The design of this site at first seemed to be half serendipity and half pronoia. I knew when I started this project that I wanted to get away from a dark background (green and black) and I was thinking of creating something that represented our culture in a post apocalyptic state as if someone stumbled across the remains of our civilization in the desert a thousand years from now. I was thinking about how some say that the obvious and literal should be taken at face value because "that's what the text says" (implying that there is never a deeper level of meaning that is more hidden). In a post apocalyptic world, would our civilization be interepreted literally? How would others later on interpret us?

I started designing with the idea of traveling through the desert with road signs that could be taken to have multiple meanings. Soon after this, I began to suspect that I was being guided because I found hidden messages in the graphics of this design that I did not intend. It was as if I had thrown out 15 pennies from the top of the Stratosphere in Vegas and that they all landed heads on the sidewalk 1100 feet below. The same happened in the design of the Delphic Oracle logo when I chose it. Interestingly enough the location pictured in the photograph above (a place called Ash Meadows at the California / Nevada border near Death Valley - edited of course) is where I first came up with the name for Delphic Oracle in 2003. I did not intend for the "D" to be replaced with the Moon glyph, though I did choose the Sun glyph for the "O". It came to me later that the Moon fit in perfectly for the "D". Just lucky? It happened again with "The Lost Horoscope X-Files" logo, where I was again (Vegas) and that Interstate 15 just happens to run through Vegas towards Los Angeles (Selegna Sol is Los Angeles spelled backwards and closely resembles the Latin for Moon / Sun - Selena / Sol). The glowing black disc with the "X" in the middle is supposed to represent a total solar eclipse. Eight years after designing the logo "The Lost Horoscope X-Files", I ended up living near area 51. It might as well have been the Twilight Zone. Then I was trying to center the "X" and the road in the graphic and it stubbornly refused to be centered. It was at that point that I realized that it was meant to be slightly off to the right. There is a lot more in the header of all the pages to this site than meets the eye to the causal observer, yet I only intended half of it. Someone or something is guiding me.

There was another bizarre incident regarding the reversal of Selegna / Sol = Los Angeles spelled backwards. Back in 2006 I was logging onto the web and thinking about the reversal of the Moon and Sun in Latin and wondered what would happen if I typed Delphic Oracle into Google backwards which is "Elcaro Cihpled" and at first I thought nothing of it because Google came up with the "Did you mean: Elcaro Chip Led?". Remembering that Los Angeles was one letter off I clicked on the link and it brought me to the website laweekley.com (Los Angeles Weekly) where it was talking about a gambler in Vegas who became the "chip leader". These days the search has changed. I guess with strange luck like this, I should use this search mirror.

Someone asked me what I used to design the graphics and for the most part I used Fireworks but sometimes I use Paint Shop Pro. Fireworks has the advantage of allowing you to work within "layers" so that you can imbed parts of photos, etc on top of each other. I use Dreamweaver (or Notepad) to do the site itself and CSS to manage the display. The rollover effect in the header where the sky evaporates is purely a CSS technique that replaces images.

The design of the Delphic Oracle logo at left (besides my choosing the name and the Sun and Moon replacement letters) was a collaboration between Ellen Black (for the Apollo playing the Lyre photograph), a guy named Brent who colored it (I never met him) and Meredith Garstin who chose the Moonglow font and did some editing.

On this page (in the blue attractions sign on the left side of the road) are links to my reference material. This section is just beginning as I have more than 1000 pages to reformat so keep checking back for new sections that will be added here (transits, planets in houses, articles, etc). - Curtis Manwaring

 

I hinted at the strange correspondences that were above and I will enumerate below:

• The rollover effect places Mars in the starry background just behind Lost and mile 66 which was unintended. 66 is the greater years of Mars. At the time it was in sidereal Gemini (tropical Cancer) in a depression which is appropriate for "Lost". The starry background came after the placing of all the signs in the foreground.
• On the right side of the road (interstate 15) is also the lesser years of Mars (Mars signifies deserts).
• 15 really was intended to be the center of the lost Antiochus definitions with the road pointing to it, but the X refused to be centered along with the road (it would have screwed up the spacing of other objects) and X is the 17th letter in the phrase "The Lost Horoscope X-Files", so it was obvious that The Moon (behind the "X") was acting as a barrier (the barrier number) indicating an occultation or occult knowledge. This was unintended serendipity. There were 29 definitions in all of Antiochus and number 17 is about spear-bearing. I realized that it was telling me that I (and this site) have acted as spear bearers for Schmidt's work which is the true center "15" (most important definition about heliacal rising and setting). That I chose the name for this site years before Schmidt began working on Antiochus is a strange coincidence.
• Orion coming up over the horizon was unintended (rollover effect) as I was just trying to come up with any stars. I just happened to get this in the first skymap graphic that came up (with Mars to the left). Known as the "Hunter", placed on the road to "knowledge". The hunter/prey paradigm was also one of Schmidt's explanations of "striking with a ray" in Antiochus. It shows approximately where definition 13 should be which is just to the left of the "X" which is the implied "15"
• By reversing the number 15 you get 51, by reversing "Moon / Sun" in Latin (Selena Sol) you nearly get "Los Angeles" which is on the same road behind Las Vegas to the south west and where the X is in "X-Files". This was intended only as a picture of a solar eclipse.
• The mile marker "66"was me reasoning out area 51 (in relation to area 15 on the green sign at left) which because I was thinking this is pointing south west towards Vegas (from the north east near where area 51 really is). Exits are usually numbered according to the mile on the road and because of the strange reversal of the Selegna Sol (Moon Sun in Latin and Los Angeles backwards where it is pointing), I was thinking the numbering should be backwards (into the past) so the area shown in the picture had to be 51 miles to the north of "Area 15" (future) which gave me mile 66 (definition 15 of Antiochus is like Nevada's area 51). It also reminded me of Rte 66 (get your kicks on Rte 66) which is famously nearby. Little green men were also associated with flying saucers from Mars which is the subject of the show "The X-Files".
• The Exit 17 closed sign to the far right was intentional as this was my intended hint of spear bearing on the road to Vegas (what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas).
• It also occurred to me just now that the word "Horoscope" displayed prominently near the horizon (horizontally) is showing what it means by its position (schema). The Greek term "horoskopos" means "hour marker" and must necessarily be on the horizon towards the east.
• One other observation after the fact is that while I visualized the header to represent the 29 definitions of Antiochus the width is 1280 pixels. I was concerned that this would be too wide for a lot of monitors out there. The "X" disk is 42 pixels wide. I was curious to see what 1280/42 would be and the value is 30.47619... I chose these values by accident without thinking that it would come out to be so close to 29 which suggests that the disk represents 1 portion or "definition".
• Exit 30 is just before exit 29 which begins the sequence of occulted definitions of Antiochus. This was intentional as I viewed the road as one going into the past (toward earlier miles in the road) to the foundations of Hellenistic astrology. Exit 30 therefore is where my reference material should be as it is not hidden, and will be taken literally at face value (or will it?).

• Zodiac Signs
• Planets in Houses
• Transiting Planets
• Relationships

• X-File Cabinet

• Vedic Astrology
• Numerology