I am OPTimist

In this flow, mind and matter are not separate substances. Rather, they are different aspects of one whole and unbroken movement. -David Bohm from Wholeness and the Implicate Order So what happens when you come down off the tower into the battlefield and your point of view changes from overall to, I’ve got to deal with the next thing. Have any of you ever done either Taijiquan, shadowboxing, or Ai...

Man can choose either to identify himself with the results of the past, or to become a creative participant in the unfolding of a new cycle. Dane Rudhyar, The Pulse of Life The question these days that arises inside of me is how do you rebuild when everything is crumbling and what stands up is just the columns of old structures that no longer stand. How do you rebuild, what do you save, what do yo...

At the beginning of the year, when I wrote January Initiations , I spoke about timing; I spoke about how this year would not open with a single event, but with a sequence of initiations and activations that unfold gradually. What we are living now is part of that sequence, the Full Moon in Leo on Feb 1st, is a culmination, depending on how one experiences it, because it is preparing us for what co...

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In the past, I was used to guilt and duty as the way I showed up, where I would bring structure, solidity, integrity, and behavior in exchange for acceptance and love. Right now, what people respond to is when I open my heart, and that’s where I feel much better. I just have to slowly start trusting myself to move from one side of the neural axis to the next. Bitcoin is love. That’s how I felt thi...

You are about to enter into Monika’s universe, where her inquiry may align you to new dimensions. You are about to cross a threshold into the unknown; (surrender to the experience). The body is a temple, it’s the vessel that has density and allows us to really experience, through our senses, the nature of our reality. The body as the logos is also the doorway of incarnation, the place where consci...

You are about to enter into Monika’s universe, where her inquiry may align you to new dimensions. You are about to cross a threshold into the unknown; (surrender to the experience). Hello everybody. Today when I write this is the 1st of January. Even though in antiquity many cultures did not start the year on January 1st, the Western world normalized this date across the globe through the Julian a...

Stanza I Embodying my nervous system Oh Lord, this one is curvy and bold, sincere and curious, courageous and soft, strong when needed. This is my song for 2025.Lord, I do thank you for remembrance. I do thank my soul for listening to my inner voice screaming silence and no more attention, where distracting factors kept me from being kind to my beautiful self. Embracing a softer edge has been the...

The Beach; the Vortex; the Field Today’s Monday, just came back from the beach. It was such a beautiful moment. It was very windy, and it was very sunny, and the air was crisp, and the water was salty, crisp as well. A little bit violent, but not too much for me not to venture in. At times I think about the vortex where I live, where these lines meet and create this energy field that makes me feel...

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...

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...

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 gol...

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 togethe...

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...

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 actuall...

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...

“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 decis...

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 w...

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 becom...

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 abou...

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 d...

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...

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 th...

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 b...

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...