I am OPTimist

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...

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...

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 u...

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 ye...

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...

“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. Ha...

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 wh...

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 hu...

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 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...

Preamble I believe that the real changes of 2025 are not going to come from the outside. Although the outside world seems very surreal, and at times crazy; and many times like it doesn’t make sense, what I’m starting to understand is this: the beginning of the year was Mars–Pluto opposition, Venus and Mercury retrograde conjoined, the first batch of eclipses in Pisces and Aries, with Saturn and Ne...

A Full Moon in Capricorn is the moment when the structures we have built are illuminated; some stand; some not; but only those aligned with inner necessity will endure… To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:A time to be born, and a time to die;A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;A time to kill, and a time to heal;A time to break do...

NOTE: 👆AUDIO ABOVE is full length👆 Hi peeps, I got inspired so this article is a bit long yet juicy here a preview : Part 1 1. Ontology, Qualia, Semantics, Thoughts & Forms :: These are the threads I’ve been tracing; where language, structure, and the rawness of experience intersect. 2. Disrupting mental flow :: The mind is wired for patterns, but Uranus is here to tear through them. 3.The Natur...

This article is going to sit between the rational; so we’re going to be speaking about definitions, and the most intuitive part of myself that’s putting all these things together because this is what I’ve been observing from the place where I am right now. A lot of these movements or cultural heritage were given to me via visuals. I lived in New York for so many years, I lived in Europe, so I was...

“You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.” — Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities The Compass is Within Just look outside of yourself and see who’s cheering for what, and for whom, and who sees that is carrying the truth. And how many idols are collapsing every day, all the time? How many fake spiritual gurus are showing their true fa...