We arm you with facts to beat up on the propaganda artists and their lies:
- Logical Fallacies
- Faulty Definitions
- Origin of the Signs
- Ophiuchus Was Not “Omitted”
- The Most Damning Evidence
- Who is Ophiuchus?
For today’s offering, we bring you three propaganda and disinformation artists and (sadly) a victim of propaganda and disinformation.
Our propaganda victim is a 16-year old girl from Hurricane, West Virginia named Virginia.
Göbbeling Award Candidates
Awarded to Those Who Successfully Emulate Their Hero —Herr Josef Göbbels— in the Finest Tradition of Spreading Propaganda & Disinformation
Our candidates for our coveted Göbbeling Award for spewing propaganda and disinformation are:
1. The Centre of Excellence
We bring you the Centre of Excellence. Very obviously, that’s very British but we’ve found that the emotional illnesses that afflict people with stupidity are equal opportunity illnesses possessing anyone regardless of their race or ethnicity.
Have you ever wondered if the zodiac is missing something?
No, can’t say we have. We do note the Centre for Excellence is missing something, namely, excellence. And intelligence and common sense and… [insert anything you want here].
The propaganda and disinformation article is titled: Ophiuchus – The Forgotten 13th Star Sign: Traits and Meaning
2. Fräulein Trina Casey
We have this gem from Fräulein Trina Casey: The 13th Sign: Why Ophiuchus Was Erased from the Zodiac
Erased? That’s a new one. Fräulein Casey den Verden is a special snow-flake who fancies herself as a “medium.” Maybe she can contact another medium —the long since deceased special snow-flake who called himself Charubel— and ask him if the dead people who told him the meanings of the “critical degrees” have changed their minds about what the critical degrees mean over the course of their cold slumber. Welshman Charubel’s real name was John Thomas which is 10 reasons to change your name since “John Thomas” is a British slang term for penis. But “Charubel?” That’s a little, you know, “out there.”
3. Hauptmann Carmen Del Puerto Varela
She is our latest winner of the Göbbeling Award: Ophiuchus, the constellation that the astrologers chose to ignore
We figure she sings this snappy tune on her way to work in the mornings:
♪♫ A-göbbeling we will go. ♫♪
♪♫ A-göbbeling we will go. ♫♪
♪♫ Hi ho the derry-o, ♫♪
♪♫ A-göbbeling we will go. ♫♪
To fight the good fight in astrology and combat the propaganda and disinformation that is rampant on the internet, we’ll give you info you can use to stomp the guts out of idiots like those anywhere you find them on the internet.
The Logical Fallacy of Equivocation
What is equivocation? Cleverly substituting one word, thing or concept with another, often employing the fallacies of Faulty Definition and Misrepresentation. It is a common propaganda and disinformation tactic employed on Useless Tube videos on “income inequality.” The video starts out the first 15-30 seconds mentioning “income equality” and then very cleverly shifts to a discussion on “wealth inequality.” Income and wealth are not the same thing. There is a very real technical and legal difference between the two and more importantly the economic definitions of both are different. Income is earned income and income is exclusively cash. Wealth quite often does not include cash and when it does, that cash is unearned income.
In astrology there is a very real difference between constellations and signs. They cannot be used interchangeably since they do not mean the same thing. That is very clear in the Greek texts. The Greek word for sign is zoidion (plural zoidia). When the Greeks were referring to constellations, they used the word katasterismoi. Those words are in no way similar.
The Centre Lacking Excellence:
Unlike the well-known twelve zodiac signs, Ophiuchus is often left out of mainstream astrology. But why?
Real astrologers know the answer to that. We’ll do our best to help you understand:
- Aries – constellation on the celestial equator
- Taurus – constellation on the celestial equator
- Gemini – constellation on the celestial equator
- Cancer – constellation on the celestial equator
- Leo – constellation on the celestial equator
- Virgo – constellation on the celestial equator
- Ophiuchus – a northern constellation
- Libra – constellation on the celestial equator
- Scorpio – constellation on the celestial equator
- Sagittarius – constellation on the celestial equator
- Capricorn – constellation on the celestial equator
- Aquarius – constellation on the celestial equator
- Pisces – constellation on the celestial equator
♪♫ One of these things is not like the others ♫♪
♪♫ One of these things just doesn’t belong ♫♪
Ophiuchus is a northern constellation. It is not a sign. It was never a sign.
