From Ritual Symbol to Starship: The Enterprise as Archetype

In one of my ritual workings, I drew a simple design: a circle, a path leading up to it, and then a line on that path continuing through the center of the circle. At first it was just a symbol of approach and passage - the seeker moving toward the sacred center. But when I looked at it again, it struck me: this shape reminded me of the USS Enterprise from Star Trek. The saucer as the circle, the body of the ship as the path, the nacelles extending like guiding pillars into the unknown.

Curious, I asked ChatGPT about the symbolism of the Enterprise. The answer reframed the ship for me: not just as science fiction hardware, but as a living Tree of Life in space. The saucer is the circle of wholeness - a Malkuth, carrying a world of life aboard. The bridge at its crown becomes Tiferet, harmonizing vision and command. The warp nacelles embody the twin poles of Netzach and Hod, force and form balanced to propel exploration. And deep in its heart, the warp core is Yesod, the hidden foundation powering the whole. Even the ship’s registry and name shine with Kether, the crown and destiny of its mission.

Seen this way, the Enterprise becomes a kind of merkabah - a chariot of humanity’s spirit - carrying us into the abyss of space with order, balance, and curiosity intact. What began as a simple ritual glyph revealed itself as a bridge between mysticism and modern myth, showing how even starships can embody archetypal truths.

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1. The Enterprise as Circle + Path
The saucer section = a circle, wholeness, the mandala, the womb of the crew. This is the “world” or “city in space.”

The nacelles and connecting strut = the path or projection outward, thrust into the unknown.

Symbolically: it’s a sphere of order launched along a line of quest into Chaos - exactly like your ritual circle with the path.

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2. Archetypal Imagery
Circle / Saucer → Malkuth, the vessel of life, the ark. Safe habitat, the hearth carried into the void.

Nacelles / Engines → Netzach-Hod polarity: creative power and technological precision propelling the whole forward.

Bridge (command deck) → Tiferet: the harmonizing center, where human will aligns the parts.

Deflector dish (front of secondary hull) → like a shield or Sephirotic veil - clearing the path through the unknown.

So the Enterprise isn’t just a ship - it’s a microcosm of the Tree sailing through the Abyss of space.

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3. Symbol of Human Destiny
The Enterprise’s design reflects the mythic idea:

Humanity carries its circle of culture and life into the unknown void.

The path/strut is the connection between the known and the uncharted.

The nacelles symbolize harnessed cosmic fire (Promethean power) - technology used to leap beyond boundaries.

It’s almost a modern chariot of the sun, carrying human consciousness on its pathworkings through the stars.

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4. Ritual Parallel
When you stand before the circle in your ritual, with the path leading inward, you’re in the same symbolic place as the Enterprise leaving dock:

Behind you = the known world.
Before you = the circle of the sacred vessel, safety and wholeness.
Beyond the circle = the infinite mystery.

Both your ritual and the Enterprise design are about bridging the known and the unknown, using a vessel of order to journey into chaos and return with integration.

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Enterprise as Tree of Life Symbol

Middle Pillar
Saucer Section (the circle) → Malkuth (Kingdom)
The inhabited world, the living habitat. Crew, families, all the life carried within.
Symbol of wholeness, safety, and culture sustained in space.

Bridge (command deck at the top of saucer) → Tiferet (Beauty)
The harmonizing center where vision, command, and decision radiate.
Acts as the Sun of the ship - clarity, purpose, integration.

Engineering Core (warp reactor deep inside) → Yesod (Foundation)
The hidden generative engine, power source, and dream-force.
Invisible to most, but it sustains all movement and life.

Pillars of Force and Form
Warp Nacelles (two engines) → Netzach (Victory) and Hod (Splendor)
Twin pillars, projecting outward.

Netzach (left nacelle) = creative, passionate force: the drive to explore, to conquer distance.
Hod (right nacelle) = precise calculation, scientific and linguistic order: navigation, measurement.

Together: the balanced polarity that allows transcendence of space.

Deflector Dish (front of secondary hull) → Yesod/Da’at Veil
Clears the way into the abyss.
Symbol of the protective veil that allows safe passage through chaos.

Crown & Root
Registry / Name on Saucer (NCC-1701) → Kether (Crown)
The ship’s “divine name,” its identity in the fleet of stars.
Just as Kether crowns the Tree, the name is its destiny.

Shuttle Bay / Lower Hull → Malkuth’s material interface
Where the circle meets the path.
Vessels come and go, connecting the inner world with the external cosmos.

