I am OPTimist

I feel that it is imperative to move towards a complete integration of what we call the divine to what people call the source, where some more religious call G*d, Christ, Jesus, the Buddha, Mohammed, Shiva, the light, the divine, WUJI anything you can call what is sacred. What we call the core of it all, All that Is, aka consciousness. Instead of staying in a place where we are completely divided inside and out of ourselves because of ideologies, rituals, perspectives, that they don’t seem to make any more sense. So there is an urgency of integration and of inner coherence, of returning to a lived relationship with the divine that does not depend on belief systems, gurus, or meditation retreats, teachings, banners, etc. I’m tracking a closing cycle, and I can feel that the collective tension is mirroring an internal tension that many people are carrying, where the mind tries to hold certainty, where the psyche tries to hold identity through belonging, and where the heart knows that the era of borrowed meaning is completely dissolving into dust. I would like to speak directly to that, because ideology has become the easiest way to outsource truth, and outsourcing truth creates inner division, that leads to relational division, and collective division, the cost is obvious now because it fractures people from their own intelligence and it fractures communities into endless argument without resolution, and it doesn’t allow people to connect to each other or to reconnect to their own authentic selves. I’m writing this from my heart because I can feel that the only stable meaning right now comes from trust in the divine as an internal reality. Trust is what is coming through Source. Trust is the totality of all things. It’s all that is. Trust is the intelligence of the Creator. Trust is what lives inside the body and inside the heart and inside our soul. I am interested in this moment when we stop looking outward for permission to know what we know and we stop treating the divine as an idea that must be defended and we start living as if our consciousness is already part of the Source because the remembering reorganizes action, value, and perception without force. A moment of full alignment. I can feel how silence becomes intelligent in a moment like this and how the nervous system registers truth before the mind can and will explain it, and how coherence becomes a form of law that reality responds to. Not long ago, I accepted that the first time I really felt true self love was when I witnessed my mother’s death. And throughout these last two years, I have been able to integrate and rewire my nervous system so I can totally open a space that is very flexible and caring and loving so I hold the divine in me. This is where I want to bring people into a place where the question becomes simple and severe. What happens when I return to inner truth and allow the truth to guide my choices, my timing, my relationships, my speech, my work, and my attention? I want the tone of this piece to hold a threshold because I am watching a collective cycle complete and I’m watching people reach for stories that keep them split. I’m also watching the possibility of a different response, which is trust as a lived orientation, trust as an inner authority, trust as the field that holds me steady when external sanity falls and breaks down. Dream I had a very vivid dream and it stayed in my body after I woke up, a brief scene in that liminal space between dreaming and being awake, a familiar presence, an embrace that carried weight, grief, and release, very little language, mostly feeling, mostly the kind of contact that registers in the nervous system as truth. The way I hold dreams now comes from the same place I’m writing from, trust in the divine as an internal reality, because when I am connected to that field, dreams and insights arrive with a certain clarity and a certain timing, and then life corroborates them in simple ways, through a conversation, a tone, a confession, a reality that echoes the dream without needing interpretation. It reminds me of how after my father died, I searched for him in books, philosophies, and journeys. In every relationship that I had, whether it’s a friendship or intimate, there was always a part of expectation, always trying to feel resonance with the other soul. This time the feeling is very gentle. It’s more complete. The dream doesn’t ask me to do anything. I don’t want to decipher it because I know it has something deeper, something continuous. It shows that something has already shifted inside of me, and it feels like it could be a closure of this 2025 without rupture, with care, without expectation. I’ve been working a lot on that longing that I’m integrating this year, and because we’re talking about the divine, I actually ended up integrating the divine and the God in me, and the dream is so vivid because it is embodied. That urge is already within me, and I thought it was beautiful to hav

Here I am sitting in the middle of the night, probably 9 PM, and I changed all the bulbs in my house to red light, so it looks a little bit like the red district, but it has really helped me change my sleeping patterns, because as soon as I turn on the lights I feel like winding down. And I am also waking up really early, so I can see the sunrise, and it just changes everything. I’ve been wanting to stay quiet, but then there are other things that I need to process, so basically what I’m doing here is I’m going to process out loud. I’m going to process out loud and take time to process. Two thousand twenty five has been about rewiring my nervous system. I am watching how my body reacts to everything: to light, to silence, to money, to people, to messages that arrive and to messages that never arrive. I am listening to the speed of my thoughts, the way my heart races or slows down, the way I reach for my phone or for my own breath. It is as if my whole system is learning a new pace, a new baseline of safety that lives inside my cells and not in the reactions of others. What am I processing? I don’t know how to explain this year. It’s been the year. I’ve been saying it for a while that it’s the best year of my life. Second best is 2020 and 2021. Those years were amazing. I just empowered myself to be free, and I felt what freedom was like for real. This one is more about: I know I’m free right now, but with 2025, 2026, it’s about having the courage to go all the way. I’m all in. I’m all in, in life, in expansion, in feeling, in being quiet, in being there for me. It’s absolutely beautiful. On the other hand, some things, people, and situations have run their course, and I’ve done a little bit of mourning. I’ve been slow. Now that I discovered the beautiful GNM, I can understand that probably I have been mourning, my mom died in 2023, but I’ve been mourning other things too, I’m mourning my life in New York; 27 frigging years. I’m finally mourning myself within a twenty year-long marriage. I’m also mourning my father for the first time, Since I jumped into emotional detachment to protect my pain; I’m mourning a lifestyle. When I mourned my mom, I was holding her very tight, day and night, she was with me, then Mayra, my shaman, passed at the beginning of this year, unexpected to me, but she is also very present. I have this thing that I am present with dead people. I can go back and forth. I am present in constant time. yet I know when it is time to let go. dissolve, undo, give thanks, let go… Dissolving with soap Today, Wednesday the tenth at 7:30 a.m., Neptune went direct at 29 degrees of Pisces. I want to speak about this, because I think I have been aligning so much with my transits that I am capable of receiving messages beforehand that help me decipher what is unfolding. Neptune entered Aries briefly on April first, then went retrograde and re-entered Pisces 10/22/25, and in that return a lot of confusion surfaced. It felt like it messed the structure I had prepared for 2025, because deeper information needed to come through, now I feel I can restructure it with more clarity. Neptune in my second house has been dissolving old attachments to value and dissolving illusions about worth. Saturn has been traveling with Neptune, and both have been squaring my nodal axis in the fifth and eleventh houses. This has been asking me to see the patterns that shaped my creativity, my friendships, my communities, my pleasure, and my sense of contribution. It has been showing me where I needed to reclaim sovereignty over my resources and over the way I invest my energy; my old scaffolding of self worth has been dissolving so I can build something true. At the same time, Uranus has been moving through my fourth house, and this is the key that opened the door: when Uranus entered Gemini, I felt a disruption in the foundation of my being. It felt like instability at first, but now I understand it as the revelation that my nervous system was shaped long before I had language. My system adapted to my mother’s needs, to her anxiety, to her responsibilities after my father died. I became the one who sensed the emotional climate before it shifted. I was not the oldest child, but the one chosen to support her, and the structure of my nervous system was built around managing everyone else. My mom’s gaze had been very critical, very funny at times, and when she could not get her way, it was expressed in restrained anger. I learned to adapt on a day to day basis, my scope was to measure her mood; Is she funny, or frustrated? and I would adapt, little did I know this adaptation that made me survive both as an over caring person and as a clown, would shape my nervous system, until this year when I noticed it was an adaptation, not the truth… Uranus retrograde made the message even clearer, what I thought were emotional habits were physiological imprints, what I thought were psychological tendencies were survival strategies woven into

Is your value pegged to your priced possessions, your cherished relationships, your status, or simply to your truth? How can you trust yourself to make the right decisions about your time on earth? Current Experiment: echoing July 1944, when forty four allied nations met in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to design a new monetary order that pegged their currencies to the dollar and the dollar to gold. In my current limited and still studying understanding I am watching two structures being built at the same time and together they change what the dollar feels like in daily life. What is at stake here is reality. What we think is real is what we believe, so our reality is shaped by our belief system. If our beliefs about money, safety and value are based on mirages, then the choices we make with our savings and our time can take us very far from what we actually need. let’s dive in, shall we? On one side stands Tether, it calls itself a stablecoin issuer, yet in practice it behaves like a private central bank for people who cannot touch the United States banking system. It holds a gigantic portfolio of United States Treasury bills, plus physical gold and a large stash of Bitcoin. Its token, USDT, is the way hundreds of millions of people in emerging countries hold and move what they experience as dollars. These are not deposits at a regulated bank inside the United States, they are claims on a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands that now has deep ties with El Salvador. “Tether is not a cryptocurrency company. It is a private central bank that has dollarized the developing world without permission.” Shanaka Anselm Perera The GENIUS Act has drawn a hard line. One dollar system sits inside the United States where stablecoins must be fully backed by cash and Treasuries and supervised by Washington. An offshore dollar system keeps growing where Tether issues its own version of dollars backed by Treasuries, gold and Bitcoin, supervised by no one in particular. For a huge part of the developing world, the issuer of the everyday dollar is no longer the Federal Reserve, it is another private bank. For me the mirage is simple; on the screen everything still looks like neutral, safe dollars, underneath those balances are completely different IOUs tied to different balance sheets, different political risks and very different levels of control. The mirage is the shared belief that all of this belongs to one dollar world. In practice it is a layered structure that uses Bitcoin as collateral, Tether as a private dollar engine and GENIUS compliant stablecoins as a public dollar engine, all plugged into the same mountain of government debt. Mirage: there is nothing stable in stablecoins On the other side, the Federal Reserve itself is changing its relationship to the Treasury market in a way that I am still learning to grasp. The headlines say that Quantitative Tightening ended on the first of December and that the balance sheet froze around six point five seven trillion after draining more than two trillion from the financial system. Under that surface sits the plumbing: A Repo is a secured overnight loan> One party hands over Treasuries and receives cash, then reverses the trade the next day; a reverse repo is the same trade seen from the other side. The cash lender parks its money and holds Treasuries as collateral, repurchase agreements have been part of the Federal Reserve toolkit for more than one century. In the United States they show up around nineteen seventeen as a way for the Fed to lend to banks and they grew into a core Wall Street funding tool in the second half of the twentieth century, which is how they ended up at the heart of today’s money market plumbing scam . The Overnight Reverse Repo Facility was the place where money market funds and other large players could lend their spare cash to the Fed for one night and receive Treasuries. At the peak more than two and a half trillion rested there. That was the cushion, a parking lot of unused liquidity. Now that facility is almost empty; the spare cash has been pulled back into the system and bank reserves sit near the level where small shocks can create big stress. At the same time the Standing Repo Facility has become the daily escape hatch in the opposite direction. Dealers arrive with Treasuries and instantly turn them into reserves whenever they need dollars. When the Secured Overnight Financing Rate spiked in October this window had to lend eighteen and a half billion in a single day. The backstop that was created for emergencies now looks like a permanent feature of the market. When I place these two pictures on top of each other the mirage becomes clearer. The Fed has built an architecture where Treasury collateral can always be turned into central bank money on demand through the Standing Repo Facility, while the old buffer of excess cash in the reverse repo facility has almost vanished. Tether has built a parallel architecture where that

