Move over, cicadas. I've found something even more unlikely to read.
An empty box of a different Sunstar oral hygiene product appeared in my 2023 post "Syncfest: El-Anor, "Wake Up Time," dreaming in a forest, AE, golden apples, Klein bottle, etc." in connection with Bill's posts about El-Anor (literally "sun-star"), the Anor Stone, and the Liahona.
Also in that post was an image identifying the Liahona with a Yellow Sun in contrast to a larger Red Sun.
This is a sync, since Bill just left a comment on "The Virgin Rose" linking the red and yellow flowers in the meme (the Virgin Rose and the Chad Dandelion) to the Red and Yellow Suns and identifying the latter with the Liahona.
The other brand name on the toothpaste tube is Ora² me. That was on the box in the 2023 post, too, but I didn't specially notice it. This time, it too registered as a sync because of a recent email I had received mentioning the idea that Tolkien was an incarnation of Oromë, the Huntsman of the Valar. Ora² me is pretty close to Oromë.
The specific product is called Stain Clear. Besides its usual meaning, stain is also an alternate form of the name element stein "stone" -- most famously and controversially in the name Berenstain. And Clear, of course, is Claire.
Toothpaste ties in with the tooth theme seen, for example, in "You'll find them in a lion's mouth" and "The Book of Tooth." (Though, for the benefit of Bill, who prefers negative readings, I will also note that "cleanness of teeth" is a biblical curse.)
Next, under some Japanese I can't read, it says, "This is my true self, my inner beauty, my confidence."
Finally, we have "natural mint." A mint is place where money is produced, so a goldmine might be considered a "natural mint."
6 comments:
Well, to be fair, I don't 'prefer' negative readings. I worked on very positive readings from late April up through to the end of last year, if you remember. They just didn't make much sense in the end and I couldn't hold them together.
It was Orome who selected the Blue Wizards, according to Tolkien. Or more accurately he actually selected one of them as his representative, and then that wizard asked his friend to come with him. And then they headed out East and hung out with Saruman for awhile. That would seem a pretty good hit with you and a connection with Jay Leno/ the Blue Wizard connection.
I myself had an interesting "Clair" sync last night. I was playing a game called "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33". Plenty going on in that title alone when taken as a whole, but last night I really paid attention to that Clair Obscur part of the title. It really popped. It's French (the game is French) for the contrast between Light and Dark. When I saw it, though, I saw it as "Dark Clair" and "Clair Obscures", which is the literal definition, of course, but we have been calling a certain Being by that name, so this took on more specific meaning, and not a good one.
The mystery of your Clair is one I took on as well, since it was impacting my own life. I first started out in the negative camp, then spent quite a bit of time in the positive camp, only to end up since late last year in the negative camp (though sometimes still trying to make the positive work).
Anyway, Stain Clair is pretty synonymous with Clair Obscur, since a Stain means to dye something, and if you look up dye, you will get "dark, hidden, secret, obscure". It is actually a direct hit... Stain Clair = Clair Obscur.
The game involves an evil Being known simply as "The Paintress". That is who Expedition 33 is trying to stop. Stain also means "to paint". Clair Paints.
Your complete trust in Clair (if she is the same as Joan) also leads into that Turkey comment I promised to leave.
Y'know, you might want to brush up on the Wizards.
tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Blue_Wizards#Later_writings
As for Claire, not everything dark or obscured is bad; they may merely be hiding from or blending in with those who are evil. After all, Leo referenced Frodo and Sam's orc disguises last week. And I know this well, emphasised many a time in my cybersecurity studies (and then there's the Gengar hoodie).
reimaginingthebom.com/speaking-of-masks
narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2024/02/i-wouldnt-eat-you-cause-youre-too-tough.html (my first two comments)
WG:
Hey, I know you don't like where this is going. I don't either, necessarily, but I am well aware of Tolkien's later writings on Blue Wizards. He wrote lots of contradictory things, particularly later in life as he tried to make sense of what he had and make it all consistent (an effort he ultimately was not completely successful in). The Blue Wizards remain an unresolved mystery, and you will just need to choose where your thinking takes you. The earlier and later Blue Wizard stories and thinking are largely incompatible with each other in many details. I tend to think the earlier stories carry more weight, but that is just me.
You can disagree with me, but saying I don't know my stuff in this case is just not accurate. Sorry.
My comment about Clair wasn't about disguises or how one is perceived, just to clarify, but rather what she does and likely where she is from.
I completely trust Joan. I don’t completely trust Claire because I’m not 100% convinced she and Joan are the same Being.
Of course, calling her “dark” only reinforces the link to d’Arc. And “stain,” for that matter, is an anagram of “saint.”
I have a translation of the Japanese, with help from Yandex and a kanji search tool (Yandex wasn't recognising that complex first character). The first and final lines are katakana, often used for writing out foreign/loan words, and I still remember some of those kana so I had a decent idea what they meant anyway. I had no hope with the middle line on my own though.
files.catbox.moe/aq4dj3.PNG
kanji.sljfaq.org/radicals.html
Don't remember you giving any specific indication of awareness re the later Wizards info, so what else was I supposed to think?
I do disagree with you, Bill. Things look different from where I'm sitting.
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