About Anthony Wynands

Anthony Wynands has interests in topics like traditional astrology and tarot, the Younger Dryas Extinction Event, the rise and fall of historical civilizations, human consciousness, biofield tuning-fork sound therapies, New England true crime, cosmic horror, and the new wave of traditional heavy metal (NWOTHM). His background is in military and law enforcement, editing publications, and teaching writing and English as a second language. Currently, he works for the US Army. His blog site is weirdastrology.wordpress.com.

All posts by Anthony Wynands

Part 3 – Spica and the Tree of Life: Venus and the Moonchild

In the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones’s archrival René Belloq pleads with Jones to try and understand his obsession with the lost Ark of the Covenant: For Belloq, the desire to claim the vessel that contained the Ten Commandments was more than a mere archaeological wonder. […]

Anthony Wynands | 18th November 2024

Part 2 – Spica and the Tree of Life: Mercury and the Albatross

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, ne breath ne motion; As idle as a painted Ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Ne any drop to drink.1 These iconic lines are recognizable not only from the […]

Anthony Wynands | 9th February 2024

Part 1 – Spica and the Tree of Life: The Moon and Abdul Alhazred

In the writing of this upcoming book to be soon published by Revelore Press, Cosmic Influences on Crime and Creativity: New England, the Occult, and the Escapist Imagination, there is a message I had hoped readers would gain from it once it is published, but I realize now the challenge […]

Anthony Wynands | 29th December 2023

Part 3: H.P. Lovecraft and The Dark Forest

Read Part 1 and Part 2 In any form of research, we attribute and cite previous research to demonstrate a linear path of understanding to argue or persuade our points. There is no difference in exploratory, fringe-like topics like astrology, where the researcher’s and audience’s courage to imagine and believe—to […]

Anthony Wynands | 18th October 2022

Part 2: Image-Inducing Occult Techniques for “Charlatans” (or “Astrologers”)

Read Part 1 and Part 3 H. P. Lovecraft’s birth chart is a wealth of information when scrutinized with an astrological focus; oddly, the same can be said with individuals when traditional planets on the day of their birth were closely conjunct with the fixed star Spica in the constellation Virgo, […]

Anthony Wynands | 14th August 2022

Part 1: Astrology and the “Escapist Imagination” of H. P. Lovecraft

Read Part 2 and Part 3 The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate how a narrative analysis of creative and criminal individuals with a particular astrological placement, assessed through traditional and modern astrology as well as the tarot, can provide insightful patterns of consciousness and understanding, allowing researchers of […]

Anthony Wynands | 11th May 2022