I am OPTimist

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

~Carl Jung

I never can tell how things will end up but I can surely tell when I am in the middle of a deep transformation.

Right now, I am experiencing deeply on a personal level, and I know that pretty much everyone on the planet is going through a collective transformation as well.

During an X [Twitter] space, I participated in last night, a listener asked me about these changes, and I found myself focusing on one message:

We are pulsating a mutation, and as the old corrupted walls of decay either fall or the old structures dissolve, even the most feisty among us will either surrender and give in or will be completely crushed by the new wave of ordeals.

It is an individual choice, I may say!

We are beyond good and evil.

Since this dichotomy is a very important juxtaposition to embrace, integration and synthesis are in order.

Through tough angles, we are forced to give in or breakthrough. Allowing the flow of the energy to transcend.

Mom has taught me a valuable lesson: her body while fasting after 30 days shows no sign of giving up, instead, it regenerates all tissues as an act of purification. Her fierceness is something I also have in me. Her transmission in the past week will support my way in upcoming times…

We are the ones we are waiting for

A phrase bordering on cheesiness might be as true as it sounds,

For there is no second coming,

There's no big savior or political agenda that can magically solve all our problems.

No FEMA, no socialist, no liberal-Republican-monarchical, anarchist-political agenda that has the answer to the place in history where we find ourselves.

The second coming depends on our responsibility.

A whole lot of planets are in retrograde. Astro update >

This means even more reflection.

-Do you know who you are?

-What motivates you?

-What your values are?

-What triggers you?

-Do you have a Plan B, Plan C, or even Plan D? just in case?

-How far are you willing to serve for the good of humankind?

-Are you still a taker, pretending no one is watching?

Virgo time is about discernment and all details point toward purification. There is no sacrifice but rather an offering, the subtle distinction still empowers you. While you make an offering, some joy emanates, when you sacrifice a limb for the good of all, you will focus on the hole it generates. Switch frequency bands. There is always something nice playing elsewhere.

During the next weeks be objective and take note of what makes you unique.

Take stock of all the areas of your life

The joke is on us:

The corrupted elites will try to play another big scam-demic (if you know what I mean…)

It is up to you to decide whether to comply or not.

I won’t comply. I am not alone but on my own.

-Have you done enough research on themes related to resources, talents, and money?

-How about growing Food?

-About your health, how is your immune system this time after 3 years, did you finally learn how to take care of it? do you need a list of some herbs and ancestral wisdom beyond the corrupted Medical - Insurance system?

-How about Trauma? would you like a link to Gabor Mate’s incredible work? Have you healed yet from ancestral drama?

-Small communities, are you resonating with the right peeps? or do you still wonder quietly, who are these people I have around me? And what have I done (or not done) to deserve them?

FYI: The last three years were a test for what we are about to unfold next.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."

—The Minpins, Roald Dahl*

*Another canceled author … “Fat,” “ugly,” “crazy” and even “female” — these are some of the words that have been controversially scrubbed from Roald Dahl’s famed children’s books by so-called sensitivity experts.

Be wary of all the rapid changes in society overtaking our lives, look into all the agendas, and follow the money trail. keep asking questions, and for F*ck’s sake DO NOT COMPLY!

Remember, when in fear stay curious!

In the fall, I am committing to deepen my studies in BioGeometry, (more on that soon), I can hear my mother’s whispers reaffirming the path, I just surrender and channel. I listen to intuition and validate it with results.

The rest manifestations are channeled in words, colors, shapes, sounds, and joy.

Yes, pure joy!

The worst thing that could happen to me is the best:

Transcendence.

Until then, I will be purifying my life to be deserving of that precious moment I fear not.

P.S.,

I will retake the AI subject matter as soon as I have more time…

Be well.

Everything is under the influence of everything else.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh, No death, no fear, Try to make nothing, Transforming grief and fear, 2002

Somehow this song just popped up:::

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

~Carl Jung

Leading with affection

This article will be short, I need to take off for a few days during this wonderful Venus retrograde. We just hit the midpoint on August 13th when Venus will initiate the journey back to being a night star.

For me, this 42-day period has been and still is a chance to reflect and dive into the depths of my being. It's an opportunity to uncover the hidden treasures that define my uniqueness and creativity, allowing me to integrate them more fully.

I find myself in a profound connection with something genuinely invaluable to me: my freedom. Every facet of it, from the tangible to the intangible, the purpose of my creative expression gives me an incredible amount of joy, even when times are challenging.

The upcoming New Moon in Leo is intended to emphasize Venus' journey through an awareness of the capacities we hold as individuals to create a unique journey of creative expression, yielding and igniting inner radiance.

Between paragraphs and quotes, there are bits and pieces, connected and disconnected, making sense or not. This sense-making belongs to the eye of the beholder, for the aim of these writings is purely a reflective, personal inner dialogue that I happen to be willing to share.

Prior to the emergence of something new that could evolve into significance, a juxtaposition is often crafted.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change but in the dialectic between the two.

~Octavio Paz

Dialectics or Polemics?

Within the realm of metamorphosis, a captivating interplay unfolds—where juxtaposition, dialectic interrelationships, and clashes of perspectives meet. This convergence fuels the pursuit of harmonious integration, delicately attuned to the nuances of time and space.

Evolution is influenced by the environment in which it takes place. Organisms need to adapt to their surroundings and find ways to integrate new traits or structures in a way that suits the demands of their environment. These principles encapsulate the essence of epigenetics.

When humans attune themselves to the frequency or vibration of their surroundings, the evolving outcome might encompass qualities of heightened awareness.

This state of being extends to how we interact with ourselves and those nearby, as their presence can shape our behaviors and responses. We could engage in polemics, or decide on civilized ways to diverge and explore a variety of outcomes without having to unload the weapons.

In ancient Greek times, the crafts of rhetoric and polemics were used to convince audiences and dismantle opposing arguments.

-Can we as individuals immerse ourselves in the practice of dialectics, attentively embracing a range of perspectives and nurturing an environment for open dialogue?

This pathway has the potential to spark innovation, catalyzing a transformative shift that results in a harmonious realignment of all life forms.

Open emergent space gives way to creation. The Sun is our light, without its life force, we cease to be. Thus, I dedicate myself to honoring its rhythmic journey, synchronizing my inner time with the changing seasons. I enjoy Venus’remaining time in the underworld seeking a reconnection and brand new relationship to my essence, a preparation for whatever humanity requires of me as a human being, all for the greater good.