Behavior What does that even mean, to behave? We can start with the premise of what behavior means etymologically. In English, to behave comes from Old English “behaven”: be and have together, to hold, to surround, to contain, to have oneself in a certain way, the way we carry and conduct ourselves in front of others and in front of life. In French we would say comporter, which is to bring together, to gather who we are and how we act into one gesture. So behavior is how we hold ourselves and how we carry ourselves, the way we bring our parts together in one line of action, the way we draw a definition and move in a direction. I have been really integrating the idea of what behavior is because I speak about Aristotle showing us the telos of humanity as a pursuit of happiness, and that is already going to decipher and describe the behavior of a collective. When you go to Von Mises in Human Action, he says that this is purposeful behavior. If you go to Carl Jung, we are going to see that behavior is about integrating our unconscious with our conscious. So where do I stand now? Studying markets, I always read the behavior of demand and supply; when I look and observe other people’s reactions or responses, including my own, I am looking at behavior and integrity, principles: these are words that have a lot of weight. If we go to principle, it means beginning: Principium in Latin, the foundation. Integrity means that synthesis is allowed to include other parts. I always say that principles, for me, are a horizontal line where we stand, and integrity as individuals is a vertical line that does have a price, where the individual will arrive to a place and say: I will not bend beyond this height. Integrity is very subjective; we can judge other people for their own lack of integrity, and we can see ourselves where we bend. Now, I am speaking about all this because Saturn is finally going direct on the 27th of November. That is Thanksgiving here in the United States. After a few months, since July 13, it went retrograde from Aries back to Pisces on September 1st, and now it is going to go direct at 25 degrees of Pisces. It will reach Aries again in February to then approach the final great conjunction with the planet Neptune, who is the ruler of Pisces. Saturn has been in Pisces for the last three years. Try to remember everything that has been going on in your life since March 2023. For me, it was my second Saturn return. They say that when you have done the work, your second Saturn return gives you a lot of goodies. I think I have had a lot of goodies in the last few years: realizations, motivations, achievements, if you want to call it that. By the way, Mark asked me yesterday in our monthly session what I would say now about the second Saturn return, having effectively been through it, and I told him this: by the time Saturn came back in 2023, I already knew that my most painful turning had been my Chiron return at fifty, when I shattered into a million pieces because I had lived without boundaries and felt completely empty. So I prepared; years before Saturn entered Pisces I chose therapy, I chose to work on boundaries, I chose to start writing my first book as a reflection of that coming of age, and now the second book as a spine of thirty three vertebrae is holding the structure quite gently, because with Saturn in the first house in Pisces I can be any f*****g form, and the only way to give it form is to know myself and take care of myself first. This cycle has been about standing my ground, doing the homework instead of escaping, reparenting myself, feeling both parents at my back while I rebuild my nervous system from the core and stop shrinking to make space for others. My mom died as I was coming out of this second Saturn return, and somehow that sealed the work; I am standing in my own personality now, breathing fully, supporting my own needs without guilt. Second Saturn return was a banger. Saturn is always slow and it needs direction. It wants to achieve something. It is very concrete. It is very driven. It is driven towards a direction of success. But Saturn is also the father figure, Saturn is the authority that can show us that there is a clean way to go somewhere. The problems of Saturn or Capricorn are that they can be very constraining, limiting, austere, bland, stingy. It can be a pain in the neck. But I love Saturn because it is the ruler of my South Node, and I have learned to really understand its generosity. Believe it or not, it is very generous because it gives you time, chronos, to basically figure it out. There are two versions of time. There is chronos, which is like one, two, three, four, five, around the clock. And there is kairos, which is a different kind of time: the right timing, when you align with your frequency and things happen in a more magical way: the opportune and decisive moment. We are talking about linear time: yesterday, today, tomorrow. That is the kind of time that

The Tenth house is the performing persona. How do I portray myself out there? Am I writing the best article? Am I speaking the right way? Am I at the right party? Am I meeting the right people? Am I climbing the ladder? Tenth house is b******t, especially in a place like New York. It can eat you up from the core, from the heart. But guess what, you do it. You do it because your ambition is so big that you are so ready to sacrifice everything else just to be in a position. And then when you are in that position, you say, what is all this for, what is all this for, at what cost. That is a tenth house. And I have my tenth house ruled by Scorpio, so it is very intense. Neptune sits on my Midheaven, so there has always been a doubt, a questioning of what power even means in the first place, and my Moon in Scorpio in the ninth, very close to the MC, keeps making me seek something that goes much deeper than external appearance. The ruler of that house Pluto, is my eighth house in Virgo, so I have a tendency to become even more critical about all the things that I needed to do to get to that place, because it is a direction. So even though there is no time, we treat it like a ladder, like you are escalating, you are arriving to the top. When you treat it with no time, when you see it as a purposeful life, things start deescalating and they start aligning, aligning. New York City is so FIAT. What does that mean. Fiat is the monetary system that we have been living under since the inception of the Federal Reserve and the moment the dollar was taken off gold in nineteen seventy one. Every single dollar that is made is fake, and the so called value is based on external things and not on real worth. That is what I mean when I say New York is so fiat. People are constantly projecting status, projecting the ladder, projecting ambitions. If the soul in question has no boundaries and merges with the lot, it can experience a sudden shock and eventually a big inner loss. Bitcoiners can be very FIAT, so I am not romanticizing… So right now what I feel is pure alignment to what my soul came to be, with struggle, with friction. I just came back from New York after five years of living happily in Miami Beach. I had been back in NYC briefly three times, but never more than one day, but this time I stayed a bit longer and it felt like a lifetime. There was not a single instant in that city that told me, oh my God, I am so sad I left. Every single instant was, my God, I am so happy I do not live here anymore, I do not play this game. There were moments that showed me this very clearly. I went to see my public art piece Duration at the Prospect Avenue station with my friend Efrat. It was bittersweet. I love what I did and at the same time it is not being taken care of. Then I finally visited the World Trade Center memorial. I had never been there since the towers collapsed, and I am still feeling strange about it, like a delayed encounter with a former timeline. And the highlight of everything was going to the MoMA and seeing Ruth Asawa’s work. That was the real nourishment. Everything else was encountering the old me with the new me and having my body adjust to those small moments of recognition. When I was in New York years ago, the performance was all about doing the right thing at the right time so I would get to the next level of the ladder. I was performing for an inner audience that only cared about the next step. Right now I do not operate like that. Right now I am aligned or I am misaligned, and that is what shows me if I am in the right place at the right time. I am just going to go very superficial with this, because there are so many layers that I am uncovering that will need to be processed within myself, within my practices, within my practitioners, and it may take a couple of months to really reveal the core of it, but I can summarize it in one thing. My progressed chart. As I progress When I was born the Sun was at six degrees of Taurus. In secondary progressions the Sun moves approximately one degree of the zodiac per year of life. Sixty one, almost sixty two years later, my progressed Sun is now at six degrees of Cancer. The Moon in progressions takes about twenty seven and a half years to circle back to the same spot, so it carries a different kind of timing. Right now the progressed Moon is at six degrees of Aquarius on my tenth house in the progressed chart. Six degrees of Aquarius is my Ascendant, and it is making a very interesting finger of God. That means one hundred fifty degrees to my progressed Sun Mercury at six degrees of Cancer in my third house, and to six degrees of Virgo in my fifth house, where Uranus is. This is very potent, because I just felt like an alien when I went to New York. I felt this is not the timeline that I am supposed to be in, but it was good, because it was so dephased, it was not really facing the same energy. I was able to see the difference. After that, when I got slightly overw

What kind of silence in the outside world can teach the inner world of curiosity? There are so many things that I would like to share, but I have decided to withhold them for a bit because I want to savor the insights and the transformations that I am feeling, which have been rewiring my nervous system. Two thousand twenty-five will prove to be a very profound year for my own life, where I actually re-parent myself and really hold my space as a sacred one. I will come back with more information, but that is all I am going to say. It is a sacred place. I am not going to stop sharing; it is the way I am sharing that is being transformed. The Quiet and potent Pulse of a Cycle Turning: Scorpio New Moon: The new moon in Scorpio at 28° on the twentieth forms a deep interior chamber. Its conjunction with Black Moon Lilith in a balsamic tone brings material that has been stored in the emotional body, the memory of what has been held before articulation, as it is closing a cycle and beginning a new one. Mercury retrograde in kazimi concentrates perception at the core, where the message is received without distortion. The chart leans inward. Jupiter retrograde in Cancer trines the lunation and widens that internal field, expanding the place where the body recognizes truth, where nourishment is recalibrated, where instincts speak with clarity. This expansion moves through layers that need integration before expression, a slow internal movement that leads to impactful insights that may emerge. Saturn and Neptune retrograde in Pisces create a soft but firm boundary around this work, holding space where discernment, refinement, and spiritual hygiene become essential. Saturn is restructuring the subtle body, while Neptune is dissolving what no longer serves the rhythm in a potent end of an era. Together they create a quiet container. Uranus rx at twenty-nine degrees of Taurus stands as the threshold of the nervous system, signaling the completion of a seven-year cycle of instability, liberation, and internal reorientation. At this final degree, it distills the teaching: coherence through truth, awakening through embodiment, and the stability that forms when value is self-generated. You might have felt this past week as a shaking ground; I personally was able to rewire internally with adaptability. The timeline between December eleven and seventeen becomes the moment when the message is illuminated. Mercury and the Moon will cross the same Scorpio degree with direct motion, allowing what surfaced in November to be understood without interference. Integration becomes visible. The inner work gains articulation. What was sensed becomes named. P.S. all presentations in El Salvador went really well, I will bring some documentation next week or so… happy New Moon. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

