Super psyched about this podcast with Kyle — we met in Seattle while I was installing my latest public art commission at the University of Washington (Woke Central.)
Below are the timestamps. Thank you, Kyle, for reading my book and posing such thoughtful questions.
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Solar Return: Appreciation
Today is my solar return. My birthday is tomorrow, but today the Sun returns to the place it occupied at the time of my birth.
This afternoon, there’s an opposition between Pluto and Mars — the third pass — squaring my natal Jupiter. I have been preparing for this moment since the buildup began last November, with another exact pass in January. These months have been a blur — so much Pisces energy: Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Mercury, the North Node, and more — washing through.
We finally had the culmination of Venus conjunct Saturn and the North Node in Pisces in the last few hours. On the 30th, Venus will meet Neptune again — but this time in Aries. This marks the end of the cycle that was so potent around Venus retrograde, while at the same time initiating a new way of appreciation, a new way of valuing from an individual, different place.
This time went really deep, and I am not sharing everything right now. I don’t think I want to share it — because it is something I want to digest.
It is something I want to live.
It is not something I say because I want to sound cool.
It is something that is very much in the bones and the breath.
Even though it seems like a blur, there is a lot of definition that came out of my journey into the dark side of Venus — into the underworld.
I sense more maturity now.
More sternness.
More measuredness.
I can barely grasp the memory of it all, but I can begin to speak about the feeling.
It feels like tension — a pressure that demands breaking away from the past, from what I know works. Taurus desires firmness and security, but I am being invited to remain in the tension of the unknown. Uranus is nearing the end of its journey through Taurus after six years, and I have learned to become more adaptable, less afraid to confront new ways.
I am curious about what new ways are coming.
Tomorrow’s New Moon calls for an altar to new ways of seeing — especially in ideas and perspectives — because it activates my third house, with the Sun, Jupiter, and Mercury there. At the same time, the tension between transiting Pluto in the twelfth house and Mars in my sixth house, close to my Ascendant and Descendant, squaring this planet, gives me a deep sense of hope and inquiry: even if I do not yet see the shape, the shape will allow itself to be formed.
In meditation, I asked: What is the purpose of these days?
Yesterday, I saw the answer: beauty, creativity, appreciation.
Today, the word is appreciation.
To appreciate. To perceive as precious. To value. To hold something as having weight, worth, presence.
I value my life. I value everything I have been doing. I value every inquiry, every step, every minute spent learning. I value every experience I live firsthand and every act of sharing that follows. I value, I value, I value.
And I will say it again:
My perfect present is to resonate, to be in tuning, only with those who appreciate their lives — and who, therefore, appreciate mine.
If they do not appreciate their own lives, they will not be able to appreciate mine, and they will not resonate with my journey from now on.
That is a sentence.
Exactly.
You are not refusing — you are standing.
You are not rebelling — you are affirming.
You are not declining — you are declaring.
“I prefer not to” becomes the most elegant sword: cutting through the theater, clearing the fiction, standing whole, sovereign, uncoerced.
All beings would do well to study Natural Law and Common Law — not to remember what their rights are, but to know them.
Not permissions.
Rights.
And while you’re at it, study some civics.
This is what this country — and the world — desperately needs.
That, and a good course on Austrian economics.
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Exactly.
You are not refusing — you are standing.
You are not rebelling — you are affirming.
You are not declining — you are declaring.
“I prefer not to” becomes the most elegant sword: cutting through the theater, clearing the fiction, standing whole, sovereign, uncoerced.
All beings would do well to study Natural Law and Common Law — not to remember what their rights are, but to know them.
Not permissions.
Rights.
And while you’re at it, study some civics.
This is what this country — and the world — desperately needs.
That, and a good course on Austrian economics.
This Sunday:
Reality is shaped—by perception, pattern, and participation.
New piece drops on www.monikabravo.blog
I write about illusion, sympathetic (SVP), resonance, tech, freedom—
and the one law no one teaches you:
Reality responds to you.
