Welcome To Electr-Aquarius ⚡ with Ben Balderson and LC King
Electrify the first day of Aquarius season with tonight's Vibe Rant, featuring the cosmological renegades Benjamin Balderson and LC King. Expect a laid back chat that challenges the conventional correlations of astrology and alchemy.
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In this episode
Core themes
Questioning Precession and the Fixed Star Dome
LC King said precession was a red flag because it was untestable for ordinary people, at 72 years per degree. He argued that the stars were fixed in a stable dome and that the position of the sun shaped how they were seen. He described three zodiac layouts, the old man, bull and lion version, the tropical and the sidereal, and said each worked as a seasonal check at a different time of day using Stellarium. Chance noted that he wanted to give LC a full InnerVerse episode to unpack the research, and said the precession idea came from untrustworthy sources.
Twin Cycles, Eight Spokes, and the Number Nine
Benjamin Balderson said LC's system could divide by twelve but ran on an eight part pattern like older pagan and heathen cultures, with a growth cycle and a death cycle running at once. One speaker compared this to movie heroes and villains who mirror each other across the year. One speaker argued that nine acted like a zero, so eight spokes surround a central ninth point, and another tied it to Sleipnir's eight legs. A further speaker described the Hermetic idea that the angel of death and the angel of life were the same sun.
The Galvanic Battery Model of Sun and Moon
LC King described the world as a galvanic cell, with sun and moon as opposite poles and a mercurial connection between them. He proposed that mercury was a planet former because of its surface tension and its ability to amalgamate metals. Ben explained that galvanic and electrolysis cycles reversed the roles of cathode and anode, so the sun's role was arbitrary. Chance connected this to the tarot, where the moon card is 18 and the sun is 19, and suggested that the cycles of those bodies pointed to a feminine sun and masculine moon, while allowing both readings.
Heimdall, Polaris, and the Perfect Seed
Ben told the story of Heimdall as the perfect white shining one, born of nine mothers, whose seed descended through nine chakras and gained density before rising again. He linked this to the Rainbow Bridge, where white light splits into colors. Ben also argued that Polaris never moved while the sun only hid it for part of each day, and that older cosmologies placed little importance on the sun. One speaker raised a wordplay between the son of nine virgins and the virgin of salvation, and said small tweaks in language could change an entire meaning.
Home Experiments, Farming, and Living Soil
Snake Jones asked what he could build at home, and LC suggested making a simple battery from fruit and trying electrolysis. Ben recommended colloidal silver and spark gap experiments, while LC pointed to the Geet engine, which he said he had built on a small petrol engine years ago. LC described his market garden in Victoria, Australia, his setup costs, and why he left a government job, and he called modern farming an anti life system. Ben passed along a microscope based soil course, and Chance praised the idea of the soil as the stomach of the plant.
Quotes
“I think cymatics, once you look into it enough, it becomes self-evident that all the oscillations that we perceive are really sound-based and they just are witnessed by us on a variety, a large scale or spectrum of different sensory modalities but it's all vibratory, it's all sound and thus it's all cymatic in its effect”
“To bring this back to the tarot, they have the moon card listed as 18 and the sun listed as 19 which would correspond them to being a masculine sun, feminine moon like we're taught in Occidental Western occultism but the cycles of those planets, if you will, more correspond to them being feminine sun, masculine moon.”
“So we got this question of the sun as a tube that I was hanging on to and we were looking at the rubber band mobius strip could be conceptualized as a tube action. I don't know why I think that there could be some like fractal correspondence to nature with that idea is just that I mean, not non-Euclidean. Nature's got tubes everywhere.”
“So Heimdall, the perfect white shining one. He is he is perfect. He is born of nine mothers, and he is the overseer of men, creates the three the three different levels of men, the three, you know, your Jarl, Carl and thralls. The so again, that brings us right back to that perfect seed. That perfect seed has to go down through all nine chakras.”
“But as soon as you start putting charge into that battery, the actions that were happening before completely reverse themselves. So the thing that was the cathode is now the anode, because before this, during the galvanic cycle, everything that is lesser than the cathode is deteriorating and sending its energy to the cathode.”
“If you start applying the story to what you're actually seeing you're seeing that Polaris is always exactly the same no matter what, it doesn't matter whether you can see it because it's dark enough out or not, it's always the same and then as the Sun comes up the Sun temporarily blinds you out of seeing Polaris”
“And that's one of the things you've got to learn with that balance and in the soil in the plant level is where you're going to learn that the easiest. This is why alchemists use as above so below. If you can understand it on a simple level it's just a step up and complexity but the same mechanics are still going to exist”
“You know, the way I look at things is it's really through this spectacle of the of the Trinity. And so this really came about because I was looking at the the galvanic cell and applying it to the world. So you have the the sun and the moon dynamic, basically. You would have the hot cold, this this polarity at play.”
“So precession is something that I've been grappling with for a long time. It's one of those things where it's pretty untestable for the common man. And so that's like a red flag to me is straight away is like 72 years for one degree. I mean, that's a small amount.”
“So I was like, I've got to do something that I enjoy doing as well as a protection mechanism if things hit the fan. And so that's why I sort of got into farming. And it's really been good through all this sort of stuff.”
“Same as the debt base system, it's an anti-life system and it's filtered down in every single aspect and farming is one of those aspects that it's created profits over everything else except for increasing the life of the soil itself and therefore the plants and everything else that comes from that.”
“The question I was thinking about all day is the practical aspects of this because I don't, you know, have a formal education and it's kind of great because my teachers are Ben and Lucas right now. And guys, Lucas's telegram is awesome. I'm in there. He's putting out just good stuff, stuff I can work with.”
“I haven't verified it myself but it seems like it'd be something with modern technology that would be really easy to validate. And I've seen photographic evidence that seems to validate it but I haven't zetetically done it myself.”
Benjamin Balderson is a practicing alchemist who has taught laboratory (practical) alchemy on InnerVerse, covering distillation, alcohol-free tinctures, and the alchemical patterns found in nature; he shares his work under the banner "Odin's Alchemy."
See all Benjamin episodes→Kyle and Serena Denton are community herbalists creating wild-crafted and organic plant medicines out of Milwaukee since 2015. I have used their teas and tinctures on an almost daily basis for years now. Kyle is a great friend of InnerVerse and has appeared on the channel more times than I can count. These products work, not in the allopathic "pharma-medicine" way, but in a terrain-support, consciousness bolstering plant-teacher sort of way.
