checkerboard Beyonce's twin Sobeks
"[Michelle Obama] told me she was very happy that her girls have someone like me to look up to," says Beyoncé. "And I'm like, 'Oh, my God . . . The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it's scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that."
-Beyonce Knowles to Vogue Magazine, 2009
In my last two posts, Gnosis / Hypnosis / Hypocrisy / Heresy and Know / Now / No / Gnosis / Hypnosis..., I explored the role of the female medium as a spiritual vessel. The discussion spilled over into themes of channeling/divination as a form of hypnosis (and vice versa), and possession as a pop-culture hint towards the journey inwards to gnostic generational knowledge. In earlier posts, namely V for Verification - Addendum, and The View from the cheap seats (revised), explorations into the letter V and it's cultural connections to the sacred feminine/fifth element/spirit led me to curious questions about the divinity of bees and the mystery of their historical -and modern- significance. Over at the vast Synchromystic Forum, discussions about bees with fellow explorers eventually led me to pop-megaStar Beyoncé Knowles. And as Arrowsmith likes to say, things started Coming Together...
Beyonce triple-cover with the big red V
It's just a harmless V-neck t-shirt
eye heart beeyonce
As I dug deeper into the Beyoncé pattern, more synch winks caught my eye. The most glaring of which was her strained "Broadway is Back" performance -as the woman in red- at the 2008 Academy Awards with Hugh Jackman, who played The Boy From Oz on Broadway. Beyoncé's Broadway connection doesn't end there, though.
Beyoncé, Broadway and The Woman in Red
Carmen Jones, A woman on fire... interesting rose placement
My favorite Scarlet Woman
Honeybee dreamgirls in red at the 2007 Oscars
I've made passing references to the concept of the triple goddess in previous posts without much detailed explanation, and I do plan to rectify that with a full post on the three-as-one legend, but in the meantime we can use mythological references like The Fates, The Furies and the Germanic Norns as a thematic basis. These mythological characters were three women whose separate identities were connected as one consciousness, one spirit; a divine trinity, three as one... Beyoncé rose to international prominence as the spotlight-stealing lead singer of a three-girl pop group called Destiny's Child. The group name alone reflects the three-as-one theme, since it describes three women collectively in the singular, as one being.
triple black dog star goddess... so sirius
Anyone following, however, could see that the true child of destiny among the three was always Beyoncé; no other member was given anything close to a chance at her spotlight. Inevitably, Beyoncé stepped out on her own in 2003 and made the three-as-one concept literal:
For the significance of the bathtub, check my last post.
Why is Nicolas Cage's name up there?
Beyoncé's 2008 role in the story of Chess Records entitled Cadillac Records (another Cadillac reference? curious) required her to transform herself by gaining weight and shedding her good-girl public persona to play R&B legend Etta James, the original singer behind "At Last", the song she performed for Barack and Michelle Obama on inauguration night.
A graphic scene showing Beyoncé as Etta strung out on heroin and passed out in a bathtub, was cut from the final version. From Beyonce's 2009 Vogue interview:
In October 2008, Beyoncé simultaneously released the first two singles from her schizophrenic twin-themed double album entitled I Am... Sasha Fierce, reflecting the twin/alter-ego/mirror imagery discussed in the last two posts with Rachel Weisz in The Mummy and Constantine and by extension, the concept of possession associated with Weisz in both movies and Patricia Arquette in Stigmata.
Again with the mirror thing...
The bad girl side of the good girl/bad girl dynamic, played by Sasha Fierce, put out the single Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It), accompanied by a video with nothing more than Beyoncé's dark reflection dancing on a blank background alone with two dancers.. part of a trio.
Bee's dark shadow
..and the "Diva" video..
and the "Ego" video makes three
single ladies - three ladies - three as one
Seems like your standard pop-dance video, right? I guess, if we ignore the lyrics, the ring symbolism over-emphasized in the last shot, and that weird robot-hand glove. If you notice something strangely masculine about one of the dancers, you're right. But I'll leave that bit of androgyny alone for now...
