The People Who Were There, and the People Who Were Not
You will find this strange and interesting thing unfold as you go on a journey of innovation. Innovating formally means stepping out of the stream of the known. And that means stepping out of the stream of who you were.
We all go through cycles of innovation in life, but there comes a moment in time where some humans choose to take the step of “major innovation.” What this means is that they are not just switching from Punk to Rap, or an interest in Art to Ballet--they are literally pushing off from the known body of knowledge into the unknown to find what actually exists on the other side.
Sometimes this journey of Christopher Columbus ends in new discoveries, but for many it ends in ruin…
Building in New York City
For the past year Somya and I have been based out of New York City, living in Gramercy. Ironically our apartment is exactly 1 block up from my freshman year dorm at NYU called U-Hall. I love living in this part of town, right in the middle of Uptown, Downtown, East Side and West Side. It somehow feels like the major personalities of New York all coagulate and comingle on the steps of Union Square.
Notes from the front lines
War in Israel/Gaza has fractured society into a clean split between those supporting one side or the other. This "feeling" is classic SATURN-URANUS (2020-2023), with Saturn being the edifice of society, and Uranus being the crack down the middle.
This is why the current drop at Integrate This is called "Paradigm Crack". It was crazy to see how just as we launched this drop at the start of October, there was once again a major upheaval and geopolitical split that was capturing the world's attention with such a SAT-UR energy.
How it feels to be launching “a worldwide revolution”
Back when I was an undergrad at NYU's finance school in 2007 during the Great Recession, I was surrounded by what I perceived to be slights regarding the role of commerce and society.
It seemed as though everybody who had money was somehow doing something wrong towards people who felt they had less money than they were supposed to have.
It's taken nearly 12 years of development to get to a point where I can see the partial truth in that perspective, and sometimes people protest to unwind built up negative emotions that related to the topic at hand, but also trail down into deeper connections to their psychological situation and society at large.
Blazing a trail behind a Nobel-Worthy discovery
There's been a discovery in California by a credible researcher--Richard Tarnas--regarding a relationship between the alignment of planets and recurring themes in world events.
His research indicates that every time the same planets come into a geometric alignment, the themes which astrologers have concluded represent those planets manifest into world history.
What does it mean that “astrology is Real”?
What does it mean that "astrology is real"?
I specifically am referring to a specific mode of astrology called Archetypal Astrology developed primarily by Richard Tarnas with support from Stanislav Grof and countless others.
What differentiates Archetypal Astrology from other forms is its precision with forecasting psychological trends, its minimal focus solely on the angular relationship between planets (disregarded houses and signs), as well as its emergence from the Depth Psychology research lineage.
Archetypal Astrology & Tech?
Building an astrology brand in the tech ecosystem doesn't seem so straightforward because in some ways the tech community is the very bastion of reductionist Newtonian thinking.
Astrology is Real
Astrology is real It doesn’t matter whether you believe this is true, or whether you believe it to be pseudoscience. There is a verifiable correlation between planetary alignments and world events in the historical record. A lot of the early experiments in attempting to seek an empirical basis for astrology were wrapped up in the trappings of the Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm. They required a simplistic, concrete and immediate correlation between astrological claims and statistical data.