🪷 #Hadrian erected an #Obelisk to #Antinous which still stands in Rome. Now there is one in Washington DC, erected 11 April 2017 in the Congressional Cemetery LGBTQIA section. #AntoniusSubia says, "This is magnificent." Full report here: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/04/now-... 🪷

🪷 #Antinous and #Hadrian were hailed as the new #Ganymede and #Zeus on their triumphal entry into #Pergamum in spring 129 AD. #AntoniusSubia says: "We remember the love of Hadrian for Antinous when Hellenism prevailed over the chaos of fear and rage": antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/04/perg... 🪷

🪷 On the #Veneralia, #AntoniusSubia offers a prayer to #Venus:
Mother Venus, Mother of the Romans
In whose border-fields #Antinous dwells forever, I will spread his power to the world:
Love, Pleasure, Beauty, Feeling.
We are invincible.
Ave Venus: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/04/on-v... 🪷

🪷 "The Sacred Boar Hunt represents the pinnacle of the life of Antinous," says Priest #AntoniusSubia. Today priests of #Antinous on both sides of the Atlantic convened via Zoom to commemorate the day in 129 AD when #Hadrian and Antinous slew a #boar: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/03/anti... 🪷

🪷 This is the original grainy photograph which #AntoniusSubia spotted in a book in 1997 and which inspired him to found the modern-day Religion of #Antinous. It is the #Farnese statue, which Antonius subsequently blessed during a sacred pilgrimage to Rome. 🪷

🪷 At tonight's #Cancer #FirstQuarter Moon (the "Narcissus Moon" of spiritual reflection in #Antinous #MoonMagic), #AntoniusSubia says #Narcissus enables you to perceive your divine self. #Homotheosis: man-godliness-becoming-the-same! Full details here: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-... 🪷

🪷 (Antinous as Mars art by #AntoniusSubia) As the Sun enters #Aries at the #MarchEquinox, we honor #Antinous in his special guise as Antinous #Mars. Mars energy flows through all LGBTQIA people and empowers us to fight for justice and equality. More: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/03/we-h... 🪷

🪷 Tonight's #Pisces #NewMoon is known as the Dog Moon of faithfulness and friendship in #Antinous #MoonMagic. #Antinoos was depicted at #Lanuvium with a cute canine who looks up at him adoringly. And who can blame it? More here: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-... Art by #AntoniusSubia 🪷

🪷 #AntoniusSubia 's suggestion for how the colossal #Antinous / #Dionysus #Braschi statue in the Sala Rotonda Vatican Museums originally looked with pink lotus, ivy wreath, every millimeter painted or gilded head to toe. Visit the online Temple of Antinous: www.antinopolis.org 🪷

🪷 Peacock "eyes" art: #AntoniusSubia @antoniussubia.bsky.social #Antinous as #Vertumnus, a shape-shifter who can change his form at will. He brings gifts and bounty to those with the "eyes" to perceive him in his many guises. The next person you see could be #Antinoos - and could change your luck. 🪷

🪷 March 4th is the Egyptian Feast of #Ra at #Heliopolis, where #Antinous proclaimed he would give his life for #Hadrian. Hieroglyphs on the Obelisk of #Antinoos say he rides with Re-Harakhte on the sun god's barque. Exclusive photos by #AntoniusSubia: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/03/anti... 🪷

🪷 "The beauty of Antinous is timeless," #AntoniusSubia @antoniussubia.bsky.social ... #Mondragone #Antinous as Dionysus Bacchus head from what must have been a colossal statue. The holes in the hair are for a wreath or diadem. It originally had inlaid gemstone eyes. Musee du Louvre, Paris. 🪷

🪷 During his pilgrimage to Egypt, #Antinous Priest #AntoniusSubia marveled as sunbeams illuminated the #AbuSimbel inner sanctum at sunrise, an alignment that occurs annually on Feb 22nd, birthday of #RamesesII, and again on Oct 22nd, his coronation. More: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/02/anto... 🪷

🪷 #Prometheus sculpts the first man (clearly modeled on #Antinous) as #Athena #Minerva (birthday: Feb 19) provides the soul in this painting by #PompeoBatoni. #AntoniusSubia says: "It would seem that Antinous is the ideal form of man! I have to agree. We are the copies. Antinous is the original!" 🪷

🪷 This is the first priest of #Antinous in 1,600 years to visit #Antinoopolis Egypt where #Antinoos died and was deified. Read Priest #AntoniusSubia 's first-hand account of this historic visit escorted by armed guards and welcomed by smiling villagers: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/02/anto... 🪷

