Jupiter, eight-spoked wheel, Ides of March

Jupiter entered the sync stream just yesterday, April 26, with "Jupiter, star of chaos," in which post it was linked to the imagery of the eight-spoked wheel. This wheel had been introduced as a sync on April 24, with "Ambrose and the eight-spoked wheel," having previously been a (non-sync) theme back in 2019. And of course the Ides of March, being my birthday, always counts as a sync.

Today I checked my blogroll and saw that Kevin had started posting again. One of these, dated April 26, is called "What would a civilization that could develop space travel look like?" and begins with photo of the planet Jupiter. The post never mentions Jupiter; he just wanted a picture suggesting the general idea of "space travel," and that's what he went with. The post was published on the same day as my own Jupiter post, but without a more specific timestamp, I can't be sure which was first, or if Kevin might already have seen my Jupiter post and been influenced by it. So until Kevin confirms or denies that, this one is only tentatively marked as a sync.

My last post, "'I reject Christianity. Six-seven!' (and time differences between worlds)" discusses a YouTube video featuring someone called Latter-day Chad, a Mormon with ideas decidedly outside the mainstream. Today, as a result, the algorithm recommended a video from the channel KOG Strength called "DEBUNKED: Fullness of the Gospel According to Latterday Chad," so I listened to it. Then I checked out the channel it came from out of curiosity and found a birdemic-era video called "Man Arrested For Not Wearing A Mask," about a man named Garth Gaylord who tried to enter a courthouse without his -- oh, do I have to say it? That whole psyop was just so fucking stupid. Anyway, the interviewer asked him why he needed to go into the courthouse in the first place.

Interviewer: So why don't you tell people, recap real quick what was, why were you here originally?

Gaylord: Uh, that's for a misdemeanor. "obstructing officers in their duty" was the citation.

Interviewer: On March 15th

Gaylord: March 15th I was here . . . .

While I was watching that, I saw in the sidebar a video called "Where Did the Three Nephites Go After 3 Nephi?" I haven't watched it, but the thumbnail caught my eye because of what looked like an eight-spoked wheel, which turned out upon closer inspection to be a compass rose.

The compass rose is a direct link to the Star of Chaos symbol, identified with Jupiter in my post. Here, as quoted on Wikipedia, is Michael Moorcock's description of how he invented the Star of Chaos:

I drew a straightforward geographical quadrant (which often has arrows, too!) – N, S, E, W – and then added another four directions and that was that – eight arrows representing all possibilities, one arrow representing the single, certain road of Law. I have since been told to my face that it is an "ancient symbol of Chaos".