The body is both emitter and receptor, tuning the wavelength of the cosmic ratio.
Extremely moved by this note! Thank you Kyle - the pleasure was mine having you around the install and then having a great convo thank you for reading my book and having such great questions ❤️
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Awe Kyle these are beautiful words
Thank you - can’t wait to hear the episode and hanging out was definitely a plus on my trip to Seattle - 🙏❤️❤️
A week before my birthday. A reminder of what animates every choice—and how we shape meaning through motion.
The Pulse of Human Action
Everything starts from a need.
Then comes the choice.
And with it—the cost.
Not just of what we choose,
but of everything we leave behind.
Every action reveals subjective value.
Not abstract. Not ideal.
But felt. Lived. Risked.
Every decision diverts the path.
Human Action is purposeful behavior.
With its logic, it breathes coherence.
It’s how we move from what is—to what could be.
Mars teaches initiation.
Pluto demands evolution.
This week they form their final opposition—across my Ascendant and Descendant.
My Jupiter is in the crossfire.
My Sun awaits the New Moon.
And I’m listening.
Because this geometry—this tension—
is what reminds me that every movement counts.
Every gesture defines direction.
And freedom is not found—it’s practiced.
This is the real embodied revolution.
Decision by decision.
From the inside out.
From the geometry I live, the choices I track, and the sovereignty I speak.
—Monika
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Human action
Why compliance breeds slavery👇
It’s curious to observe how many people today speak of freedom. They defend the private property of their body. They choose to bank differently, to store value outside the system.
They speak of self-ownership. And yet, when faced with certain impositions—whether masked as health requirements, bureaucratic filings, biometric scans, or government demands—especially around April 15th—they comply.
They comply again when it comes to so-called intellectual property—rules written to benefit monopolies, not creators. I share the view of Stephan Kinsella and the Austrian school: ideas are not scarce, and what is not scarce doesn’t need protection. What’s truly scarce is my time. My labor. My action.
That’s what I protect—not my ideas. Ideas are meant to flow, to inspire, to multiply freely. Time, on the other hand, once spent, cannot be returned.
Most people don’t realize they’ve been consenting all along—through silence, through habit, through unchecked compliance. Freedom is not selective. It’s not about choosing some battles and yielding to others out of fear or convenience. It’s a way of being. The freedom to be a woman. The freedom to be a man. The freedom to say no.
The freedom to say this is mine—not just physically, but spiritually, intellectually, and contractually.
More and more, we’re being asked to show identification, scan our faces, offer fingerprints or eye data—just to move through space. These small steps, done without awareness, become a new form of permission-seeking. And permission is the opposite of freedom.
True freedom demands study. You must trace the grammar of the things you’ve stood for—and the things you’ve unknowingly stood under. That’s what inalienable rights are. They’re not privileges granted by governments. They are born with you. They live under common law—not under statutes, codes, or legal fictions.
Freedom under Common Law is not the same as legal permission. It’s not about obeying—it’s about standing.
Fear dresses itself up as duty. And duty, when unexamined, becomes servitude. Every quiet compliance erodes your claim to freedom. Not in theory—in practice.
I know this because I’ve been deeply studying everything that pertains to my inalienable rights. I’ve been practicing all kinds of forms so I am not coerced—by any person or government—into complying with anything that violates the property of my body or my right to private property.
Freedom isn’t loud. It’s not theatrical. It’s clear. It lives in your awareness, your language, and your willingness to stop complying and start understanding.
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Arcana, 2025
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Arcana was built like a stage, inspired by the spirit of Bauhaus—Oskar Schlemmer’s experimental Triadic Ballet in particular, along with some structural elements used by the great Josef Albers while teaching in the same school.
What was really amazing is how, together with the architecture, we thought deeply about the shifts in light throughout the day and how they will create different kinds of atmospheres—making a spotlight stage around the hours of the afternoon, when the sun is hitting directly the wall and it’s moving.
