Occult Mosaic: Rise of the Black Phoenix: 2012/2015 Pt. 2

El Faro:

[El Faro means The Lighthouse]

October 2, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin: The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a 735-foot (224-meter) cargo ship named 'El Faro,' with 33 people on board, that went missing near Crooked Island in the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin. Five Poles and 28 Americans make up the crew. (Reuters)

October 4, 2015, 2015 Atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Joaquin U.S. Coast Guard searchers, looking for the 790-foot El Faro cargo ship missing since Thursday, located multiple objects including life jackets, life rings, containers and an oil sheen in the waters off The Bahamas. Connection to El Faro is not immediately confirmed. (USA Today)

October 5, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin: The El Faro, missing since Thursday, is announced to have sunk on Thursday with 33 people on board during Hurricane Joaquin after a debris field is found. (NBC News)

November 2, 2015, SS El Faro: The American National Transportation Safety Board confirms that wreckage found on Saturday east of the Bahamas is the cargo ship SS El Faro that sank during Hurricane Joaquin on October 1. (NBC News)

April 26, 2016,

:The Lighthouse

February 20, 2015, A fire rips through The Marina Torch apartment complex in Dubai, one of the tallest residential apartment buildings in the world. (BBC)

November 21, 2015, Fire broke out in an apartment on the 50th floor of the Chicago Hancock building.

[Hancock = Eagle = Phoenix]

December 31, 2015, A fire breaks out at The Address Downtown Dubai hotel. Fourteen people are reported as injured, with one indirect casualty. (CNN)

March 28, 2016,

The Phoenix:

November 13, 2015, - November 20, 2015, Release of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 and The 33

:The Hunger Games Mockingjay Pt.2

As the war of Panem escalates to the destruction of other districts, Katniss Everdeen, the reluctant leader of the rebellion, must bring together an army against President Snow, while all she holds dear hangs in the balance.

:The 33

Based on the real-life event, when a gold and copper mine collapses, it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days.

:2015 Oscars

February 22, 2015, 87th Academy Awards: Alejandro González Iñárritu becomes the second Mexican director to win Academy Award for Best Director for Birdman. Birdman then wins the Academy Award for Best Picture. (The Globe and Mail)

:Symbolism

November 14, 2014, Release of Birdman

A washed up actor, who once played an iconic superhero, battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career and himself in the days leading up to the opening of a Broadway play.

Life on Mars:

October 2, 2015, Release of The Martian and Hell and Back

January 10, 2016, The 73rd Golden Globe Awards are held at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. (Los Angeles Times)

-The Martian wins the award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy and lead actor Matt Damon winning Best Performance by an actor in a musical or comedy. (AP)

:The Martian

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

:Side Note

January 18, 2016,

:Hell and Back

Two best friends set out to rescue their pal after he's accidentally dragged to hell.

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January 16, 2015, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter finds the Beagle 2 spacecraft that disappeared in 2003 intact on the surface of Mars. An error had stopped the spacecraft's solar panels from working and communicating back to Earth. (TNN via Times of India)

January 21, 2015, Microsoft announces Windows Holographic as part of the Windows 10 operating system which is expected to be released in late 2015. (Forbes)

January 23, 2015,

February 17, 2015,

March 14, 2015,

March 24, 2015, The Opportunity rover completes a Martian marathon, the first time any vehicle has traveled more than 26.2 miles on the surface of another world. (CNN)

April 13, 2015, United States presidential election, 2016: Florida Senator Marco Rubio announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election. (CNN)

April 14, 2015,

August 5, 2015,

September 9, 2015,

September 21, 2015,

September 26, 2015,

September 28, 2015, NASA states that it has found the best evidence yet of the existence of liquid water on Mars. The water is not pure but highly poisonous, containing various dissolved salts that on Earth only an extremophile microbe might survive within. (News Limited via Daily Telegraph)

September 29, 2015,

November 5, 2015,

February 29, 2016,

March 10, 2016,

March 13, 2016,

March 14, 2016, The joint European Space Agency and Russian Federal Space Agency ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (BBC)

March 15, 2016, Marco Rubio suspends his presidential campaign following a disappointing defeat in his home state of Florida. (The New York Times)

April 27, 2016,

:David Bowie

January 7, 2015, Release of David Bowie music video Lazarus

January 8, 2016, Release of David Bowie album Blackstar

January 10, 2016, British musician and actor David Bowie dies from cancer, aged 69. (BBC)

January 11, 2016,

January 17, 2016,

January 18, 2016,

:2016 Grammy's

February 15, 2016, The 58th Annual Grammy Awards are held at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles. (Entertainment Weekly)

-Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars wins the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. (Huffington Post)

Symbolism:

The Golden Gate:

Triple Crown: American Pharoah

May 2, 2015, In horse racing, the 141st running of the Kentucky Derby occurs at the Churchill Downs racecourse in the American city of Louisville, Kentucky with American Pharaoh ridden by Victor Espinoza and trained by Bob Baffert winning in front of a record crowd. (The Guardian)

May 16, 2015, American Pharoah wins the 2015 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, and, in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray in that city, is described as a sporting event that "...could help start the healing process."(ESPN)

June 6, 2015, The 2015 Belmont Stakes is held at Belmont Park with American Pharoah becoming the first horse in 37 years to win the Triple Crown. (Bloomberg)

May 5, 2015, In basketball, Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors is named as Most Valuable Player of the North American National Basketball Association for the 2014–15 NBA season. (AP via Yahoo! News)

May 28, 2015,

May 28, 2015, In basketball, the Golden State Warriors defeat the Houston Rockets 104-90 to win the Western Conference 4-1 and go to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1975. (Bleacher Report)

May 29, 2015, Release of San Andreas

In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey with his ex-wife across the state in order to rescue his daughter.

:2015 NBA Finals

June 16, 2015, 2015 NBA Finals In basketball, the Golden State Warriors defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers 105-97 in Game 6 to secure their first title since 1975. Andre Iguodala is named the series MVP. (Fox Sports)

February 26, 2016, Series Premiere of Fuller House

In a continuation of Full House, D.J. Fuller is a mother of three young boys and is a recent widow. D.J.'s sister Stephanie, her best friend Kimmy and Kimmy's teenage daughter all move in to help raise her sons. The house is now a lot fuller.

April 1, 2016, In basketball, the Boston Celtics defeat the Golden State Warriors, snapping a 14 month 54-game home win streak and leaving the San Antonio Spurs with the only undefeated home record in the season. (Basketball-Reference.com)

April 7, 2016,

April 10, 2016, The Golden State Warriors, with today's win at San Antonio, tie the 1995–96 Chicago Bulls NBA regular season record with their 72nd win this season. The Warriors can still break the record; on Wednesday, they host the Memphis Grizzlies in their final regular season game. (NBC News)

April 13, 2016, In basketball, the 2015-16 Golden State Warriors team sets a new NBA record for regular season wins with 73 wins this season. The 1995-96 Chicago Bulls previously held the record with 72. (Washington Post)

May 10, 2016,

:Superbowl 50

The game was played on February 7, 2016, at Levi's Stadium in the San Francisco Bay Area at Santa Clara, California. As this was the 50th Super Bowl, the league emphasized the "golden anniversary" with various gold-themed initiatives during the 2015 season, as well as suspending the tradition of naming each Super Bowl game with Roman numerals (under which the game would have been known as "Super Bowl L"), so the logo could prominently feature the Arabic numerals 50.

February 7, 2016, In American football, the Denver Broncos defeat the Carolina Panthers 24–10 in Super Bowl 50. Broncos outside linebacker Von Miller is named as the game's Most Valuable Player. (BBC)

February 6, 2016, At the NFL Honors Show in San Francisco, the league announces major individual awards for the 2015 season, as chosen by the Associated Press.

-Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton is named MVP. Newton becomes the first black quarterback to win the award outright (Steve McNair shared the award in 2004 with Peyton Manning).

March 7, 2016, American football quarterback Peyton Manning retires after eighteen seasons in the National Football League with two Super Bowl championships, five MVP awards, and single-season and career league records for most passing yards and touchdown passes. (NFL)

:Halftime Show

Headlined by the British rock group Coldplay with special guest performers Beyoncé and Bruno Mars, who headlined the Super Bowl XLVII and Super Bowl XLVIII halftime shows, respectively.

:Symbolism

December 4, 2015, Release of Coldplay album A Head Full of Dreams

[The Flower of Life]

:2016 Oscars

February 28, 2016, The 88th Academy Awards are held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California. (US Weekly)

-Spotlight wins the Academy Award for Best Picture. (The Verge)

Definition of Spotlight: a projected spot of light used to illuminate brilliantly a person, object, or group on a stage.

:Symbolism

November 6, 2015, Release of Spotlight

The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

:2016 MTV Movie Awards

April 9, 2016,

:Symbolism

X Marks The Spot:

July 10, 2015, Following public outcry after the Charleston church shooting, the Confederate Battle Flag is lowered at the South Carolina State House after 54 years. (CNN)

December 6, 2015, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announces the discovery of the Spanish galleon San José which sunk off that country’s coast over 300 years ago. The discovery was a joint venture between Colombia and U.S. firm Sea Search Armada, which filed a lawsuit when Colombia claimed the wreck as a heritage site. The wreck’s cargo is placed somewhere in the $4 to $17 billion range. (NPR)

:Space X

January 11, 2015, Public photographs become available of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket after the experimental recovery attempt of the first stage fails and crash-lands on a floating platform in the SpaceX CRS-5 resupply mission. (Space Flight Now)