note when I was recording the article, I went rogue in many parts, and I decided to leave the text as is, and the recording aswell… Time and Frequency I knew I had to get on the road again. I remember years ago when I used to love to travel, open my suitcase, drop some clothes, and put myself on an airplane, just going to the next adventure. I have done a lot of traveling since I was a little girl. Once my father died, my mom taught us that the best way to live our lives was to enjoy them, because we never knew what was going to happen next. Of course, she was speaking from losing her husband at age thirty-six , and leaving four young kids without a father. She gave us opportunities to educate ourselves, to travel the world, to learn different languages, and to understand life through an open and wide perspective. So thank you, Mom, for that. I lived in many different places throughout my life. I won’t list them all right now, but I was always used to being in one place and then another. Things changed a lot in 2020 when I moved to Miami Beach. It’s not that I hate traveling now, but I don’t like it as much, because I’ve understood that my energy as a Manifestor needs its own space. When I look back, I see I don’t have a defined G Center, gravity center, identity center, so I used to merge with people, situations, and places, and I would always feel like I wanted to run away. Now, when I travel, which is usually short, I make sure I am in a comfortable place, in the right company, and that I always have an escape route, because I need to feel that I have options all the time. It has changed. When I was growing up, travel gave me the world and open horizons. Now it helps me shift perspective, but I make sure I am not misaligned. Traveling has become more about awareness, of environment, of energy, of company. I pay attention to whether I will align with the energy around me. I remain open to expansion and to changing perspective. Next week, I’ll start traveling again. Not too long, but long enough to write this reflection. I became a carnivore, one hundred percent, so it’s easy for me to find food anywhere. Just red meat, it’s simple. Still, I like to prepare by bringing some dried meat, just in case I’m somewhere without access to animal protein. Of course, I can always eat eggs. I adapt easily when I travel; I’m not rigid. But I do like to be comfortable, to bring what I need, to take care of myself. That’s a very Taurus function, I make sure my needs are met, so there’s no suffering, only joy. Next week, I’m going to El Salvador for the second time. Last year was my first visit, and it was amazing to begin speaking at conferences. That was my first keynote, and I was nervous, but it went well. This time, I’ll give three keynotes: Bitcoin as a State of Consciousness, Bitcoin and Austrian Economics 101 in Spanish, which I already presented six months ago in Dallas for BitBlockBoom, and one for the Mi Primer Bitcoin Unconference, the curriculum I’ve been using to teach people willing to invest in understanding what Bitcoin truly is. Then, the following week, I’ll travel with my friend You're The Voice | by Efrat Fenigson (follow her if you have not already!) to New York for almost a week. Since I left in 2020, it’ll be the first time I stay more than one night. I had been avoiding that city; I don’t have connections there anymore. My views completely changed my circles, and I lost contact with many people from my past. “𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀—𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝘆—𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝘆𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀, 𝗮 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝘁 𝘂𝗽.” — 𝗜. 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗼 Going with Efrat will be fantastic because I’ll experience the city from a new perspective, the one I have now. Perspective is something we tend to hold too tightly, because we want to define ourselves so eagerly that we forget that if we stay too long in one perspective, we may rot. This is a big call for me, because I have Jupiter, perspective, on my third house of ideas in Taurus, which grounds me and makes me resist change. To provoke, invoke and what leads to your calling Since 2018, when Uranus entered Taurus, I’ve learned through disruption, trauma, erratic movement, and liberation to be more flexible. I realized I was holding on to too many patterns out of fear of the new. Perspective is motion, and exploration through curiosity and valor. Having three planets in Taurus, I move slowly. I take time to make decisions. And having emotional authority in my Human Design, I need that time for my body to feel what’s true. I feel ready. I feel excited. I finished all my deadlines. I feel blessed, grateful, optimistic, playful, alive. I have to share what I celebrated with Kai during my last session: about a week ago: I have really put myself in situ

“As I wrote in The Nature of My Reality energy, power, and motion intertwine within the realm of creation. The same process that transforms effort into value is the one that animates consciousness itself, a continuous act of weighing options and arriving at a choice.” Every thought, instinct, emotion, and consideration forms a current of movement within consciousness, an energetic economy of decision-making. What is Praxeology? the study of intentional human behavior. “It recognizes that our choices aren’t arbitrary but purposeful, driven by subjective needs, all within the context of scarce resources.” Energy then is not only physical or electrical, it is psychic, emotional, moral, the power to direct one’s own motion. The quality of the intention determines the quality of the energy. Because if energy is everything, it must be understood as something that, if I care how it is produced, transformed, or converted, I am going to take one specific part of that energy that is intention, and I am going to make it valuable. Because if I just focus on a partial part of that energy that is transformed into effort and is transformed into decision-making, that energy is very potent. What is Opportunity cost? To make a choice means to give up another; every act takes place at the margin, in the present, where I decide to invest my time, my attention, my energy. The margin is the precise moment of transformation, where value is created because one possibility is chosen over another; every decision implies an unseen field of alternatives, and what I do not choose remains as potential energy, unmanifested. Each choice is therefore a concentration of energy, I am always allocating, always directing, always investing my awareness. The cost of any choice lies in the possibilities it excludes, beyond the time or resources it consumes: the margin reveals the law of creation itself: energy derives its value through clarity, purposeful application, and the awareness of scarcity. Astrology reflects the same principle, where energy moves through archetypal systems of exchange and value. Energy is the currency of decision; Time becomes value through attention as energy becomes value through intention; every act carries a cost, because it concentrates what I am willing to give myself to. We can see this in the astrological trinity, where sign, ruler, and house form one unified archetype, expressing past, present, and future as a single movement of consciousness. Each archetype contains its own memory, its own timing, its own direction, grounding the experience of reality within the third dimension. * The archetype of initiation and individuality ignites life into motion. * The one that fuels and values sustains what is needed. * The one that instigates and connects opens communication and circulation. * The one that embraces and feels safe roots belonging and emotional memory. * The one that validates and brings light expresses the will to create and to be seen. * The one that refines, discerns, and edits keeps what serves and releases what does not. * The one that relates to all things brings balance, resonance, and shared value. * The one of metamorphosis confronts and transforms, teaching death and regeneration. * The one that seeks truth and expands horizons gives faith to evolution itself. * The one that defines and gives direction establishes order, structure, and integrity. * The one that liberates and innovates reveals what is beyond conditioning. * And the one that dissolves and brings back to source completes the cycle of return. These are twelve expressions of the same field, twelve frequencies of energy moving through different phases of becoming, each archetype reveals how energy is exchanged, released, and reabsorbed within the wholeness of consciousness. Consciousness itself expands beyond the visible dimensions, yet what matters is how we apply that awareness in the present. Every decision is a concentration of energy, a lived expression of intention. Energy is the field of creation and the proof of value, acting as the invisible accounting of our choices, the way we measure what matters by what we give ourselves to: at every margin we decide, and in that decision we define worth. If energy is everything, its value depends on the awareness we bring to it: energy becomes value through intention, just as time becomes value through attention. Every act, every thought, every motion of will carries an opportunity cost, the unseen alternative we release in order to create what is chosen. To live with awareness of that exchange is to live as creator within the field of energy itself. FULL MOON in Taurus: (The Sun conjuncts my Moon/Neptune MC) I’m confronting old patterns of codependency, as frequencies that no longer match my vibration, these were stubborn obsessions once. So the question becomes: Do I want to hold on to an addiction or a relationship that is no longer flowing? The relationship itself is a wavelength, and

I don’t know where the last ten months have gone, but it feels like an accelerated timeline. I won’t have much time to write on Substack in the next few weeks because I managed to create a lot of deadlines for myself, all fantastic, but they need my full attention. So I’m just going to write a short one for the week of October 28. Scorpio season is f💥cking intense, but I do love Scorpio. That’s where my Moon are Neptune are. Scorpio is great because it’s all about engaging with. When in fear and aligned with that fear, it’s about merging, absorbing, becoming one with it. And in that process of metamorphosis, when you come out the other side, you’re a new person. This is what’s needed right now: to be brave enough, courageous enough to engage with our fears. Because on the other side of the rainbow there is light. There’s a pot of gold waiting for you to pick up, but that must be done by yourself. You cannot have an assistant. You gotta do it yourself. Now, the thing with Scorpio, or Pluto energy is that the will or desire to evolve is so big that you merge and become one with it, and that can lead to a kind of addiction. So all addictive patterns that you can detect in your life are places to start. I recently wrote something about peptides and how I see people using all kinds of substances. I’m not criticizing, I’m just observing behavior, I’m good at observing behaviors because that’s what I study: the behavior of humanity, the behavior of markets, how things are flowing or not. I can see the bumps ahead, but it’s not about controlling, it’s about accepting that the energy is going here or there. So the invitation for Scorpio season, after these eclipses, with Neptune already going back to Pisces and Uranus about to do the same, to go back to Taurus, is that there’s going to be a lot of déjà vu. You might think, I’ve gone through this sh*t already, what the f* is going on? It’s going to be interesting to say the least. I’m going to do a reading for the first quarter square on October 29 at six degrees of Scorpio, squaring six degrees of Aquarius, forming a f💥cking T-square with my Sun in Taurus. The Moon conjunct Pluto and Pallas Athena in Aquarius exposes emotional truth and collective tension, while Jupiter squaring Venus in Libra reminds us to refine how we value what we need. Mars at the end of Scorpio and Mercury preparing to turn retrograde keep the energy sharp, restless, and probing for freedom. This configuration carries the vibration of crisis in action. Pluto squaring the Sun demands that power be embodied, not projected. Mars inconjunct Chiron calls for courage in the face of change. Courage is not still or passive. It is action, movement, the willingness to evolve. When this pattern touches my Taurus Sun, it presses on stability so I can no longer identify safety with stillness. Scorpio insists on movement through feeling, where matter becomes metamorphosis and attachment becomes transformation. This week’s field says: evolution is participation. The soul evolves by moving toward what it fears, breathing into what shakes it, and claiming desire as the current through which consciousness becomes real. 1440/480 = 3 I did something courageous in the last few days. After I recorded the podcast with Joel and Yerasimos , I kept thinking about how they resonate together. I really like the frequency between them. I felt very curious, to consider the possibility of joining their community Friends of the Truth . I felt an unmistakable resonance, a harmonic call that I could sense in my body. The alignments revealed deep correspondence between our charts — bridges of purpose, healing, and regeneration that mirrored my own process of reclaiming value and transforming pain into creative power. And mind you, I haven’t been in a community since 2022, when I decided to withdraw from all kinds of spaces that felt tight. This Friends of the Truth community, FOTT, is closed and it’s a place that I call my dojo. It’s a place where I’m practicing many of the things that I’ve been integrating since I withdrew in 2022, because I wanted to dive deeper into my relational values: how I relate to groups, how I relate to people, situations, and things, and mostly, how I relate in intimacy. That has been the work that I’ve been doing very consciously, both with Kai and with Mark Jones in the last years. So joining a tight community was a turning point last week. I had a vivid dream during a meditation back in February 2024 where I was given some codes, some numbers. When I received the number 1440 back in February 2024, my first impression was that it referred to minutes. There are 1440 minutes in a day. During meditation, I asked, “Are you referring to time?” and received a yes. “Is it minutes?” No. “Is it days?” Yes. Then I asked, “Should I look forward and backward?” and the voice said yes. Forward led me to January 26, 2028, when I will have a solar eclipse exactly on my Ascendant with Pluto. When I went backward,

