Cult Mythos Alchemy Bible and Cult Cas As The Goddess shit were actually already circulating the author room by the end of season 14? Like right before Bobo wrote the confession I knew about. The year he asked for me at SDCC. Yeah. That'd be really funny. You know, the things 2po harassed us underground for while we. like. talked to writers about it.
Because he doesn't want the truth. And he's always been a leader of a cult of lies projecting his sins, ideas and fears at everyone else, telling people not to look at the truth and to only listen to his perspective and telling, and boy oh boy does this plot have surprises for him.
You'd think by now he'd give up denying the obvious of what's happening both in the plot in the metanarrative, but no. He's pinned his entire fandom conman career on his current angle and if he concedes then everyone he's been exploiting thousands out of instantly drops his ass. Congratulations dude, you played yourself. Good luck hope nobody sues you off the planet.
character inspiration: lucifer, spike ( buffy ), joel miller ( the last of us ), john murphy ( the 100 ), erik lehnsherr ( x-men ), captain jack harkness ( doctor who ), dean winchester ( spn ) & damon salvatore ( the vampire diaries ).
BASICS
name: draco lucius malfoy.
nickname: d.l.m ( for those aware of his role in the order ), malfoy.
age: 49.
sexual / romantic orientation: bisexual/biromantic.
former house: slytherin.
affiliation: death eaters ( believed ), the order of the phoenix ( secret - he’s a double agent ).
occupation: alchemist/living off of his inheritance.
notable characteristics: his bright eyes and the dark mark on his left arm.
MAGICAL
wand: 10", Hawthorn, unicorn hair.
patronus: didn’t have one through childhood right up until the birth of his son, it’s a dragon.
boggart: lord voldermort.
magical strengths: charms, astronomy, alchemy, history of magic, potions, duelling, dark arts, nonverbal magic, magical repair, occlumency
PERSONALITY
so in my head I like the idea that draco threw the wand to harry in the final battle, his small act of rebellion in his youth that people could’ve easily seen as a selfish act to save himself.
everything he went through in his youth trying to please his parents and out of fear following the orders of the death eaters and his crazy aunt bellatrix, draco saw the error of his ways but had burned too many bridges.
he became warmer and kinder, he married astoria and built a life with her though they remained isolated and draco had been willing to let the malfoy line end with him. they had scorpius and that’s when his happiness truly began.
astoria would grow weaker over the years but while she remained alive he was warm and kind, embraced a life he’d never seen himself having.
when she died, he became distant. fearing he’d become more like his own father because of the grief and kept scorpius at arms length.
for a brief period he was an auror, using the work as a means of distracting himself but was dismissed when it was clear he was allowing his emotions to take over his work.
he took to alchemy, more so as a hobby while he lived miserable off the inheritance from the father he despised.
has an own named ayla, the child of the owl he grew up with.
on the initial reforming of the death eaters, draco stayed far from it. fearing the very. depths of what they were trying to bring about yet again.
with the death of harry raising many regrets regarding his school life and what astoria inspired within him, draco went to the order in secret; not even his son was aware of his new loyalty. he vowed to be a double agent, joining the death eaters as a spy.
within the two months that followed harry and the ministers death, draco once more became an auror.
I'm sure a bunch of people have sent you this already but what's your take? Do you think they have somehow copyrighted "Winchesters" so no one can use it?? Is that even possible? And while the studio might be the ones behind this since "the Studio (capitalized..)" will apparently be in the vendors room weeding out people but I can't help but still be pissed at Jensen for this. He started this ball rolling. And now not only is he squeezing out Jared and Jared/Sam fans but now they're squeezing out vendors as well? People who have been there at cons for YEARS supporting them? Wasn't enough to take over the legacy, they had to take over the name and merch too. Can't wait to see what shitty af merch the put out for the show... I would assume that's their plan since they won't let anyone else sell anything with the name anymore. It's also just so stupid, hey, guess what guys, you can't sell spn merch at an spn con anymore!! Also, way to absolutely alienate even more people from your show. And vendors were probably a few willing to watch so they could make merch to sell at cons... Just great work all around.
