The Four Horsemen of the Symbolicacalypse with LC, Mario, & Slick
LC King, Mario Garza and Slick Dissident combine their symbolic superpowers tonight! As we weave our shared knowledge on the variety of topics we've been independently studying, join us for an exploration of the occult wonders of our world and electrify your education of the mystic arts.
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In this episode
Core themes
Polar Symbolism and the Center of the World
One panelist shared a book on polar symbolism that argued communities once organized themselves around a central axis, and that losing the physical axis point sent a community into decline. The same panelist read a passage calling the cosmic pole the source of legitimate law, with the scepter and measuring rod as its images. Others added the Roman boundary god Terminus, the omphalos, London's stone and the navel as the body's center, and one speaker noted such centers are typically a mound, stone, tree or pillar. One speaker suggested that anyone could build a personal cosmic pillar in the heart or home.
Memory Palaces and the Zodiac as Record
Panelists compared memory palaces to the astral temple used in shamanic journey work, which one panelist described building with four directions and an altar in each. Gabe noted that the Hannibal Lecter stories made mind palaces central to the character, and said the stories vilified that skill. One panelist proposed that memory lives in a personal ether, while another wondered whether the zodiac itself worked as a shared mind palace, a spinning record tied to the Akashic record. A speaker added that calendars and seasonal rituals refreshed those stored memories.
Southern Skies, Calendars and Sky Questions
LC King described a 364 day calendar set to the stars, saying it let a farmer repeat the same task on the same day each year, and he said the seasons ran reversed in Australia while the signs stayed the same. Answering chat questions relayed by a host, he said he could not see Polaris from where he lived, and later said he was far south in Victoria, could not see Ursa Major or Minor, but could see Orion's belt. One panelist described a blue sky stone said to be rich in oxygen as a possible piece of the firmament.
Taurus Bulls, Sacrifice and the Number Five
Mario said he was researching Taurus and had released a video on bull and cow myths, including the minotaur and the golden calf. Panelists then traded ideas about sacrifice, with one reading the setting sign as the sign that dies each season and another suggesting that sacrifice stories were metaphors for a sign going into the sun. One panelist described Auriga as a pentagram holding a goat and tied the number five to the Hierophant card, the Roman numeral V and the month of May. Another floated a link between the letters A U, gold, Taurus and Australia.
Twins, Number Symbolism and Moon Knight
The panel turned to Gemini twins, with one panelist citing Babylonian brick making, the Sun card and Romulus and Remus, and others adding Cain and Abel and Castor and Pollux. One panelist argued that nature multiplies rather than divides, so reading two as a split reflected a lost mystical view of number. Another speaker described a placenta theory in which the afterbirth acts as a divine twin. Gabe said he had released a stream of consciousness video on Moon Knight, and panelists read its bathroom, mirror and moon imagery symbolically.
Quotes
“Everything that's been said over the past two minutes has just been placenta, placenta, placenta in my ears. But so yes, terminus definitely relates to that placenta, that beginning point”
“One aspect of his mental prowess is that he uses mind palaces to store information. And that gives him the ability to actually go back to a specific day in his lifetime, go into a concert hall where he went to watch a show and actually pan through the audience and pick out a particular individual who was there at that show that day.”
“The Gregorian calendar is all over the place and it's not standardized. So and the days and things shift in it. So you sort of always feel like you're on quicksand, but when you're dealing with like something like the 364 day calendar that's set to the stars, then all of a sudden things get locked”
“I've read the biofield tuning books by Eileen before, but I re-listened to them this time in audiobook form to kind of refresh. And I picked up a lot of data that I didn't absorb the first time through that was fascinating. And I put together a new form of presentation I've done in the past on the topic and it ended up being pretty dense.”
“I'm not sure if I've got the right response, actually. Like when I'm thinking about it, you know, the seasons are totally reversed. So it's still gonna be in Aries. It's still gonna be in all the signs. But the actual meaning would be sort of reversed from, you know, what Aries means to you guys, basically.”
“So I'm researching Taurus right now because that's what I do. And so I recently released kind of a quick correspondence video regarding the major myths that involve bull and cow symbolism. So you've got the minotaur, the golden calf. It just, there's so many different examples.”
“You really just can't go and say, well, that's a load of rubbish and throw things out and start your own again. So what I did was worked out a way where I could try and integrate it all and still have it be a part of a working system.”
“I have this great book, I've mentioned it before, Babylonian Star Lore. This guy is awesome, Gavin White. And he basically said that the Babylonians started resuming construction works and started resuming baking bricks outside because the weather was favorable. So the time of Gemini, according to the Babylonians, was once known as the brick mold, okay?”
“In the Vedic mythology, maybe there's Yama and Yami who are the twin siblings who later become husband and wife. So maybe that's like an earlier idea before they were sort of encoding the archetypal necessity of the separation”
“Yeah, it's really hard to keep it in because it's like, there's so much presenting itself all at once. I just had to get my thoughts put into a stream of consciousness to share.”
“We need to look at all the different cultures of the world and we get divided artificially, even though this is the same story of the same record that we're spinning on, but we get divided through the Tower of Babel language deal and think that these different cultures are so radically different that we should be antithetical to each other, but it's all talking about the same stuff.”
“So this is my Taurus print. I designed it last year. I'm considering this whole series by the way, almost just like a living series. So I'm gonna continually update it as I see symbolism.”
“Well, yeah, I suppose I can. It was basically those cell salts can be paired up and created just lots of different types of batteries with them. So when you're looking at the body in that way, you can actually see those salts interacting, I guess, to create energy.”
Gabriel, known on air as Slick Dissident, co-hosts InnerVerse's Vibe Rant show and is a longtime recurring guest on the podcast. He teaches occult symbolism and tarot on his YouTube channel, ranging across the Major Arcana, the esoteric Enneagram, mythology and archetype, mystic linguistics, and the symbolism hidden in popular film. He is best known for Tarot-tories, his own system mapping the 22 Major Arcana and zodiac archetypes onto the geography of the United States.
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