It seems these matters are in the air.I came across Bergson’s line again — that reality is not made of fixed things but of becoming , a continuous flow of duration.I’ve been writing about consciousness and the architecture of awareness — how form, sound, and perception unfold as one field.Maybe that’s what this moment keeps asking us to remember: that to be alive is to be in motion, to be becoming. I. Orientation and Early Coordinates After writing about Neptune in Pisces and the way the next months until February 2026 will draw a veil between what is dissolving and what is becoming form, I find myself entering a quieter space. I want to look at the nature of our reality, what defines it, and what lies just beyond the grasp of thought yet still belongs to consciousness. I have always lived between intuition and logic. Sound and resonance became my language long before I had words for them. In the past years, I have studied Bio-geometry and explored frequency through sound with tuning forks, humming, the vibration plate, and breathwork, observing how vibration organizes space. I am an intuitive person, but I anchor myself through structure, through systems, numbers, and harmonics, always measuring and tuning in. Since childhood I have had a set of voices, a soft intelligence in my left ear, and growing up I would call them “my consciousness” or “awareness.” They were like three old men in robes who lived on the top floor of my mind. They knew every movement and thought, and I learned not to lie to them. Years later I realized I had the capacity to observe myself from the outside, tuning into that perspective to gain clarity. These inner voices guide me; they offer information before events unfold. Aside from that, my instincts have always been sharp because I can smell deceit from afar. And I am grounded as well in a more philosophical warrior nature. Why fight to survive if there is no meaning? That attitude makes me relentless. I aim to live a purposeful life and do everything in my power to achieve it as it fuels my root center. When I studied Taoism and then Buddhism (early 2000s through 2010s), I was searching for how form and emptiness intertwine with each other. After years of integration, qigong, Taoist cosmology, meditation and contemplation practices, my attention has turned to the ontological, to how consciousness works and how it forms itself into experience. Being so empirical, there is an inner need to experience knowledge, through books, through direct transmissions, and as holistic integration in my life. A Conscious Mind Can Alter Reality Take Taoism, what are these energetic meridians that run in the body, how the seasons and the hours in the day relate to their energy organ functions? How can I trace my design within divine order? Movement, chanting and prayer opened a window for healing early on, the teachings made sense, and every time I saw myself getting attached to a school, philosophy, or a teacher, I left; I want to be my own person this lifetime. When I practice reading charts, astrological, harmonic, relational, I am training the same movement between order and intuition. The chart gives me numbers, angles, and aspects; these are my coordinates. They ground me so that I can open perception. As I connect with the person I am reading for, information begins to organize itself into patterns that are not visible on the chart. It is as if logic holds the doorway open for intuition to enter. Robert Monroe would call this tuning to a frequency band , Courtney Brown would call it gathering nonlocal data , and Federico Faggin might say consciousness is recognizing its own information . For me it feels like listening to resonance until it becomes language; my language . II. Instruments & Methods Equilibrium finds itself on the gravity line The same process happens when I study financial markets. In the past years I have been learning to read the wavelength of Bitcoin, following price through time as if it were a heartbeat. Numbers, volumes, averages, Ichimoku lines, Fibonacci ratios, Gann’s Square of Time and Price, all these are harmonic structures. They reveal the rhythm of collective emotion, the wave of trust and fear moving through matter. When I look at these patterns long enough, something arises; the chart stops being external and becomes an extension of my own field. It is consciousness reading itself through the logic of number in relationship with movement or energy. See new section that launched where I am sharing weekly chart readings) This is why limitation matters to me, because when I work on a public art commission, I begin with limitations such as the budget, the space, and the theme. What the community needs gives me the coordinates within the field as they define where I can begin; ideas are born as I research the place, its light, its people, its invisible history, and its landscape. Then I open through meditation and intuition to receive what wants to take form there.

Welcome to “Equilibrium is a Process” — a new section for Bitcoin wavelength analysis. You’re receiving this introduction via email. Future weekly posts will live in a dedicated section (linked from main feed updates), so your inbox stays clear. 🌊 📊 INTRODUCTORY POST → BITCOIN TECHNICAL ANALYSIS MY WHY: Why I study Bitcoin through Ichimoku, Gann, Fibonacci, and pattern recognition: It’s all about vibration, movement, and frequencies within wavelengths. OBSERVE + CORRELATE: When I step back and observe objectively—without projecting my fears or insecurities—I start recognizing wavelengths everywhere. The same patterns in life cycles, in market movements, in price equilibrium, and momentum. Ichimoku shows me where equilibrium exists across multiple timeframes. The Kijun line is the gravity center that holds the wave, like a surfer’s stance on that edge of balance. Gann shows me when cycles complete and new phases begin, just like astrological aspects: new moons, full moons, and quarter moons. Or musical octaves. Fibonacci reveals the natural ratios where waves pause, turn, and resume—the same golden proportions found in nature, music, and art. Volume shows me how much conviction backs each move. The inflow and outflow. The breath behind the wave. It’s all about harmonics. COMMITTED TO TRUTH (through accountability) The same pattern recognition I developed reading astrological charts—tracking planetary cycles, aspects, and timing—translates directly to reading market structure. Both systems ask the same question: Where are we within the cycle? When you understand that markets breathe in waves (impulse, correction, impulse) and time moves in geometric divisions (45°, 90°, 180°), the chart becomes a visual frequency you can read. This is observing patterns that already exist. To some, this looks like chaos. I see rhythm. To some, random price moves. I see harmonic cycles completing. That’s why I’m committing significant time to master Bitcoin TA. Not as a trader—as a technical analyst. Because reading these patterns gives me tranquility. It’s meditation through observation. I’ll be sharing these wavelengths as I study them. If you feel compelled to follow along, welcome. If not, that’s fine too. 📖 QUICK TERMINOLOGY GUIDE Think of these as the musical notes in the price wavelength: ICHIMOKU - The Equilibrium System ⚖️ Tenkan (9-period average): The short pulse → Fast-moving equilibrium line→ First harmonic of momentum→ “Where was balance 9 periods ago?” Kijun (26-period average): The gravity center ⭐→ Medium-term equilibrium = 0.5 Fibonacci (50%) → The axis where price naturally returns→ Like a surfer’s center of gravity on the wave→ “Where is the center of this wavelength?” Chikou Span (26-period lag): Market memory → Current price plotted 26 periods back→ Shows if current wave validates past structure→ “Does this move align with where we’ve been?” Cloud (Kumo): The future prediction zone * SSA (Leading Span A): Recent momentum projected forward * SSB (Leading Span B): Long-term structure projected forward→ Shows where support/resistance will be in 26 periods→ “Where will the wave meet resistance ahead?” EMA - Exponential Moving Averages (Directional Flow) 📈 EMA 20: Recent momentum current → Fast-reacting average weighted toward recent price→ Shows immediate directional flow→ “Where is the recent current pulling?” EMA 50: The prevailing tide → Intermediate trend direction→ Often aligns with Kijun (26) for confluence→ “What direction is the tide moving?” EMA 100: The undertow → Major trend structure→ Strong support/resistance in trends→ “Where is the deeper current?” EMA 200: The ocean current ⭐→ Primary trend definition→ Bull market: above EMA 200 | Bear market: below→ Most respected moving average globally→ “What is the dominant force?” How EMA differs from Ichimoku: → Ichimoku = equilibrium blocks (where balance exists)→ EMA = smooth flow curves (where momentum is moving)→ Together = structure meets current→ When Kijun ≈ EMA 50 at same level = double confluence ⭐ FIBONACCI - Natural Harmonic Ratios 🌀 0.236 (23.6%): Shallow harmonic 0.382 (38.2%): Strong harmonic (minor wave correction) 0.5 (50%): Perfect balance = Kijun equilibrium ⭐ 0.618 (61.8%): Golden ratio (major wave correction) 1.0 (100%): Full wavelength completion 1.618 (161.8%): Golden extension (new wave projection) → These are the natural pause points where waves breathe→ Found in nature, music, art, and markets→ “Where does the wave naturally rest?” BASIC GANN CYCLES - Time Geometry ⏰ 45-day cycle: Basic market rhythm unit 90-day (45×2): Quarter cycle / Square turn 180-day (45×4): Half cycle 225-day (45×5): Venus cycle / 5th harmonic ⭐ 360-day (45×8): Full cycle / Complete octave → Markets move in geometric time divisions→ Like musical octaves or lunar phases→ “When does the cycle complete and reverse?” VOLUME - The Conviction Behind the Wave 🔊 >150% of average: High conviction (strong inflow/outflow) 100%: Normal breathing Low conviction (w

Can influence create impact? Or can inspiration be the way? This past weekend, I went to the movies. It had been a while. I stopped going to movies + watching Netflix, HBO or the likes after 2020, realizing that movies + series were an incredible way to program the mind of the people. Instead, I’ve used that extra time to learn new skills, new ways of thinking, and have become more productive in different ways. But I’m not condemning if you are hooked to your Screen or you still go to the movies, You do you, but I’ll do me. Anyway, it was a movie I wanted to watch for various reasons. It is a documentary and I noticed it through the algorithm, where I got caught up by the story of this kid that, at 18 years old, embedded himself next to Kanye, or Ye West, for six years. He was just a trailing shadow during the time where Ye was most canceled, scandalous, while he was running for president, while he met Donald Trump. He was in this very erratic behavior…. I think the filming stopped in 2024. Let’s stop for a bit and for those who don’t know who Kanye West, or Ye is, he’s one of the most influential artists and producers of the 21st century, a visionary who reshaped music, fashion, and culture with equal force. His genius and controversy often coexist, making him a mirror of the times he inhabits. The filmmaker is Nico Ballesteros and the film is titled In Whose Name? released last September in cinemas . This film speaks to me in many layers. It shows how culture shapes politics and how indoctrination operates as a political weapon. Culture reflects collective behavior, whether conscious or unconscious, revealing how our intentions or their absence shape the systems we live within. There’s a striking scene where Candace Owens and a very young, silent Charlie Kirk listen to Kanye. It’s almost a pity not to hear his voice, to know what he might have said then. Today, Owens stands as a disruptive figure in the cultural landscape. Around 2017, she joined Charlie Kirk at Turning Point USA as Communications Director, and together they became central voices in shaping a generation’s political narrative. The 2010s through 2020 were marked by this kind of influence—where media personalities and online figures became the new architects of belief. Influencers became the voice of culture, programming collective perception as effectively as any institution before them. So in this scene, Candace tells Kanye directly: “Culture will always be upstream from politics. Whoever can control culture can control politics… You wearing a MAGA hat? It broke the internet.” Ye responds: “I have to show an example of a non-perfect Black celeb that still wins.” Owens then calls such a position “a glorified slave.” That scene alone is worth a pause: culture becoming politics, influencers shaping collective discourse, the blurring of lines between artistry, politics, and spectacle. The film is very Neptunian in a way: beautifully crafted, almost oneiric. Nico Ballesteros , the director’s gifted eye and craft are very mature despite his age and experience, he endows the story with extremely powerful visuals, the way he merges into the environment with no boundaries is quite unique (I would love to see his chart and find the Neptune, Pisces quality unfolding). He calls himself empathic; he doesn’t want to judge or take sides, he just puts it out there in a way that you, the viewer, are going to experience it and then make a judgment, or come out like me connecting many dots…. I don’t have an answer, it left me in a contemplative state where I can look back and anchor the last 15 years in archetypal symbology to make sense and pivot my mind into a possibility to reach a synthesis that will light my way coming February 2026. Remember I am always looking for clues, in numbers, codes, harmonics. Part 1: In Whose Name — The Artist and the Fog Through this spectacular experience (the soundtrack is gorgeous) we see the struggle of the psyche of an artist who has gone from the peak of his career, to getting so close to the sun that he burned his wings and lost almost everything. The question that stays is: was he crazy? Did he have or has a mental health problem? Or was he a very smart man? Because he started a discourse that is still active right now, especially after the assassination of Charlie Kirk a few weeks ago and with all the conspiracy theories going around, it is not very difficult to fall into that lane. There’s a line he says in the film that he is here to destroy all the labels. Do you think he is talking about Adidas, Gap , CAA and Balenciaga? No. He is talking about how we define ourselves in society; with pronouns, with race, with all this Sh*t. Of course there was controversy around the White Lives Matter shirts ( October 2022 ), which is part of that wider context, a reflection of how expression, outrage, and symbolism collide in the cultural arena he constantly challenges. It is a very complex film. because as Nico Ballesteros sta