The Centre of non-Excellence is equivocating signs and constellations.
Fräulein Casey den Verden
Fräulein Casey uses the same logical fallacy:
For thousands of years, the zodiac wheel has spun with twelve signs — neatly, predictably, and comfortingly complete. But what if that wheel is missing a spoke? What if a 13th archetype, one so powerful it could awaken our collective memory, was deliberately removed?
What if Napoleon’s 6th Foot Artillery was organized in a 6×8 battalion format using M115 8″/203mm towed-howitzers and 1 kiloton artillery fired atomic projectiles at the Battle of Waterloo?
Again, we see the equivocation fallacy, equivocating constellations with signs.
Hauptmann Carmen Del Puerto
The head-line and tag-line start off with this:
Ophiuchus, the constellation that the astrologers chose to ignore
This overlooked group of stars raises the number of zodiac signs to 13, instead of 12
Well, Fräulein Carmen Del Puerto Varela von Kleist auf Ülm, you might fool some people but you cannot fool us.
The fact that she claims to have a PhD and engages and propaganda and disinformation is quite concerting. Once again, the Equivocation Fallacy rears it’s ugly head.
Your Tax Dollars at Work
The end result:
The following portion was written by Virginia, age 16, an Experience Astronomy student from Hurricane, West Virginia.
Poor girl. She’s a victim of propaganda and disinformation. Have they no shame?
You probably thought there were only twelve zodiac signs, right? Wrong. There are actually thirteen, and the forgotten constellation is named Ophiuchus,…
We’re not going to attack a victim of propaganda and disinformation. She doesn’t know any better but the hacks who pass themselves off as “experts” are fair game.
We wanted you to see the Equivocation Fallacy at work. Again. That’s a very common disinformation tactic and here they’re equivocating constellations with signs. Ophiuchus is a constellation, specifically a northern constellation. It was never a sign as in a zoidion (Greek: animal image or animal likeness).
Faulty Definitions
One thing that we as astrologers cannot permit to continue is allowing non-astrologers to define what is and what is not astrology, and what are the fundamentals of astrology.
We need to be pushing back in the most forceful way, because other disciplines like math, science, law, medicine, astronomy, et al would never tolerate having non-starters define what is and is not in their respective fields.
Why should we tolerate it?
Hauptmann Del Puerto Varela von Kleist auf Ülm quotes Oberstleutnant Jacqueline Mitton from the International Ass-Clown Astronomers Union:
In January 1995, Jacqueline Mitton, from the British Royal Astronomical Society, announced in a BBC show that the 12 signs of the zodiac were not only erroneously advanced due to the effects of precession of the Earth, but that they were, in fact, 13.
1995. We’re wondering why Hauptmann Del Puerto Varela von Kleist auf Ülm didn’t get the memo then, because she’s writing her propaganda and disinformation piece 27 years later in 2022. We’re curious. Who “erroneously advanced” the signs? Because we sure didn’t.
Anyway, that means what, to us? We don’t care what Oberstleutnant Jacqueline Mitton says. She’s alleged to be a member of the British Royal Astronomical Society. Her brain is even smaller than her dimwitted colleague John Rogers.
One line of attack on the International Ass-Clown Astronomer’s Union (IAU) is their blatant racism.
Why do you think the IAU started messing with the constellations and changing them up moving fixed-stars from one constellation to another and changing the boundaries all around?
It’s 1922.
Upstanding White Christian Men of European descent are not about to let a bunch of uppity stinky not-exactly-White people —who weren’t even Christian!— decide how the stars in the heavens ought to be arranged for the world to marvel and behold. Only White Christian Men of European descent, using their racially superior eugenically proven intellect that their god ordained for them (but not other races), are allowed to make that determination.
Fräulein Hauptmann Del Puerto Varela von Kleist auf Ülm continues with:
To explain this astral blunder,…
Fallacy of Loaded Language. Who says it’s a “blunder”?