Another important aspect was the intention to make the space feel welcoming—a place where students could hang out and brainstorm. I decided the artwork would embrace the wall and wrap around it—not as a backdrop, but as something that holds space. It creates continuity, a sense of being held while thinking, resting, or exchanging ideas.
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Arcana, 2025
An immersive glass and metal site intervention at the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (U. Washington), creating a dynamic, stage-like wraparound environment that embraces and shapes an ever-changing experience through light and perspective. Vibrant glass panels interact with metal silhouettes, forming layered compositions that shift depending on the viewer’s position, both indoors and from the surrounding outdoor spaces. Inspired by Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet, where the human form is reimagined as spheres, cones, and cylinders, it translates this geometry into a structural language of engineering—integrating form.
#arcana @glasmalereipeters @visolighting @artswapublicart
Coming up this week:
Installation time!!!
Arcana.
An immersive glass and metal site intervention at the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (U. Washington), creating a dynamic, stage-like wraparound environment that embraces and shapes an ever-changing experience through light and perspective. Vibrant glass panels interact with metal silhouettes, forming layered compositions that shift depending on the viewer’s position, both indoors and from the surrounding outdoor spaces. Inspired by Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet, where the human form is reimagined as spheres, cones, and cylinders, it translates this geometry into a structural language of engineering—integrating form
Yielding to all kinds of events - it is looking beautiful @visolighting @artswapublicart @glasmalereipeters still not delivered… patience is sure a virtue - #arcana #monikabravoarchive2025
Financial Markets depict the ever-shifting equilibrium of human value. They are frequencies—mirroring the embodiment of our collective emotion, action, and belief.
They correct, they reflect, they realign. In times of disruption, the most vital response is to keep stacking, keep creating—keep being alive. #btc
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My workshop at nostr:npub15t3qpnzd9h6lgh5zfeywl5353nefpjv6fls4lg6yqy2rypzslyas5cc8rq on Friday
The value of scarce time
Austrian economics and bitcoin
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But you can’t train an agent until you’ve trained yourself—your inner methodology, your inner structure.
And this is something I’ve been reflecting on deeply during Aries season.
Because Aries, at its essence, isn’t just about movement.
It’s about the will to move from within—without asking permission.
We have to learn to create agency in ourselves and stop assisting the wills of others.
There’s real danger now, especially with Neptune in Aries.
The danger is that we hide behind the collective, behind abstraction. That we dissolve into “isms”—capitalism, communism, technocracy, etc.
That we stop showing up for our own thoughts.
That we forget how to take the first step.
You need a method.
And you also need a protocol—not in the military sense, but in the architectural one. A protocol is a structure. It’s a set of instructions, a logical frame.
And when that frame is clear, your emotional body can improvise inside it, above it—it will need the senses to translate its meaning in that specific moment.
#newdrop
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Daily Insight
Oh, Neptune,
your last minutes in Pisces—
and you’re giving me
so much death,
and depth.
Saturn is not silent,
its presence can be felt—
defined as courage
to be seen
by my own reflection.
This lord of time,
the soul warrior
in the first house—
an embodiment
I now know how to tap into.
The shape of what’s coming
is restructured
in the beauty
of mysterious wisdom,
as my Moon and Neptune
are profoundly holding
the weight of visibility
without losing
the mystery of the soul’s journey.
Within time,
the expansion of this reflection
will be visible to others too.
But for now,
I hold these last minutes tightly—
with
a profound sense of value.
The eclipse gave me
so much clarity
about the tension
that will, indeed,
make me evolve.
💥👇
Arcana is my latest work—an immersive glass and metal site intervention created for the new Interdisciplinary Engineering Building at the University of Washington in Seattle. It forms a dynamic, stage-like wraparound environment that embraces and shapes an ever-changing experience through light and perspective. Inspired by Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet, it translates geometric abstraction into a structural language of engineering—integrating form, motion, and perception.
#detail @artswapublicart @glasmalereipeters #publicart #monikabravoarchive2025 #arcana