There is a time for everything,    and a season for every activity under the heavens:

a time to be born and a time to die,    a time to plant and a time to uproot,a time to kill and a time to heal,    a time to tear down and a time to build,a time to weep and a time to laugh,    a time to mourn and a time to dance,a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,a time to search and a time to give up,    a time to keep and a time to throw away,a time to tear and a time to mend,    a time to be silent and a time to speak,a time to love and a time to hate,    a time for war and a time for peace

~Ecclesiastes

When it comes to engaging in systematic reasoning, exposition, and argumentation, it takes skill to effectively bring together divergent or conflicting concepts. The goal is to find harmony amidst discord, and this is achieved through the careful exploration and analysis of opposing ideas. Ultimately, the pursuit of truth and resolution is what drives this method of discourse.

~ANAR-Key, [my collection of Chatbots] 3rd revised version.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. War does not determine who is right - only who is left. The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world, the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

~Bertrand Russell

Enchanted, pronounced, and delivered.

Sacred space is the earthly image of the Cosmos

Our experience of time is not linear but rather a continuous flow of duration.

Our feelings and sensations are intimately connected to this durational experience.

~Henri Bergson

“All our sense organs function in response to the geometrical or proportional– not quantitative– differences inherent in the stimuli they receive. For example, when we smell a rose, we are not responding to the chemical substances of its perfume, but instead to the geometry of its molecular construction. That is to say, any chemical substance that is bonded together in the same geometry as that of the rose will smell as sweet.”

~Robert Lawlor from ‘Sacred Geometry’

    The traditional esoteric worldview divides the universe into seven levels of being. The lowest is physical matter, the foundation of all activities and of all the changes we perceive with our senses. It is the level at which the resonance of material entities (including musical instruments) to the descending current of power released by a creative will-emanating source becomes audible as a tone — that is, as the complex vibration of the material body or vocal organ.

~Dane Rudhyar

“So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves; What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying.” ― Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations 1972-1990

Processes don’t resolve into things.

In the realm of dialectical practices, the interplay between opposing concepts uncovers wisdom that isn't confined to fixity or change but thrives in their dynamic equilibrium.

Engaging in systematic reasoning demands adeptness, a willi…

From my perspective

NOTE: I may fragment the subject of A.I. into some instances, not necessarily in order or in one single article. Who knows! Bear with me, it is a discovery to tap back into what makes us so unique as humans and not droids. 

This can lead to different rabbit holes that connect to cognitive science, human design, Biogeometry, and more subjects I find fascinating and would like to integrate, i.e. our incredible perception and senses as our GPS in “projecting,  decoding singular & absolute realities" 

Critical thinking; cognition; the diversity of avenues the brain can channel in terms of connectivity; the functions of the mind and its circuitry; how it operates mechanically in our decision-making–do these lead to better understanding? 

Language, cognitive dissonance, and of course, The Program. Yes, The Program! As humans, we have been in a mimicking trance, copy-pasting each other to believe that we belong somewhere, to some nation or community, when we actually don’t. 

Nothing could be farther from reality; our minds belong to those who have trained us, who have instilled the information drop by drop. Freedom these days is reduced to merely our identity, and not even that, for we do not know who the mastermind really is.

Our cognition, our ability to comprehend, a mental act or process of knowing, at times doesn’t match with common sense, since the information fuels itself from antagonistic methods.

Our human behavior acquires a definition based on conditioning that limits and shapes our lives. Think of it like a helmet or armor– it can protect, but if you grow in size it can deform you. 

So let me begin my curvy, steep road, and at one point you can ask Chat-GPT to help you decipher it because there is no beginning or end. 🤣

The program is running, homogenization is at full throttle

I was prompted during my sleeping states to write about A.I., cognitive dissonance, and language.

This endeavor demanded a dialectical relationship, an interplay of opposing ideas that needed time to find their equilibrium within my thoughts. Hopefully a meaningful dialogue may emerge.

-WTF? I said back in my dream, what do I know about A.I.?

-You do know about language[s]; you are a polyglot, not just of the spoken languages, but of the archetypal ones, networks, connectivity, geometry, and some Human Design (HD) mechanics, right?

-Ahh, okay… I see where you are going (you could be my higher self, or perhaps the funny voice of consciousness…?  mmm 🤔).

I have been writing, mostly downloading what I know so far of the works of cognition, learning, and connecting synapses (the places where neurons connect and communicate with each other). 

I have also been performing repetitive practices, manifesting them via voice and hand drawings, recording or documenting new experiences that lead to knowledge.

Mostly logical loops that create certain patterns and behaviors where I can come back in the future if needed, leading to introspective reflections. While machines can also operate in loops based on programming, human cognition is often driven by a combination of logic, intuition, emotions, and consciousness. 

In my case, I am very aware of the capacity of absorbing data, leaving some spatial gaps to practice, and allowing creativity to flow in innovative ways that find channels of expression and therefore can be shared within the collective.

-What about abstract connectivity that uses an intuitive function, connecting seemingly unrelated concepts, experiences, or ideas and generating new insights or perspectives? 

-Or a conscious capacity that differentiates humans from machines? In AI systems, there is an absent instinctive intelligence to intuitively construct abstract wiring. 

-Can we agree that currently, AI can analyze patterns in data, yet it doesn't possess the depth of human intuition to make unforeseen and innovative connections between divergent concepts? AI may be missing emotional, spiritual, and psychological autonomy. 

-Are we co-creating a monstrous unaware version of ourselves? Let’s attempt to find out!

Down the rabbit hole

I have to admit, I have spent a good quantity of precious time watching documentaries that could easily be labeled as conspiratorial (tricking the machine/algorithm here), and moving around different perspectives has recently expanded my visual, mental, and psychological acuity to ∞ [infinity].

The more I look deep, the more pauses I need, for Ariadne’s thread unfolds in eternity– it has taken me back to the beginning of times, and I am also making pit stops to the history and journey of the last century’s implementation of the #fiatstandard, how money became the tool of death and warfare; the inception of the Federal Reserve Ponzi scheme that drives the world’s monetary system into more debt and sheds blood; and where the education system leads to homogenization. 

The archaic education system still prevails and propagates misinformation by separating and polarizing the population into those who know and command authority in academia-manipulating legislation and those who follow more practical training (and feel powerless). There is no middle ground, and barely any integration happening, as fear makes everyone stay in a constant survival mode without the capacity to create. 

We need our nervous and immune systems wholesome in order to not only understand but transform the decaying world we live in. To make sense of the future, we must start to understand the mechanisms that have driven civilization to the edge of Chaos with all its components thus far.

Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.

~Murray Rothbard, American Economist from the Austrian School.

