On 24 January 1986 the remains of an archeological boat was found in the drought-receded shores of the Sea of Galilee, also known as Lake of Gennesaret, near Magdala (now Migdal, Israel since 1910) where Mary Magdalene was from and dated to “40 BC (plus or minus 80 years) based on radiocarbon dating, and 50 BC to 50 AD based on pottery (including a cooking pot and lamp) and nails found in the boat, as well as hull construction techniques” (Wikipedia “Sea of Galilee Boat” Retrieved 2.24.22). It is then from the time Mary and Jesus are written to have been there with the boats at that lake (according to Luke 5:1-11). As the site Magdalene Publishing points out, Matthew 15:36-38 talks of Jesus performing the miracle of the loaves and fishes on the coast of the Sea of Galilee and then sailing the short distance to Magdala.
They also write about the “first century mosaic found near the site [in Magdala] [that confirms] that this was the type of boat used by fisherman during the life of Jesus Christ” unearthed in archeological finds from 1970-77 which is “very similar to the design of the Jesus boat discovered in 1986” (magdalenepublishing.org/uncategorized/discovery-of-the-jesus-boat-near-magdala/ Retrieved 2.24.22).
From My Ardèche Wolf Heart (Unpublished Manuscript) about Willa Cather’s Thea in her The Song of the Lark:
It turns out that nothing outside of her can or is going to answer to this fruition until she herself answers it—it has to be atomic inward. She has to arrive there on her own, in her own body and through her own perfection of internal and external voice. What gets altered behind her is everything because she gives Beingness to being female and through the art, the last boundary of the boundary-less, what will bring awareness to it and the word made flesh. The huge breaking wave of the ocean becomes a theme between her and Fred from when he has translated a Norwegian score for her telling her what it means:
“Well, it goes something like this: Thanks for your advice! But I prefer to steer my boat into the din of roaring breakers. Even if the journey is my last, I may find what I have never found before. Onward must I go, for I yearn for the wild sea. I long to fight my way through the angry waves, and to see how far, and how long I can make them carry me” (255).
The Magdala Boat could have been in existence at the dates in 7 B.C., and importantly dated to this range with the earthen pottery, lamp, and nail, including the dates of Virgil’s writing of the Aeneid, completed in 39 B.C. and his passing in 19 B.C.—in other words, all of the Pluto Returns of our time.
Bob Weir, for example, is a Pluto Return of Virgil’s passing, Dante’s guide: Bob’s birth on the 16th of October 1947 (John Mayer’s birthday in 1977) is a Pluto Return of Virgil’s passing on 21 September 19 B.C. Bob’s Natal Pluto is 14°43 Leo, exactly where it was to the minute in the Julian Calendar on 8 October 19 B.C., the week between the passing of Virgil and Bob’s birth date. Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann too are Pluto Returns of Virgil’s life: Mickey’s Natal Pluto of 7°59 Leo was exact on 8 July 21 B.C. Bill’s Natal Pluto of 9°29 was exact on 22 August 21 B.C., the last years of Virgil’s life, and where Dante picks up his journey. These Pluto Returns have only happened seven times before back to the life of Virgil.
Out of curiosity, looking at the planetary alignments then on 3 December 49 A.D., near the end of the span of time to which the boat and pottery are dated, what would be after the crucifixion, and La Madeleine alone. “Tradition holds that” she took a boat to Gaul, to what would be Provençe:
“[ . . . ] the boat finally came to shore on the coast of Gaul in a town now called Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in Camargue. [ . . . ] Mary Magdalene traveled on to Marseille [ . . . ] Then went on to Aix [ . . . ] Some twenty miles north of Marseille. [ . . . ] Mary Magdalene retreated to a mountain cave on the plain of the Plan d’Aups known as La Sainte Baume (47 AD) where she remained alone for the last thirty years of her life [ . . . ]”(Magdalenepublishing.org/about/ Retrieved 2.26.22).
49 A.D. would also be going two years into this cave tradition. On the 3 December that year, Pluto was at 12˚11 Capricorn and exactly to the minute beautifully trining the North Node, the future path, at 12˚11 Taurus—where it
would also reach 24 November 2022. (Uranus is currently [in February 2022 at the time of the writing of the manuscript] right there at 11˚24, less than 1˚ difference from the 49 A.D. North Node—and in opposition to John’s Natal Uranus at 10˚55 Scorpio—and Michelangelo’s and Kanye’s, and Katy’s Natal Mercury). The Sun was likewise at 12˚22 Sagittarius (11 minutes difference), exactly quincunx the North Node in Taurus. Saturn that day in 49 A.D. was exact at 0˚01 Aquarius, right where the Christmas December 2020 Jupiter Saturn Conjunction (a crowning long-term shift) took place [and the 2023-2024 position of our Pluto moving into the house of the people, away from taking down the old order structures in Capricorn since 2008].
In 49 A.D. Saturn was exactly squared Mars in Taurus at 0˚31 (and conjuncting my Anaretic Rising Sign 29˚Aries). [As I post this note, 8 July 2023, the North Node, or collective future path, is matching at 0 Taurus, with the South Node, or collective past moving to the critical in the house of Justice, Libra.]
[In further detail, also in 49 A.D., Uranus 8˚49 Scorpio and Jupiter 15˚53 were conjuncting (a powerful conjunction in the depths of Scorpio) and had the South Node right between them at 12˚11, a conjunction on the South Node and “past beliefs,” with Pluto exactly squaring the path that lie ahead and more gently sextile the past.)
The Pluto Return in our time to that moment was in January 2014, 12˚11 Capricorn exact to the minute from what would be my birthday, 10 July 49 A.D. (also is the numbers of Jacob’s prophecy), or during La Madeleine’s lifetime. It returned there again in December 49. It returned exact for my birthday in 2014, exacting to the minute on 8 July 2014. That alignment of a Pluto Return had only happened 7 times since 49 A.D. Spring 2014 is when I permanently left Texas for New Mexico with little ones, my Bichon Frise Moonbeam and Yorkie Vanilla Custard Pudding, having lived back and forth a number of years, but finally leaving as it all came to a close. It’s where I live within a mile of Alto Lake and Cussie and I would go out by boat on the water together, Cussie in his own little life jacket. It is where I would come to write with him about the caves of Ardèche.
The day that I took the picture in the dress at the Mescalero Mission Cathedral, 25 December 2013, Pluto was at 11˚02 Capricorn (within less than 1˚of the December 49 A.D Pluto.)
Saturn at 19˚47 Scorpio was exact opposition to my Natal Saturn; Neptune 3˚04 Pisces was on my North Node (where Uranus was 3 December 7 BC). The North Node was at 4˚35 Scorpio. So the Saturn Jupiter Conjunction of December 2020, when I began writing about the dress, Saturn was just as it was 3 December 49 A.D., seven years after I had taken the photograph of the 49 A.D. Pluto Return. (Without knowing any of these alignments in these moments.) I started writing about the dress (that I’ve had since the early 2000s) in September 2020 and had a phenomenal realization about it. The only time Michelangelo ever signed his art was over Mary’s heart on her sash in his [the misnomered] St. Peter’s Pietà. My hand-made dress had been made with two sashes, and when I was writing I remembered that the other one was in my sewing box. I got it out and had it embroidered with John’s name. That sash also becomes the continuation of the “guitar strap” on Michelangelo’s David that is over his shoulder.
These photographs were taken four days before on 21 December 2013 and were used in Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” before she plagiarized the Pietà dress photograph:
