🪷 #PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 On 27 June 1969, the #Stonewall riots began, only hours after the funeral of #JudyGarland. Grief turned to fury! #AntoniusSubia says: "Our modern Gay society was born on this occasion, and all of the peace and freedom that we have obtained in the these short decades are due to the courage that erupted on that Sacred Night in front of the Stonewall Bar." Full report: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-death-of-judy-garland-sparked.html 🪷

🪷 #Antinous is traditionally identified with #Dionysus/#Bacchus. 12 Feb is the Greek #DayOfCups feast of #Dionysos. Tonight the dead visit mortals who miss them. Try a #séance or raise a cup to enter an altered state. https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/02/raise-glass-to-dead-during-antinous.html #Lansdowne bust Fitzwilliam Museum. 🪷

🪷 This interesting article by historian Barbara Gai in "Ancient Egypt Magazine" offers an in-depth look at #Antinoopolis, the city founded by #Hadrian on the banks of the Nile where #Antinous died in 130 AD. Full article here: https://the-past.com/feature/antinoopolis-why-did-emperor-hadrian-build-a-city-in-egypt/ 🪷

🪷 #Antinous is traditionally identified with #Dionysus/#Bacchus. 12 Feb is the Greek #DayOfCups feast dedicated to #Dionysos. Tonight the dead leave Hades to visit mortals who love and miss them. Try a séance or otherwise enter an altered state. https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/02/raise-glass-to-dead-during-antinous.html 🪷

🪷 February 19th is the birthday of #Minerva/#Athena, goddess of wisdom, trade and commerce, arts and crafts, music, poetry, strategy and weaving. She was said to have invented numbers and medicine and to have taught weaving. She knows war, being the goddess of strategy, but understands that there are both winners and losers, and rather than standing in triumph over her foes, she empathizes with them. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/02/happy-birthday-to-minerva.html 🪷

🪷 #Antinous shows up everywhere ... in this museum in Chaves, Vila Real, Portugal, there is this Antinous #Balsamarium (unguent jar) ... missing its top and handle but still very lovely indeed. Lots more balsamaria here: http://www.antinopolis.org/gallery/icons/balsamaria.html 🪷

🪷 #Antinous #Patras as he would look in life by #RoyaltyNow. 🪷

🪷 On October 8th we joyously celebrate #InternationalLesbianDay! #LesbianDay is a chance to highlight achievements of queer women, and the challenges all LGBT people face. #Antinous is the loving god of ALL of us and lesbians put the L in LGBTQIA+: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/10/we-joyously-celebrate-international.html 🏳️‍🌈 🌈👯👭🪷

🪷 October 4th is #WorldAnimalDay: #Antinous #Albani #Equestrian relief. Join #Antinoos in loving all creatures! #worldanimalsday 🐶🦊🦁🐵🐔🐥🐼🐷🐨🐸🐝🐞🐍🐌🦋🐙🐠🐁🐢🐯🦇🐫🐳🌍❤️🪷

🪷 Get ready for a big surprise! The Sun forms a fortuitous trine aspect with impetuous #Uranus only twice a year. And that's this week! Dare to do something daringly new and dramatically audacious! Here's your #Antinous #MoonMagic #astrology forecast: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/09/astro-forecast-september-7th-2023.html 🪷

🪷 Happy Birthday to #FreddieMercury, born 5 September 1946. His replica #Lansdowne #Antinous/#Dionysus bust is up for auction at Sotheby's London at 10 a.m. on 8 Sept. The 60 cm (2 ft) bronze bust is among art from his estate. The #Antinoos bust is Lot 577: https://www.sothebys.com/en/auction-catalogue/2023/freddie-mercury-a-world-of-his-own-at-home 🪷

🪷 🌈Our 21st Anniversary!🌈 The Temple of Antinous website went online in 2002, the first proclamation of the restoration of the Religion of #Antinous since ancient times: http://www.antinopolis.org/ Visit the world's largest Antinous art gallery here: http://antinopolis.org/gallery.html 🪷

🪷 The Rosy Lotus of #Antinous ... which sprouted from the blood of the man-eating lion killed by #Hadrian and #Antinoos in Egypt in 130 AD ... the official flower of Antinous the Gay God ... Art by #AntoniusSubia. 🪷

🪷Lost your key? 17 Aug is the #Portunalia feast of #Portunus/#Portumnus, #Janus-faced god of keys, guardian of doors, warehouses, livestock, seaports. Today pass keys through fire to purify them, bless them against loss/theft & empower them to unlock new opportunities in life.🪷

🪷 #NationalRelaxationDay 15 August: #Antinous as a relaxing athlete with attributes of #Apollo/#Dionysus/#Aesculapius. Statue from Hadrianic Baths in #LeptisMagna Libya. A nearby unrelated inscription says "#Antinoo the Fruitful God" (deus #frugiferus) a reference to #Dionysos. 🪷

🪷 #NapoleonBonaparte born 15 August 1769, died 5 May 1821. #Napoleon is a saint of #Antinous for decriminalizing homosexual acts throughout his empire. Also, it was his experts who rediscovered, surveyed, mapped and researched #Antinoopolis. Full tribute: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/05/napoleon-bonaparte-saint-of-antinous.html 🪷

🪷 14 Aug is #WorldLizardDay 🦎 #Antinous encounters #Ascalaphus the reptile from Hades. This is #Antinoos #Sauroktonos. This statue was lost in the Dresden fire storm in World War II. Compare it to #Apollo the Lizard-Slayer. Full details: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/antinous-meets-reptile-from-hades-but.html #lizardday 🦎 🪷

🪷 August 13th is the birthday of #Diana, according to the #Antinous #Lanuvium inscription, devoted to both of these lunar deities. We pray to Diana to guide us in our hunt and to illuminate our nights with the silver light of her sublime insight. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-birth-of-diana.html 🪷

🪷 12 Aug is the #Lychnapsia Roman festival of Lighting Lamps for the Dead. Torchlight processions help #Isis & #Nephthys search for #Osiris, with whom #Antinous is identified as both died in the Nile. Light a candle to help lost spirits find eternal light. Art by #LynnPerkins 🪷

🪷 On 11 Aug 117 AD the Legions proclaim #Hadrian Emperor of Rome. We celebrate it as a miracle without which #Antinous would never have been known. We recognize on this day that the beginning of Hadrian's era is the beginning of our own. Full details: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/legions-proclaim-hadrian-emperor.html 🪷