The 'Miracle in the Mist'

'Justify, the undefeated Kentucky Derby champion, came out of the mist and beat back a vigorous, extended challenge from his emerging rival Good Magic in the slop to win the Preakness Stakes by a half-length ... setting the stage for a Triple Crown bid at Belmont Park in three weeks’ time.' - The Guardian, 19 May 2018

'As Justify was pampered after his hard-fought Preakness Stakes victory on Saturday — his feet were picked and his legs were wrapped while he enjoyed a cool breeze from the fan outside his stall — his team was celebrating nearby with cocktails and cake, swapping stories about the miracle in the mist.' - NYTimes, Mellisa Hoppert, 20 May 2018

The 120° step of the Radius, marking out
the Leo-Sagittarius leg of the Zodiac.

‒ Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom,
p. 157, © Lori Tompkins.

In 'The 144th Kentucky Derby and the Horse's Treasure' I discussed the equivalence between the Vedic Hero-Horse and the Radius of the circle (and of the Zodiac) as presented in Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom. I also discussed the equivalence between the Vesica Piscis of the Zodiac and the Truth-Bearing Waters of the Rig Veda, including Rivers, Rains and Floods. Other water-based symbols of the Vesica Piscis in the Rig Veda which I did not mention in that post include clouds and mist. The eternal geometry of the Radius surrounded by the enveloping Vesica Piscis, is portrayed in a multitude of ways in the Rig Veda, including as the 'child of the Mist' [RV 5.32.4] or 'mist-born' [RV 10.123.2]. In Rig Veda 10.32.13, the Rishi indicates that this Hero emerges from the 'mist which has spread around him', victorious over his primordial enemy, often depicted as a Serpent. [1] 

In the Rig Veda the enemy of the Hero or Heroes is simply a representation of Ignorance, or that which veils, occludes or represses the Truth. The Vesica Piscis is itself sometimes represented as a lid, covering, veil, covering mist, cloud or even as a serpent, dragon or beast who covets and covers the Truth which the Vedic Heroes are destined to find and release. In Rig Veda 10.82.5-7 [below], the Rishi describes this Mist or Mystery of the Vedas, which has long-veiled its own true sense together with true sense of the Hero-Child (the 'germ primeval') that it bears forth. The Rishi also describes the fate that inevitably befalls those without knowledge of the truth of the symbol-forms of the Vedas.

'What was the germ primeval which the waters received where all the Gods were seen together? The waters, they received that germ primeval wherein the Gods were gathered all together. It rested set upon the Unborn's navel, that One wherein abide all things existing. Ye will not find him who produced these creatures: another thing hath risen up among you. Enwrapt in misty cloud, with lips that stammer, hymn-chanters wander and are discontented.'

In other words, those without the knowledge of the geometric identity of the Hero-Child or of the Waters/Mist in which he is hidden and born, are missing the full-truth of the ancient hymns and symbols of the Divine and cannot help but to 'wander' [2] from the Divine Truth and from the true measure of the Vedic Yajna (i.e. of the Zodiac). This 'wandering' leads not to the Victory of Higher Consciousness, but rather to ever-widening division and discontent on Earth.

Amazingly enough, the same 'mist' from which Vedic Hero is born forth appears in the mythology of Niagara Falls (featured in the banner of this blog) in which 'Heno' (the God of Thunder) [3] lives hidden in the Mist of the River. From his position in the mist, he saves a maiden [4] from plunging to her doom over the Falls, and conquers the enemy Serpent. This mythology appears in Part Two, Chapter 14 of Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom, entitled 'The River and the Maid of the Mist'.

'Soon the [Maid's] canoe was caught by the rough waves and hurtled toward the falls. But as it pitched over and she fell, Heno, the god of thunder who lived in the falls, caught the maiden gently in his arms and carried her to his home beneath the thundering veil of water.... 

'A great snake came down the mighty river and poisoned the waters of her people.…Heno heard the voice of the serpent and rose up through the mist of the falls. He threw a great thunderbolt at the creature and killed it in one mighty blast. The giant body of the creature floated downstream and lodged just above the cataract, creating a large semi-circle that deflected huge amounts of water into the falls at the place just above the god's home.…To this day, an echo of the Heno's voice can be heard in the thunder of the mighty waters of Niagara Falls.' - S.E. Schlosser, Spooky New York, © 2005, Globe Pequot Press [Bold emphasis added]

In light of this Vedic symbolism (which somehow made its way into Native American mythology), it is notable that the 2018 Preakness Stakes was completely socked in by fog or mist, from which Justify (once again posted in the 7th gate) emerged victorious, one step closer to winning the Triple Crown of American Horse Racing. As demonstrated in the last post and shown in the image above, the radius of the circle (sometimes depicted as a galloping horse) evenly divides the circumference of the circle into three, forming the Divine Trinity or 'Triple Crown' of the Zodiac. This geometry is poetically expressed in the following verses:

[Agni] ... wise Courser like the Steed of cloudy heaven ... hath spread in his effulgence through the three luminous realms, through all the regions....  - RV 1.149.3-4

I look forward to the Belmont Stakes, excited (like many others) to see if Justify will pull off the Triple Crown.

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[1] All translations in this post are by R.T.H. Griffith.
[2] 'Wander' is a nice word to describe the distortions of ancient gnosis that inevitably set in across the globe due to ignorance of the Divine Law which the Rishis or Ancient Seers conveyed in their symbolic language. Our modern human predicament and the promise of an 'Apocalypse' is the natural result of the full crystallization of these divisive distortions in our consciousness, which naturally brings us to an impasse, and to the END of humanity as we know it. One way or another, we will be born out of the crystallized Womb of our own Ignorance, whether via negative or unconscious means (Death) or via a conscious journey and Birth or evolutionary shift into what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother called the Supramental Manifestation, or the Life Divine on Earth.
[3] Heno is equivalent to Agni/Indra - the Thunder-God of the Vedas.
[4] The Maiden (aka the Virgin) in this mythology and in the Rig Veda is yet another a symbol of the Vesica Piscis.