🪷 16 June is the Egyptian "Night of the Teardrop" festival when #Isis weeps for slain #Osiris. Intersex Nile inundation deity #HAPI collects a tear, spawning the July flood. #Hadrian wept for #Antinous, who interceded with #Hapy for a miracle flood: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/06/we-remember-night-of-teardrop-when.html 🪷

🪷 Priests of #Antinous wish all #LGBTQIA fathers a Happy #FathersDay . We honor #Hadrian on Father's Day. He is the Father of the Empire, so to speak, and a Father figure to Antinous. More here: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/06/happy-… Art: #FelixdEon 🪷

🪷 11 June the #StarOfAntinous rises above horizon. The Constellation of #Antinous is overhead nightly now til Oct. #Hadrian 's astronomers said it was #Antinoos taking his place as a star in the (hitherto) #Ganymede constellation near #Aquila the Eagle: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-rise-of-star-of-antinous.html 🪷

🪷 #AlexanderTheGreat died 10 June 323 BC in Babylon. His body was taken to Egypt where the Caesars visited his tomb, likely also #Hadrian and #Antinous. #Alexander is an example of the greatness of homosexuality. Where is his tomb? Here are some clues: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/06/we-weep-for-death-of-alexander-heroic.html 🪷

🪷 #MargueriteYourcenar was born 8 June 1903, died 17 December 1987. #Antinous #BookTip: "Memoirs of #Hadrian" (#MémoiresDHadrien) by Marguerite #Yourcenar is the finest Historical Novel ever written. Full tribute: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/12/marguerite-yourcenar-is-saint-of.html 🪷

🪷🏳️‍🌈 1 June is the start of #PrideMonth! Always remember: "soli fortes sumus ... communes invicti" (Alone we are strong ... Together undefeatable) #Antinous and #Hadrian by #PeterGrünewälder. #pride 🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🏳️‍🌈🪷

🪷 On 1 June we honor the Roman goddess #Juno, queen of heaven, with whom #Hadrian 's wife Empress Sabina is identified ritually. The month of June is named for her. Celebrate the way the Romans did: lots of flowers, dancing, merriment and fabulous feasting. Art: #AntoniusSubia 🪷

🪷 If you are in Chicago, be sure to see the new stage play "Scandalous Boy" at Open Space Arts, in which #Antinous, the much-sculpted lover of the Emperor #Hadrian, tells his own story! Full details here: https://openspacearts.org/ 🪷

🪷 "Amor Fortior Morte Est" (Love Is Mightier Than Death) Were #Antinous and #Hadrian "gay" in the modern sense? Scholars quibbled until 2008 when British Museum curator #ThorstenOpper declared: "Hadrian was gay, and we can say that now.": https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/04/antinous-is-god-of-gays-but-was-he-gay.html Art: #PeterGrünewälder 🪷

🪷 #Antinous and #Hadrian art showing the planet #Jupiter (representing Hadrian) and the Moon (Antinous is a lunar deity) and the #ConstellationofAntinous. Illustration by Johann Andreu via Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johannandreu Website here: https://www.johannandreu.com/ 🪷

🪷 There is a popular misconception that Antinous was underage when his relationship with #Hadrian started. But there is no historical evidence that their relationship began before he was a legal adult. All sculptural art, without exception, depicts #Antinous as a mature male. 🪷

🪷 #Hadrian and #Antinous #earrings / #dogtags by Zachary Prior @lil_lard_butts 🪷

🪷 This week is a good time to kiss and make up when #Venus forms a trine aspect with #Mars. Details in your #Antinous #MoonMagic #Astrology forecast: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/05/astro-forecast-may-15th-2025.html Art: #RobertSekulovich version of #JacquesLouisDavid "Venus Disarms Mars" with #Hadrian and #Antinoos 🪷

🪷 16 May is Shades Day! Art: "Del Imperio al Pop. El amor nunca muere" (From Empire to Pop. Love never dies.) #Hadrian wearing sunglasses side by side with the exquisite #Antinous #Townley bust at the British Museum, enhanced by @hadrian_augustus_21 via Instagram. #ShadesDay 🪷

Part of the #ancient #marble architectural decoration from the tomb of the #roman emperor #hadrian. #rome #archaeology #ancienthistory #romanhistory #architecturalhistory #ancientrome

🪷 May 14th is Centaur Appreciation Day. This Mosaic of a #centaur rescuing his mate from a tiger adorned Hadrian's Villa. It is a metaphor for the true-life incident when #Hadrian and #Antinous charged a lion in Egypt and the Emperor saved his life. Report: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/07/centaur-mosaic-at-hadrians-villa-offers.html #CentaurAppreciationDay 🪷

🪷 8 May is No Socks Day and 9 May is National Lost Sock Memorial Day: The city of #Antinoopolis, established by #Hadrian at the place on the Nile where #Antinous died in October 130 AD, is famous for its spectacular woven garments and tapestries. Now British Museum experts say this child's sock, which was found in an ancient Antinoopolis trash dump, shows that Antinoopolis weavers created colorful stripey socks with innovative weaving and dyeing techniques. https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/05/stripey-sock-shows-antinoopolitans-were.html #NoSocksDay 🪷

🪷 A 34 cm tall, red sandstone head, broken from a statue of #Antinous as #Osiris, wearing the Nemes headcloth, topped with a rearing uraeus. Thought to come from #Hadrian’s Villa and exhibited from 1730 at Dresden’s Albertinum, where it remains to this day. 🪷

🪷 One of the strengths of the belief in Antinous was its appeal to the most sensitive and inward of mystical natures as well as to the exuberant, joyous and ecstatic sides of human experience -- Royston Lambert, author of "Beloved And God: The Story Of #Hadrian and #Antinous."🪷

🪷 4 May is #BirdDay: Here we see an Egyptian and his BA soul spirit bird from the #Antinoopolis #Fayoum Oasis area. Roman-Egyptian tempera-on-linen mummy shroud from the heyday of the city founded by #Hadrian where #Antinous died in the Nile in Egypt in 130 AD. @GettyMuseum. 🪷