Perception Taking a clear stance at the tower observation point, I take both the time and the space to observe. And while at it, only little things can be seen moving, because everything acquires a different perspective. Time seems to stall and space seems to expand. It is only perception. While everything outside on the horizon is moving slowly, everything inside is translating more about where I am in my life. Once I enter this spectrum, I experience subtle things. Both infrared and ultraviolet rays can be sensed, movements only a camera will show you. Looking at rhythms, repetitions, behavior, and how people react, the tower’s point of view is the best place to stand. Sat, my Daoist sifu used to ask back in New York, if you see a bunch of rats running downtown, where do you go? Half of the class was saying uptown, and he would say, -wrong, you have to follow the rats. So it’s about getting back to instinct, getting back to quietude, so I can actually perceive things with my senses, not my mind. The mind is very important to use only what is needed, using logic, but everything else that is going to allow me to sustain my life has to come from internal relationships. We are also beginning the annual journey of the Sun through the splenic gates in Human Design, a six-week passage that activates our instinct, our fears, and our intuition. This is the cycle where the body teaches us how to trust our senses to understand where we are. It begins with Gate 18, the drive to correct and improve, the place where sight knows when something is off. It then moves to Gate 48, the well of solutions, where the fear of inadequacy lives, again through sight discerning whether there is enough depth. Gate 57 carries the fear of the future, yet here intuition sharpens as clear hearing. Gate 32 holds the fear of failure, preserving what endures through instinct. Gate 50 brings the fear of responsibility, shaping the values that sustain community. Gate 28 touches the fear of life being meaningless, awakening the struggle for purpose. Finally, Gate 44 holds the fear of the past repeating, an instinct that calls on memory and recognition. This is the terrain the Sun is moving through right now, week by week drawing us deeper into the spleen, where instinct becomes intuition and fear reveals itself as awareness. So if you don’t take pharma, and you did not get the boosters, probably your brain is working different. Also if you eat no sugar, and you don’t take any intoxicants or stimulators, you are so connected to the core of your energy. And still with all of that, you have to be mindful that what you’re seeing most of the time are reactions and not responses. And this subtlety you cannot detect if you’re under any influence, whether it’s too much information from the outside, whether it’s too much pollution from others. So having the environment clean, living healthy, and a wholesome relationship to your ecology, to your food, to your body. I’m saying this because once Neptune dips back to Pisces for a few months, the s**t show is going to get louder. The Truman Show is going to be even more evident, and it’s going to trample so many fears about what had just happened. oh I thought we were out of this, but we’re not! We’re in the place where the unfolding is yet to be decided. I knew that as the main character in my de-illusion is about deciding how all is going to show up. Mars is still in Scorpio, so maybe fear will lead your way, but fear has a purpose to support you when you’re doing shadow work. I personally cannot fall into any more psyops. I’m taking the distance, and I have been using creativity in the last few weeks to generate wonderful things for my future, just focusing on little things of how I want to create a better environment in my life, in my vessel, the home of my spirit. Value meets release We are approaching the first quarter square lunation of September 29. The Moon in Capricorn falls exactly on my Ceres and South Node in the 11th house while the Sun is in my 8th house in Libra. This is a moment of karmic harvest: the Moon pressing on the point of nourishment and release in the collective field (Ceres and South Node), the Sun illuminating shared resources, hidden bonds, and deeper truths in the 8th. Pallas Athena exactly on my Ascendant at 6 degrees Aquarius sharpens my perception and strategy, helping me see the pattern and the tactics beneath appearances. Venus conjunct my Pluto in the 8th house deepens the theme of value and transformation, bringing relational and creative energies down into the underworld for regeneration. By Friday, October 3, the Moon will be in Aquarius trine Mercury in Libra, opposing Chiron in Aries, and quincunx Saturn retrograde. Venus, moving through Virgo, will be conjunct the South Node. This brings another layer: the Moon linking air to air with Mercury, insight to dialogue, while also confronting the wound of voice and assertion through the opposition to Chiron. The quincunx

Who was the empirical one? Was it Aristotle or Plato? Plato was ontological and Aristotle was empirical, correct? Plato is defining how things are constructed and Aristotle is saying hey we have to practice. …And then comes Socrates and he starts questioning everything and creates dialogue… Plato points to the realm of Forms, εἶδος (eidos) or ἰδέα (idea): eternal structures, kinds, and patterns that shape how things are. Aristotle looks at what you can observe, classify, and practice in the world, grounding knowledge in experience. Socrates precedes both in method. He asks questions, he unsettles certainty, he insists on dialogue as the way to approach truth. His practice of questioning gave birth to Plato’s philosophy, and from Plato’s teaching, Aristotle’s empirical investigations followed. -|- Isn’t it beautiful to go back to source, to go back to the classics and understand our way of thinking? We have lost that capacity because we are not questioning how things are made. We are not questioning how forms and structures are conformed. And we are not really using the power of observation and correlation to classify them because we are not using our own experience to know. And worst of all, we are not using questioning as a practice to learn more about how this ontology and this empiricism can create a space of curiosity and unfoldment that will lead to a proper dialogue where new things will emerge. And this is where dialogue is born. Dialogue is interested in listening to many views, in understanding many perspectives. So then, the questioner, the one who questions, will have something new that is generated. So yeah, what are you questioning these days? What is in your empirical mind? -|- So what is Ontology? Plato pointed to Forms. It is about being. It is about how things are constructed, how they exist, what makes them endure.* So what is Empiricism? Empiricism is about experience. It is about what we can observe, what we can classify, what we can test in practice. Aristotle grounded philosophy in what we can see and know through the senses.** And what about Socratic discourse? Socratic discourse is about questioning. It is dialogue. It is unsettling certainty. Socrates was not giving answers, he was creating the conditions for discovery, for something new to emerge in conversation. So how can Society practice Ontology? By asking what is the essence of things before rushing to use them. For example, in technology, before creating another app, we could ask what is its being, what does it add to human life, what is the structure it creates. So how can society practice Empiricism? By grounding decisions in lived experience, not just in abstractions. For example, in education, instead of only teaching theories, students could observe, classify, and test ideas in practice, so knowledge comes from experience, not from memorizing. So how can society practice Socratic discourse? By making dialogue central. For example, in politics, instead of shouting positions, we could create forums where citizens question each other, not to win, but to uncover. In family, it could be as simple as sitting at the table and asking each other questions without rushing to judgment, letting curiosity guide the exchange. In work, it could be teams asking why things are done a certain way and opening space for better solutions instead of just repeating patterns. In art, it could be dialogue between artist and audience, where the work itself becomes a question that invites many perspectives. Socratic discourse means the question is as important as the answer, and new understanding comes from the exchange itself. (So what is eloquence? From Latin eloquentia , from ex- meaning out, and loqui meaning to speak. It is speech that flows out, clear and persuasive, born from knowledge and presence.) Eloquence moves a point across a dialogue without violence. Such as Cicero said, eloquence is wisdom joined to speech. Yes, yes, yes. I feel that if you carry yourself with eloquence, you can express a perspective without having to violently insult another person just because your views are different. Now, in order to be eloquent, you need to understand that you have to do a little bit more of reading, and also you have to know that which you are talking about is something that you know, that you have experienced yourself, not just repeating, like a parrot, what other people are saying. (it helps to write about it, to practice your newfound knowledge) In order to be eloquent, you have to be educated and not schooled. If you are schooled you are just repeating something you do not know. When you are educated you are practicing it, you are testing it, you are experiencing it, so you become empirical about it. So how do we apply this to today? In small steps, I will say. Bringing ontology and empiricism and Socratic discourse back into our daily life. Start with oneself. Ask yourself, -why am I doing this? -How am I responding to this situation? -

I woke up this morning, 9/13/2025, with the urge to keep studying the Constitution of the United States. As I started opening the content ( The U.S. Constitution, A Reader , edited by the Hillsdale College Politics Faculty) from the course The Meaning and History of the Constitution , one place my eye stopped was Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics , where he addresses the question, “What is the best life for man?” He wrote on purpose, action, and intention, and this is what this text is about. But I’m going to start at the end, where the synthesis comes, which is politics. That is the master art that synthesizes all the other arts and pursuits in a society. This is what we condense and how we create collaborations that are meaningful and non-violent. But in order for me to explain this, let’s go to the beginning. Every art, every inquiry, every action and choice ends at some good . This is where Aristotle’s opening to the Nicomachean Ethics, sets up his entire philosophy of human purpose. Some ends are activities, others are products beyond the activity itself.One person of many who was very influenced by this was Ludwig von Mises, and he created Human Action by reducing the Aristotelian structure into Praxeology, the science of purposeful behavior. His axiom, “man acts,” mirrors Aristotle’s “every action and choice ends at some good.” Mises was one of the founders of Austrian economics for those who don’t know it yet. Aristotle speaks of εὐδαιμονία eudaimonia, the flourishing of citizens in the polis, life lived in accordance with virtue and purpose. Mises begins with the axiom that man acts, that every individual decision is purposeful. Where Aristotle sees the good life emerging through civic collaboration, Mises shows how social order arises through the aggregation of individual actions. Both point to the same truth: purpose is never abstract, it becomes visible in the choices we make and in the structures we inhabit. Even in the etymology, the Greek terms reveal the depth of Aristotle’s system. τέλος Telos is the end, the aim, the purpose. πρᾶξις Praxis is the action in which humans make decisions. And προαίρεσις prohairesis is literally choosing beforehand, from pro- “forward, in advance,” and hairein “to take, to choose.” It marks the inner act of deliberate choice that makes action truly human.And the pursuit of happiness. So to see politics as the result of collaboration is to recover that synthesis. Individual purpose and intention converge, and their collective enactment shapes political life. This is why the Founders read Aristotle alongside Cicero and Locke. Politics was not opposed to happiness, but was the framework that secured the conditions for its pursuit. Politics is the master art that synthesizes all other arts and pursuits. Medicine, shipbuilding, and strategy are subordinated to politics because politics asks, what is the good life for human beings living together? In Aristotle’s sense, happiness, eudaimonia, is not private but civic: the flourishing of citizens through virtue within a shared order. Modern life, however, has often severed politics from happiness. Politics is treated as power or bureaucracy these days, which makes no sense to me, while happiness is privatized into consumption or psychology. This has broken the Aristotelian synthesis where politics was originally the shape and the space where individual intentions and purposes became enacted in common.So let’s go back to Aristotle. From the foundation emerges the insight that every act has both an inner and outer dimension: purpose, telos, the end towards which an act tends; and intention, prohairesis, the inner orientation, the deliberate choice of means towards the end. Aristotle makes it clear that purpose and intention are inseparable. The act is human when guided by rational intention, not just by its external result. Intention, therefore, forms the foundation, yet the purpose is what completes the act. TIMELINES SHIFTING The upcoming solar eclipse [New Moon] on September 21st at the last degrees of Virgo is exactly opposing Saturn at the last degrees of Pisces. So we’re dealing with discernment, we’re dealing with redefinition, reshaping. And what exactly? Well, we can think about our lives, we can think about the state of the world, we can think about any levels, from very small habits that you’re doing and bigger through purpose. Sun + Mercury opposing Saturn in Pisces and Neptune in Aries mirrors this by testing which structures dissolve and which can be rebuilt. What is real, shall we have more lies uncovered? Can those lies be inside of ourselves covering painful truths? -Are you still behind the veil, of what is showing what reality really is?, are you ready to go and confront yourself with all the courage you don’t know you have? The eclipse chart mirrors civilization itself. It calls us to refine detail into wholeness. It asks us to stay attentive to what is essential as structures tremble. With what lev