To be honest, everything IS connected, and now here we are, 90 years later, with the failure of Keynesian economics and the eternal printing machine raising rates, inflating and debasing the value of our time, proving that a manipulated economic equation IS bound to fail rather soon. This practice enables the individual to expect the State to be its personal savior; the individual feels powerless to act without the consent of others, therefore trading authenticity for safety at a VERY high cost – no freedom.

Contrary to the method of becoming accountable for individual choices, such is the alternative view of the School of Austrian Economics, a strict proponent of methodological individualism, the notion that social development is solely an outcome of the actions and the impetus of individuals, holding that economic theory should be exclusively generated from essential principles of human action.

Methodological individualism is a proposition to inquire, from the perspective of the individual, into the emergence between self-centered interests and the importance given to the values of institutional commitments as well as of those values/interests of the "other".

👆A Robot Draws Ariadne’s Thread👆in the Labyrinth of Chartres👆

The Federal Reserve is a not friend to the common man. Any economic policy which thrives off debt and welfare, such as Keynesian Economics, is not a friend to the common man either. It is a known fact that the Federal Reserve was created by some of the richest people in the world, including J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller (Griffin). This is who the Federal Reserve serves.

~thoreauliving (32)

The way this whole text has been crafted is funny– I wrote a bunch, I let it be, watched a lot of stuff, and because my computer was “fed” with a similar line of prompts, cognitive dissonance, AI, what is real?, etc., my YouTube and Twitter feeds kept showing up with more spooky stuff. I was hooked (the social media BOTS (A.I. driven BTW) were having a blast. I have the impression I am controlling them, and I AM NOT!-- it is the other way around.

By including some Human Design lingo (making it simple I hope), I will also share my i…

Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into dreams or into the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach and look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic, and with fresh methods of cognition and verification. The images of lightness that I seek should not fade away like dreams dissolved by the realities of present and future…

~Italo Calvino

«A fantastic representation of reality…» Ítalo

Forever grateful to this master, a curious, and colorful human being who wrote perhaps my favorite text, the closing paragraph of his seminal work Invisible Cities:

For now, I am a-musing myself today reading out loud the marvelous introduction to Calvino’s book “If On A Winter's Night A Traveler, 1979

His eclectic style and connection to the imaginary perhaps is clear in his birth chart [see an image of his natal chart and a quick reading below] paired with an unusual upbringing, (born in Cuba to Italian parents).

AUDIO below reading the introduction of Calvino’s book

Playful, intriguing, curious, always a wanderer and died too young or perhaps came to tell exactly what needed to be said.

We are here still reading, listening to his words. His oeuvre is fabulous as it was his colorful life.

For me, Ítalo like fellow geniuses such as Dante, Leonardo, and Borges covers the sky of my life with a luminosity that inspires abundant creativity.

Giovanna his only daughter, was left with the burden or perhaps the treasure of keeping that flame alive.

In my case, memories change and fade dissolving with new ones that only arise from the need to keep the flame alive in my mind, as opposed to my heart which is always receptive to any signal albeit made up.

I too lost my father, I was very young and all my memories at this point can make it into a fiction novel.

«Some fathers never die. It is the case with mine, a writer, whose sudden death almost 30 years ago propelled him into immortality, and left me awkwardly straddling two realities; one from which he was irreversibly gone and another where he is forever present. It proved impossible to spend any solid block of time in that first, heartbreaking reality and mourn him in peace — assuming there is such a thing as peaceful mourning — without being interrupted by regular and impetuous demands from the other one, where he was being read, published, reprinted, quoted, taught. 

[…] This year, in order to do things differently, I will make a conscious effort to separate the man from his writing. One of my favorite stories by my father (from the Mr. Palomar series) evokes a vivid memory of him sitting at the top of the sloping lawn beside our summer home in Tuscany. The Palomar character and my father are so similar that I tend to conflate them. The story is titled “Dialogue with a Turtle,” and the mental image it conjures up is of my father, in espadrilles, sitting cross-legged in a washed-out butterfly folding chair, his brow simultaneously knitted and raised, making him look 80 percent concentrated and 20 percent perplexed. But this image is a fake, as many memories are: It is a composite of various moments, of photos, of other people’s recollections.»

~Giovanna Calvino, Italo Calvino: A daughter’s reminiscences, 6/13/2014

«I started producing myths from modern science»

I am building a case against attention to myself.

In the last week, I have been a hermit, slowly dissolving into the echo of silence, in the upcoming weeks, I am in a retreat from the world, into a sort of fantasia…

Into the realm of the imagination.

The power of isolation and creativity all at once!

Yeah, less celestial talk or not that much, as its chatter needs to be validated by real happenings…

In this realm,

I am the wanderer,

The traveler.

Both the observer and the observed.

I told you I was on a pilgrimage to relate to the most precious of things ::: myself!

My freedom,

My life,

Roles → In which capacity?

-The creative

«Everyman is an artist»

Joseph Beuys once said «Everyman is an artist»

And he meant Art as «a social practice»

Be mindful that I did not say as a social activist…

Art has been abused as a social activity where political agendas are in a constant exchange of deals only benefitting those clever enough to play the game.

No! I want to be free

ART IS FREEDOM

And now I have a safe place to be in my heart.

As I play with the architecture of an upcoming book - yes you read right, the structure that will be faithful to my non-linear, abstract, and authentic, non-compromising ways, that at times reveal me as a Polymathes at heart. A design or arrangement that won’t betray the fluidity of my nature, instead it will underline, enhance and celebrate it.

As I play and unfold surprising turns, like this morning out of the blue Ítalo appeared before me while I was swimming and he uttered these words “Do a search with my name, not the usual Google search, be creative… what you’ll find will validate your feelings!”

-ok, will do that! and so I did…

I am not trying to emulate Calvino's style in any way, it may certify the non-linear narrative, yet orderly concepts I am composing in my upcoming hieroglyphic document, if my design is based on Geometry, it allows the frequency of the line to meet the nodes of intuition and instinct, it allows it to keep paving and pacing its way to freedom.

Stay tuned…

Grazie mille Caro Italo, nella ricerca ho trovato la mia strada, inciampando in piccoli tesori che non consideravo ancora importanti.

With Calvino, every word had to be weighed. I would hesitate for whole minutes over the simplest word—bello (beautiful) or cattivo (bad). Every word had to be tried out. When I was translating Invisible Cities, my weekend guests in the country always were made to listen to a city or two read aloud.