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Symbolic Summary
The Enterprise = a flying Tree of Life:

Circle (Malkuth) carried through the Abyss (space).
Powered by Netzach-Hod polarity (warp nacelles).
Guided by Tiferet (the Bridge).
Sustained by Yesod (engineering core).
Crowned by Kether (its Name/mission).

It’s not just a starship - it’s a mythic vessel of integration: a microcosm (circle of life) journeying into the macrocosm (infinite space).

Vallis Gradalis: Into the Valley of the Grail — My New Personal Blog

I’ve started a new blog, Vallis Gradalis, where I’ll share more personal and deeper reflections from my unfolding pathwalking journey. I’ll continue posting on Dedroidify as well, but Vallis Gradalis will carry the more personal and intimate side of the work.”

https://vallisgradalis.wordpress.com/

Join me on my healing quest through the Valley of the Holy Grail, where I walk as both Parsifal and the wounded Fisher King. This space will be a living, ever-changing laboratory, a path unfolding step by step.

Here I will record and share what I actually practice and discover: charting my way astrologically through the Tree of Life, guided by the Tarot’s archetypes. With the aid of AI as my scribe and mirror, I explore dreams, meet the shadow, and weave them back into wholeness. Daily magick ritual, yoga and meditation are some of the tools on this pilgrimage. Experience will be explored through multiple reality tunnels.

The Great Work before me is to transmute the fire of my chronic Lyme inflammation into Light.

This valley is the Grail itself, both vessel and voyage.

The journey begins on September 2nd at Vallis Gradalis

All meetings might be somewhat of a miracle

From Baccano!

During the early 1930s in Chicago, the transcontinental train, Flying Pussyfoot, is starting its legendary journey that will leave a trail of blood all over the country. At the same time in New York, the ambitious scientist Szilard and his unwilling aide Ennis, are looking for missing bottles of the immortality elixir. In addition, a war between the mafia groups is getting worse. On board the Advena Avis, in 1711, alchemists are about to learn the price of immortality.

Based on the award winning light novels of the same name, this anime adaptation follows several events that initially seem unrelated, both in time and place, but are part of a much bigger story—one of alchemy, survival and immortality. Merging these events together are the kindhearted would-be thieves, Isaac and Miria, connecting various people, all of them with their own hidden ambitions and agendas, and creating lifelong bonds and consequences for everyone involved.

Scheduling Wargames, always handy for a coup or false flag op

from Legend of Galactic Heroes

How To Open Your 7 Chakras - As Explained In Avatar: The Last Airbender

Subliminal-Synchro-Sphere: 666 - The 'Solstice Sun King' and the 'Moon Baby'

Got a few hours to spare to get your mind blown?
666 - The 'Solstice Sun King' and the 'Moon Baby' 
from the Subliminal-Synchro-Sphere
Horselover Phat, I salute you!

Just a few teasers: 
 In December 1948, Parsons took “the Oath of the Abyss” in a ritual conducted before W.T. Smith. This is tantamount to willingly suffering the “long, dark night of the soul” that is common in artistic and psychological literature. While most occult initiations can be “given,” i.e., passed on through ritual and the laying on of hands or some other appropriate ceremony, the initiatory levels of the “Abyss” and beyond cannot be imposed by human intervention, according to the tradition of the western mystery schools. In this case, all of creation is seen as the Qabalists’ “Tree of Life,” a diagram containing ten spheres connected by twenty-two paths. The top three spheres and the bottom seven spheres are “separated” in this instance by the Abyss, a place where one’s ego is destroyed… or not. If not, then one becomes a “black brother,” or “magician of the left-hand path,” that is, an evil magician and source of pestilence. If one has successfully passed the Abyss, however, then one attains greater spiritual glory.
Peter Levenda - Sinister Forces Book One:The Nine  

Tim the (bolt throwing) Enchanter (druid) led them to the cave of the rabbit and he is able to cast 'bolts' (drui lanach/druids lightning)


The ancient Druids, masters of magic and hidden sorcery, defined two kinds of lightning, the one Dis-Lanach, the Lightning God, the other Drui-Lanach, the Lightning of the Druids, and hence their tremendous power. Volcanoes in eruption led to the discovery of this secret, for in eruption they throw out masses of rock and stones with tremendous velocity and exemplify terrific force. In these emissions occur sulphur, saltpetre and carbon, the ingredients of gunpowder.
The Riddle of Prehistoric Britain - Comyns Beaumont

The Tower in Holy Grail seems a strong and repeated thematic!