Jensen's team should have had the foresight to anticipate the issue of using "The Winchesters", which anybody would have known that it is a common enough name that somebody would have already copyright it. But Jensen never was a good businessman and every non-acting buslness-related decision I've seen him make causes my eye to twitch.
While WB doesn't want to get into hot waters with copyright holders may be the main reason why they're putting a kibosh on unofficial merchs, they are also hoping that against all odds that The Winchesters become another merchandise goldmine so they want to get ahead of it. Remember the surplus Castiel calendars that they had to give away for free? That was because they feared Jared would not return for season 11 and went ahead and over-ordered those Cas calendars if Misha is promoted to 2nd lead when Jensen is promoted to 1st lead.
WB may have hoped that Jensen has managed to rediscover the lost art of alchemy. Instead, he has taken gold and presented the target audience of teenagers with a lesser metal.
Hi!! I'm here to rumble about stuff that has been making my life better, hope you don't mind
I finally bought Ace Attorney and I'm having a blast. I'm watching Bungou Stray Dogs s4 and Mo Dao Zu Shi s3 – both of them are one of my first anime and getting back to them feels so nostalgic. I got a new book!! It's Raven of the Inner Palace and has a gorgeous cover. And when I don't want to do anything I watch the Alchemy of Souls, it's comforting, it's easy to get back to after longer breaks and somehow it lengthens my attention spawn
Have you been consuming some comforting media recently?
Hello, White Rabbit!! Long time no talk. Thank you for your ramblings, I could feel your happiness and it made me smile.
I have been consuming some comforting media as of late. I know I'm depressed because I've resorted to rewatching SPN for the umpteenth time. They are my biggest comfort characters.
* AMRISH PATEKAR • TWENTY8 • SLICE OF LIFE [ ... ] GREY’S ANATOMY INSPIRED. NEUROLOGY RESIDENT. [ ... ] ANIRUDH PISHARODY.
* ANTHONY KING • TWENTY2 • SLICE OF LIFE [ ... ] AWKWARD UNIVERSITY STUDENT + RELIABLE TECH GUY. [ ... ] ZETHPHAN SMITH-GNEIST.
* CORDELIA APPLETON • TWENTY3 • MODERN ROYALTY [ ... ] AFF. WITH VERSUSLIGHT. MODERN DAY PRINCESS + PR NIGHTMARE [ ... ] LILY ROSE-DEPP.
* DEON ABALOS • THIRTY6 • AU VERSES AVAIL. [ ... ] POLICE DETECTIVE + WORKAHOLIC. TEMPORARILY DIED ONCE + CAN SEE GHOSTS NOW. [ ... ] CHARLES MICHAEL DAVIS.
* GRIM REAPER • UNKNOWN • SPN [ ... ] ALIAS CHANGES EVERY COUPLE YEARS. BECAME A GRIM REAPER AFTER DYING + NOW WORKS ODD JOBS TO COVER HIM GUIDING SOULS TO THE AFTERLIFE. [ ... ] LEE JAEWOOK.
* LIGAYA CASTILLO • TWENTY6 • SLICE OF LIVE [ ... ] HAPPY GO LUCKY BAKER. AFF WITH A GROUP VERSE. [ ... ] KATHRYN BERNARDO.
* MARCO TORRES • TWENTY • SPN [ ... ] AFF WITH INK’S MUSE. ANGEL REINCARNATE + STUDENT. [ ... ] OMAR RUDBERG.
* MISUN KIM • TWENTY6 • SLICE OF LIFE [ ... ] PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER. AFF WITH GROUP VERSE. [ ... ] MOON GAYOUNG.