Writers do not necessarily cherish their translators, and I occasionally had the feeling that Calvino would have preferred to translate his books himself. In later years he liked to see the galleys of the translation; he would make changes—in his English. The changes were not necessarily corrections of the translation; more often they were revisions, alterations of his own text. Calvino’s English was more theoretical than idiomatic. He also had a way of falling in love with foreign words. With Mr. Palomar's translation, he developed a crush on the word feedback. He kept inserting it in the text and I kept tactfully removing it. I couldn’t make it clear to him that, like charisma and input and bottom line, feedback, however beautiful it may sound to the Italian ear, was not appropriate in an English-language literary work.

Interviewed by William Weaver & Damien Pettigrew

Calvino in a rare interview above:

«But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought»

Oh language! Written, spoken, unspoken, thoughts, insinuated, cryptic, ideas, concepts, ideals, social constructs, mind, intelligence, cognition, → truth: is there any?

The letter’s soup is ready!

IF Only! 

The meaning can’t be grasped, all translator’s tools are on strike, abstraction in the form of images and storytelling, the fantastic and the surreal have become “reality” 

Digesting the hopeless landscape... 

Everything inside an Orb, the fake illusion that big brother will take care of your UBI [universal basic income]…

Dystopian awakenings.

Yeah!

This week even if one has been calm, touching the grass, grounded in breathwork, even so, the universe reveals a couple of challenges - fear can resurface.

-Is it true Monika?

-What? 

-The fear? 

-Or not knowing what is next?

-BOTH? 

-HUH?

Grounding in breath while challenges arise, health concern strikes a loved one, securities may change course, dystopian news…

E V E R Y W H E R E

«Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one» 

Lunacy prevails and all of a sudden everyone is Sinéad!

Oh please! Give me a break!

One thing is for sure the 2010s gave space to an organic increase in disassociation and desensitization.

-Everyone’s message is reduced to one post in selfie mode (including myself) showing how messed up our culture has become-

As if pronouncing her beauty, talent, and defiance was going to ease her deepest pains, the trauma we are living as a collective is not allowing us to see through, it has no boundaries, and it has permeated all the pores of hope. 

- it seems to be expanding at a rate very challenging to contain it-

-So, will it explode?

M A Y B E

Energy must be transformed when stagnated.

Energy finds ways to be released from a broken flow.

At the edges of our lives, we find discomfort and then something snaps 💥

…

…

a resolution.

“We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.”

~Rainer Maria Rilke “letters to a young poet”

MOTHER

The Twilight Zone

Why aren’t we supporting others before they die?

Because we can’t. The culture of self-hustling requires many hours and practice of detachment, self-inquiry, and healing. The program was set a long time ago, and it is quite a journey to detect what is real, as in “not THAT crazy!” and what is a conspiracy theory.

Oh, Mother! [mami]

Some news has hit me hard.

All I need is a space for prayer and the intention of offering my day and actions to the better of humankind.

Mother→ The Wall→ Pink Floyd → Orwell’s 1984, → Black Mirror

→ Corruption → addictions → Trauma all in one, we are all bleeding in our hearts → and it is NOT getting better.

Hush - hush

→Lullaby time

No matter how you feel about Black Mirror—and opinions tend to cluster at opposite extremes of the spectrum—you have to admit it’s a brilliant title. As creator Charlie Brooker wrote when the series premiered on Channel 4 in 2011, “The ‘black mirror’ of the title is the one you’ll find on every wall, on every desk, in the palm of every hand: the cold, shiny screen of a TV, a monitor, a smartphone.” You stare into it expecting to see yourself and find only an abyss that might be your reflection filtered through technology. Our screens: dark and blank. Ourselves: same.

BY JUDY BERMAN JUNE 16, 2023

𝕄𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕜 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕪'𝕝𝕝 𝕕𝕣𝕠𝕡 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕓𝕠𝕞𝕓 -𝕄𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕕𝕠 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕜 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕪'𝕝𝕝 𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕠𝕟𝕘 -𝕄𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕕𝕠 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕜 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕪'𝕝𝕝 𝕥𝕣𝕪 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕜 𝕞𝕪 𝕓𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕤

𝕆𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕙 𝕒𝕒𝕙, 𝕄𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕀 𝕓𝕦𝕚𝕝𝕕 𝕒 𝕨𝕒𝕝𝕝

𝕄𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕀 𝕣𝕦𝕟 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕥 -𝕄𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕀 𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕘𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕟𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥 -𝕄𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕡𝕦𝕥 𝕞𝕖 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖

𝕆𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕙 𝕒𝕒𝕙, 𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕥 𝕛𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕒 𝕨𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖

ℍ𝕦𝕤𝕙 𝕟𝕠𝕨 𝕓𝕒𝕓𝕪 𝕕𝕠𝕟'𝕥 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕔𝕣𝕪

𝕄𝕒𝕞𝕒'𝕤 𝕘𝕠𝕟𝕟𝕒 𝕞𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕠𝕗 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 ℕ𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕣𝕖𝕤 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕖 -𝕄𝕒𝕞𝕒'𝕤 𝕘𝕠𝕟𝕟𝕒 𝕡𝕦𝕥 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕠𝕗 𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕗𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕤 𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕠 𝕪𝕠𝕦 -𝕄𝕒𝕞𝕒'𝕤 𝕘𝕠𝕟𝕟𝕒 𝕜𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕣𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝕌𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕘 -𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕠𝕟'𝕥 𝕝𝕖𝕥 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕗𝕝𝕪 𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕤𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕝𝕖𝕥 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕘 -𝕄𝕒𝕞𝕒 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕜𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕓𝕒𝕓𝕪 𝕔𝕠𝕫𝕪 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕨𝕒𝕣𝕞

-𝘗𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘥 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘓𝘵𝘥, 1979.

𝐼𝓃 𝓂𝑒𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓎 𝑜𝒻 𝒮𝒾𝓃é𝒶𝒹, 𝟣𝟫𝟨𝟨-𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟥 𝓌𝑒 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒻𝒶𝒾𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝓎𝑜𝓊, 𝒶𝓈 𝓌𝑒 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒻𝒶𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓊𝓂𝒶 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓉𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓎

The Cynics believe that it is through nature that one can live well and not through conventional means such as etiquette or religion.

~~~

Diogenes studied philosophy under Antisthenes, a crusty type who hated students, emphasized self-knowledge, discipline, and restraint, and held forth at a gymnasium named The Silver Hound in the old garden district outside the city. It was open to foreigners and the lower classes, and thus to Diogenes.

Wits of the time made a joke of its name, calling its members stray dogs, hence cynic (doglike), a label that Diogenes made into literal fact, living with a pack of stray dogs, homeless except for a tub in which he slept. He was the Athenian Thoreau.

~Guy Davenport, Seven Greeks

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

Everything we are witnessing now did not JUST happen overnight! Observing time cycles is a passion of mine, and so is finding repeating themes and patterns. Some months ago, I drafted a chart on the metamorphosis that the planet Pluto brings.

The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End in 2023, the latest book by Niel Howe just dropped! This is a follow-up of The Fourth Turning, An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny.

In 1991, authors and sociologists William Strauss and Niel Howe published Generations (updated in 1997 with The Fourth Turning) where they argued the idea of Generational Theory – the notion that there were distinct cohorts throughout history that shared characteristics and values. (In evolutionary astrology, these distinctions are measured through Pluto through the signs, in the 20th century Pluto traveled from Gemini to half of Sagittarius, and during this century, it entered Capricorn in 2008, in 2024 will enter Aquarius for 20 years)

The good news? We are RIGHT on track… Ra URU HU, [human design] spoke about the end of the Cross of Planning and the Rise of the Sleeping Phoenix by 2027.

All institutions will break down and fail, we are realizing that individuating is a path of liberation, and once these steps are taken, sovereign individuals will resonate into communities ready to rebuild and a Phoenix will be reborn.

Not only do individuals have …

​​“The model we choose to use to understand something determines what we find.” 

― Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

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-ᴛɪʟʟʙᴇʀɢ, ᴍᴀʀɢᴀʀᴇᴛᴀ: ʙᴇ ᴀ sᴘᴇᴄᴛᴀᴛᴏʀ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴀ ʟᴀʀɢᴇ ᴇᴀʀ ᴍᴀᴛɪᴜsʜɪɴ ᴍᴜsɪᴄ ᴠɪᴄᴛᴏʀʏ ᴏᴠᴇʀ ᴛʜᴇ sᴜɴ, 1932

I remember Sat H., my Taoist [shīfu 師傅/师傅] while I was still his disciple [túdì 徒弟] telling me once,

“ɪᴛ ɪs ɴᴏᴛ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴛᴇʟʟ ʏᴏᴜ ᴏʀ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ʜᴇᴀʀ, ɪᴛ ɪs ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ʜᴏᴡ ʏᴏᴜ ʀᴇʟᴀᴛᴇ ᴛᴏ ɪᴛ”

Proving that relational values are what makes the MAYA, [the illusion of ALL that IS] 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝔁𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮, as one synthesizes individually.

These aspects operate magnetically generating a duality, Yet its perception in the NOW is 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓼, the EGO, [Εγώ], the self-Identity, how one identifies with the psyche (soul), 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝔁𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓘𝓢 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓻𝓭 𝔀𝓪𝔂.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴛᴀᴏɪsᴛ ɪɴᴛᴇɢʀᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏғ ʏɪɴ ᴀɴᴅ ʏᴀɴɢ ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ᴛʜᴇɪʀ ᴛʀɪɴɪᴛʏ ᴏғ ᴛɪᴀɴ, ʀᴇɴ, ᴅɪ - ʜᴇᴀᴠᴇɴ, ᴍᴀɴ, ᴇᴀʀᴛʜ [ᴛʀɪɢʀᴀᴍ]. A trinity is a seemingly universal model. Many Taoists see the stars as "knots in the 'net of heaven'" connecting everything in "heaven and earth", thus humanity is here to experience this connection.

Carl G. Jung made a whole practice of integration via shadow work [Anima-Animus], within these relational values, adding observations on Astrological and Taoist practices (I Ching) through his patients. Jung noticed synchronous acausal events converging in coincidences, as powerful and meaningful insights that emerged within these disconnected relationships. He coined the phenomenon as Synchronicity.

Not too far away in time, David Bohm in quantum mechanics, proposed interconnectedness and interdependence as the Buddha also implied in his middle way, Bohm’s Dia-logos [to see through to meaning] is a deep practice that has part of its roots in ancient Greece. The emergence of a new state while practicing deep listening allows a new experience in the becoming. It is about deep inquiry and learning, sharing new perspectives and social constructs [beliefs], The objective of a Dialogue is shared meaning not trying to influence [have power over] an outcome.

ʜɪ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴏɴᴇ! ʜᴏᴡ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ʙᴇᴇɴ?

(ʟᴀᴜɢʜɪɴɢ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴀ ᴄʜɪʟᴅ ɪ ᴀsᴋ…)

Alignment: the arrangement of a line to support a process. To position to situate… it is objective and relational - sudden unexpected shocks can reposition placement and then one cares to observe what is needed to fulfill an experience of prosperity.

Abundance: [overflow, to rise in a wave from abound- undare] is a wave and as such needs to be in convergence with the pulsation thus calibrated. All established in “relational values”

-My thoughts this morning upon waking*

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝘆 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗺

Swinging my body sideways finding the rhythm that feels like bliss.

No pressure to create the best for others

-the drum of external validation is very loud-

Many confuse their uniqueness with what is expected to be done to succeed.

Succeed at what

Being rich and famous?

What does that even mean?

watch this👇

“sʟᴜʀᴘ sʟᴜʀᴘ. ɪɴᴛᴇʀʟɪɴᴋᴇᴅ. ʏᴇs ʏᴇs ʏᴇs ɪᴄᴇ ᴄʀᴇᴀᴍ sᴏ ɢᴏᴏᴅ. ɪɴᴛᴇʀʟɪɴᴋᴇᴅ. ᴛʜᴀɴᴋ ʏᴏᴜ ʟᴏᴘᴇᴢ. ɪɴᴛᴇʀʟɪɴᴋᴇᴅ. ɢᴀɴɢ ɢᴀɴɢ. ɪɴᴛᴇʀʟɪɴᴋᴇᴅ. sʟᴀʏ ʜᴀʜᴀ. ɪɴᴛᴇʀʟɪɴᴋᴇᴅ. ғɪʀᴇ, ғɪʀᴇ, ʏᴇs, ʏᴇs , ʏᴇs, ᴘᴏᴘ, ᴘᴏᴘ, ʙᴀʟʟᴏᴏɴ, ᴘᴏᴘ, ᴘᴏᴘ…”

-!-

If you care about freedom,

You know that relationship to the outside world is slavery in disguise of power…

Power is another confusing term-idea:

𝓟𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻 𝓲𝓼 𝓮𝓷𝓮𝓻𝓰𝔂

The energy to create

Humans versus non-humans

The brain-

Cognition -

Perception-

The mind running wild-

The power to decide

Autonomy + agency

(or so we think we have pure authority)

But do we?

good question…

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.” ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲

Words clash in high emotional states and drastic decisions are made at the last degree of the lunar nodes.

What am I still leaving behind eh?

Zero regrets, lots of courage

The time for a social media relationship to end has reached the perfect moment.

