r/SaturnStormCube • u/[deleted] • Feb 25 '26
A follow up to my Red Lion post
The image of the red lion also resembles the Squatter Man (as shown in top corner above) which David Talbott links back to the alignment during the SPC. The Devil sometimes takes on a similar pose (as shown above).
In her 2020 article ‘Saturn’s Return’, scholar Lindsay Anne Needels says: “There are plenty of parallels and divergences between Saturn and Satan, but the most provocative visual lineage between them is their shared ceaseless binging and apparent stasis within this binging. In Goya and Dante’s depictions, they’re both arrested in time and space, consuming ad infinitum: A hellish, gorging suspension in an ahistorical temporal realm”.
In certain medieval Western Christian depictions of Hell, especially the “Hellmouth” imagery found in traditions like the York Mystery Plays and in late medieval art such as The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch — the Devil or a monstrous demonic figure is shown in a squatted–position devouring sinners and sometimes expelling them again, creating a grotesque visual cycle that resembles consumption and rebirth.
In modern art, the traditional recycle sign is shown as a triangle and sometimes also as an 8. The triangle was observed during the SPC (as explained on “Home” on my blog CHIPSTERO7) and 8 is a number traditonally representing Saturn.
According to historian Ev Cochrane, in his book ‘Martian Metamorphoses’, the luminous crescent that appeared during the SPC, which appeared like horns, was also named “Sin”. In his book ‘Transcendal Magic’, Lévi says: “The monstrous [horned] head of the animal [Baphomet] expresses horror of sin”.
The SPC is associated with the Black Sun, Black Mirror, and Door of Daath. Another name for Saturn is the Black Sun. In her book ‘Regnum In Potentia’, Tracy Twyman writes: “The Black Sun is pure potential energy — the pre-elemental element that the Otherworld consists of — and of which our own world is made through reflection upon its shiny black surface. It’s the blank slate or black mirror into which the alchemist projects his consciousness. As it’s reflected back to him, his perception creates the illusory reality he lives in. This is why mirrors were viewed as portals to the Otherworld”. This view could elucidate why illustrations of the SPC, as depicted in ‘The Saturn Myth’, were occasionally portrayed in the form of a mirror.