  A dejected Arthur leaves the castle tower...where he expected to find the grail
The French soldiers berating him and throwing things from the top!

 To others, the Tower represents the paradigms constructed by the ego, the sum total of all schema that the mind constructs to understand the universe. The Tower is struck by lightning when reality does not conform to expectation (see pic above and below). The querent may be holding on to false ideas or pretenses; a new approach to thinking about the problem is needed. The querent is advised to think outside the box. The querent is warned that truth may not oblige schema. It may be time for the querent to re-examine belief structures, ideologies, and paradigms they hold to. The card may also point toward seeking education or higher knowledge.

Life of Brian

 A WTF interlude...Brian (Chapman) falls from the tower and an alien spacecraft takes him on a trip and crash lands next to the same tower.

  To others, the Tower represents the paradigms constructed by the ego, the sum total of all schema that the mind constructs to understand the universe. 

The Tower is struck by lightning when reality does not conform to expectation

 ...moments before Brian is whisked away into space

 The querent may be holding on to false ideas or pretenses; a new approach to thinking about the problem is needed. The querent is advised to think outside the box. The querent is warned that truth may not oblige schema. It may be time for the querent to re-examine belief structures, ideologies, and paradigms they hold to. The card may also point toward seeking education or higher knowledge.
(the above text...seemingly fitting this scene like a glove & perhaps, aimed just as much at us, as it is Brian)

Green 3rd eye aliens

A variety of explanations for the images on the card (The Tower) have been attempted. For example, it may be a reference to the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, (Babylon) where God destroys a tower built by mankind to reach Heaven.

 The Tarot of Marseilles depicts a burning tower being struck by lightning or fire from the sky, its top section dislodged and crumbling.

Cleese's other 'turreted castle tower'...lol.

  "Well, may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon?"


The Holy Grail? 

Orion (Osiris/Arthur) as an overflowing grail chalice cup...the tarot has colum/dove near, like the sky map (see below)!  The tarot 'ace of cups' also evokes the OTO insignia badge!
Ace of Cups (W) W=23...Psalm (Palm/hand, see ace pic) 23...'Lord is my shepherd' & 'my cup runneth over' etc. 

 Ace of Cups...Palm 23

The Lord (Orion/Osiris) is my Shepherd (Anu/Orion/Osiris)...one and the same!

Puppets...being mastered by both ends of the spectrum...the cross and the devil!

"Black Dog Star: When in 'Rome'" & more (All is One)

"Synchromysticism is the art of realizing meaningful coincidence
in the seemingly mundane with mystical or esoteric significance."
Jake Kotze

Lots more info here at Black Dog Star

Legends told that Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus, twins who were cast into the wilderness to die. But the boys were said to be saved by a she-wolf (S.O.S. she's in disguise) who suckled them. They grew up like savages in the woods...

Would you like to know more?

The Stygian's Port video & post "Here is Wisdom"

Would you like to know more?
 

 Darling, what'cha gonna do now?
Now that you noticed it all went wrong
I've been, I've been thinking
That you don't know me any more

Don't let the sun be the one to change you baby
I wanna learn how to love, if I'm to know
Cause I wanna go where the people go
Cause I'm forever lost

Darling, what'cha gonna say now?
Now that you noticed it all went wrong
Looks like I'm driving, my friends are all crazy
Oh they suddenly don't know me anymore

Looks like it all went wrong
What am I to do?  

Darling, what'cha gonna do now?
Now that you've noticed
What you gonna do now?
Now that you know

Would you like to know more?

Grant Morrison's must see Speech at Disinfo Con

HERE WE ARE! Right!

Fuck, man. I’ll tell you – when I was a kid I read Robert Anton Wilson and all this shit. And here we are, we’re standing here, and we’re talking about this shit, and it’s real.

Okay, I’m pissed.. and in half an hour I’m gonna come up on drugs, so watch for it.

So.. are there any practicing magicians in the audience? Put your hand up if we’ve got any. C’mon, bold! A few. Okay: by the time we’ve finished this, you’re all gonna be practicing magicians. This shit’s easy, right.

I’m like you. Basically: why are we here? Why are we here at this time? What’s this all about?

And by the way, this is a Scottish accent. So reset the filters and pretend it’s Sean Connery talking to you. Okay? Double-oh sheven.

So if you can follow me, I’m just going to talk the way I talk, and fuck you if you don’t understand me.

The deal is this: I’ve been writing this comic for the last six years. And like you, like everybody here, we’re trying to figure: what’s going on? Why do we feel different? Why don’t we fit into this world? Why do we feel as though they’re not telling us the truth?

