Whenever someone like David Bowie dies, there are invariably synchros.
On January 10, two days after his 69th birthday, David Bowie passed away from cancer. The morning of the 11th, I received an email from our friend Melissa, whose synchros we have used before.
“At 2:45 AM Jon woke me up. “Melissa wake up. David Bowie died.” I haven’t wept like that since they found Kurt Cobain’s body when I was about 14. David Bowie was one of the greats. One of my favorites. His words were so simple, beautiful, and true. I even borrowed from him for my wedding vows. He was inspirational and exciting and the world will miss him. We listened to his music for about an hour before I fell back to sleep. I woke up almost forgetting but then was reminded once I got online. Sadness and devastation take hold, and I didn’t even know him.
“However, there were clusters of synchros surrounding his death, and I think rightly so. After all, he’s one of the stars now. If these aren’t synchros, the timeline is certainly interesting nonetheless. Here’s what I’ve noticed:
– 69th birthday on Friday, 1/8/2016
– Released ‘Blackstar’ 47th album on 1/8/2016
– Currently has an Off Broadway show in NYC called ‘Lazarus’ – I think the title speaks loudly here. I also believe he knew he was dying while writing the musical and album…
– Died Sunday, 1/10/2016. A tribute concert at Carnegie Hall was announced BEFORE he died and tickets are to go on sale (pre-planned) today, 1/11/2016 at 11:00 AM – I think that synchro archetype 11:11, and ‘1s’ is popping in here.”
I first became aware of David Bowie when I went to see The Man Who Fell to Earth, a 1976 movie based on the novel of the same name by Walter Tevis, one of my favorite authors of all time. Bowie played the protagonist, Thomas Jerome Newton, a “humanoid alien” (according to IMDB), who comes to earth in search of water for his dying planet. It’s much more than that, of course, and is emotionally wrenching at many points, particularly when it comes to Newton’s loneliness and isolation that Bowie portrays brilliantly.
From the NY Times review of the book: “”Beautiful science fiction . . . The story of an extraterrestrial visitor from another planet is designed mainly to say something about life on this one.”
I had read the book before seeing the movie and forever afterward, Bowie was that “humanoid alien” who had fallen to Earth. His music, the words, his presence: none of it belonged in this dimension. To me, he was always from elsewhere.
A few days after Bowie died, I got an email from our blogging friend Daz in Australia about synchros related to Bowie:
Did you see my latest post about the Minnesota Vikings kicker Blair Walsh, who shared the same birth-date as David Bowie and became an anti-hero by missing an easy kick for his team on the day Bowie passed away?
Weird, or what?
Take a look at Daz’s post. It’s intriguing and certainly ties in with the Bowie death synchros.
I know you’re supposed to say RIP at times like this, but I suspect that Bowie is doing anything but. I imagine him zipping around some distant star system, busy with new music, new ideas, new insights. If we’re fortunate, he’ll decide to fall to Earth again at some point in the future.
On the day Bowie died I was writing a post for my blog on the rigged NFL playoffs. While writing it my wife informed me Bowie died. In my post I added a video from Bill Hicks, not knowing David Bowie was in the video.
Let it roll……………
I clicked over to your blog to watch the video. Fascinating! And what a cool synchro!
the man who fell to earth was a haunting movie, one I never forgot. I was so sorry to learn that Alan Rickman died as well, one of my favorite and most elegant actors of all time.
Both men dead at 69, from cancer. Snapes and the man who fell to earth. Go figure.
‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’ is on today, and I’ll be watching it!
Off to check our cable. Can’t wait to see it again!
I think I need to read the book…I’ve seen the film plenty of times but never read the book!
The book is terrific. Tevis wasn’t prolific, but everything of his I read I loved. The queen’s gambit is one of the best books I’ve ever read that involves chess.
I was talking to a friend today about the Nic Roeg movie ‘Walkabout’, which he made just before making ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’ .
My friend’s name is David and I was commenting on the fact that Roeg used actors with the name David in both movies as the stars of the films.
David Gulpilil is the actor who plays the young Aborigine teen in ‘Walkabout’ and of course David Bowie plays ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’.
Then this morning I see this news story about the British astronaut who is in space right now – https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-16/water-in-us-astronauts-helmet-cuts-short-spacewalk-for-tim-peake/7092590
and NASA specifically use the word WALKABOUT in that news story,
“Astronaut Tim Peake has become the first Briton to walk in space, undertaking a tricky mission to replace an electrical unit while under cover of darkness.
Mr Peake and US colleague Tim Kopra switched their spacesuits on to battery power, marking the official start of the floating debut for Mr Peake, who is also the first British astronaut to fly to the orbiting International Space Station (ISS).
But the discovery of water in Mr Kopra’s helmet brought an early end to the WALKABOUT, NASA said.”
🙂
Will check out that link!
Interesting post: And one of the lines in the song Lazarus includes “Look up here, I’m in heaven”. Strange also that Angie Bowie, his ex-wife, was in UK’s Big Brother TV show when he died.
I see that ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’ was made in ’76 and has a 6.7 IMDB rating Mike. 😉
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074851/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
6.7 for 67 not out!
Thanks!
I was always in awe of David Bowie because he did indeed feel like a visitor from another planet. And I, along with many others, feel the loss very deeply. In Washington state, we marveled at the Vikings kicker missing such an easy kick, but now it feels quite different, knowing the kicker’s connection to Bowie. And now we’ve lost Severus Snape! 🙁