Available tomorrow at 6pm: This piece is a gift as we are in a profound time of delusion, disillusion, dissolution and renewal. With the Moon moving into Cancer today, we are invited to connect deeply with our inner world, with our emotional needs, and with the parts of ourselves that have been waiting to be embraced. As Mars in Cancer stirs action from the heart, this is a moment to step into clarity—not through force, but through synthesis. I hope this finds you at the right time...

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Synthesizing the Uncertainty and Collapse of Structures

Every time we give our power away—to a government, an institution, or even a tribe—we distance ourselves from our own accountability and authenticity. A tribe will always have a hierarchy, and if you’re seeking approval, you’re surrendering your authority to something outside yourself. Get a grip. Align with yourself first. That’s the only way to truly stand for your inalienable rights—not just in theory, but in action. When you do that, you’ll naturally find people to collaborate with—voluntarily and nonviolently. Keep making decisions that serve your life, your values, your reality. Because at the end of the day, value is subjective, so no one else can define it for you. Every choice you make carries weight, but only your human action will determine the outcome. Not a pre-set precedent, not a government—just you. #getagrip

This year I chose to practice the virtue of discernment. My practice: observing and analyzing BTC trends - I love it! Today based on daily, 4h, 2h and 1h timeframes using Ichimoku technique: • Strong green candle breaking 86k resistance with substantial volume suggests bullish momentum • Cloud twists forming across multiple timeframes (especially tomorrow's 2H twist) signal potential trend reversal • Remaining cautiously optimistic until Chikou Span breaks free from congestion and rises above cloud • Price navigating between key support at SSA (87.1k) and resistance around 89k • Daily chart shows accumulation despite flattening twist structure • Watching if volume continues strengthening above VMA on successive bars to validate breakout vs temporary spike • Price interaction with key levels will determine if this is sustained momentum or false breakout

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GET YOUR PRIORITIES IN ORDER War – Defense – Money Devaluation Murray Rothbard: happy 99th birthday sir! 
“The government produces nothing; it only redistributes wealth and resources that it extracts by force.”
(Power and Market, 1970) War is a business. Governments justify massive spending in the name of “security,” but who truly benefits? December 23, 1913 — The Federal Reserve begins. Every war since has been funded by money printing, diluting your time and wealth. Ludwig von Mises:
“War is always destructive of capital and wealth, never productive.”
(Human Action, 1949) Every war is paid by taxpayers. It depletes resources, fuels inflation, and burdens the people—while governments treat it as an economic strategy. Since 1913, war has been financed by destroying your purchasing power. Saifedean Ammous:
“Governments that rely on money printing to finance war ultimately erode the value of their own currency.”
(The Fiat Standard, 2021) War is expensive. When governments can’t afford it, they print money—robbing you through inflation. If war must be fought, let it be paid with real assets, not your devalued time. War, defense, and money are connected. Get your priorities in order.

I enter the cave, where silence wraps around me like a second skin. No voices, no distractions—only the sound of my own breath echoing against the stone. For 40 days, I stay. I do not seek light; I let it find me. I do not ask for answers; I let them surface. I strip away the excess, the noise, the illusions. I hold each thought to the fire: Is this worth it? Does this give me value? Is this essential? And deeper still: Is my purpose equivalent to my authenticity? As Venus retraces her steps from Aries to Pisces, through the cavern of my second house, I weigh what remains—what is mine, what is true, what cannot be taken. Only what withstands the silence becomes precious. #venusretrograde

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I’m incredibly grateful to the MTA Arts & Design Digital Art Program for commissioning my work Ouranos, Above Us Only Sky at Grand Central Madison. This two-minute animation plays across five massive screens, blending real and imagined skylines into a crystalline landscape that symbolizes life, time, and human creativity. Unfortunately, it’s a temporary installation, so if you’d like to see it, you have until this Sunday. It plays every few minutes at Grand Central Madison. More details below: Ouranos, Above Us Only Sky • Year: 2024 • Medium: Animation • Commissioner: MTA Arts & Design – Digital Art Program • Location: Grand Central Madison, NY Inspired by praxeology and open market principles, this piece reflects on non-violent cooperation, the division of labor, and how free exchange shapes civilization. It becomes a beacon, infusing imagination into our lives and celebrating collective dreams. @mtaartsdesign #publicart #monikabravoarchive20224

Afterthought: The Art of Synthesis in a Dying Age *(Perhaps you have noticed, dear reader, that in the past month, I have been using different tools to speak to you. Not facts, not doctrine, but poetry, beauty, inspiration—for these are my main tools. Astrology is a tool. The movement of Neptune and Saturn is a tool. Kalí Téchni—the skill of doing the right things—is a tool. We are at a threshold, much like Dante, much like Damiel. One foot in the old world, one foot in the unknown. And it is our action, our human action, that will shape what comes next. I have always worked like this. I gather—words, images, fragments of the past, echoes from history. I appropriate, reconfigure, destroy, rebuild. This is the art of synthesis. This is how meaning survives. Only the will to act. Only the will to shape what comes next. *HUMAN ACTION—the art of free will.*

