It's liberation day today during the #Capricorn #ThirdQuarter Moon which, in #Antinous #MoonMagic, we call the #HadriansWall moon of blockages and limitations. This Lunar Phase says it is time to break out and overcome barriers in your life! More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-hadrians-wall-moon-of-barriers.html
March 21st is #FragranceDay: Ancient statues of #Antinous were painted, gilded ... and were perfumed! A study in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology says Greek and Roman sculptures were impregnated with fragrances. Full details: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/03/antinous-and-magic-of-scent-experts-say.html #NationalFragranceDay
In the centre of the cuirassed chest of this marble bust of #Hadrian is, not a traditional #Medusa "Gorgoneion," but the instantly recognisable face of #Antinous! Excavated 1995 in Kynouria, Peloponnese, now in the Astros Museum. Symbolically, Antinous shields his emperor, warding off all evil and misfortune!
#InternationalWomensDay #WomensDay 8 March is also the feast of #Artemis / #Diana guardian of animals: Wear purple and leave food for birds! Diana is twin sister of #Apollo, with whom #Antinous is oft identified. Thus, they are spiritual twins. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/03/we-praise-goddess-artemisdiana-guardian.html
#Marlborough Intaglio with #Antinous in black chalcedony was once the prize piece of the Anton Maria Zanetti collection. #GettyMuseum bought it at Christie's Inc in 2019 for $2.1 million. It is now on public display for the first time ever. More here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2022/03/famous-marlborough-antinous-gem-now-on.html
Tonight's #Leo #FullMoon is called the #LionHunt Moon of courage in #Antinous #MoonMagic. #Hadrian and #Antinoos slew a Lion in Egypt. Rosy Lotus blossoms sprang forth from the Nile mud where drops of the lion's blood fell. https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-leo-full-moon-lion-hunt-moon-of.html
#SuperbOwl: #Antinous lookalike #HarryHamlin as #Perseus with the original "Superb Owl": #Bubo the magic mechanical owl crafted by #Hephaestus for #Athena in #RayHarryhausen's 1981 #ClashOfTheTitans. Watch how Bubo saves the day: https://youtu.be/BQpgIJUh9D4?si=KSMzrkvkSvbMb_0i #SuperbOwlSunday
6 Feb: National #WerewolfDay! #Werewolves were well-known in the days of #Antinous. Zeus created the first #werewolf or #wolfman: Lycaon, who defied the god's ban on human sacrifice at his altars. Hence Lycanthropy. Full report: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2022/07/werewolves-were-well-known-in-days-of.html #NationalWerewolfDay
1 Feb is #SerpentDay #Antinous #Agathodaimon (Blessed Spirit) statue at Berlin #AltesMuseum. A beneficent apotropaic serpent emerges from a cornucopia to gaze up adoringly at #Antinoos, and who can blame the snake? The statue's face originally had inlaid gemstone eyes!
#HolocaustMemorialDay is 27 Jan. And on 28 Jan 1935 Nazis enacted anti-gay laws, sending gays to Nazi concentration camps. The Gay Holocaust! We honor the men who wore the Pink Triangle. They are martyr saints of #Antinous. https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-men-with-pink-triangles-victims-of.html #HolocaustRemembranceDay
(Art by #PierreEtGilöes) ... On this day, as the Sun enters the Sign of #Aquarius the Cupbearer, we honor #Ganymede, the gorgeous youth who was carried aloft to Olympus by #Jupiter / #Zeus ... #Antinous was called the "modern Ganymede" by the Romans, who likened #Hadrian to Jupiter ... The Eagle of Zeus carried #Ganymedes to Olympus ... The Imperial Eagle carried #Antinoos to Rome ... The Constellation of Ganymede was renamed the Constellation of Antinous. More here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-assumption-of-ganymede.html
Today the Sun is in 180-degree opposition to #Aquarius #Pluto for the first time in 250 years ... since Pluto was last in Aquarius during the time of the French and American revolutions. This highly challenging, make-or-break cosmic configuration empowers you to delve into the deepest part of your soul to find and fulfill your destiny, like #Orpheus in Hades. But remember: Keep going forward! Don't look back! This week's #Antinous #MoonMagic astrology forecast: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/01/astro-forecast-january-16th-2025.html
On January 12th, the Sun leaves conjunction with the #StarOfAntinous for another year. This is the Festival of #Antinous Navigator as he steers his Celestial Barque to eternity on the spiritual journey that "begins as it ends and arrives as it departs": https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/01/antinous-navigator.html
#Saturnalia ... Every year during the Saturnalia festival, our friend #FcoLeo in Lima Peru shares a photo of his #Antinous bust decorated for the festive season.
On 17 December 497 BC Romans celebrated the first #Saturnalia, joyous festival of gift-giving and oracle role-playing games, the origin of many Yule/Christmas customs. In whatever way you celebrate the festive season, may the love and light of #Antinous fill your heart!
Died 11 Dec 1779: Cardinal Alessandro #Albani, whose villa was filled with #Antinous art found by friend #Winckelmann like this basrelief of #Antinoos as #Vertumnus. They spawned the #Antinomania fad when all aristocrats craved #Antinoo sculptures: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/12/cardinal-alessandro-albani-saint-of.html
#FF #FollowFriday #antiquidons edition:
@phistorians: The delightful hosts of the best #ancientRome #podcast 
@rogueclassicist: Daily news about the world of classicist research 
@ninawillburger: Stunning archaeological artefacts from the Neolithic to late antiquity and #archaeology news 
@TimeTravelRome: Beautiful photos of #GreekRomanArt 
@Minimus: An adorable mouse that helps you learn Latin 
@antinousgaygod: All about #Antinous, the deified lover of Emperor Hadrian 
#PhallusThursday This photo is banned from Meta Threads, Facebook and Instagram for frontal nudity! Marble copy of Capitoline #Antinous 60 cm high. Students' work, 19th Century. Private collection, Brussels. No nude images on Meta Threads!
