Bowie’s Stunning 1999 Prophecy

Since the Bowie post is rather huge and I think this detail is rather important I am breaking it out as an addenda here with a simplified graphic. 

(By Christopher Loring Knowles – The Solar Satellite) – Bowie depicted himself as the Dead Jesus on the cover of the 1999 album ‘hours…’ so it’s important to look at some of the other symbolism at work. It’s especially poignant given that he intended his new album Blackstar to be a journal of his illness and passing onto the next realm. The last detail I need to nail down here is the actual time of death, which if it was in the 5’O Clock hour would be absolutely mindblowing.

Note also the lyrics to one of the singles from  ‘hours…’  Quick note, it was raining in New York on Sunday:

A city full of flowers
A city full of rain
I got seven days to live my life
Or seven ways to die

POSTSCRIPT: THE FORESHADOWING

In 1999, Bowie released …hours, which wasn’t a great album but featured some very interesting artwork. It also used numbers as letters in the typography, a habit you may have noticed I’ve picked up.

The thing is though that the numerals used in his name in this rather ominous graphic here include 16 and 10, the year and date of his death. The three (which is reversed, like a Janus face) may even have a double meaning here in that the 3rd month (March) used to be the first month of the Roman calendar. Note also that the Rites of Janus– for whom January were named- were once held on March 1 (3/1).

The mortal David Jones and his stellar guest?

Hey, just throwin’ it out there…

Coincidence, right?

I mean he had to use numbers instead of letters on the art here, it was foreordained, right?

Note: Reader Tony points out that Dead David has his hand over his liver…

Well, there’s death imagery all over the album, including here on the cover….

And here on the inside, in which Bowie is posing in a 69 shape, the age of his death. That ersatz barcode is curious as well, since if you flip it and rotate it….

You have the 10 and 16 plus a 43.

in the simplest kind of arithmetic.

(Note also that using an 8 for the B (especially with this font) would make a lot more sense than using a 4 for an H.)

By the way, the first song on the album right after this would be called “Sunday.”

It may all seem bizarre, unless you know your Bowie, who loved to throw occult clues and riddles all over his work (the flaming dove, white stains, from Kether to Malkuth, Golden Dawn, etc, etc, etc).

For instance, see how he wrote his name in an ersatz Hebrew script on the album spine (and on versions of the cover, for no apparent reason, mind you), almost begging for quasi-Kabbalistic interpretation of the art.

Coincidences? Decide for yourself. But I think if anyone could have foreseen his death 17 years out (even if unconsciously), it would be David Bowie. Or y’know, his, umm, guest…

Maybe it’s no accident that he released his final single ‘Lazarus’ (or “El Osiris”) on the 17th of December.† The video was released January 7th (1/7) of this year.

One last puzzle for the initiated, perhaps…

(Lazarus is also the title of the play Bowie worked on before his death which revisited the character from The Man Who Fell to Earth. Interesting topic to revisit in your final days.)