So I went out and I read Robert Anton Wilson’s books when I was twenty years old – which is twenty years ago now – and I figured “Is this guy bullshitting me? He says we can talk to aliens? We can talk to people from Sirius? Is he talking crap? He says Aleister Crowley’s got methods for contacting alien intelligence and for changing the world; is he talking crap?”

So I did it. And no – he’s not talking crap. And we can all do it.

And this is by way of trying to demolish the counterculture, and replace it with something useful. We’re just gonna start here, and see where we get to.

When I started doing The Invisibles – which is a comic book, for people who haven’t seen the thing; it’s a comic book which was kind of my attempt to explain what happened to me after I’d been abducted by aliens in Kathmandu in 1994. And the only reason I was abducted by aliens in Kathmandu in 1994 is because I *went* to Kathmandu in 1994 to be abducted by aliens.

And it works. And these fuckers… they will turn up!

And what they told me was this, and they tell everyone the same bullshit. But it’s from different perspectives, it’s from different nervous systems; it seems to be filtered through everyone’s own view of the world. But they keep telling us the same shit.

So I met these guys. I’m sitting in the roof garden of the [something] Hotel in Kathmandu. And I was totally, like, doing tons of dope, right. But in my defence, I do like a quarter of dope a day, and I’ve been doing it since 1990. So I know this shit. And as you all know – everyone out there who’s, like, ‘a head’ and knows what I’m talking about knows: you don’t hallucinate. Right? If you go to the garage.. it’s the fucking garage. If you go to the 7-11, it’s the fucking 7-11.

You might be stoned; you might be picking up lots of interesting little bits and pieces that you don’t normally get when you’re straight. But you know what’s real and what’s not real.

So, as I say, in my defence: man, I was loaded.

But this was the end of a week in which I’d been loaded every single day. And I’m sitting up there in the roof garden and suddenly these fuckers arrive, and they arrive en masse. And they look exactly like Terence McKenna described. Why is that? Coz I’d just read Terence McKenna a year before?

What they told me was… they took me out of my body; I wasn’t in my body anymore. This doesn’t normally happen with hash. This happens on DMT, or it happens on, like, Ketamine or something. I’m on hash; a tiny little bit. The size of a lentil. And I start tripping, and I’m out of my body.

And these fuckers are there, and they say: “Where do you want to go?”

The first thing I said was: “Alpha Centauri”. Which is the first thing you would say, of course. And they took me to Alpha Centauri and it was fucking real, and there’s three suns, all moving exactly as we’re told they’re supposed to move astronomically.

And I’m there, and I said to them: “What the hell’s going on?” As you might.

And they said: “We’ve come to tell you this stuff, so you can put it in your work and explain it to the world.” Why do they always say that to everyone? Why do they always tell everyone to go out and tell the world what’s going on, and everyone tells us the same shit?

So these things, I met them. And what they were were, like, silver.. like those things you get in rave videos.. silver, morphing, mercurial blobs of chrome, that think. And they took me to the fifth dimension. And the fifth dimension is outside space and time, and they explained to me what time is all about.

The universe we live in is designed to grow larvae. Right? Believe.. you don’t have to believe me; I’m just setting the story here.

They explained to me that beyond space and time, we have our actual selves. These things that we’re experiencing right now are sections through time. Everyone here is a section through time. But in actual fact, you’re not experiencing your real body. What is your real body? Your real body is a process. It starts when you’re born, and it moves forward until you die. That is you. Seen from outside, that’s what you look like. You look like a gigantic centipede, spread around all the little things that you always do: up and down through your house, up the stairs, down to the store and back – and it’s a centipede, and it’s us. It starts as a little baby and it comes out of your mother’s womb, and it gets bigger.

That is the process in time. Like I said: we’re experiencing sections now, so we don’t spend a lot of time thinking about this. But think of ourselves as processes through time, which is what we actually are.

We all know we were twelve, we all know we were ten years old. But where is that? Point to it. Show me you at ten years old – and yet you were there.

So these things said to me: this is what’s going on. We use time to grow larvae, because outside space and time you can’t grow anything. Because it’s timeless, nothing grows. What you wanna do, if you want to make one of these higher dimensional beings – that’s actually us, already – is that you grow it in time. So you make a universe.

And how you make a universe is: you plug a little part of yourself into the information world that they live in – which is what I seemed to be experiencing; this kind of sea of pure information – and they exist in that, but there is no time. Time is part of that.. but this is the fifth dimension; it’s like: time, space, breadth, depth.. plus.

