🪷 #NovemberCountdown to the birthday of Antinous on November 27th: #Antinous as #Vertumnus the shape-shifting god-of-plenty & luck. #Antinoos as Vertumnus can take "any form his heart desires" the Obelisk of #Antinoo says. He can be anyone you meet, or you yourself. #MuseiVaticani 🪷

🪷 Nov 27th is the birthday of #Antinous! Party time at the Hollywood Temple of Antinous & elsewhere. But you don't need a temple of stone to celebrate the birth of #Antinoos. The greatest, most glorious Temple is your Gay Heart. YOU ARE THE TEMPLE! More: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/you-... 🪷

🪷 November 12th is the sacred festival of #Quetzalcoatl, the #Aztec Feathered Serpent creator and wind god armed with spiral conch Wind Jewel. #Opal #Ammonite invokes him. 🪷

🪷 #sorjuanainesdelacruz (born 12 November 1651, died 17 April 1695). #SorJuana Inés de la Cruz was a Mexican scholar, poet, scientist, playwright, lesbian and now a saint of #Antinous. Now she even has her own @netflix series: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/04/sain... 🪷

🪷 The #KellyMantle podcast today features guest star #TrixieMattel @trixiemattel.bsky.social ... Be sure to check it out and also subscribe to the @kellymantle.bsky.social YouTube channel: youtu.be/3PrTB8yfSVg 🪷

🪷 The #KellyMantle podcast today features guest star #TrixieMattel @trixiemattel.bsky.social ... Be sure to check it out and also subscribe to the @kellymantle.bsky.social YouTube channel: youtu.be/3PrTB8yfSVg

🪷 Tonight's lovely #Leo #ThirdQuarter Moon is called the #Bacchanalia moon in #Antinous #MoonMagic. It is ideal for actors, dancers, buskers, illusionists and ecstatic transformational revelry and altered states. More: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... AI art in style of #AlmaTadema. 🪷

🪷 #NovemberCountdown to the birthday of Antinous on November 27th: Visit the largest online gallery of #Antinous art in the world at our website. Thousands of images compiled over two decades. Click here: antinopolis.org/gallery/icon... More information: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/08/anno... 🪷

🪷 The #Antinous #Agathodaimon (Blessed Spirit) statue at Berlin's #AltesMuseum originally stood at #Sansouci in Potsdam, where Frederick the Great liked to run his hands over it. 🪷

🪷 #Niankhkhnum & #Khnumhotep are saints of #Antinous for history's earliest depiction of a true-life same-sex mortal couple (not divine or mythological) kissing & sharing an Egyptian tomb for eternity. Their tomb was discovered 11 Nov 1964. Full tribute: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/nian... 🪷

🪷 #Jupiter turns Retrograde from now until 11 March 2026: Introspection and review! Old friends reappear with new ideas. The emphasis is on inner awareness and inner growth. Details here: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/astr... Art: "Divus Pater" #Hadrian as Jupiter by #RobertSekulovich. 🪷

🪷 #NovemberCountdown to the birthday of #Antinous on November 27th: Antinous tattoo skin art is popular among many worshipers of the "Most Great and Good God" Antinous who want a relationship which ... literally ... is more than skin deep. #tattoo #tattoos #skinart #TattooArt 🪷

🪷 10 November 324 BC #Hephaestion dies in the arms of #Alexander the Great. Their love for each other was compared, by others as well as themselves, to that of #Achilles and #Patroclus ... and by later generations to #Hadrian and #Antinous. Full tribute: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... 🪷

🪷 #ArthurRimbaud (20 Oct 1854 - 10 Nov 1891) is a Saint of #Antinous for being the openly gay "father of modern poetry". Hard-living, hard-drinking vagabond poet, #Rimbaud traveled the world, shocking prudish Victorians everywhere. Full tribute: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/sain... 🪷

ICYDK: Roman Emperor Hadrian had a lover named Antinous, who mysteriously drowned in the Nile (details are sketchy). Heartbroken, Hadrian had him embalmed, and later deified. There were even Olympic-like games held in his name annually for centuries, the Antinoeia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinous

I love this. Reminiscent of the Cult of Antinous.