* MIYEON GO • TWENTY3 • SLICE OF LIFE [ ... ] TWI/TCH STREAMER + ANIMATIONS STUDENT. [ ... ] KANG HYEWON.
* NARI YOON • TWENTY6 • CELEB [ ... ] AUSTRALIAN BORN POP STAR. [ ... ] IM NAYEON + CHOI JISU.
* NOVA PRICE • TWENTY3 • CELEB + SPN [ ... ] WITCH + CURRENT ROCKSTAR. INSPIRED BY HEX GIRLS. [ ... ] MAGGIE LINDEMANN.
* NINA SIN • TWENTY5 • CELEB + SPN [ ... ] INSPIRED BY JENNIFER’S BODY + HELTER SKELTER. SHARING BODY WITH A DEMON AFTER BEING SACRIFICED UNSUCCESSFULLY. CURRENTLY A FAMOUS MODEL. [ ... ] PARK SOOYOUNG.
* PAVISHA • UNKNOWN • SPN [ ... ] FORGOTTEN DEITY OF ART + CREATIVITY. HAS ANONYMOUSLY RUN A FAMOUS ART GALLERY FOR CENTURIES. [ ... ] SIMONE ASHLEY.
* RANDALL BAEK • TWENTY6 • SPN + MULT VERSES AVAIL. [ ... ] HALF DEMON DRUMMER IN A BAND. ONLY ANSWERS TO THE NAME JINX. [ ... ] JUNG JAEWON.
* ROSETTE HARRISON • TWENTY4 • CELEB [ ... ] DAUGHTER OF CELEBRITIES. TRYING TO MAKE HER OWN NAME AS AN ACTRESS. [ ... ] MADELYN CLINE.
* SAIRA JOSHI • TWENT9 • CELEB [ ... ] EMPLOYED AT RESEARCH INSTITUTE. AFFILIATED WITH GROUP VERSE. [ ... ] PARVEEN KAUR.
* PAXTON HILL • TWENT4 • HORROR? [ ... ] CAREFREE ACTOR + MODEL. [ ... ] AUBREY JOSEPH.
* TANVI GOWDA • VERSE DEPENDENT • MULT VERSES AVAIL. [ ... ] SNARKY LAW ATTORNEY WITH A STRONG PERSONALITY. [ ... ] POOJA HEDGE.
* VANESSA THOMAS • THIRTY6 • CRIME [ ... ] CRIMINAL MINDS BASED. FBI PROFILER. [ ... ] JESSICA LUCAS.
* WINNIE SOWE • TWENTY1 • HORROR , AU VERSES AVAIL. [ ... ] INSPIRED BY THE FINAL GIRL CONCEPT. INFO DEPENDS ON VERSE / UNIVERSE SHE’S PLACED IN. [ ... ] YANDEH SALLAH.
* ZION JONES • TWENTY2 • SLICE OF LIFE [ ... ] MED SCHOOL STUDENT TRYING TO FIND HIMSELF. AFF WITH GROUP VERSE. [ ... ] JONATHAN DAVISS.
CANON MUSE LIST.
* BETTY COOPER • ARCHIE COMICS • HC BASED [ ... ] MULT VERSES AVAIL. WRITTEN FROM SENIOR YEAR HIGH SCHOOL - UNIVERSITY LIFE. [ ... ] SAMANTHA LOGAN.
* BUFFY SUMMERS • BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER • TESTING [ ... ] PRIMARILY BASED IN EARLY SEASONS. MULT VERSES AVAIL. [ ... ] SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR.
* CHOYEON JIN • ALCHEMY OF SOULS • TESTING [ ... ] MODERN VERSE AVAIL. PRIMARILY FOLLOWS EVENTS OF THE SHOW. [ ... ] CHOI YAEWON.
* DAWN SUMMERS • BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER • HC BASED [ ... ] MULT VERSES AVAIL. PRIMARILY SET IN AU VERSES. [ ... ] MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG + DANIELLE ROSE RUSSELL.
