Computer glitches vanish, lost parcels arrive: #Mercury ends 3 weeks #Retrograde! Stalled projects, delayed trips now go forward again. Here's your #Antinous #MoonMagic #astrology forecast for the coming week: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/04/astro-forecast-april-3rd-2025.html Art: #Antinoos #Hermes Hermitage Museum.

Replica copy of the #Antinous #Agathodaimon (Blessed Spirit) statue at Frederick the Great's Sanssouci Palace outside Berlin. The original statue is at Berlin's #AltesMuseum. A beneficent apotropaic serpent emerges from a cornucopia to gaze up adoringly at #Antinoos

"All who search for Antinous in the beauty of the world will find him ... within themselves. Antinous sets the hearts of all who love him free," says #AntoniusSubia, founder of the modern worship of #Antinous for the 21st Century.

Palazzo Altemps #Antinous ... Rome.

Antinous shows up in the strangest places, even at the supermarket. Hachette 4.5in (14cm) collectible figurine for a pocket shrine or travel altar like ancient #Antinous worshipers carried with them at all times. A little #Antinoos can go a long way: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/04/antinous-in-strangest-places-even-at.html

Bust of #Antinous depicted as #Dionysus. Notice the bracket atop his head for attaching floral wreaths or other adornment. #Grimani Venice #PalazzoGrimani

Baby Hercules strangles a snake sent to kill him in his cradle (2nd Century AD sculpture, Capitoline Museums of Rome). #Antinous priests say the mystery teaching of baby #Hercules throttling a deadly serpent is: power is in childlike fearlessness and confidence in yourself.

The colossal Braschi #Antinous statue ... as it looms above you when you stand immediately before it ... 3.4 meters (11 ft) tall ... Vatican Museums - Musei Vaticani, Sala Rotonda. By comparison: #Antinoos Priest #MartinCampbell is over 6 feet tall (185 cm).

5 April #ReadARoadMapDay Now you can trace the footsteps of #Antinous through the streets of Rome, thanks to the Digital Severan street map Forma Urbis Romae. The Palatine? The Forum? The tawdry Suburra/Subura? Explore it all without leaving home: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2020/11/trace-footsteps-of-antinous-with-this.html

On 5 April 1895 #OscarWilde, who is a saint of #Antinous, lost his libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry, who had accused Wilde of sodomy. Wilde died in poverty and ignominy on 30 November 1900.

At tonight's #Cancer #FirstQuarter Moon (the "Narcissus Moon" of spiritual reflection) in #Antinous #MoonMagic), #AntoniusSubia says #Narcissus enables you to perceive your divine self. #Homotheosis: man-godliness-becoming-the-same! https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-narcissus-moon-of-antinous-cancer.html

#Labradorite enhances introspection during tonight's #Cancer #FirstQuarter Moon, which we call the #Narcissus Moon of insight, says crystals meditation therapist and #Antinous Priest #MartinCampbell: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/04/labradorite-for-narcissus-moon-by-our.html

We remember the visit of #Antinous to the well of #Castalia at #Delphi where #Perseus tamed #Pegasus. Allegory for fighting fear. You too can wield the head of the Gorgon #Medusa! As in Ray Harryhausen's classic film #clashofthetitans. Watch: https://youtu.be/BQpgIJUh9D4

4 April - 10 April is the #Megalensia when Magna Mater arrives in Rome in a lion chariot from Asia Minor, #Antinous' birth land. Vestiges include the concept "Mother Church," the black stone in Mecca's Khaba and Kabalah Tree Of Life. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/04/we-celebrate-megalensia-great-mother-of.html #Megalesia

#Antinous #Mondragone bust and #Antinoos #Osiris statue at the "Hadrian: Empire and Conflict" exhibition at the British Museum in 2008.

An #Antinous-like youth at Berlin's Altes Museum strikes the same pose as the Polignac #Antinoos bust while #Caracalla scowls fiercely. Emperor Caracalla was born on 4 April 188 AD, and was assassinated on 8 April 217 AD.

Now keenly ambitious #Mars forms a positive trine aspect with industrious #Saturn to empower you to push forward long-stalled projects. It's now or never. Trust Mars and Saturn to give you determination. Your #Antinous #MoonMagic #astrology forecast: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/04/astro-forecast-april-3rd-2025.html

Were #Antinous and #Hadrian really "gay" in the modern sense? Scholars quibbled until 2008 when British Museum curator #ThorstenOpper declared: "Hadrian was gay, and we can say that now." He explains it in this video: https://youtu.be/AvdXNuNeqP4 More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/04/antinous-is-god-of-gays-but-was-he-gay.html

The world’s first #Ghibli #Antinous! A message from priest Decus Lupercus, of Brazil, who created this Ghibli-style portrait: "This is the only ancient Antinous' bust in South America, our own Antinous-Bacchus from Rio de Janeiro. And this is He, our Golden Boy, Deus Amoris, brought to life by AI. If the pale marble concealed his youthful angst, the ghibli-style rendition is crystal clear. And, to all of us who comune with Him, His message is loud as a thunder. Can you hear it?"

Born 2 April 1805: #HansChristianAndersen​, saint of #Antinous. Sadly, he was self-hating gay man, a true-life Ugly Duckling for whom there was no happy ending. But his gayness shines through his fairy tales of triumph over adversity. Full tribute: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/04/hans-christian-andersen-saint-of.html