🪷 #NovemberCountdown to the birthday of #Antinous on November 27th ... In answer to your requests, these photos show how to create a plaster or bonded-stone head of Antinous. Click here for photos: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/how-... 🪷

🪷 Computer glitches, travel disruptions, shipping snafus! #Mercury is Retrograde (going "backwards") until 30 Nov. But it's a good time to make up, make over, make anew: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2012/07/retr... #Antinous #MoonMagic #Astrology forecast: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/astr... 🪷

🪷 #NovemberCountdown to the birthday of Antinous on November 27th: This bust at our Temple of #Antinous in São Paulo Brazil is based on the #Antinoos / #Dionysus in #RioDeJaneiro 's Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, the only ancient Antinous sculpture in the Southern Hemisphere. 🪷

🪷 #NovemberCountdown to the birthday of Antinous on 27 November: #Antinous #Balsamarium for unguents, perfume oil, bath oils ... so you come out of the baths looking #Antinoan ... as beautiful as #Antinoos! Lots more #balsamaria here: antinopolis.org/gallery/icon... 🪷

🪷 November 8th is #MundusPatet when Hades gates open and dead visit the living. #Pompeii #MementoMori mosaic #WheelOfFortune shows rich (left) & poor (right) flanking death hanging by a thread. When it breaks, the soul (symbolized by butterfly) flies off. And thus are all made equal . 🪷

🪷 November 8th is #IntersexDayOfSolidarity & #IntersexDayOfRemembrance for the 8 Nov 1838 birthday of French intersex person Herculine Barbin, whose memoirs were published by Michel Foucault. Worshipers of #Antinous say intersex rights are human rights! #IntersexSolidarityDay 🪷

🪷 The days of 7 Nov - 9 Nov are dedicated to Divine Justice deities. In Egyptian myth, #Maat and #Thoth. #Themis is the Greek Titan goddess of divine law. The Romans called her #Justitia. In Norse myth, we find #Forseti. #Antinous embraces all deities as god of love and reconciliation. 🪷

🪷 Born 8 May 1920 - died 7 November 1991, #TomOfFinland is a saint of #Antinous for redefining beefcake art for the #Stonewall generation. Now he's a postage stamp, a vodka and a movie! Full tribute: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2021/11/tom-... 🪷

🪷 Excellent bedtime reading! "Memoirs of #Hadrian (#MémoiresDHadrien) by Marguerite #Yourcenar is the finest Historical Novel ever written. 🪷

🪷 Retrograde #Uranus slips "backwards" (as seen from Earth) out of convivial #Gemini, where it has been since July 2025, and re-enters #Taurus, to stay until 25 April 2026. Expect revolutionary changes in technology, political and financial affairs. antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/astr... 🪷

🪷 #NovemberCountdown to Antinous' birthday on November 27th: Parisian Napoleon-era #Antinous Fountain by Jean-François-Théodore Gechter called "Fontaine du Fellah" and located at Metro station Rue de Sèvres, 7e arrondissement Paris. 🪷

🪷 In this interview, Marguerite #Yourcenar discusses "Memoirs of Hadrian" and #Hadrian 's love for #Antinous. Notice her lovely French pronunciation of "Antinous", softer than the dentalized English "An-TIN-oh-us". Watch: youtu.be/aafDzs_jssA More: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/marg... 🪷

🪷 #NovemberCountdown to Antinous' birthday on 27 Nov: #Antinous / #Apollo head at Berlin's #AltesMuseum. Crowned with myrtle wreath sacred to #Aphrodite / #Venus. Large Egyptian-style eyes! From #Naukratis Egypt, which #Antinoos and #Hadrian visited in autumn 130 AD. 🪷

🪷 Ancient priests of #Antinous cast magical spells for worshipers, including love magic. One such love spell and a poppet have come down to us from Egypt. And a grimoire at #Antinoopolis has spells for love, fortune & even a couple of virulent curses: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/expe... 🪷

🪷 #Selket: #Venus leaves gentle Libra and dives into steamy #Scorpio from now until 30 Nov. The good news: you see through the veil of mendacity and see all dark secrets. The bad news: envy, jealousy, suspicion. #Antinous #MoonMagic #astrology forecast: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/10/astr... 🪷

🪷 #SuperMoon: Tonight's big and bright #Taurus #FullMoon is called the "Hadrian's Villa Moon" in #Antinous #MoonMagic ... the night for honoring your spiritual home ... the place you can be alone and snug ... just like #Antinoos and #Hadrian at his villa: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... 🪷