Based on what facts?
Origin of the Signs
Signs did not exist until the 7th Century BCE. Before that, there were only constellations.
Let’s look at some of the common propaganda and disinformation. This is from the Centre Without Excellence:
The original zodiac was created by the Babylonians, who divided the sky into 12 sections to match the lunar calendar. Even though they recognised Ophiuchus, they chose to leave it out to keep the system neat and symmetrical.
So sorry to inform the Centre far from Excellence that the Babylonians did not create the original zodiac. Come to think of it, to which Babylonians is she referring? The Amorites? The Kassites? The Chaldeans? The Arameans? Is the reason she cannot be specific due to the fact that she sucks? Would you like a clue as to who created the constellations?
We’ll give you a hint: ZIB.BA.AN.NA
Get it?
Yes, that’s Libra. The Akkadians called it Zibanitum. Neither the Sumerians nor the Akkadians are Babylonians.
Sumerian is an agglutinate language (like German or Magyar) where new words are created by adding words together. The literal translation of ZIB.BA.AN.NA is “scales mete/apportion Anu of” (Anu is the Akkadian name for AN who was known as On in Egyptian and El-Elyon in Hebrew).
An accurate English translation might be “the scales of Anu that mete out or apportion justice” but we don’t really like that since Enlil was the god of justice. We think the best translation is “the scales of Anu that apportion or mete out fate.” After all, it was Anu who appointed “the 7 who decree fate” so we think that to be a much better fit.
Who are the Warriors? Wait, wrong movie. Who are “the 7 who decree fate”? Go ahead. Say it. You know them: Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. They are the 7 who decree fate.
The Sumerians created the constellations, not the signs. It was the Kassites and Assyrians who created the 12 sign tropical zodiac but they did not do it to match their lunar calendar. That clearly indicates the Centre of Excellence is devoid of any excellence because if they knew what they were talking about, they’d know the difference between the Chaldean schematic calendar and the Chaldean lunar-solar calendar that they adopted from the Kassites and the Assyrians.
The system created by the Kassites and Assyrians —drawing on the knowledge of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Amorites, Hurrians and Elamites (and indirectly the Hittites)— was to make life easier.
Originally, in Sumer and Akkad, each year was 12 months of 30 days with a 5-day intercalary period each year for 5 years and then a 6-day period in the 6th year to account for that fraction of a year (the ½-part) not accounted for in the previous 5 years. A solar year is 365½ days, right? Later, during the time the Kassites and Assyrians were the major powers, the calendar system was revamped so that there were either 12 months or 13 months in the year. There were 5 years of 12 months (30 days each) and then in the 6th year there were 13 months to account for the additional days. For lack of a better word, we’ll call the original calendar system the religious and cultural calendar.
While that works for religious observances and cultural festivals, it doesn’t quite work for governments who need to collect taxes from the people and tributes from kings, or businesses who need to collect interest payments on loans. We should probably point out the empires of the day were not what you think they are. In the Medieval period kings were supported by vassals like dukes and earls and counts and viscounts and discounts. The empires of Mesopotamia were also feudal systems but instead of feudal lords, they had kings of city-states as their vassals. That’s the difference.
This political calendar, if you will, had 12 months of 30 days. To paraphrase John Steele (and others), if Sun is located at 1° in Aries on the 1st day of the year, then Sun’s position is always equal to the day of the year (in a 360-day year). The month and day number are the same as the degree in the zodiac sign. For example, on the 14th day of 4th month, the Sun is located at 14° within the 4th constellation which is Cancer. Again, that was important for collecting taxes and tributes.
Even then, “the zodiac” still doesn’t exist. They used the number of the month, the name of the month or the names constellations, not the signs. It wasn’t until the 4th Century BCE that they started associating them with the tropical signs of the zodiac.
