Friday, August 20, 2021

Strength in the Grateful Dead "Ripple" video


The Tarot spread in the 2020 Grateful Dead video "Ripple" places Strength in the November position. Where the Rider-Waite card features a white woman with a lion, the "Ripple" version has a black woman with a wolf.


Strength is numbered 8 in the Rider-Waite, so I connected it with the '08 election and saw it as accurately predicting Obama's win. The white woman paired with a male from Africa represents Obama's parentage, and Obama also happens to be a Leo.

Since Biden was Obama's vice president, it makes sense that he would be symbolized by a spin-off of this image. If a lion represents Leo, a wolf corresponds to the constellation Lupus, spanning a portion of the sky from 18°46' Scorpio to 06°44' Sagittarius. This Lupus region features very prominently in Joe Biden's birth chart, including his Sun (23°33' Scorpio), Mercury (21°32' Scorpio), Venus (28°33' Scorpio), and Ascendant (03°11' Sagittarius). Astrologically, the wolf is the perfect animal to represent Biden. (The wolf is also an emblem of the biblical Tribe of Benjamin, and a recent sync connected Biden with Abidan, captain of that tribe.)

The woman of course corresponds to Biden's vice president, who doesn't just happen to be a black woman but was specifically chosen because she is a black woman. Kamala Devi Harris is named after Kamala Devi -- that is, the Hindu goddess Lakshmi -- and the wreath of red flowers on the "Ripple" card suggests the red flowers associated with that goddess.


The Strength card shows the woman controlling the animal, and it seems fairly obvious that Harris has power over Biden rather than the reverse (though I assume neither of them is really calling the shots).

There is widespread speculation that Biden will either step down or be removed using the 25th Amendment, and that Harris will replace him as Antipresident. Interestingly, the "Ripple" video shows the opposite: The woman vanishes, leaving the wolf alone.

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