* DANG-GU PARK • ALCHEMY OF SOULS • TESTING [ ... ] MODERN VERSE AVAIL. PRIMARILY FOLLOWS EVENTS OF THE SHOW. [ ... ] YOO INSOO.
* KATE BISHOP • HAWKEYE • TESTING [ ... ] PRIMARILY BASED ON THE MARVEL SHOW. [ ... ] KAYLEE BRYANT.
* IRIS WEST • THE FLASH • HC BASED [ ... ] STOPPED WATCHING THE SHOW FOREVER AGO SO PRIMARILY HC BASED. [ ... ] CANDICE PATTON.
* RAPUNZEL • TANGLED + FAIRYTALES • TESTING [ ... ] PRIMARILY BASED AROUND MOVIE + HEADCANONS. [ ... ] CHARITHRA CHANDRAN.
* SABRINA SPELLMAN • SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH + COMICS • HC BASED [ ... ] MULT VERSES AVAIL. INSPIRED BY THE SITCOM + VARIOUS COMICS. [ ... ] EMILY ALYN LIND + SABRINA CARPENTER.
* NORVILLE ROGERS • SCOOBY DOO • HC BASED [ ... ] INSPIRED BY THE MOVIES + HEAVILY HC BASED. [ ... ] FELIX MALLARD.
* TALIA BURNS • FIRST KILL • TESTING [ ... ] PRIMARILY BASED IN AU UNIVERSES. [ ... ] AUBIN WISE.
* TANDY BOWEN • CLOAK & DAGGER • HC BASED [ ... ] HEAVILY BASED AROUND THE SHOW. AVAIL. FOR AU VERSES. [ ... ] OLIVIA HOLT + MADELYN LCINE.
* YUL SEO • ALCHEMY OF SOULS • TESTING [ ... ] MODERN VERSE AVAIL. PRIMARILY FOLLOWS EVENTS OF THE SHOW. [ ... ] HWANG MINHYUN.
I got my little notepad and a list of a handful of episodes to watch from 10-12 that help with understanding heaven and the alchemy before I go through 13-15. I’m gonna try to pay attention to the Lucifer/Nick stuff because I’m sure there’s some important stuff there tho it was mostly used as a distraction to keep Eugenie entertained while Bobo worked in the gay and Pagan things. Honestly amazing she and Buckner didn’t fuck up Destiny’s Child, tho I’m not sure how many rewrites and edits that one had to go through. It’s also likely the directing and set dec saved it. That Holy Family framing lives rent free in my mind.
My fucking uterus has been a fucking bitch so I’ve been mostly in the fetal position curled around my heating buddy with zombie brain so doing anything that requires prolonged attention or intelligence is out. Boy, it’d been nice if one of the doctors I’ve had to see in the last 9 months could actually help. Tho I did find out I might have an autoimmune disease and have to go back to my hematologist Friday to see if my blood’s still fucked up. Hooray. 🖕🏻
I’ve already written about the way in which the dentist’s chair sequence in 15x10 makes specific, subtextual, reference to Dr. Freud, who wrote, in The Interpretation of Dreams, that dreams about teeth falling out were repressed sexual anxiety dreams.
And why would Dean be suffering from (subtextual) sexual anxiety?
Because, he’s just confessed more of his feelings, and on his knees no less, to Castiel, than he’s ever confessed before.
Garth probes Dean’s teeth and finds seventeen cavities.
In subtext, Garth has always had a bit of a crush on Dean. In subtext, Garth the werewolf helps Dean learn to tap-dance in the dentist’s chair dream-sequence as a metaphor for self-acceptance (in part) of Dean’s own “monstrous” side (his queer closeted anxiety). And after that dance sequence, Dean is able, back up out of the dentist’s chair, to admit to Garth that he smells good too (a bit more, subtextual, bisexual self-acceptance), and to look longingly at Garth and Bess dancing, wishing (we can infer) for his own “dance partner”. He thinks he’d be good at it <3.
For those of you who’ve been following the Jungian and alchemical symbolism in S14 and S15, the number 17 might ring a bell as the path, on the Qabbalistic Tree of Life, between Tiphareth (Integraton/ Beauty) and Binah (Wisdom/ Understanding):
That pathway is said to be linked to the Tarot card The Lovers (here reproduced from the Crowley-Harris deck):
This card doesn’t simply symbolise the meeting of two lovers on the physical plane, but also the “sacred marriage”, which, in Jungian alchemy (which views alchemical texts as metaphors for psychic forces) it is the meeting of the Self and the Shadow, the integration of “masculine” and “feminine” principles within the self.
Dean has just been on an underworld journey to Purgatory 2.0 (a metaphor for a journey into the unconscious) and has come face to face with his Shadow-self, in the form of admitting, in his prayer to Cas, to the rage that he inherited from his childhood trauma and which has, up to this point (because it hadn’t been confronted) often controlled him, turning him into someone who acts out like his father did.
So, in subtext, Dean’s seventeen cavities link to The Lovers tarot card, and thus symbolise, a) Dean’s “hero’s journey” towards greater acceptance of his bisexuality, b) Dean’s psychic journey towards greater integration of his self and his Shadow-self, c) Dean’s psychic journey towards greater integration of his “softer” side (the side that wants to dance) with his exterior “hardass” side (the side his father approved of), and d) also symbolises Castiel as Dean’s potential life-partner. All of these are, of course, clearly linked.
Not only that, but this integration of Self and Shadow on the earthly plane has been, and will again, be mirrored on the cosmic plane.
Chuck is unbalanced at present, because he has “broken up” with Amara, and he is not facing his own Shadow self (whatever it is he has repressed about himself). Therefore, he is acting out and behaving “monstrously”. Chuck needs to achieve the same kind of psychic growth Dean is in the process of achieving - the creator must learn from his creation.
N.B: As ever, my reading of the queer subtext in SPN does not promise a rainbow parade of obviousness at the end. But subtext IS part of narrative.
Okay so, at this point, I'm used to you smacking me in the face with Tool lyrics (and Renaissance lyrics, but that's a different kind of psychic damage for me). And I'm good with that cuz we're gonna ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.
That's fine. It's all good.
(Except for the time I thought that the Shadow mentioned in 46&2 couldn't possibly have any relevance and then you beaned me in the head with a rock. But that was my bad.)
The problem is that weeks ago, someone in server made a passing comment about Jimmy (referring to Castiel's vessel) and i thought, Hey, there's a Tool song named Jimmy... But that couldn't mean anything, right?
(I know, I know. My bad.)
So, I went about my business.
Only to run into your "11 is 11".
Now, I have no earthly idea what that means. Half your alchemy and hermetic posts go flying over my head, but I dig the parts that I get.
But the 11 triggered my memory of Jimmy. So I looked up the lyrics and...
I mean... there's no Shadow or spirals but... at this point, I'm gonna have to buy a damn helmet! Or at least ask that you throw softer rocks!
HAHAHAHAH that's one of those apollo curveballs that even just decked me, so nice one, i'm standing up and straightening my glasses.
The 11 is 11 had to do with the way Lateralus was built. The initial order ended when the Tower Falls To The Voice Of God--in og spn framework, 15.18 when sam and jack walk out of the tower. It ends in ruin once the switch flipped from The Truth to Despair.
The 13 episodes could be shuffled two ways for different results. If you swing the cycle first, the voice of god just becomes trauma radio, pitcking back and forth into trauma ticks and leeches and lessons to correct it to land at your final disposition and watch the weather change.
In both versions, "Reflection" had the same causal point, it was the only song that was the same in both orders. But now we're evolving the spiral, not just swinging on it, so Reflection just got recentered as the causal starting point while going back to In The Beginning and losing sight of The Future.