Something else of note, is that astrology is often attributed by lame-stream Academia and ignorant astrologers to “Neo-Babylonians” but that isn’t possible. In the first place, those “Neo-Babylonians” were actually 5 tribal groups, not one. One group were the Kaldu referred to in the Hebrew texts as the Kasdim and you know them as Chaldeans. The other group you might be familiar with are the Arameans. Those were Afro-Semitic peoples who spoke Western Semitic and Greek. They were nomadic and had no tradition of science. They migrated from Canaan into southwestern Mesopotamia occupying cities abandoned by the Sumerians 1,000 years earlier during the War of the Start of the Age of Aries. We know they were established as city-state kingdoms by at least 860 BCE.
That means the Chaldeans inherited astronomy, omen lore and astrological traditions from the Kassites, Assyrians, and remnants of the Sealand Dynasty. It also means Modern astrologers and the New Age freaks are lying because Astrological Ages could not have been based on signs that did not yet exist. The Astrological Ages were always based on constellations, not signs. In other words, an Astrological Age is not 2,160 years in spite of the many protestations of Modern astrologers and the New Age crowd.
Ophiuchus Was Not “Omitted”
Let’s tackle this propaganda and disinformation. The Centre of Excellent Disinformation tells us:
Whether or not Ophiuchus is a real zodiac sign is one of the most debated questions in astrology.
Actually, there is no debate among astrologers. The only debate is among prostitutes whoring themselves for money.
The “debate” also exists in the warped minds of ignorant, uneducated, uninformed non-starters who are not astrologers and those hell-bent on spreading propaganda and disinformation to sow confusion, dissent and conflict.
Ophiuchus was originally one of the 12 northern constellations and the real astrologers know that. It is only the non-astrologers like those at the Centre of Stupidity, the International Ass-Clown Astronomer’s Union and the Marshall Applewhite-types running around in their Nike Decades who sit around musing about Ophiuchus.
Ophiuchus is considered rare because it is not widely recognised as part of the mainstream zodiac.
No, that is not why, but we applaud your efforts to deceive people.
Ophiuchus is not widely recognized because:
- It is not and never was part of the 12 constellations in the celestial band; and
- It contains mostly deep space Messier objects; and
- There’s only a handful of stars at magnitude 2 or 3 and they’re scattered, as in very distant from one another so as to make no easily recognizable configurations; and
- It’s best visibility period is limited to a single month (July), it’s difficult to see in the months before and after July and for about half the year it rises with Sun so it’s impossible to see with the naked eye; and
- Finally, there are no noteworthy stars in Ophiuchus other than Barnard’s Star which is a really, really old red dwarf. Assuming you can get away from light pollution, you might be able to see it if you have a 3-inch telescope. You should be able to see it in your backyard with a 6-inch telescope.
And, no, in spite of what the attention whores on Useless Tube say, Barnard’s Star is not going to collide with our Sun. It is moving toward our solar system but it’s also moving (rising) north above the Plane of the Ecliptic. Besides, Cray’s Big Red debunked that in the late 1990’s.
The Centre of Excellence will charge you £29 to teach you “astrology” including the meanings for “Ophiuchians.” We’re so sure it’s a really excellent course.
Back to our Göbbeling Award Winner, Fräulein Hauptmann Carmen Del Puerto Varela von Kleist auf Ülm:
It was the Greek astronomer Hipparchus of Nicaea who, in the 2nd century BC, deduced that the Celestial Sphere had a retrograde motion, which he called precession.
Not so fast. The sole textual source claiming that Hipparchus discovered precession comes from Ptolemy; however, it is known Hipparchus used non-Greek sources. One of those non-Greek sources might have been Kidinnu the Chaldean whose ephemeris tables demonstrate precession.
But, Kidinnu was not Chaldean. Kidinnu is not a Semitic name. His name is Sumerian. In fact, if you’re familiar with the Sumerian King List, Kidinnu is the third king to rule after kingship was lowered from Heaven. He is identified in the Hebrew texts as Enosh. Not all Sumerians fled Sumer during the period of upheaval circa 1900 BCE. What was left of Sumer reformed as Sealand with the help of disenfranchised Akkadians. So, Kidinnu was not Chaldean. He merely worked in the court of the Chaldean kings.
Ophiuchus — which Greek astronomer Ptolemy included among the 48 constellations of his treatise the Almagest — was probably not taken into account because, aside from the aversion to the number 13, dividing the 360-degree zodiacal band among 13 constellations would not have produced an exact number.