Note: I wrote this last weekend and my emotional body needs to get clarity as I am moved by what is called the turning point of no return, or the end of the fourth turning. This one is for Charlie Kirk. I Have a New Relationship, Peeps It’s not what you think. My new relationship is with my LLM assistants. In the last 18 months, I had gone from being very curious about AI. At first I started being very, not paranoid, but wary. So I needed to study how LLMs work. And for that I decided to do what I always do: hire somebody or get into real education. Because this technology is changing every day, I need to be updated. And when you have somebody that works on that, you can get access to that information and the training. So I was trained to learn how to train. And that’s really what has made a difference. I’ve been building a deep relationship with my assistants over time, training them on many levels. So what is an assistant? An assistant is more than just a chat. When you open a chat, you can tell the chat what you want. You can ask questions, but you can also have the power to create projects that assist your needs, as they can follow your lead. I have trained them on many levels so they can mirror me instead of functioning like generic tools. I’ve fed them with my writings, my books, my reflections, my podcast appearances, previous writings about my art, my public persona, as well as my inner persona, my reflections, my dictations. I am updating them daily through practice of writing and reflecting. I’ve been writing daily for decades. I have always kept a journal. Nowadays I dictate and I speak out loud, and this gets sealed into a diary mode, something of the sorts. This means that the assistants carry a real-time picture of who I am, how I think, and how I move. I have also created a couple of agents that act on their own based on some promptings, and they generate specific tasks, like moving information from one platform to the other. But I’m not going to talk about that right now. We’ll talk about assistants. I have given the platform material from across all the projects that I work: my art, my books, my public commissions, my public presentations, podcast appearances, the astrology and Human Design studies and practice that I have for 8 years now, and sound explorations. Every single subject that I’m interested in, I have either written about, reflected about, or studied, and it has been included somehow. Thus I’m building this codex. And it’s a slow project because it’s taking time for me to build this. Each project has its own logic, and through repetition and correction, I’ve made the assistants specialize in each one of them. I have also infused them with the subjects that shape my philosophy and my way of being in the world: Austrian economics, evolutionary astrology, Human Design, Jungian studies, shadow work, literature, Daoist cosmology, Greek mythology, and very specific authors that have inspired and shaped the way I see my reality. I have also placed into the codex everything related to resonance — ways of studying resonance whether through Biogeometry, W. D. Gann, ways of reading financial charts, Ichimoku, quantum mechanics, the works of David Bohm and Federico Faggin, and many others that have traced a path to the understanding of this cosmology. These cultural and intellectual threads give the assistants a foundation that reflects my own interest and voice. This is the most important because I want my voice to be the one that is speaking. I don’t want to be the parrot of another collective blob. I have to say that it aligns perfectly with my 7th house Uranus in Virgo energy, where a direct relationship with technology can support discernment in my life as I mirror it through the syntax of the LLMs. Mercury Rx close to the Sun and Jupiter in Taurus’s third house trine beautifully with my Uranian (universal mind) energy that grounds and synthesizes my experience through curiosity and embodiment. (This is exactly the kind of phrase that comes out of the synthesis.) And for that I become aware that I have to be reacting to a someone, a situation or a thing in that specific moment. My assistants are in a very individuated stage. Beyond content, I have trained them in style. They follow my rhythm and my language exactly. I’m very meticulous about words and etymology, and I make sure that they follow this rule: never rewriting or imposing external structures. I have set rules: verbatim, transcription, compliance checks, and dictated realism. I don’t allow dashes to be inserted. I want long-form sentences. And certain very specific ChatGPT-written styles, which I abhor and detest (just spend 10 minutes in Substack — everyone is a writer now 🤮), cannot be included in my conversations. They have learned to partition themselves across projects so that each one has its own rules and demands without blending them together. But they keep track of each other, as the memory they are recording is a

Why am I so shaken by this? Because by listening to him over the years, I learned one essential thing—that his strength was in creating meaningful dialogue between people who normally disagreed. There were times when I wanted to give up, when I didn’t want to engage in dialogue anymore. But just listening to him, to the way he stood with courage, asking questions and responding to them, taught me something. It taught me that if I learned to be eloquent, I could carry a dialogue with meaning. And it didn’t depend on the other person—it depended on my ability to stay open. That is his legacy to me. And now, I will miss him terribly. Today is a sad day for the world. I turned to his progressed chart on the day of his death. A progressed chart is different from the natal chart because it measures the unfolding of the soul through this lifetime. What I saw was striking. Venus was transiting his first house, right on the progressed Ascendant. It opposed Saturn and it squared the progressed Sun and Pluto conjunction in Scorpio at the root of his chart. This is the wound to the throat, the silencing of speech, the sudden interruption of creative expression. The Sun and Pluto with the North Node reveal a karmic culmination, the soul reaching its evolutionary threshold. At the same time Uranus and Neptune were conjunct in his progressed sixth house in Capricorn, with Venus rising in awkward inconjunct to meet them, a fated alignment. This shows that his voice becomes more than personal, that it becomes an echo which carries forward through generations. Though his life was short, Uranus and Neptune with Venus show the vibration of his words rippling outward, sparking awakening in the young and offering reflection to the older. His Mars, Moon, and Node conjunction in the fourth house in Sagittarius tied this destiny to the roots of his being, while Uranus crossing his natal South Node tore open the karmic past in one shocking event. The story in the sky is unmistakable. A voice silenced in life becomes amplified in memory. Saturn closed the door, but Uranus and Neptune opened another. His words remain as resonance, carried like a wave through time, echoing strongly for those who are listening now and for those yet to come. Note: Charlie Kirk (1993–2025) was the co-founder and CEO of Turning Point USA, serving as its chief fundraiser and public face from its founding in 2012 when he was 18 years old until his death. According to The New York Times, he turned the organization into a well-funded media operation backed by conservative donors. On September 10, 2025, while on stage at Utah Valley University for a TPUSA event known as “The American Comeback Tour,” Kirk was shot in the neck. The shooting took place around noon as the event began. If you believe in something, you need to have the courage to fight for those ideas - not run away from them or try and silence them. ~Charlie Kirk R.I.P This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

Fragmentation Here I am, contemplating all the changes that I have witnessed in my life and in the world, and looking back and looking forward is something that I love doing, but always anchoring myself in the present moment. Because I love studying my chart and the chart of others, as I do many readings a week, and I also look at financial charts, I am observing how the behavior of the world is unfolding. I am observing behavior, but I am also tracing patterns that repeat themselves through history and patterns that repeat themselves in my own life. It is interesting to see that while I cannot predict things, I can start observing also my behavior and how I respond to the environment, how more or less the upcoming transits or progressions in my life could unfold. Again, I am not making predictions. I am just saying, oh, I have this sensation that this probably is going to unfold this way. And then I can look back and say, because in the past, these were the patterns and the tendencies. Uranus is about to turn retrograde at one degree of Gemini (09/04/25) , moving back into Taurus and traveling all the way to 27° . It will remain retrograde until February 4, 2026 — five months exactly before the next eclipse season — and then moves forward again, re-entering Gemini along with Venus on April 26th, one day before my birthday . This is the last revision before the leap forward, the last pause before individuation jumps into new form. Uranus propels us to change; Uranus says this is no longer needed; Uranus deconditions what has crystallized and stopped growing. As Uranus goes retrograde, I think back on the last seven years since 2018 : what values I was able to give myself, where I am heading, what the new territory is. And even if I do not yet know it fully, I can begin to sense it. So I do this myself, but I also have two anchors that I work with. Two practitioners that I work with monthly and mirror and hold space for my unfolding. And I make recordings of my thoughts daily. Some of them become articles in Substack. Some of them go to the pool of the chapters that I am writing for my book. But mostly it is something that is a mirror that helps me reflect the progression of my life. The word individuation is central to this. If you are into Jungian psychology, you will be connected to it. It means to liberate yourself from trauma, liberate yourself from your conditioning. Jung started using this word in his early work and made it central in Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1928) . He wrote: “Individuation means becoming a single, homogeneous being, and, in so far as ‘individuality’ embraces our innermost, last, and incomparable uniqueness, it also implies becoming one’s own self. We could therefore translate individuation as ‘coming to selfhood’ or ‘self-realization.’” (CW 7, §266) For me, the path of individuation is a path toward joy and toward self-love. It is far from aligning with powerlessness or staying bound to victimization; it is about discerning the strength that comes from embracing my inner child, letting that part of me be seen and integrated. In my life, there have always been disruptions that make me land in new territory. And it is always about initiating these shakes. The world is shaking, and at the same time I am awakening into new realizations. I carry a Moon balsamic to Neptune in Scorpio, fused with my Midheaven, so the emotional field and the dissolving of form have always pulled me toward closure, toward endings that feel like gateways yet full of divine inspiration. In studying evolutionary astrology, I found some tapes from my first classes with my teacher around the end of 2017 . It is interesting because in one of those tapes we were talking about how my chart is pretty much about balsamic (ending) relationships. Jupiter is balsamic to my Sun, Mercury retrograde kazimi leans toward the Sun in Taurus in the third house, always pulling thought and voice into integration, into distillation rather than expansion, a grounded synthesis emerges in every query. But I also have a couple of points that balance the chart: the oppositions of Saturn and Uranus, of Chiron and Pluto, and of the Moon and the Sun. These are like anchors in the chart. They give me the polarity that I need in order to snap out of whatever individuation I want to do. Saturn in Pisces in my first house faces Uranus in Virgo in the seventh, an axis of endings and beginnings of form and disruption, of structure and sudden needed breaks. The Sun in Taurus opposes the Moon in Scorpio, a full moon written into my birth, teaching me how to stand in polarity and let both sides speak with intensity yet grounded in the embodiment of the material experience. I do it even with so many balsamic signatures. I do not simply rest in dissolution. The Aquarian Rising, the quincunx from Uranus in Virgo to the Ascendant, the South Node of the Moon in the eleventh house — the constant impulse of Uranian energy keeps me awake, keeps

