Illusory Aether Ix 🏴‍☠️

Arts, Astrology & Human Design.

Creator, The Becoming Experience.

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[Illusory Aether Ix 🏴‍☠️ @illusory_aether]

The past 12 months of my life have been one helluva ride.

Challenging.
Enlightening.
Transformational.
And deeply creative.

It was a year of questions. Two simple, but not easy, questions:

What do you want to be known for?

How can you create value and impact from that?

These questions cracked me open. They set off what I now call my becoming experience.

Never have I felt as stuck as I have been over the past 12 month.

Trapped between ambition and emptiness.

Subconsciously, I carried this image: climbing a mountain, reaching its peak, only to descend into the marshes at the bottom to tend to my roots.

That imagery became the map of my year...

moving from striving to tending...
from proving to flowing...
from chasing recognition to seeking fulfillment.

As I enter a new age, here are the five biggest lessons I learnt from that season:

1. Fulfillment Is the Real Driver of Ambition

For so long, I thought recognition was the prize.

Climbing, striving, proving—it felt like the way forward.

But the more I pushed, the emptier it felt.

Ambition without fulfillment is hollow. True success is measured by inner fulfillment—not just by outward appearances.

2. Doing vs. Being: Understanding Flow

All along, I had been moving like a machine, rushing to beat an imaginary clock—always doing, striving to prove.

But getting stuck, I realized moving with force wasn't working.

I had to learn flow.
Being doesn’t mean passivity.
It means alignment.
It means knowing when to act and when to let life carry you.
Trusting in the infinite wisdom of the universe.

3. Surrender Opens More Doors Than Resistance

I fought myself.
I fought flow and it was exhausting.

It was only when I surrendered—when I allowed myself to descend into the “marshes”—that life revealed deeper roots and truths.

4. Identity Is Not Recognition. It's About What You're Rooted In

This year taught me that identity isn’t forged by the mountains you climbed just to be seen.

It’s cultivated by tending to your roots, nurturing what’s authentic, and allowing it to grow in its own rhythm.

If you're not rooted in something solid, you'll keep reinventing and switching identities.

5. Self-Worth Creates Value, Not the Other Way Around

I had it backwards, believing that creating value would give me worth.
But the truth is reversed: self-worth is the foundation that allows you to create value.

Once I began embracing this, my work and my creations shifted entirely.

All these lessons is the soil where The Becoming Experience was planted.

It’s not just a product.

It’s my offering to anyone who feels what I once felt:
stuck, misaligned, disconnected from the voice inside.

It’s a 40-day journey inward, one letter at a time, to rediscover who you are and what you’re here to create.

Because at the end of the day, those two questions still define my path:

What do I want to be known for?
I want to be known for my art.
I want to be remembered for the healing, transformative power of my words, my creations, my perspective.

How can I create value and impact from that?
By helping others return to themselves.
By guiding people through the same becoming I’ve lived through. By offering them not just inspiration, but a framework for making their own return to self and building something enduring from it.

That’s the impact I want.

A ripple effect of people who step into the light of their true selves... express their unique point of view... and create from that place of clarity and authenticity.

This is what The Becoming Experience is about.
And this is only the beginning.

A special thank you to everyone who took time yesterday to celebrate with me—it meant more than I can put into words.

[Illusory Aether Ix 🏴‍☠️ @illusory_aether]

Got balloons on my page today 🎂🎉🥳

I have only 1 wish for today

[Illusory Aether Ix 🏴‍☠️ @illusory_aether]

@Osinachi_W 🔥🔥🔥

Controlla just enter my head as I see this tweet

[Illusory Aether Ix 🏴‍☠️ @illusory_aether]

@eonlevon Cap

[Illusory Aether Ix 🏴‍☠️ @illusory_aether]

Just realized that back when I used to rap...

I struggled with breath control and
I didn't know.

Thinking now if I had known and worked on it, I would've made an exceptional rapper.

[Dee Macé @frmarcellinus]

Power is indeed transient. Under Buhari, Malami was on top of the world, acting with total impunity and enjoying the heights of power. Now, the EFCC has secured the final forfeiture of a university, a radio station, and 46 other properties linked to him. This is also reminder for Tinubu’s loyalists (if they are wise) who are living large today. What goes around comes around.

[Illusory Aether Ix 🏴‍☠️ @illusory_aether]

There's a couple of em

Back in Business has been playing in my head since this evening.

Mama told me
Makaveli
Another one
Gangland
A Week straight
Talk to me nice
Lady of Namek
Lady of Neptune
Dripping
Mawa interlude
Revenge of Fargo
9side Bodman
Priceless
The godfather
Sorry for what?
Motorboat
The most high
Stupid again
Luv
Diego
La Confidential

[Illusory Aether Ix 🏴‍☠️ @illusory_aether]

I became a godfather today!

Whew!

[Illusory Aether Ix 🏴‍☠️ @illusory_aether]

@frmarcellinus As a lil kid growing up in the village, I didn't like it cos it used to trigger my hunger all through the Mass.

And Cos I went to Mass with my grandma, when we're now going home and I tell her I'm hungry or thirsty...

She'll tell me to swallow my spit. 😅😩

[Tory Lanez @torylanez]

MADE YOU THINK I WAS GONE BUT…

OUT NOW ☂️

[Illusory Aether Ix 🏴‍☠️ @illusory_aether]

@Chisomaga29 @frmarcellinus 😅

She did.

She eventually became a lector there.

That's after we had our brutal fall out. (Don't ask me about it o)

[Illusory Aether Ix 🏴‍☠️ @illusory_aether]

@yungdesperad0 What about in 7h?