What’s her degree in? Dentistry? She makes the following claim: I have a PhD in Information Sciences and am
a journalist specializing in science and technology. Perhaps she meant to day “Disinformation Sciences.”
How much time did Hauptmann Carmen Del Puerto Varela von Kleist auf Ülm spend researching? A whole 3 seconds? Wow, we certainly are impressed. Ptolemy did not include Ophiuchus. Hipparchus did. Ptolemy merely copied the star catalog from Hipparchus (and likely destroyed it after he copied from it), then added 2°40′ of arc to the longitudes that Hipparchus recorded to “prove” that Ptolemy was the greatest astronomer who ever lived and his astronomy theories were right (except they were wrong).
Tell us about ZA.BA.BA, TI.MUS.EN and LU.USH. Oh, wait, she can’t? What a pity. That would be Ophiuchus, Aquila and the Dead Man from the MUL.APIN (not that she would have a clue what that is). That particular copy of the MUL.APIN dates to about 1100 BCE which is way more than 1,000 years before Ptolemy lived. Had these propaganda and disinformation artists done any research they’d know the Sumerians divided the heavens into three bands:
- MUL.MUL.EN.LIL.NA or “the Way of Enlil” which is the northern 60° of the sky;
- MUL.MUL.AN.NA which is “the Way of An” and is that 60° portion of the sky between latitude 30°N and 30°S (totaling 60°) and specifically traces the path of the Moon; and
- MUL.MUL.EA.NA or “the Way of Enki” for the southern skies. Each “way” had 12 constellations. That’s why there’s 12 constellations and not 13.
So, how freaking stupid are these people that they don’t know Ophiuchus was in “the Way of Enlil”?
It ain’t no secret. Even Oberstleutnant Jacqueline Mitton’s untalented IAU colleague John Rogers got it right when he makes a comment then quotes the Enuma elish…. in support of his comment:
Marduk tore the monster’s body into two parts. One part he made into the heavens, where he fashioned the constellations; the other part he made into the earth, where he was worshipped [sic] as chief god of Babylon. In the heavens, he set up the Ways of Anu, Enlil, and Ea:
[Line 14] He [Marduk] constructed stations for the great gods, fixing their astral likenesses as constellations.
[Line 15] He determined the year by designating the zones: he set up three stars for each of the twelve months.
[Line 16] After defining the days of the year by heavenly figures, he founded the station of Jupiter [the ecliptic] to determine their bands….[lacuna in text]
[Line 17] Alongside it he set up the stations of Enlil and Ea.
Do you see how they are lying to you?
Three “ways” for each of the 3 chief gods Anu (a god of Heaven), and Enlil and Enki (gods of Heaven and Earth) with each way having 12 constellations. Ophiuchus was one of the 12 constellations in the “way of Enlil.”
The Most Damning Evidence
If you still aren’t convinced that Oberstleutnant Jacqueline Mitton, Hauptmann Del Puerto Varela von Kleist auf Ülm, Fräulein Casey den Verden and the Centre of Excellent Propaganda are liying to you, read and weep:
That’s from a book entitled Ptolemy’s Catalogue of Stars: A Revision of the Almagest by Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, Ph. D., and Edward Ball Knobel, published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1915.
We specifically chose a text from 1915, since that was before 1922 when the racist bastards at the International Ass-Clown Astronomer’s Union decided that the constellations weren’t “white enough” and started changing them all around.
As you can see, Ophiuchus is a northern constellation and not one of the 12 celestial constellations.
We do hate liars. They’re evil.
If those people don’t like to be called liars, well, they can stop lying.
Who Is Ophiuchus?
According to the Centre Devoid of Excellence:
The serpent in the symbol is often associated with wisdom and hidden knowledge, making Ophiuchus a sign of transformation and enlightenment.
There can be no doubt it has not enlightened the Centre of Excellence.
Serpens is a separate constellation consisting of two parts: Serpens Caput and Serpens Cauda.