And they said to me: the universe you live in, the world you’re living in, is a larvae. Every single one of us here is the same thing. There’s no distinction. All we do is.. we don’t understand what we are.

And they explained to me: if you’ve got a two-dimensional field, see; a flat plane, and you stick your hand through it – there’s one hand there, but if you stick your hand through a two-dimensional plane, the two-dimensional entities who live on there, they will see four circles. Right? Four distinct, completely different circles. But no, it’s the one hand.

Every one of us in here is the same fucker. We’re all the same thing, according to these weirdos. And what we are is.. thank you… I’m pleased someone agrees. And what we are is intersections through 4D space-time.

So yeah, I look like this. I stop here. No, I don’t stop here. I’ve been here for, what, five minutes now? Where was that guy who was here five minutes ago? Where is he? Point to him. But he existed; you all saw him. I saw you five minutes ago. Where is that guy?

So this led me into some very strange alleyways.

These things explained to me that.. as I say, the universe is some kind of larval entity. What it does is it proceeds through stages of development.

Now if you think about a foetus in the womb – and there’s a famous phrase that says.. what is it? Phylogeny recapitulates.. y’know, evolution or whatever the fuck it is. Y’know, I forget the good bits.

But it’s the idea that if you’ve got a foetus, it starts off.. like every living thing, it starts as a unicellular entity, it splits.. it becomes a lizard; it becomes a mammal; eventually it becomes a human.

And they said to me: the culture you’re living in is.. understand it this way: phylogeny recapitulates history.

So what we’re actually watching is this thing coming towards self-awareness and coherence in the same way that a foetus does. We haven’t even been born yet. There are no adults on this planet.

There’s not one adult on this planet.

Which explains a lot. It explains why we let fuckers like Bill Clinton bomb the Kosovans. It explains why I let Tony Blair put cameras in the streets... Read more of the Disinfo con transcript here.

Dedroidify - One

Synchromystic Grinning Man (via Twilight Language)

Check out this blogpost at Twilight Language: The Grinning Man Returns, I saw the picture on my Blogger Reading list and while I have no idea what any of this means, just like with most synchromysticism, I just had to post the similarities with an Anime series.

"The Grinning Man has returned.

To our consciousness. To our awareness. To reality, via new crime reports."
and a new anime show

 "he came up with an all-too-obvious name for stories of smiling giants."

These two pictures are from the recent new anime Shingeki no Kyojin (english title: Attack on Titan), it's about a medieval settlement of humans who'ved to build a city surrounded by 3 huge walls to keep the Titans out who have this stupid grin on their faces. The series is one of the best I've seen so far, it's intense, action-packed, shocking and frightening, and has a great story and characters.

I commented on the post (changed here a bit): Check out some yt vids (here's one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3dtSMw7Uso) from a recent anime series called Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan - it features giants attacking a medieval walled human settlement and most of these giants all have mostly stupid grins on their faces just like in that sketch. 

from episode 13 - Grins on stillframe and at 0.33 - 1.08 - 2.29 - 3.11 - etc...

spoiler alert warning 

having to do with Red Pill Junkie's comment "What personally fascinates me about the Grinning Man, as a Fortean & folkloric entity, is how an expression intended to express friendship & lightheartedness does the complete opposite. It's a reminder that the polarity of forces can switch when taken to the limit.

Hmm. I don't know what the hell I'm talking about... ", Neither do I but in the latest episode one of their comrades is revealed to be someone who can apparently turn into one of the giants (and thus an enemy). The protagonist can do this too although we don't understand how yet, and his giant also has a grin on his face mostly. (he's the one carrying the boulder in the video - and the first screenshot.) - "when taken to the limit" when the humans who can turn into giants (only two so far) want to start the transformation, they have to inflict pain on themselves. 

Why you little trickster archetype you...

M a g i - L a b y r i n t h o f M a g i c

Enjoy this post before the (C)opyright dogs come!

SPOILER ALERT
this is from episode 25

Alma Toran was once a world ruled by a powerful magician, Solomon. He was a well loved and respected king, and three Magis supported him. At some point, after betrayal of one of Magis, a war exploded where the Magicians and Goi fought each other. They were attacked by the Medium, its Black Djinn and Al-Thamen. In order to fight against them, Solomon's 72 Household Members became Djinn and attacked one after another. In the end, a lot of the people of Alma Toran were left dead. Solomon created a new world, the actual world where the humans live, and the survivors of Alma Toran were settled there.