January 19, 2015,

February 10, 2015,

February 11, 2015, SpaceX launches a weather observation satellite, Deep Space Climate Observatory, at 6:03 p.m. EST from Cape Canaveral, Florida (for the US Air Force/NASA/NOAA), but postpones making of a second attempt to land a Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket on a floating platform called the autonomous spaceport drone ship, following the January 10 failure during the SpaceX CRS-5 mission. SpaceX instead, attempts a "mock" soft-landing into the Atlantic ocean (AP)

April 14, 2015, SpaceX's latest attempt at recycling its Falcon 9 rocket by landing it on an ocean platform fails again. (AFP via Yahoo! News)

April 14, 2015,

April 27, 2015,

May 6, 2015,

May 27, 2015, Elon Musk's SpaceX wins U.S. Air Force approval to launch military satellites. (AFP via News24)

September 11, 2015,

November 20, 2015, NASA orders its first commercial crew mission from private company SpaceX. (The Verge)

November 24, 2015, Blue Origin launches the unmanned rocket New Shephard to the edge of space (100.5 km) and lands safely upright on its original launch pad in Texas, becoming the first organization to do so. (press release)

December 22, 2015, Falcon 9 Flight 20: American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company SpaceX makes history by sending the first orbital rocket into space and landing the first stage back on the ground at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. (NBC News)

January 9, 2016,

January 17, 2016,

January 23, 2016, Blue Origin's rocket New Shepard has been reflown in Texas. (BBC)

March 4, 2016,

April 2, 2016,

April 8, 2016, SpaceX launches a NASA cargo run to the International Space Station, and in a spaceflight first, successfully lands its reusable main-stage booster on an autonomous spaceport drone ship. (The Verge)

May 6, 2016, SpaceX successfully lands another Falcon 9 First stage onto a floating barge for the second time. It was carrying a Japanese communications satellite JCSAT-14, which was successfully put into geostationary orbit. (Wired)

:Planet X

January 19, 2015,

January 20, 2016, A team of astronomers at Caltech infer the existence of a potential new planet (Planet Nine) in the outer Solar System (Washington Post)

November 8, 2015, Series Premiere of Agent X

Hidden from the view of the public - and even from the President - there is a top secret agent who is trained and ready to serve, deployed only at the careful discretion of the Vice President.

Episode 1:

Episode 2 - 10:

January 24, 2016, Season 10 Premiere of The X-Files

Two FBI agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.

Episode 1:

Episode 2:

Episode 3:

Episode 5:

The Return of Lucifer:

:2015 NCAA Men's Championship

January 25, 2015, In college basketball, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski becomes the first NCAA Division I men's coach with 1,000 career wins, following the Blue Devils' 77–68 win over St. John's at Madison Square Garden in New York City. (ESPN)

April 6, 2015, In basketball, the Duke Blue Devils defeat Wisconsin Badgers 68–63 to win the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship.(USA Today)

[First Title since 2010]

:Pluto

Pluto was the ruler of the underworld in classical mythology. The earlier name for the god was Hades, which became more common as the name of the underworld itself.

July 12, 2015,

July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft completes a historic flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto and its five moons. Measurements, along with many high-quality photos and reams of data, were taken, including conclusive information regarding the diameter of Pluto and its moons.(Gizmodo)

July 15, 2015, NASA publishes the first close up photos of Pluto from the New Horizons spacecraft. They show geologically young mountains made of water ice. (The Guardian)

September 11, 2015,

September 17, 2015,

October 8, 2015,

October 16, 2015,

December 6, 2015,

Once Upon a Time

March 6, 2016, Season 5.2 Premiere of Once Upon a Time

Emma, Regina, Mary Margaret, David, Robin, Henry and Gold arrive in the Underworld and meet Hades.
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:The Ram/Goat

February 19, 2015,

July 26, 2015,

August 28, 2015,

February 19, 2016, Release of The Witch

A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic and possession.

April 21, 2016,

Aril 28, 2016, In American football, the National Football League starts its draft for the 2016 NFL season with the Los Angeles Rams choosing Jared Goff with the first pick. (USA Today)

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December 9, 2015, The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt. This mission is Japan's first successful mission to another planet. The orbital injection was achieved using the probe's attitude control thrusters, a feat which has never been done before. (Gizmag)

[Left Earth in 2010]

December 9th, 2015, Supernatural S11 Ep09: O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Lucifer reappears in this episode. He last appeared in The Born-Again Identity as a hallucination.

The Born-Again Identity is the 17th episode of Season 7. It aired on March 23rd, 2012.

:And The Beast Rises on Television

December 14, 2015, Series Premiere of Childhood's End

After peaceful aliens invade earth, humanity finds itself living in a utopia under the indirect rule of the aliens, but does this utopia come at a price?