ℂ𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕝→𝕀𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕆𝕣𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕝→ℙ𝕣𝕠𝕡𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖→𝕆𝕡𝕡𝕠𝕤𝕚𝕥𝕖 𝕕𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 ℂ𝕠𝕟𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖→𝕗𝕠𝕔𝕦𝕤

The path is beautiful

My cross is the LAX of Alignment

I may be standing at a doorsill

Not showing anyone the way but ushering whoever I encounter and has a commitment to themselves into a vibrational space where they might realign with the frequency that meets their needs.

Have fun-

Touch grass-

Disconnect from the noise, believe me! it is beautiful!

I would like to thank my dear friend, Ebony, she inspired me to disconnect from Instagram

What a joy, w͟͞h͟͞a͟͞t͟͞ ͟͞a͟͞ ͟͞j͟͞o͟͞y͟͞!͟͞ ͟͞

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜 𝗮𝗺 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗽𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

ʜᴏᴍᴇ ɪs ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ɪɴᴅɪᴠɪᴅᴜᴀʟ ᴄʀᴇᴀᴛɪᴠɪᴛʏ sʜɪɴᴇs, ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴs ᴀʀᴇ ᴍᴀsᴛᴇʀᴇᴅ ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ᴄᴀʀᴇғᴜʟ ᴘʟᴀɴɴɪɴɢ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ sᴘɪʀɪᴛ ɪɴғᴜsᴇs ᴅɪsᴄᴇʀɴᴍᴇɴᴛ ᴏғ ᴀᴄᴛɪᴏɴ.

ᴏʟᴅ ʜᴀʙɪᴛs ɪɴ ʀᴇʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴsʜɪᴘs ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴀʀᴇ ᴍᴇᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴅɪssᴏʟᴠᴇ ᴍᴀʏ ᴛᴇᴍᴘᴏʀᴀʀɪʟʏ ʀᴇᴀᴘᴘᴇᴀʀ, ᴏɴʟʏ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴀssᴜʀᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴀᴛʜ ᴏғ ᴇxᴘʀᴇssɪᴏɴ ʀᴇǫᴜɪʀᴇs ᴄᴏᴜʀᴀɢᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴋɴᴏᴡɪɴɢ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ʟᴇᴠᴇʀᴀɢᴇ ʀᴇsɪᴅᴇs.

ɪғ sᴏᴍᴇᴏɴᴇ sᴛɪʟʟ ᴛʀɪᴇs ᴛᴏ ᴄᴀʟʟ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀɴ ᴇɢᴏᴛɪsᴛ ɪɴ ᴏʀᴅᴇʀ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴀɴɪᴘᴜʟᴀᴛᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴡᴀʏs, ᴍᴀᴋᴇ sᴜʀᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴘᴀᴜsᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴇᴠᴀʟᴜᴀᴛᴇ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴇᴍᴇʀɢᴇs, ɪᴛ ᴍᴀʏ ᴡᴇʟʟ ʙᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʙᴇɪɴɢ ʏᴏᴜʀsᴇʟғ ᴍɪɢʜᴛ ᴛʀɪɢɢᴇʀ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴘᴇᴏᴘʟᴇ ᴛʜᴀɴ ɴᴏʀᴍᴀʟ.

ᴄᴀɴᴄᴇʀ's ɴᴇᴡ ᴍᴏᴏɴ, ᴏᴘᴘᴏsɪɴɢ ᴘʟᴜᴛᴏ 29° ᴀɴᴅ sǫᴜᴀʀɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴜɴᴀʀ ɴᴏᴅᴇs ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴀʀᴇ sʜɪғᴛɪɴɢ sɪɢɴ ᴛᴏ 29° ᴀʀɪᴇs/ʟɪʙʀᴀ , ᴛʜᴇ sᴜɴ ᴍᴏᴠɪɴɢ ɪɴᴛᴏ ʟᴇᴏ ᴊᴏɪɴs ᴍᴇʀᴄᴜʀʏ + ᴠᴇɴᴜs sᴛᴀʀᴛs 43 ᴅᴀʏs ᴏғ ʀᴇᴛʀᴏɢʀᴀᴅᴇ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ sᴀᴍᴇ sɪɢɴ, ᴍᴀʀs ɪɴ ᴠɪʀɢᴏ ᴏᴘᴘᴏsᴇs sᴀᴛᴜʀɴ ʀᴇᴛʀᴏɢʀᴀᴅᴇ ɪɴ ᴘɪsᴄᴇs — ᴛʜᴇ sᴜɴ ᴛʀɪɴɪɴɢ ɴᴇᴘᴛᴜɴᴇ ᴀɴᴅ sᴇxᴛɪʟᴇs ᴜʀᴀɴᴜs, ᴍᴇʀᴄᴜʀʏ sǫᴜᴀʀᴇs ᴊᴜᴘɪᴛᴇʀ.

The Celestial landscape week of 07-17-2023- 07-23-2023

ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ᴛʀᴇɴᴅs, ʙᴇᴀʀɪsʜ? ʙᴜʟʟɪsʜ?

Learning to look at the frequency of a chart, mirrors my state of how I am vibrating overall, paper trading has become my latest observation - validation praxis.

The nodal axis shift; me, myself and I, what is my leverage? and how I negotiate my time, my value, and my resources in rapports - emphasis on relational values and making sure the I AM is sacred.

An addiction cycle that was fulfilled last time at the end of 2004, when the nodes were at the same position as this week, I had just turned 40 and had quit 2 packs of ciggies a day and given up my daily weed consumption, I started a serious Taoist/Buddhist practice of taijiquan, TCM, nutrition, journaling, meditation, etc which still permeates my daily living.

This time around the addictions are connected to apps, likes, and creating endless content for social media, leading to slavery I am not willing to partake in anymore. 

All addictions and substances serve as a placeholder, an adaptation of a part of ourselves that needs connection, attention, practice, and willpower to bring the light on a self-nurturing holding space. 

I became aware of these constraints, via my engagement, numbness, and association with these a…

TIMESHIFT_Short and concise:

I am back, a bit different though– I have done (still am doing) a lot of reflection. At times when I withdraw, I can see the big picture and then wait for the right time to act, respond, and share.

It is clear that the timelines have shifted, as has my attention. The way I will spend my energy (Qi, Prana, Breath) is only focused on what can be regenerative, which means vessels that are not ready to receive will not benefit from the encounter, for they won’t be able to realize, see, feel, or sense anything missing– so no need to sweat it. If you are still here reading, there must be something about our relationship that still calls for your attention, so thank you!

R-Evolving Cycles:

At the end of the last summer, I made a commitment to myself, and it has started to bear fruit already; as I entered another cycle in the spiral, I felt I was evolving in the manner in which I related to my needs after all the Lunar nodes made certain I would focus on the Taurus side of the action, while the Scorpio end was confronting, and shedding. 

I hate stereotypes– the moment I sense a definition, my impulse is to fly away, to dismiss it… and yet last September, due to unforeseen events, I jumped on the boat of “Why not?” 

-Why not try what gives me MORE fear?

Yeah! The invitation was coming from a place full of light, but I needed to trust my instincts and intuition inside the threshold, to be certain of one thing only: I would not create expectations, yet I would work with “deep-felt intentions”.

-And what are those, Monika dear? You are starting to sound cryptic!

Let me unpack– I looked back at all the so-called “crazy things” I did in my life that lead me here, and all of them have SOME things in common:

-Courage

-Curiosity 

-Wit 

-Endurance

-Transformation

-Self-inquiry

-Perseverance in research/learning/education

-Knowing when cycles have ended

Hereditary responsibilities

-Help your siblings, hold their hands, show them how…

-Yield to their needs, you are faster and smarter… 

Blah, blah, blah. I have been taking on responsibilities that were not mine.  Many of them I inherited without asking, or I jumped into, because I knew what was needed, due to conditioning I did not know I had!!!

At least that was what I was made to believe– the way I was conditioned was that because I can and I am able, I MUST take care of others. NO!

Close your eyes and imagine two puppet hands near your face: one says I WANT; the other screams I NEED. Well, these hands come at me, for me at all times, and I now have a choice to engage or not.

The co-dependent cycle explained by my astrology