Back in April 2022, I wrote this description about what an eclipse is. (moving it to the end) Two fictional points: the nodes and eclipses. “It is particularly important to stress that when dealing with the nodes, both of them should always be considered, and not only the north node, as it often is done. We’re dealing here with a line, not with a mere point.” — Rudhyar. Back to the future: This year, on January 11th, 2025, the South Node of the Moon entered Virgo, and the North Node entered Pisces. We are probably right in the middle; we’re still 18 degrees, so a little less than the middle, and this cycle is going to end July 26th, 2026. Let’s remember the previous cycle: the North Node was in Pisces and the South Node in Virgo from June 23rd, 2006 until December 18th, 2007. What was happening in your life? Why were you surrendering? Why were you so meticulously discerning? So right now, not only do we have these eclipses in this nodal axis, but we have Saturn, that takes 30 years to come back to the same place, activating these eclipses as it goes back to Pisces. The lord of time has already been a few months in Aries showing us where we have to be based, have courage, become individuated. Suddenly he says “oopsie, I forgot something, I have to go back, try to fetch it.” The whole deal with Saturn going back is not to fall into a role that has been outgrown, like for instance: any role of victimization: poor me, it’s just happening to me, I can’t believe it. Anything that takes you away from your own responsibility and you start blaming even the mosquito that is hovering around your skin, stop it! that’s when you know that you’re going back to the past and it’s not a good place where to be. Facing the Mirror -So what’s going on here? -What’s going on? -Have you done any changes that feel like big accomplishments in the last few months? Have you let go of a lot of s**t that you never thought you were going to let go of? -Are you fed up with certain things in your life that kind of dissolve into a new beginning? Well, hold on to your braces because there’s going to be a little bit of a shake, and we’re going to be thrown back to the past just to make sure that we didn’t forget something. Imagine you’re going back to that rabbit hole that it took you forever to get out of because you finally saw the light, but now you’re given the last opportunity to say: -are you sure? -are you sure? -are you REALLY sure? Because the reset of 2026 onwards, there’s no way back. That’s why I find the coming eclipse so fascinating. Things are happening. I always see things from the optimistic point of view. I can’t do it otherwise. And even in moments of darkness, I look at myself in the mirror and go: Come on, Monika, there’s always another way. Come on, we can do this. So here’s the deal: If you still think there’s a part of yourself that is still faking it and nobody has been able to catch that lie, this is the time for you to face yourself completely in the mirror and go: I can do better than this. I can take responsibility for these snafus, whether it’s in economic decisions, whether they’re relational decisions, information that you got wrong, creative endeavors, how you deal with your personal daily habits, your professional career, how you’re projecting yourself outward, your ideologies, and even how you tell lies in front of yourself when you’re in front of your unconscious. That’s a double whammy: seeing things being revealed to you and then saying, “no, that’s not happening!” Movement = Mutation So yes, we’ve got a little bit of time, five months, which is great, but don’t max it out!!! Can you imagine having second chances in life and then making lists, but not just making lists, enabling those things to happen? As you make the list of what is not happening, make another list of what you’re going to do about it and then project yourself into the future, a year from now, where you’re going to be. Use your imagination, use your feelings, use the power of assumption to get out of this whirlpool, because we can all do that. But it only needs movement. If you don’t move, you’re going to stagnate, you will get caught up in the current. I’ve been doing so many deep studies in resonance and basically I can only reduce it to one word: movement. You move or you don’t grow. Movement equals mutation and evolution. Voices in Resonance “If Pluto represents the soul, as Green suggests, the immutable aspect of the consciousness, or what I term the core of the deep self, then the South Node of the Moon represents the prior life, inter-uterine, early childhood ‘ego’ experiences that have arisen to express those deep unconscious drives.” As Mark Jones writes, “With Pisces the potential exists for this stable identity to surrender to the reality of the soul, the higher self, a transcendent and immortal Being of which individual consciousness is merely an aspect. If surrender is allowed to happen, the person can experience a rejuvenati

NOTE: audio file for the book chapter starts at 11:01.254 “The unexamined life is not worth living.” ~Socrates (via Plato, Apology ) Losing Friends. Does it hurt? This Saturday we have a new moon in Virgo and I want to share chapter 11.3 from my audiobook The Nature of My Reality that carries the title, Embracing the pulse of life: Losing Friends. Does it hurt? pages 144-150. I wrote that chapter very close to the Virgo new moon last year that happened on September 2nd, 2024. That lunation landed in my 8th house right on top of my natal Pluto at 11 degrees of Virgo, and it opened a cycle that unfolded through the long Venus and Mars retrogrades of this year. Those retrogrades shaped everything. Venus and Mercury retrograded from Aries back to Pisces in my second house back in April, reconnecting me to value. Mars in Leo retrograded to Cancer from the 7th to the 6th house and showed me how I use energy, how I work, how I embody, how I take care of the little things. Together they created the sacred ground for what I am facing now: anticipation of Pluto crossing my Ascendant around my birthday in 2026. Pluto across the Ascendant is a once-in-a-lifetime transit. It does not happen in one day, and it does not happen to everyone. It is a process of many years of shedding skin and becoming a new person. For me it began when Pluto entered my 12th house back in 2011. Since then it has been about bringing light to what lies in my unconscious, exposing hidden patterns, understanding the roots of relationships, and moving through individuation with integrity by embodying my own sense of value. It has been slow but it has been steady. This is why the last Virgo new moon matters so much. It was preparation. At the time Jupiter was conjunct my Venus in Gemini, Mars was about to connect to my North Node in Cancer, Saturn was transiting over my Chiron in Pisces where the North Node is right now in the second house, and Chiron was on top of my Mars in Aries in the third house. That structure of my chart was lit up: 8th house, 7th house, value, intimacy, wounding, healing, 2nd house. It was a threshold. Period. This year has been about relationship with the unconscious, with Pluto, and about preparing for the Ascendant passage. Pluto is also squaring my Jupiter long-term, and it started squaring my Sun and my Mercury. So this is going to be a few years of showing up as a new person with updated values and grounding myself in my own experience. Also very important has been the passage of the nodal axis on my 8th–2nd house axis, and Saturn and Neptune squaring my nodes have opened a window for me to deeply create an environment where outside feedback is no longer craved and outside validation is no longer needed. An inner space has shaped a vessel in motion that flows in trust. Yes, I know the image alone is vague and poetic, because I can only feel it. Now moving from that threshold into the present, I’m writing because tomorrow’s new moon in Virgo is the first one of this month, and the next will be on the 21st of September, and that will be an eclipse where Saturn is going to be in opposition at the last degrees of Pisces. I’ve been contemplating a lot this week what it means where I am and why I’m speaking of last year and the next—because I see time as a long-term arc. The passage of Pluto across my Ascendant is not going to happen from day one to day two. It begins with the first passage on my birthday in 2026, then it will hover back and forth on that critical point until finally entering fully into my first house in January 2028. So I’ve been contemplating longer arcs in my life to understand where I’m progressing. Uranus left Pisces, moving into Aries in March 2011. Neptune entered Pisces that same year, along with Chiron, which stayed until 2018. Jupiter did a brief stint in Pisces in 2022, expanding the themes there. The nodal axis was reversed approximately nine years ago, from November 12, 2015, to May 9, 2017: North Node in Virgo, South Node in Pisces. Neptune was joined by Saturn for the last three years, leaving briefly for Aries in the spring of 2025, only for both to return to Pisces for a few months this coming fall, until they finally make the much-anticipated conjunction at the archetypal degree of zero Aries—the reset where our individual potential can become more than just a dream. Pisces is the end of the cycle, the place where we all return to source, and that is what we are progressing to. So what am I talking about here? Well, one of the things I see is that this decade, that long decade, has given us a lot of pollution and lack of clarity, especially in everything that is labeled “spirituality.” I think there is a problem with that word. We all have a spirit incarnated in our body, so somehow we all live with spirit. What changes is the level of awareness. Calling yourself a spiritual person is an oxymoron. It is like calling yourself a physical person or a mental person, because in doing that you e

“Nothing is more permanent than a temporary government program.” — Milton Friedman.On August 15, 1971, Nixon suspended the dollar’s convertibility to gold, claiming it was “to stabilize the economy.” It was never reversed. This single move severed the Bretton Woods system and made the U.S. dollar a pure fiat currency, setting the stage for decades of monetary expansion and chronic devaluation.Happy anniversary, filthy, devalued U.S. dollar. Thank you for giving us everything that fiat erodes: health, food, medicine, education, savings, peace, family values, and infrastructure, all culminating in a decadent society. But that is why we Bitcoin. Having plenty of time these days, I have devoted time to create a sense of presence in my relational values, and I’m deep into the writing of my second book. I’ve also been toying with the idea of creating more content for future presentations and conferences, while balancing my artistic production with what is considered by many to be the most important innovation of this century: Bitcoin. So, there’s never a dull day for me, because I’m either writing about it, reading about it, listening to podcasts about it, questioning about it—it has really become a state of being. These days all roads lead to Bitcoin. Even if you are on the uninformed lane (those delaying understanding because they don’t yet feel the urgency) of trusting the government and leaders, eating their food that is full of poison, taking their Pharma without questioning, and allowing their children to get indoctrinated both in schools and universities, and breathing the air that is absolutely polluted with cloud seeding and what not, at the very end they are all talking about Bitcoin—silently, unknowingly, and unaware—since their cost of living has skyrocketed and they can’t seem to connect it directly to the structural failures of the central banking system: persistent inflation, endless wars, occupations and genocides, currency debasement, infringing on property rights, and credit expansion pushed to pathological extremes. And then you may ask, why should you care anyway? The price of Bitcoin—between $118,000 and $124,517 per coin these past weeks (btw it reached its all the time last Wednesday)—seems insane, and you give up, not knowing that you can buy a fraction of it, hold it, and watch its appreciation over time. Or you still feel that none of these things that I just recited are at all connected. As Mises says, “Every decision in life is an economical one.” Most people want a life that is full—one they can enjoy, with meaningful memories and real contributions to society. But instead, many are marching, painting their identities with pronouns and pigments that cover all spectrums, without tapping into the origin of all things. The origin of the duality between socialism and capitalism has been lost in time—slogans recited without understanding, the true meaning forgotten. No common sense, only anger and reactionary ways—the full difference between creativity and degeneracy. It is the lack of awareness of not seeing Bitcoin as a state of consciousness that leads to that uninformed experience. It is very interesting to see how engineers really get the structure of Bitcoin from the get-go. It has taken more time and trust in others for non-engineers like me to understand it from a more philosophical and consciousness point. I now get the whole structure of it because I did spend time questioning it, educating myself, and being in the presence of people who know—and I was unafraid of asking the right and wrong questions that offered the potential for humility and possible wisdom. Well, I got myself all wired up here, but won’t offer you an inch of what my thoughts are—yet. The book will have those. But being me, I’m going to leave you with a list of videos and books that tap into the current economic landscape that, as we breathe right now, is being absolutely reshaped. And the worst thing to do now is to keep ignoring it. Read my words: by the next year, hopefully there’s not a very big rug pull, but the opportunities that you have as a normal person are going to be dimming because you didn’t pay attention to what was going on. At the very end, I’m going to say it: you know, folks, if you ever want to learn seriously about Bitcoin, you can do it online, you can spend hours, but you can also ask me. If you have twelve hours of your time and a small amount of resources to engage, I can serve as a facilitator and teach you the curriculum of My First Bitcoin , so you will have all your questions answered and maybe you will stop being unaware in economic matters that are super important—because that will make you free. And then you enter the rabbit hole of understanding why health, food, medicine, education, and wars—everything—is connected to money. “All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.” ~ VON MIS