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The Pulse of Volatility Volatility is movement, the breath of change. The word comes from volatilis—“to fly,” something fleeting, ever-shifting. Originally used for substances that evaporate quickly, it evolved to mean instability, unpredictability—never still, never fixed. But nothing alive is static. A flatline means death, whether in the heartbeat, the markets, or creativity. Markets mirror the emotional body of the world. Bitcoin’s recent drop reveals this—fear contracts, greed expands. The charts don’t just track price; they trace human sentiment, a wavelength of reaction and perception. But not everything oscillates at the same rhythm. Just like in music, tension builds, peaks, and then releases. Life follows the same pattern—growth, contraction, transformation. Mastery is not in control but in understanding. Recognizing patterns, aligning with the flow rather than fighting it—this is where clarity begins. I don’t just watch—I observe, correlate, and synthesize. Bitcoin, USDT, gold, and treasury markets move in response to shifting emotions, each revealing a different layer of collective sentiment. Nothing stands alone. Seeing the full picture means layering perspectives, tracing the pulse of change across time and space. In the end, it all comes down to human action—the choice to react in fear or to move with awareness, embracing volatility as the natural current of life. Keep HODLING if you will.

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Eight years ago, under the same Venus retrograde, I was thrust into the depths, met my own darkness, and in that encounter, glimpsed the face of truth. Now, eight years later, I return to tell myself the story—to make it real. I may share it, I may not.

Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge. -Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy canto XXVI

The sun today gate 55.6 Individual responsibility Material wealth and individual spirit are dependent on each other. At a high vibration The emotional awareness that material abundance and individual spirit are interdependent. Finding the spirit through materialism. Shadow The self-interested spirit that makes materialism become obsessive and refuses to let others share the wealth.

“Perhaps there is another city Marco Polo has yet to describe is one where no emperor controls the currency, where value arises from human action, not decree. But that is a tale for another night. Satoshira, the City Without a King.” A whimsical interpretation of current times. Read the whole thing here

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The Cities of Vanishing Wealth Trading in Shadows, Speaking in Light A poetic reflection on transits—woven into mystery, in the mystery. “In Chao,” Marco Polo tells the Khan, “a merchant can buy a caravan of horses with a single slip. A spice trader, burdened with nothing but a scroll of inked characters, may cross the desert and return richer than before. The city thrives not on metal, but on belief.” The Khan listens, tapping his fingers on the lacquered armrest of his throne. “And what happens,” he asks, “when the belief fades?” “Then,” Marco replies, “the city finds itself full of paper and empty of trust. At first, the officials assured the people that each note could be redeemed for gold, for silk, for silver stacked high in the imperial vaults. But the scribes began to write more notes than there were vaults to hold them, and the markets filled with wealth that existed only in the ink of a promise. The more paper they printed, the less it was worth. Keep reading :

The Cities of Vanishing Wealth

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Thank you, Efrat, for sharing this! My writing and creativity have been shifting inward, leaning more into the lyrical, satirical, and abstract—letting inspiration weave itself through rather than explaining everything outright. The current astrological transits are calling for this shift, and I’m embracing it fully. 👇 View quoted note →

There are cities built on promises, cities made of reflections, and cities where value is neither held nor decreed, but simply created. Marco Polo speaks, the Khan listens. Somewhere in the spaces between illusion and reality, a question lingers: what remains when the mirage fades? Tonight at 6 p.m., a new article drops on my blog. Subscribe at www.monikabravo.blog and step into this whimsical, playful insight I bring to you.

From my last substack Glitch number three: The war is spiritual, but the attack is psychological.At the beginning of my book, I distinguish between PNEVMA—spirit, breath—and PSYCHE—soul. In this context, the soul must uncover what lies beneath the surface of the unconscious to truly master life on Earth as an incarnated being—a life lived between two breaths, a spirit contained within a material vesseL. The war is spiritual, but the attack is psychological—an all-encompassing assault on perception, memory, and choice. The soul (ψυχή, psuchē) is caught in the battlefield of conditioning, layered with illusions that obscure its purpose. Meanwhile, spirit (πνεῦμα, pneuma) remains untouched, breathing in the background, waiting for the psyche to wake up. […] Most people are unaware of the glitch because they perceive only from the psyche—the programmed mind, the conditioned emotions, the reactive self. They don’t question their choices, their fears, their financial enslavement, or the narratives they have been given. They believe in authority, institutions, and history because they do not recognize the program for what it is. Mastering life on Earth means understanding that we live between two breaths—between spirit and matter, between the illusion and the real, between incarnation and return. Are you living from PSYCHE—the conditioned self, the character scripted by the system? Or from PNEVMA—the raw, untouchable essence, beyond perception, beyond control? And if you woke up today and realized it was all a program—would you still play the role? This week’s blog post - all February posts are free Www.Monikabravo.blog