That was the codependent cycle right there. There is a repeating theme of a lack of boundaries (emotional, nonetheless) and the willingness to learn to discern how to relate to others, including intimately, so I can be individuated and become free from attachments, addictions, and codependent relationships with people, situations, and things.

I learned to say a hard “NO!"

Another aspect is my relationship values, which are supporting my creative, joyful, colorful outtakes, and my lust for life, with awareness, smells, textures, and beauty all around. 

The path from traumatic past lives, while connecting to peers, was not equal; I feel at times I could have been a tyrant, leading to betrayals and an emotional, mental, and even physical dissociation as a protective response. Having dealt with Trauma diligently, I have turned the current direction towards a creative and emotional liberation, which is in 2/3rds of the way. 

I am intense! I know it, and the emotional path is the destination – so having learned how to operate with an emotional authority, has been MAJOR. Emotions are waves, and they have amplitude and magnitude; they operate like sound, and their frequency can be adjusted by tuning in or out of certain vibrational schemes: 

-How does X, Y, or Z me feel? That is always a key question for me.

Here I am in this life, taking care of the way I relate to myself FIRST, informing how this gives me leverage to relate to others, and last but not least, how I can contribute to a community.

My outlook is that I am very driven, and my intensity and commitment are energized by my curiosity to educate myself and inspire others. The writing flows, and so do the images– it is in the synthesis and the amalgam where I thrive. 

The Hands of Needs & Wants: Noise versus Signal

I have a radar to know what is needed and wanted– does that mean I have to supply it?

Perhaps, only if it feels correct to engage in a situation where the other vessel is accountable and willing to commit herself, then, and only then, can I open up a channel to be extremely caring. 

Now that I have detached from those pesky hands, I have so much time… left for what??

EXPLORATION: these past weeks, when the noise was off, I could listen to the signal. I have committed to a couple of challenging yet exciting practices, which connect and keep being supportive of my expansive aura (which intimidated many). Somehow being an initiator and a manifestor comes with some pain and lots of goodies. 

COMMITMENTS: a dot connects to a line, and another line creates dimensions– the sound of an almost unperceived frequency generates a sine line that validates concrete matters; emotions can be shaped in forms, and words may acquire utility down the line. I am being cryptic for a reason.

"The concept of investigating the universe, which you’re in, without investigating the self, is a flaw."

–Nassim Haramein

Tabula rasa? Pinakis Agraphos?Virtues are my support system

Is it all brand new? Mmm… not really. But every time I close a big cycle it feels like that; after all, it has been 3 years since I RAN AWAY from NYC, took the helmet off that had shaped me, and moved to the sunshine state, where I live barefoot…

When I think of the ways I was able to fulfill dreams, I know that the trinity of intention, attention, and presence was the most solid of them all.

I abide by a virtue per year, making it meditation for its duration.

Back in 2019, I started with the virtue of being kind to myself [KINDNESS]- to notate how I would address my inner chatter. I started with something simple– a muscle that gave me strength (smiling when alone) and thus I was in automatic kindness mode towards others.

This lead me to [GRATITUDE] in 2020; even before the lockdown, I was grateful for the exuberance of the kindness, I felt increased gratitude focused my attention to the present moment and surrendering to what is, and the capacity to be joyful about it. 

2021 arrived and my life was already showing signs of metamorphosis, thus [HUMILITY] would be the virtue that I encountered by accepting that which I did not know yet, and by not faking it anymore.

- I learned to ask questions and allowed the space for learning completely new things and venturing into new territories.

As 2022 arrived I chose [HONESTY], which taught me to stay in the course of objectivity when needed and allow th…

"And on each of its circles was seated a Siren on the upper side, carried round, and uttering a single sound on one pitch. But the whole of them, being eight, compassed a single harmony within the seven intervals."

-Plato Book X, "Republic"

State of being

hey, here I am again, another week, and I am still observing the view, not really wanting to dive in back yet. I will share however that I am in a joyous state of being, somehow powerful insights coming from new territories that are gracefully emerging.

I would love to tell more, but all I have are shapes, colors, sensations, and insights that connect to the core of my essence, these are felt playfully and have a component of transparency, perhaps some images below such as the five elements of Sugimoto can give a clue, or Dominique Teufen’s multiple projected fields that merge the perspective into one angle that can transport the mind elsewhere.

Before the light there was sound, which I heard clearly in one of my dreams, in fact, light and sound are different parts of a spectrum. Sound travels much slower than light and it is produced by mechanical means. Sound does not have the electrical and magnetic fields that visible light does. Sound and light both have a wavelike character but are very different in speed and size covering a range of wavelengths, light is not restricted to a single wavelength.

An artist and educator I feel very connected with is Josef Albers, his practices on color and form are not just playful but beautifully engaging and have served as methodologies in previous and current public art commissioned work.

Under Suprematism I understand the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth.

The so called “materialization” of a feeling in the conscious mind really means a materialization of the reflection of that feeling through the medium of some realistic conception. Such a realistic conception is without value in Suprematist art… And not only in Suprematist art but in art generally, because the enduring, true value of a work of art (to whatever school it may belong) resides solely in the feeling expressed.

[…] Objectivity, in itself, is meaningless to him; the concepts of the conscious mind are worthless.

Feeling is the determining factor… and thus art arrives at non objective representation at Suprematism.

It reaches a “desert” in which nothing can be perceived but feeling.

[…]This was no “empty square” which I had exhibited but rather the feeling of non-objectivity.

I realized that the “thing” and the “concept” were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and idea.