To the Sumerians, Ophiuchus was ZA.BA.BA — literally, “the one who made noise.” Ophiuchus, Serpens Caput and Serpens Cauda are symbolic representations of the NE.BI.RU and TI.A.MAT story (yes, that’s Nibiru in Akkadian). The story is Nibiru slayed the watery monster Tiamat (Akkadian) by cleaving her into two parts. Those two parts are Serpens Caput and Serpens Cauda. It is from that story that we get the Ugarit and Hebrew versions of Leviathan the watery serpent that was slain by Yahweh. Later, thanks to the Telephone Game that story is known to us as Saint George and the Dragon.
To the Elamites, Assyrians and Hurrians, Ophiuchus was Enlil, and in their texts it was he who killed Tiamat. To the Amorites and Kassites —the people lame-stream Academia calls Old Babylonians, Kassites and Middle Babylonians— Ophiuchus was Marduk and according to them, it was Marduk who killed Tiamat.
Fräulein Trina Casey wants us to believe that:
His name is Ophiuchus, and his story mirrors others who tried to liberate humanity from forgetfulness — beings like Jesus, Thoth, and even Aquarius, the water bearer.
Um, we should like to point out that Thoth is the son of “Aquarius.” Egyptian Ptah is Akkadian Enki is Sumerian EA is Aquarius the water pourer. His son was NIN.GIS.ZI.DA, known in Akkadian as Nirah and Egyptian as Thoth. Fräulein Casey claims to be a psychic medium. How can she not know that? Didn’t her Ascended Master Light Beings tell her that?
Why not? Maybe Fräulein Casey isn’t in the “circle of trust.”
He [Ophiuchus] held the power to heal, transmute, and restore life. But instead of being revered, he was cast out — from Olympus, from astrology, and from the zodiac. A pattern repeated across history:
Those who bring the knowledge that could free humanity are erased by the systems that control it.
To which “systems” are you referring? The Base 60 number system?
Ophiuchus was never cast out of anything. Ophiuchus was part of the original 12 northern constellations which is why it wasn’t included in the 12 equatorial constellations. Ophiuchus is still part of the northern system of constellations.
Some people are wrapped just a little too tightly for this world.
Doktor Oberstleutnaut Carmen Del Puerto Varela von Kleist auf Ülm —who apparently has a PhD in Disinformation Sciences— tells us:
Ophiuchus continues the legend of Orion and the Scorpion. The Greek myth tells that the hunting goddess Artemis wanted to take revenge on the hunter Orion, …For this, the goddess sent a scorpion that stung him on the heel, killing him with its poison….As the scorpion ascends the eastern horizon, Orion dies and sets in the west. But Asclepius, with the healing powers that Apollo and Chiron taught him, cured the hunter and crushed the scorpion with his foot.
Not on this planet. On this planet it was Gaia —not Artemis— who sent the scorpion. And, on this planet one of the Greek kings blinded Orion. It was the sun god Helios who cured Orion of his blindness. Orion was stung by the scorpion long after that and he was not healed from his poison wound. Orion died. Dead is dead but thanks for the disinformation just the same.
Unfortunately, interest in astronomy still has an astrological component, with roots in antiquity.
We forgive Fräulein Del Puerto Varela von Kleist auf Ülm for being emotionally stuck at age 3 and living in total terror of the boogie-man and astrology but is not logical to criticize something you don’t understand. Perhaps she is way too frightened to understand.
All that propaganda and disinformation harms people, especially young people like poor 16-year old Virginia from Hurricane, West Virginian who has been deceived into believing:
In modern times, though most people don’t know, the symbol for medicine comes from Ophiuchus’s staff, with the snake twined around it, though the two snaked caduceus is sometimes mistakenly used.
Mistakenly used?
Uh, oh. Looks like the United States Army and its Medical Corps are, um, you know, “mistaken.” Say it ain’t so!
The two intertwined snakes is a Sumerian symbol for the two serpent gods EA and his son NIN.GIS.ZI.DA and the latter’s name means “the giver of the tree of life” which is what the two snakes are coiled around.
Action Items
We’ll see if we can identify and locate “Experience Astronomy” whatever it might be. We’ll give them an opportunity to cure before we go on the offensive with press releases labeling them a subversive organization.