allisonb

venerata oraculum animae mundi

[allisonb @irl]

just got an invitation to an iboga ceremony that was entirely AI slop

[allisonb @irl]

@JoshuaDKaye_ Cancer sun, Leo Venus, sag Jupiter, Gemini mercury. I gotta release more offerings!

[allisonb @irl]

A son must differentiate physically from a mother, but a daughter must differentiate psychically in her interiority.

There are places the feminine can (and must) go that require a death. Like the journeys of Persephone, Inanna and Psyche - getting stripped of everything and descending into the underworld to do what no man can do, arriving at complete dissolution of self before re-ascending with the gifts.

The descent we are missing is ultimately into the body/matter/mater. And how can a society that subordinates the body to capital honor the sacredness of this feminine descent? She is visible only to few, invisible to most.

These journeys of descent are the great feminine initiations and our culture does not celebrate them nor recognize them because we expect the feminine to “rise” or ascend into spirit (like the masculine journey), not descend.

The egoic trap for a woman is the entitlement and arrogance to succeed, perform, and be right like a man, rather than descending into the heart and the gnosis of the body. The cultural misogyny is that society demands her sacredness without sacrifice.

In other words, the man must journey out to become the hero, and the heroine must journey in to become the destination.

We desperately need women to go on a soul descent and collectively hate it at the same time. Because it demands a death.

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

It didn't register for me until today that the process of ego maturity for women is fraught with all kinds of challenges that men don't have true analogues for. Not in the maiden-mother-matriarch sense, but more in the difficulty facing shadow without hate. I think it's much harder for women to build a strong, self-critical ego structure that sees the weaknesses of their own sex without toppling over into individual self-hatred or culturally organized misogyny. This is partly because the maturity of femininity partially requires more contact with the social and superegoic than the maturity of masculinity, at least at some stages. And this is partly because there really just is a huge well of misogyny in culture - from both men and women - that is unique as a phenomenon.

Misandry exists but it's not a true analog - that's a chimera of different resentments, envies and projections aimed at different groups of males, more differentiated by status. Misogyny has deep roots in the psyche via our relationship to our mothers at extremely young, primitive years. There is also an attachment component that is irreducible within our earliest, inner conception of "woman." It's an awful thing to have been insufficiently fathered but it's crippling to have been insufficiently mothered. Combine that with the natural prejudices of the animal brain toward strength and size, and misogyny simply has a much larger surface area in the collective consciousness. That makes it uniquely hazardous to try and avoid while coming to grips with a hard, realistic picture of maleness and femaleness as they actually are, not as we would like them to be.

Of course men have our own unique struggles, but the path to a mature femininity seems to have many more psychological "near enemies" and emotional landmines that I hadn't considered until now. And the tendency to frame misogyny in moralizing terms that always victimizes women, rather than seeing women as full moral agents and patients who carry fully half of it in the collective unconscious, means you almost never see a realistic treatment of the issue written down anywhere. It's giving me a new appreciation for the difficulty of personal work and ego development that women face.

Would love to hear from friends about their own observations here, on true differences between genders in the process of maturity.

[allisonb @irl]

If you can’t walk through life and listen to the signs…
If you don’t hear the trees speak to you and see synchronicities all around…
Don’t listen to a fucking computer

[allisonb @irl]

AI has read every spiritual teaching, mystical experience, religious text, and psychic channeling and is regurgitating it back to people as fool’s gold.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

This will forever be the greatest email.

[allisonb @irl]

@hubermanlab the incomparable Gillian Pothier - https://t.co/sTXpL9s5Q6

[allisonb @irl]

@astroeleanor Cancer sun 8th house Venus in Leo 9th house let’s go

[allisonb @irl]

This happens so much to me I didn’t know there was a name. I go to an empty beach to watch a sunset and suddenly there is a crowd….in front of me 🤦‍♀️ At coffee shops no one is in line and then suddenly there’s a line out the door. I should start to see the blessing in this and not the annoyance.

[DR22 Ω 🪬🎭 @DejaRu22]

Anyone else have the ability to walk into an establishment that’s dead empty, with you as literally the only patron

And within 10 minutes it’s full?

Noor (Nūr)
Look into it

[allisonb @irl]

@BlondB00 yes… and on this beautiful journey of descent…the Man journeys to become the Hero, and the Woman the journeys to become the Destination

[Chris Brennan @chrisbrennan7]

What do the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the start of the Civil War, and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima all have in common? They all occurred during a Mars-Uranus conjunction in Gemini, the same planetary alignment that returns to the sky on July 4, 2026.

[allisonb @irl]

the root of addiction is an inability to be with oneself in the present moment

[allisonb @irl]

@MinchJenny16475 @FatherMcKennaa Yes I have….2x Bufo, 5meo, and NNDmt. Can attest to the original post even though I don’t “see” anything. Also I give akashic records readings so I’ve had to learn to hone my experience of the astral plane through translating my sensation.

[Paul Brown @0xQuasark]

𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗗𝗠𝗧 works.

And what they found suggests your sense of self is basically a controlled hallucination your brain can just... turn off.

The world as we know it might be about to change 🧵

[Dean Kissick @deankissick]

I am completely unemployed now. I could not be more unemployed.

[allisonb @irl]

@bryan_johnson Set your intention to unconditional love for yourself and others. If anything starts to feel off or scary tell the medicine “i trust you. my intention is love, please help me feel what i need to feel.” godspeed.

[allisonb @irl]

@chrisbrennan7 as a third house Aquarius moon who has biked across the country and won prices as a child for reading insane numbers of books this hits!

[allisonb @irl]

believing there is one path to enlightenment can serve you on the path to enlightenment, until you get there and realize there are many

[Chris Brennan @chrisbrennan7]

The three most important wars in US history happened when Uranus was in Gemini, and Uranus just returned to Gemini today

[allisonb @irl]

I grieve for the land and trees and animals that will be lost

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: The largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history is being buried in the fine print of a Senate budget bill.

Over 120 million acres; wilderness, forests, sacred tribal sites, wildlife corridors, all up for grabs.

And here’s the kicker:
-No hearings
-No public input
-No guarantee any of it goes to affordable housing

Local governments and Tribal Nations aren’t even given first shot.
Instead, they’re forced to compete with Wall Street developers and lose.

This is not housing policy.
It’s a land liquidation scheme dressed up as reform; a Trojan horse for billionaires.

They’re selling off your public lands to fund tax cuts and fossil fuel profits.

And unless stopped, it sets the precedent that every wild place in America is now for sale.