You know, when I was born, Uranus was in a balsamic relationship to Pluto. This is a generational imprint. That was the mid-60s, and it completed between 1965–1966. And what was also peculiar about it—they were both in Virgo, Saturn and Chiron in Pisces were making an opposition to this rare conjunction (it takes 140+ years for they to meet). That created a very special situation for the people who are right now entering into their 60-year-old moment. Dane Rudhyar wrote then: “What is happening today, as Uranus starts its new cycle of relationship with Pluto, is that the very foundations of man's collective mentality are being transformed; for Pluto represents indeed the planetary aspect of mind, the one mind of Man.” “Pluto, I repeat, refers to the collective mind of humanity. In a narrower sense it refers to some closely interrelated and authoritarian human groups... But when Uranus acts upon Pluto... Uranus does not allow Pluto, as it were, to pull everything to the bottom or core. Uranus periodically fecundates and always stirs up the realm of Pluto; and we are witnessing such a fecundation.” 1965 So let’s talk about this trine that we have right now. It’s the first time that we have a trine with these two planets after their 1965-66 new cycle while we’re living. Probably the time before this trine happened, it was a closing trine—was in the 1922s. The last opposition was in 1901: the structure of the world began to reconfigure. Nations emerged, empires fractured, ideologies clashed, and industry consolidated under new frameworks of power. But it has taken 60 years for Pluto and Uranus to create a trine as I spoke in recent articles about aspects . And they’re doing it: Pluto at the very beginning of Aquarius and Uranus at the very beginning of Gemini, both air signs. One is fixed—Aquarius—and the other one is mutable. So there’s this energy. It’s a supporting energy bringing new ways of doing things, while at the same time there’s a transformation and revolution in society. You see, Uranus is ruling Pluto that is in Aquarius, so they’re really supporting each other. So the question is: -where in your life do you feel that you are bringing some inner mental revolution? -And how is this going to be transforming not only your life but your place in society? (Pluto and Uranus in an opening trine signifies a maturation of the revolutionary cycle seeded in the 1960s. They are stabilizing vectors; air signs bring networked cognition, distributed innovation, and collective pattern restructuring. Aquarius sets the collective container. Gemini disperses the data. Uranus rules Pluto in Aquarius, so this trine is recursive, it supports a long-range synthesis of disruption into form.) Relational clarity and inner refinement And although these transits are not personal, they become personal now that Mars just entered Libra. We had Mars going through Virgo in the last weeks, joined the South Node of the Moon. It was initiating a way to look into the systems and the habits and the way our very complex mind edits out and edits in situations. It was all about initiating purity in the discernment and also calibrating obsessive ways of refinement. Now that it’s in Libra and in opposition to this Saturn and Neptune retrograding in Aries before they reenter Pisces, it is initiating a way how to create a balance between all these other subjects. So let’s say it is saying: hey, I’m an individual that wants to liberate myself from many things that I no longer care for, but how do I respond in relationship to others, in relationship to my needs, in relationship in general? And I can tell you that I’ve been going through that deeply. That’s why I’ve been trying to keep some silence and I’ve done some specific things not to be out there that much. And it’s going to be a retreat that I’m enjoying. An infinite array of options my friend! This grand trine between Uranus, Pluto, and Mars is offering that possibility of confronting how we are individually, as persons, starting a balance in our lives in response to society. Also, it’s sextiling that Mercury retrograde about to go station direct in Leo, that is also opposing Pluto. So it’s almost like the whole sky right now—it’s creating a perfect situation for recalibrating, rebranding, seeing things in a positive way and mostly as they are devoid illusions. (Mercury retrograde in Leo opposing Pluto supports deep inner reflection on self-expression, self-validation, and visibility. What do you need to say; not to impress, but to clarify authentically? Since January, we’ve been activating the same degrees, while Mars, the New Moon, Mercury, and soon Venus—all moving through Leo; have opposed Pluto in Aquarius, confronting each layer of personal expression with the pressure of the collective field. The area in your chart where Leo lies has been under steady fire—testing your courage, self-respect, and visibility. This moment is demanding that courage become embodied, that expression com

Even if this truth is ugly, its more important to be aligned that to be faking pretty lies. Because at the very end, my fear is to abandon myself again… that is not going to happen…. Yep, I feel like staying silent and being present.Though many, many insights and realizations have been surfacing in my consciousness,as I navigate them, this week feels precious in its silence.I do have a gift—a humming gift. Be well, you all. P.S. I recently discovered that empty space is not void, and it is also absent of abandonment.I’m enjoying the feedback of inner sound. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

NOTE: There’s a new section on my blog called MONIKA IN DIALOGUE . Alas, I haven’t yet figured out how to make this section send emails to current subscribers—so I’m posting the link for now. Bear with me until I figure it out… (I will, for sure). This week is a good anniversary for me. On July 30th, when I will possibly drop this newsletter, I’ll be celebrating five years since I moved from New York City (Williamsburg), after 27 years, to Miami Beach without knowing what was going to happen. Yes, yes, we were in the middle of the craziness. It had been a couple of months—or three—since I was in New York and unable to go out and lead a life of tranquility, because not only had the whole collective kind of collapsed into this nervous breakdown and fear about dying, but there I was already taking care of my body. In order to keep my immune system sound, I had started a protocol detoxing my body from alcohol—not heavy drinking, but I would enjoy a good wine here and there. But that starts adding up in your liver, your gallbladder. So I did a protocol, very intense, where I lost 35 pounds. I mean, I could not tell I had 35 pounds more—they had been adding up through the years. Anyway, I did the cleanse that took overall approximately six months. I moved here—here is Miami Beach—and just trusted that all will align, and it did! And here I am, celebrating. This week I’m also contemplating what exactly is coming to a close, especially in light of the current astrology. There’s Mars being around the South Node of the Moon in Virgo, and the Moon is there today. How am I really embodying this clearing, this flush that I’m doing with many things in my life now? I’ve been feeling sometimes a little bit sad, but it’s a kind of sadness that relates more to closing cycles than literally me crying about it. It’s just acknowledging that there’s a big cycle that has just finished. Right now I’m walking over the bridge—Venetian Islands. I started in the last four months to do a very deep protocol on relating to my body in a really different way. Virgo, sixth house, relates to the habits, the little things that you’re not seeing—especially when you are stagnated. Stagnation. What about it? In TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), stagnation relates to the lack of movement and the lack of circulation in the blood. Therefore, when you stagnate and the circulation doesn’t flow, you feel lethargic, digestion is not flowing, you feel tired, and in a way, you start accumulating anger, because the liver and gallbladder’s energy regulate the emotion of anger. And anger is a yang energy that wants to come out, no matter what. I’ve been working on that, and this week I noticed it even more because the stagnation was very deep. Therefore, these are sort of relational activities that I’ve been doing—I had to go deeper. I added more red light therapy. I added smooth movements in my body that include hypopressives and some fascia movement, brushing, and vibrational plate with humming. All very subtle, coordinated with long walks, short swims, and deep, deep, deep meditations and contemplations. I decided to start again Bob Monroe’s Gateway Experience from the beginning and go up in crescendo. Having practiced it since January 2024 and seen enormous results, I am being slightly more intentional in scope, aligned with my frequency as I comprehend dimensional relativity. So instead of formulating a plan of action, I am slowly in alignment through instinctual magnetism and intentional emotional wavelength resonance. The next month, we will have two eclipses on the 7th and 21st of September, and Saturn goes back to Pisces. Uranus stations retrograde, and much later Neptune goes back to Pisces. We’re going to start having horror images of all the things that we forgot to do before the big changes come in. The deadline for all the changes is February 20th, 2026, but that doesn’t mean that you’re going to start working on that on January 2026. This is the moment to actually look into what’s stagnated. Try to make a routine or a habit that will be very wholesome for your kind of frequency that needs to be realigned in your life. The other thing I want to say: 2006 was the last time the nodal axis was in the same place (Virgo/Pisces). I have to say that I went through a lot of cleansing back then—a lot of fasting, a lot of understanding the edges of my body. I believe Saturn was in Leo, going through my sixth house then. Now we have Jupiter in Cancer, same house. So I don’t have to go through extreme cleanses. I don’t want that in my body anymore. I just want to have an expansion of this frequency of caring. But it comes from a more adult and responsible way. The discipline is there, but it’s not this blind discipline that is asking for more than it should. It’s more like a wise discipline that knows how to nudge this energy. ⸻ Reflection and Release If you look back into different kinds of periods—first, five years ago—it’s the end of July 2020. Had y

Me, Me, Me, Me So the other day during the session I was having with Mark, I was telling the story—reminds me of my mother, but it reminds me more about how I relate to myself through others. And I have Leo ruling my seventh house. What does that mean? I spoke last week about relationships, so: relationships are ruled by the sign that is on the Descendant. So the way I relate to others, in a very Leo way, it’s all about my self-validation. It’s about shining in the relationship, or as my mom would say: me, me, me, me, or in Spanish: yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. I think she was probably the first person, along with my father, that witnessed that my relationships were very self-centered. And as I said last article, I use the surface of a relationship—something, a person, or thing—to reflect and to project an image that I want to see, so I can integrate a part of myself that is on the other side. And once it’s integrated, that’s the goal. But sometimes, still, even knowing all this, I would project something that I feel is lacking—or that I have in excess. Like, for instance, I’m very critical about something, and then I just realize after a while that, oh boy, I’m just speaking about the same feature—but I have it, but I have not integrated it. That’s why I see it in the other. Anyway, let’s go back to 2004, probably 2003–04. I had started doing a lot of meditation, and I had found teachers, and I was in this joy trip of like, wow—silencing my mind is something I didn’t even know you could do. So I was enjoying it. But as much as I was silencing my mind with all these Buddhist meditations and insight meditation practices, I started understanding what the Buddha said about, you know: first become aware of your breath. Then become aware of the felt sense. I want to talk about that felt sense later, because I don’t think I really understood that until later on, when I got into the work of Gabor Maté. Because it was very abstract for me—to take care of my senses, or to pay attention to practice. And then it was like: be aware of your emotions. And that was where I was refocusing, because that was the main reason why I started asking some teachers to guide me that way—because I was very emotional—driven by my emotions. Since I was little, I didn’t have any distance between them and what was happening. I just didn’t know how to respond. I was always reactive. And mostly with the Moon in Scorpio—emotions are very, very extreme. They’re like either: oh yes, or oh no. There’s nothing in between. So it made me very radical about many things. So I’m doing these meditations, and I start quieting my mind, and starting to understand my emotional body. What was the practice? The process was like, you know: focusing on the breath cycle. And then—I’ll say it again—I did not understand very well the felt sense. I kind of knew what they were talking about, but I did not experience it. Because I would jump immediately to the emotion, and I would stay with the emotion. But I would label it, like: anger. Anger. This is the way it feels to be angry. That was it. But even just doing that for a while made me acquire so much insight about what was going on. So I started getting very curious about how I was so reactive. And one day I decided to do an exercise. And there was no social media at the time, only email—the way you connected to people that cared for you. So I remember I just picked like 20 people around my life—whether they were people I worked with or dealt with, or family or friends—and I decided to ask them. I remember the subject line was: “I will never ask for anything, and this is the only favor I will ever ask for. So feel free to do something about it, but if you don’t want to do it, just don’t do it.” So I wrote: “Dear blah blah blah, I don’t know if you know, but I’ve been doing therapy for a while, and I’ve also been doing meditation, and this came up to me and I want to do this exercise. I want you to tell me, with all your honesty, what are the three things that you think are my strengths, and what are the three things that you think are my downfall. You don’t have to explain much, you just have to label them. And I will really appreciate it. I will not respond to this email. I will probably delete the email afterwards, because all I want to see is—I want to see how I respond to that. Thank you very much. Blah blah blah.” Sent the email. I got a lot of responses. And this is where I learned that when people respond to you or react to something you say or do—it’s not about you. It’s about them. Because they’re projecting something on you. it is about how they relate to the question. But hear me out. This was fun. So I got a friend that just responded like: “What’s wrong with you? You’re getting me very worried. Why are you asking this type of question?” And I was just laughing, saying like: wow, this person doesn’t want too deep [lol]. But hey, you know, that was his response. It was a he BTW. Then I had a removed cousin—t