🪷 #Lupercalia ceremonies at the Hollywood Temple of #Antinous tonight drew worshipers globally via Zoom. Priest #AntoniusSubia #Lupercale blessing: "May #Antinoos flood our hearts with his power and presence. May he always be with us!" More images: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/02/anti... 🪷

🪷 January 30th is the Ancient Egyptian Feast of Opening the Doors of #Karnak to allow worshipers to enter the sacred precincts to make offerings. Come with #Antinous Priest #AntoniusSubia as he reveals the hidden mysteries of Karnak with exclusive photos: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/02/anto... 🪷

🪷 On 29 Jan, we commemorate the discovery in 131 AD of the #StarOfAntinous. #Hadrian saw a new star in #Ganymede constellation, which was renamed for #Antinous. #AntoniusSubia offers this meditation on the meaning of the Star of #Antinous for us today: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-... 🪷

🪷 In #Antinous #MoonMagic there are 52 #LunarPhases, which correspond with #Antinoian Archetypes and Magical Forces. (Art by #AntoniusSubia) Devotees use the weekly moon phases for their home devotional rituals. Here are the Lunar Phases for 2026: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/01/anti... 🪷

🪷 At the December #Solstice the Sun enters #Capricorn. Founder of the modern religion of #Antinous, #AntoniusSubia @antoniussubia.bsky.social (Natal Sun in Capricorn) posts this Ode to the hooved gods of #Capricornus: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-... #Phanes #Mithras #SolInvictus.🪷

🪷 You can cultivate the presence of #Antinous in your life. Priest #AntoniusSubia asks worshipers to share the ways in which #Antinoos comes into their lives. How do you open your eyes and your ears to Antinous? Antonius offers a few suggestions here: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/12/how-... 🪷

🪷 "The salient feature of the God #Antinous that makes our religion different from others, is that #Antinoos was a mortal human being who actually lived," said Priest #AntoniusSubia in global Zoom celebrations of the Nov 27th birthday of Antinous. More: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/glob... 🪷

🪷 This #Lanuvium frieze basrelief by #Antonianus of #Aphrodisias shows #Antinous and a dog looking up adoringly. Its inscription says #Antinoos ' birthday is Nov 27th. The text outlines a funeral expenses policy for worshipers. #AntoniusSubia explains it: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-... 🪷

🪷 #NovemberCountdown to Antinous' birthday November 27: Priest #AntoniusSubia with #Farnese #Antinous at the historic, first-ever exhibition of #Antinoos art, at #HadriansVilla 2012. This statue is oft identified as Antinous as #Adonis, the mortal epitome of male beauty. @antoniussubia.bsky.social 🪷

🪷 Remember 5 killed, 25 wounded at #ClubQ Colorado Springs where people had gathered for 20 November 2022 #TransgenderDayOfRemembrance. Priest #AntoniusSubia says: "We pray for the victims of the Club Q attack.
May Antinous of the Underworld
Open his way of mystery before them." 🪷

🪷 Nov 18 is #OccultDay: Ancient historians said #Hadrian cast a love spell that rebounded, killing #Antinous, also that #Antinoos dabbled in Egyptian occult sacrificial magic at #Hermopolis, fabled site of the #Thoth Scroll of Life, by which #Isis raised #Osiris from the dead. Art: #AntoniusSubia 🪷

🪷 In November 128 AD #Hadrian and #Antinoos visit #Thebes #Boeotia, sacred city of #Dionysos and the Sacred Band of Thebes, Theban Army Of Lovers. #AntoniusSubia says: "It is here that #Antinous is initiated into the Mysteries of #Dionysus." More here: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/anti... 🪷

🪷 New saints of #Antinous for 2025 were consecrated today during Zoom ceremonies with international worshipers commemorating the founding of #Antinoopolis by #Hadrian on 30 Oct 130 AD and the deification of #Antinoos. Names here: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-... Art: #AntoniusSubia 🪷

🪷 #Antinous died in the Nile in late October in 130 AD. Like #Hadrian, we weep for Antinous who sank and drowned. Yet we rejoice in Antinous who arose as the last Classical deity. How did he die? #AntoniusSubia outlines theories on how and why here: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/10/how-... 🪷

🪷 In October, the month #Antinous died and became a god, we recall that #Antinoos was initiated into the #Orphic Mysteries of death. You are #Orpheus the musician and beast tamer. You die & enter #Hades. You are reborn like the sun: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/10/anti... Art: #AntoniusSubia 🪷