...and then, of course, there's that glove.
In the Jupiter-42 thread at The Synchromystic Forum, the user 42lightspeed23 had this to say about the metal glove hand:
Couldn't have put it better myself, really. EDIT: Check out my next post for more on the tin-man glove.
Since I was first introduced to this strange journey by my pattern co-contributor SketcherX, eerie pattern-enforcing confirmations have become par for the course. The themes of Hypnosis, Possession, Rebirth and the sacred feminine were found wrapped in a nice neat package in research done well before I put my own pieces of this puzzle together. I still have one more post in the works on the subject of HypGnosis, but I wanted to give some shine to a few interesting YouTube gems that helped me clarify my thoughts for ThePatternist's upcoming post on the hypnosis of hip-hop (hip-pop/hyp-pop) music and mass media.
Beyonce triple-cover with the big red V
It's just a harmless V-neck t-shirt
Discussions on Bee-Yoncé at the Synchromystic Forum brought attention to her need to dress up like bees and robots (and bee robots) during concert performances. Seemingly unrelated discussions on the number 42/tin/A.I. and the bee mystery eerily crossed paths on the forum as both threads separately analyzed Beyoncé and her connection to the robotic rebirth/Tin Man theme and, in turn, the Tin Man's search for a heart chakra. Jake Kotze at The Blob connects the number 42 to Jupiter and to mirrors in his recent video, Jennifer Juniper; Beyonce has a thing for mirrors/reflections too... the film she imitates in the image below is called Metropolis, and like so many other surfaces scratched here, it really deserves it's own discussion.
eye heart beeyonce
Beyoncé, Broadway and The Woman in Red
In her very first acting gig, Beyoncé plays Carmen, another famous scarlet woman in an MTV remake of the Broadway play Carmen Jones. She also played the Scarlet Carmen in a Pepsi commercial.
Carmen Jones, A woman on fire... interesting rose placement
My favorite Scarlet Woman
Honeybee dreamgirls in red at the 2007 Oscars
triple black dog star goddess... so sirius
"Me, Myself and I" was the 3rd single released from Beyoncé's solo debut, Dangerously In Love, distributed by Columbia Records. In the video, which plays in reverse, we find Ms. Knowles discarding old possessions and taking solace in a 50's style bathtub.
For the significance of the bathtub, check my last post.
Before her debut album was released, Beyoncé was cast in the third sequel of Mike Myers' Austin Powers series, Goldmember. She plays Foxxy Cleopatra, a role which may have hinted at her upcoming dualistic nature since she was supposedly a combination of two 70's blaxploitation characters, Foxy Brown and Cleopatra Jones. More on that later...
That damn Pepsi logo again...
the [dream] role she was Destined to play
Beyoncé was also one of three in a Gladiator-themed Pepsi commercial, where she stars alongside Britney Spears and Pink and sings Queen's 1977 single We Will Rock You, originally released on Elektra Records. Beyoncé was chosen to wield the 3-pronged trident.
DC's Wonder Woman has also wielded the trident of Poseidon and seems to have her own web of three-as-one synchs within her DC Universe storyline. Makes sense then, that our triple goddess Beyoncé recently expressed a desire to bring Wonder Woman to the big screen in a live-action film.
triple wonder women put a ring on it
Despite the fact that Ms. Knowles achieved superstardom by going solo, she can't quite seem to shake the triple-woman theme. Or Broadway for that matter.
That damn Pepsi logo again...
Beyoncé was also one of three in a Gladiator-themed Pepsi commercial, where she stars alongside Britney Spears and Pink and sings Queen's 1977 single We Will Rock You, originally released on Elektra Records. Beyoncé was chosen to wield the 3-pronged trident.
DC's Wonder Woman has also wielded the trident of Poseidon and seems to have her own web of three-as-one synchs within her DC Universe storyline. Makes sense then, that our triple goddess Beyoncé recently expressed a desire to bring Wonder Woman to the big screen in a live-action film.
triple wonder women put a ring on it
Despite the fact that Ms. Knowles achieved superstardom by going solo, she can't quite seem to shake the triple-woman theme. Or Broadway for that matter.