🪷 #SuperMoon: Emerald and purprite crystals bless your home during tonight's #Taurus #FullMoon, called the "Hadrian's Villa Moon" in #Antinous #MoonMagic, says our crystals meditation advisor #MartinCampbell @martinglasto.bsky.social See how here: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/ther... 🪷

🪷 The #KellyMantle podcast today features guest star #TrixieMattel @trixiemattel.bsky.social ... Be sure to check it out and also subscribe to the @kellymantle.bsky.social YouTube channel: youtu.be/yFOm0Sew-tA 🪷

🪷 The #KellyMantle podcast today features guest star #TrixieMattel @trixiemattel.bsky.social ... Be sure to check it out and also subscribe to the @kellymantle.bsky.social YouTube channel: youtu.be/yFOm0Sew-tA 🪷

🪷 #NovemberCountdown to the birthday of #Antinous on November 27th: Antinous has seen great empires rise and fall. He has seen hatred reign and he has seen despots rule. But in the end love always wins!" Painting by #DjordjeOzbolt based on the #Antinoos #Aristaeus statue at the Musée du Louvre. 🪷

🪷 #Antinoopolis and the #Fayoum Oasis are famous for the most spectacular mummy faceplate portraits in Egyptian art. Now forensic experts have compared the mummies' faces with the paintings. They say the portraits are very true to life! Full story: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/anti... 🪷

🪷 November 4th is sacred to all deities of Death and the Underworld including #Anubis #Hecate #Osiris and myriad others. The Obelisk of #Antinous says the gates of the Duat Egyptian Underworld are thrown open for him to visit you as you slumber and bring healing miracles in dreams. 🪷

🪷 #Antinoopolis was such a rich city that many mummies had a "second skin" of Gold Leaf, so that each gilded mummy was a veritable Golden Statue. Even lips and eyelids were sheathed in gold by embalmers. Mummies were dressed in rich embroideries. Read: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/10/anti... 🪷

🪷 Born 4 November 1946, died 9 March 1989: Robert #Mapplethorpe, creator of this art photography portrait of the #Antinous Capitoline statue that recently fetched £13,750 (nearly $20,000) at Sotheby's in London. More on this saint of #Antinoos: antinousgaygod.blogspot.com/2020/03/robe... 🪷

🪷 The Ludi Plebeii (Plebeian Games) were an ancient Roman religious festival November 4th to 17th, providing theater plays, athletic competitions and lots of free food and wine to entertain the Plebeians. #LudiPlebeii #circusmaximus 4 Nov - 17 Nov 🪷

🪷 4 Nov 1922: #HowardCarter makes the greatest archaeological discovery of the 20th Century: the Lost Tomb of #Tutankhamun. The discovery of the #LostTomb of #Antinous most assuredly will be the greatest archaeological discovery of the 21st Century! antinousstars.blogspot.com/2022/11/egyp... 🪷

🪷 #NovemberCountdown to the birthday of #Antinous on November 27th: #Farnese #Antinoos as #Adonis statue in the Naples Archaeological Museum. Art photography by #AndréDurand. 🪷

🪷 Autumn 128 AD #Antinous and #Hadrian visit the home of #Antinoos' ancestors in #Arcadia, the city of #Mantineia, home of cloven-hooved Pan: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/anti... Art: Athens National Archaeological Museum "Youth of Mantineia" statue bears striking resemblance to Antinous. 🪷

🪷 On 3 Nov, Romans celebrated the #Hilaria festival, marking the end of the #Isia Roman festival of Goddess #Isis mourning #Osiris who, like #Antinous, died in the Nile and rose as God of transcendence over death. Romans celebrated with feasting, games, pranks and hilarity. 🪷

🪷 #NovemberCountdown to the birthday of Antinous on November 27th: Colossal #Antinous / #Dionysus #Braschi statue at the Vatican museums. 🪷

🪷 Nov 2 #diadelosmuertos #DayoftheDead #AllSoulsDay: Worshipers of Templo de #Antinoo in Mexico City honor Mexico's 1st homophobia martyr saint of #Antinous, #JorgeFernandezMartínez, in a vigil at the #SantaMuerte shrine: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/mexi... @drdeathanddivinity.bsky.social 🪷

🪷 #Farnese #Antinous / #Adonis portrait lovingly created especially for us (and for all of you) by The Salty Polytheist via Instagram. 🪷