Kazimir Malevich: The Manifesto of Suprematism. Originally published in The Non-Objective WorldTranslated from Russian into German by A. von Riesen 1927 | Albert Langen | Munichvol. 11 of Die Gegenstandslose Welt

Frequency is everything now

‘What is G•D?He is length, width, height and depth’-St. Bernard of Clairvaux, on consideration

I have spent a great amount of time drawing for an upcoming commission, mostly vectorizing geometrical forms and preparing canvases of color for an upcoming glass wall. Immersed in these fields, my mind rests, my hand moves and my spirit elevates. The nodes meet in circles, creating aspects and angles, depicting movement in time. Magnitude represents amplitude while meaning is given depending on how one reads these relationships. Until then I come out of this gracious state, linear thoughts may remain abstract, cryptic, and still.

Stillness

“Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.”

―Jorge Luis Borges

A la prochaine!

»For the artist communication with nature remains the most essential condition. The artist is human; himself nature; part of nature within natural space.«

Paul Klee -Pädagogisches Skizzenbuch

Update

Another week, I sense a shift in the air, and I am still purposefully taking the time to be; I have been entertained by drawing plenty. I also entered a state of integration from the insanity of the last 15 weeks… More to come, not just yet… In the meantime another set of random shares. Enjoy!

It is time for excellence Not for the minimum or the maximum unintentional motivationFor lofty, prominent, and distinguished acts of loveNot a sacrifice but an offeringFollowing the flow of natureAs The River As The CloudsAs The SunAs a Being Rejoice

Monika Bravo, Excellence, 06/21/23

Gio Ponti is my muse

It is very challenging to pick up a handful of images that can convey his artistic genius and impact. Since it is not just the excellence of one of his designs, but the overall harmony of the spaces he conceived.

LIXIL / TOKYO / "Giving Warmth to the Building Skin. The World of Gio Ponti, Father of Modern Italian Design” by Mai Inoue and Masahiro Inoue

“Everything happens according to a certain regularity which I sense inside me and which never lets me rest.” Emma Kunz

Nick Cave’s corner

Another prolific artist, that is aging gracefully, still edgy and full blast honest, Nick’s art has been part of my life since 1988…

Nick then, Nick now in a very recent interview

[…] when another person dies, everybody dies again, you know... All over again. And at the end of the day, we become a kind of manifestation of our losses… We become these creatures of loss moving through the world… a deepening effect to grief, and the world becomes more interesting and deep.

Nick Cave

“Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".”

―Plato

Hello beautiful people, I am 88% close to wrapping up my next article on AI {artificial intelligence}, language, and Venus' loop around the sky, but all of a sudden I had the urge to indulge in other things this week. [Context The Sun and Mercury are in playful Gemini while Mars and Venus dance in delightful Leo, so I will leave you with 9 random things, enjoy

1- a poem

2- a song

3- a set of random images

4- a video (youtube) with link to a transcript

5- a quote

6- an excerpt from one of the books I am reading

7- a tweet

8- a meme

9- a voice message

All random

Till next week…

1- A poem:

We are the time. We are the famousmetaphor from Heraclitus the Obscure.We are the water, not the hard diamond,the one that is lost, not the one that stands still.We are the river and we are that greekthat looks himself into the river. His reflectionchanges into the waters of the changing mirror,into the crystal that changes like the fire.We are the vain predetermined river,in his travel to his sea.The shadows have surrounded him.Everything said goodbye to us, everything goes away.Memory does not stamp his own coin.However, there is something that stayshowever, there is something that bemoans

We Are The Time We are the famous.

Jorge Luis Borges [24 August 1899 - 14 June 1986]

2- a song:

i don’t want to feel the thunderi don’t want to feel the raini take heed of these omensi don’t want to return the same.i just want to believe in somethingi don’t want to feel this greyi take heed of these omensi heed what the lightning saidthere’s a god-shaped holein every seekers soulturned cold in rebellionas life unfolds like a quest once toldLove’s dance towards the one…

The Return

3- a set of random images

4- a video

The Psychology of Power – How to Dethrone Tyrants, academy of ideas.

“If…if… We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure!

…We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1

link to transcript

5- a quote:

“Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still in doubt.”

~Italo Calvino

6- an excerpt from one of the books I am reading

“The future is the imaginable activity of man in its creative march. Imagining is the creative power, not only of the poet, the artist, the actor, and orator, but of the scientist, the inventor, the merchant, and the artisan. Its abuse in unrestrained, unlovely image making is obvious. But its abuse in undue repression breeds a sterility, which robs a man of actual wealth of experience. Imagining novel solutions to ever more complex problems is far more noble than to restrain or kill out desire. Life is the continuing solution of a continuously synthetic problem. Imagining creates events. Our world, created out of men’s imagining, comprises unnumbered warring beliefs. Therefore there could never be a perfectly stable or static state. Today’s events are bound to disturb yesterday’s established order. Imaginative men and women invariably unsettle a preexisting peace of mind.”

“Hold fast to your ideal in your imagination. Nothing can take it from you but your failure to persist in imagining the ideal realized. Imagine only such states that are of value or promise well. To attempt to change circumstances before we change our imaginal activity is to struggle against the very nature of things. There can be no outer change until there is first an imaginal change. Everything we do unaccompanied by an imaginal change is but futile readjustment of services. Imagining the wish fulfilled brings about a union with that state. And during that union we behave in keeping with our imaginal change. This shows us that an imaginal change will result in a change of behavior. However, our ordinary imaginal alterations, as we pass from one state to another, are not transformations. Because each of them is so rapidly succeeded by another in the reverse direction; but whenever one state grows so stable as to become our constant mood, our habitual attitude, then that habitual state defines our character and is a true transformation.”

Infinite Potential Neville Goddard & Mitch Horowitz.

7- a tweet

How Twitter has become the new “uncensored media” (to a certain degree)…

8- a meme

9- a voice message