Beyoncé's first major film role was alongside Jennifer Hudson (who was previously mentioned in this blog for her own connections to bees) in another Broadway remake called Dreamgirls. Dreamgirls tells the story of -you guessed it- a three-member pop group outshined by their lead singer. The group is discovered by blackstar resonator Eddie Murphy, who plays a Cadillac salesman looking to break into the biz. This film was the first role ever for Jennifer Hudson and also the role for which she won an Oscar in 2007.
Why is Nicolas Cage's name up there?
Beyoncé's 2008 role in the story of Chess Records entitled Cadillac Records (another Cadillac reference? curious) required her to transform herself by gaining weight and shedding her good-girl public persona to play R&B legend Etta James, the original singer behind "At Last", the song she performed for Barack and Michelle Obama on inauguration night.
"She was willing . . . to put on the weight and not be glamorous, to go to a very ugly place and play someone she's never been: a drug addict, abused, abandoned by her parents. She was very excited to tear her image apart. When she first saw herself on film strung out, half-naked, overweight in the bathtub…she was so happy. I love how she embraced the process."
In October 2008, Beyoncé simultaneously released the first two singles from her schizophrenic twin-themed double album entitled I Am... Sasha Fierce, reflecting the twin/alter-ego/mirror imagery discussed in the last two posts with Rachel Weisz in The Mummy and Constantine and by extension, the concept of possession associated with Weisz in both movies and Patricia Arquette in Stigmata.
Again with the mirror thing...
The bad girl side of the good girl/bad girl dynamic, played by Sasha Fierce, put out the single Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It), accompanied by a video with nothing more than Beyoncé's dark reflection dancing on a blank background alone with two dancers.. part of a trio.
Bee's dark shadow
single ladies - three ladies - three as one
Seems like your standard pop-dance video, right? I guess, if we ignore the lyrics, the ring symbolism over-emphasized in the last shot, and that weird robot-hand glove. If you notice something strangely masculine about one of the dancers, you're right. But I'll leave that bit of androgyny alone for now...
Synch-Update: On April, 20th, 2009 (that's 4/20), 100 Beyonce-bot clones performed the dance steps to "Single Ladies" in central London to promote a concert sponsored by Trident gum. Only a coincidence...
...and then, of course, there's that glove.
In the Jupiter-42 thread at The Synchromystic Forum, the user 42lightspeed23 had this to say about the metal glove hand:
"the tin man/tin hand on beyonce . . . could resonate the iron age transition into AI; Terminator (T2) had it, Wolverine, edward scissorhands (who didnt understand humans from what i remember) . . . didnt somebody just video synch these themes with AI? What it symbolizes to me is Hal meets Human or something to that affect. The Tin Man -being all 3rd eye or Mental/Tin resonating the number 42- is searching for a Heart, thus hes all mind/concept/tin/AI and lacks humanity/heart chakra. Interestingly theres 42 rules you must abide by in egypt(maat) in the Weighing of the Heart ceremony, when your done you are reborn/human. TIN=AI to me, 42-tin-heart=rebrth..."
Couldn't have put it better myself, really. EDIT: Check out my next post for more on the tin-man glove.
Since I was first introduced to this strange journey by my pattern co-contributor SketcherX, eerie pattern-enforcing confirmations have become par for the course. The themes of Hypnosis, Possession, Rebirth and the sacred feminine were found wrapped in a nice neat package in research done well before I put my own pieces of this puzzle together. I still have one more post in the works on the subject of HypGnosis, but I wanted to give some shine to a few interesting YouTube gems that helped me clarify my thoughts for ThePatternist's upcoming post on the hypnosis of hip-hop (hip-pop/hyp-pop) music and mass media.
Who Is Sasha Fierce?
The Madonna and Beyonce Ritual
(5 parts)
Beyonce, Sasha Fierce, and Demon Possession
(7 parts)
More and More and More to come...
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