[Human Design System Pro @KipWinsett]

The purpose of Human Design is to set you free from conditioning. Now, if you don’t need to be free, if you don’t want to be free, if you don’t care about knowing yourself, then you can kind of trip out with Human Design. You don’t have to be serious about it.

[Illusory Aether Ix 🏴‍☠️ @illusory_aether]

@FrEvaristus At Marian?

[Illusory Aether Ix 🏴‍☠️ @illusory_aether]

I became obsessed with the etymology of words when I got into Category Design.

One of the core principles of Category Design is Languaging.

Languaging is the masterful use of to create a demarcation point in thinking causes a demarcation point in meaning (the value people ascribe to things)

Shout out to the OG Category Pirate @lochhead and @eddywouldgrow

🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

[Mr. Czar @Mrczar_]

I like to trace the ethmology of words, because i have noticed it somehow makes you wiser:

Take for instance; the word DECIDE.

It comes from the Latin word ''dēcīdere''.

It breaks down into two parts:

de- = off, away, down
caedere = to cut

So dēcīdere literally meant "to cut off" or "to cut away."

So the process of deciding is to CUT OFF things. It is not to pick ONE THING, it is to cut off everything else so that you can arrive at the best ONE THING.

If you want to get ahead in life, you have to DECIDE on EVERYTHING you need to cut off, so you can just do the ONE THING that really move the needle.

This is why in business the one thing is making sales, so when i decide what to do in my business it is just a process of CUTTING OFF everything that don't lead to sales.

Simple and short

[Mr. Czar @Mrczar_]

I like to trace the ethmology of words, because i have noticed it somehow makes you wiser:

Take for instance; the word DECIDE.

It comes from the Latin word ''dēcīdere''.

It breaks down into two parts:

de- = off, away, down
caedere = to cut

So dēcīdere literally meant "to cut off" or "to cut away."

So the process of deciding is to CUT OFF things. It is not to pick ONE THING, it is to cut off everything else so that you can arrive at the best ONE THING.

If you want to get ahead in life, you have to DECIDE on EVERYTHING you need to cut off, so you can just do the ONE THING that really move the needle.

This is why in business the one thing is making sales, so when i decide what to do in my business it is just a process of CUTTING OFF everything that don't lead to sales.

Simple and short

[Illusory Aether Ix 🏴‍☠️ @illusory_aether]

@MindBodyBronx Like I will always say "indulge please"

You deserve it.

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

Most people read 2 Corinthians 1 as though Paul is behind a lectern, delivering a settled theology of suffering from a position of comfortable authority.

But Paul is not behind a lectern, he is literally on the floor.

By his own account, he is utterly burdened beyond his strength, despairing of life itself, carrying what he describes as a literal death sentence.

Yet from that wreckage, Paul reaches for a specific title for God. The Lord of Hosts was available to him. The Almighty King was on the table. He chose neither. He wrote:

“the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort.”

We know God is all-powerful, so we naturally expect His power to materialize as the prevention of pain.

We want the check to clear before the deadline. We want the rent covered before the eviction notice. We want Him to stop the earthquake, to freeze the tectonic plates before a single tile can fall.

But we are confusing mechanical power with sustaining power.

This is where the “God of all comfort” reveals its true weight. Comfort is not a soft anesthetic; it is God’s active presence inside the trouble.

His sustaining power doesn't pull mechanical levers from a safe distance. He climbs into the wreckage with you, holding your foundations together while the ground moves.

Mechanical power moves circumstances. Sustaining power forms people. One leaves you exactly as you were before the rescue. The other changes who you are at the level where it counts.

It is also the difference between stopping a needle and holding a child through the sting.

When my wife and I took our five-month-old son, Amaury, for his vaccinations, he locked his eyes directly onto mine the moment the needle went in.

I could look into his eyes through his screaming and sense what he was saying to me: Dad you are strong enough to stop this. Why aren't you doing something?

And he was entirely right. I am physically stronger than the pediatrician. I am his father, and legally they cannot touch him without my consent. The absolute power to halt the procedure was mine at any second.

Instead, I held his hands still while he screamed louder. I let the needle do its work. And afterward, I pulled him to my chest and held him while his whole small body shook with the sheer injustice of it.

Amaury did not have the framework to understand what I knew in that room. He didn’t know the sting was not the enemy.

He didn’t know the needle was the very thing protecting him from a much darker threat down the road.

My refusal to stop it was not indifference. It was the most painful, precise expression of love available to me in that moment.

To stop the needle is one kind of power.

To hold your child while it goes in, absorbing their confusion and their accusation without withdrawing, knowing something about where this ends that they cannot yet see, is another kind entirely. It requires far more of a father, not less.

If you are in the ruins right now, if the needle has been in longer than you think you can endure, and you have looked up with that accusation in your eyes, God has not moved. He is not across the room watching clinically. He is holding your hands, absorbing the weight of your confusion, and looking at an ending you cannot yet see.

He didn’t stop the needle. But He has never once let go of you.

[N/A @yungdesperad0]

I seen stuff at barbaults basket , I’d say Saturn and Neptune will show we have idealized something that is weak or ineffective as a structure. Uranus - Pluto will suddenly and radically bring a chance to break free. While Jupiter brings something new that can flourish.

[Illusory Aether Ix 🏴‍☠️ @illusory_aether]

Sales is a deeply spiritual venture.

When you understand that...

You start to see that every successful sales conversation is simply about:

- Moving your prospect from Fear to LOVE.
- Taking them from Falsehoods to Truths.

This is the paradigm shift you need for a successful career in sales or coaching in general.