Most people come to BaZi asking a simple question: what does my Chart say about me? But beneath that question lies a deeper one that nobody usually asks: What kind of information does a birth Chart actually contain? What layer of reality is it reading?

That question matters. Because if you don’t know what a tool is measuring, you’ll either expect too much from it or dismiss it entirely. BaZi deserves neither.

This post tends to place BaZi precisely, using Rudolf Steiner’s framework of the human being as a starting point. It also maps it against the Vedic and larger Dharmic traditions, alongside which BaZi itself grew. The conclusion is straightforward: BaZi is a map of the nervous system. And once you understand what that means, the whole system makes a different kind of sense.

Three Layers of a Human Being

Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian philosopher and founder of Anthroposophy, described the human being as three distinct but interpenetrating layers. This isn’t mysticism for its own sake. It’s a structural map, and a surprisingly precise one.

The Vedic tradition uses almost identical architecture. Steiner himself engaged deeply with Indian philosophy before developing his own Western esoteric framework. The resemblance isn’t a coincidence.

Here’s how the three layers break down:

Spirit (Geist)

The eternal, unchanging dimension. Steiner’s I, the individuated spiritual core that persists across lifetimes. In Vedanta, this is Atman. It doesn’t have a birth Chart because it doesn’t have a birthday. It exists before incarnation and after death. No system can map it directly; it can only point toward it.

Soul (Astral Body)

The mediating layer. Receives impulses from the spirit above and impressions from the body below. Carries desires, emotions, memory, and individual character across a lifetime. In Vedanta, roughly, the antahkarana is the inner instrument. It’s real, it’s personal, but it’s temporary. It forms at birth and dissolves at death.

Nervous System (The Interface)

This is where BaZi lives. Physically material, neurons, electrochemical signals, measurable biology, but functionally astral. The nervous system’s entire purpose is perception, sensation, and response: astral qualities housed in physical tissue. Steiner called it the physical instrument of the astral body. It’s the hardware the soul runs on.

Physical Body

Pure matter. Bones, organs, blood. Processes that run without consciousness, such as digestion, cellular repair, and immune response. The densest layer. It follows physical laws completely. BaZi doesn’t map this level directly but rather indirectly, through a connection between the nervous system and the body (its physical organs). Hence, we say that Wood represents the liver, gallbladder, and related organs. In simple terms, a particular segment of the nervous system (Elements) is communicating with a particular segment of the body (Organs).

BaZi is built on five elements that cycle through the seasons. Metal, Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, each with its own quality of energy, its own mode of movement. These aren’t metaphors. They’re descriptions of how energy actually behaves in nature, and by extension, in us.

The nervous system is the biological system that most closely mirrors this. Every other organ has a fixed job. The liver detoxifies. The heart pumps. But the nervous system’s job is to respond, to receive information from the environment and generate an appropriate reaction. It’s fundamentally relational, dynamic, and pattern-sensitive. Exactly what the five elements describe.

BaZi doesn’t tell you who you are.
It tells you how you’re wired, which shapes everything.

Different Day Masters aren’t personality types in the pop-psychology sense. They’re genuinely different nervous system architectures. Yin Metal’s precision and hypersensitivity to dissonance. Yang Wood’s directional momentum doesn’t stop to check if others are following. Yang Fire’s radiant dispersal, energy going outward constantly, sometimes faster than it can be replenished. These aren’t invented categories. They describe real, observable differences in how people perceive and respond.

What BaZi maps, specifically, is the configuration of that nervous system at birth, the temporal matrix you arrived in. The season, the elemental balance, the interactions between pillars. That configuration sets the baseline for how your instrument processes experience for this lifetime.

Once you place BaZi within the nervous system layer, the system’s overall logic becomes cleaner. There’s a direction of causation running from top to bottom:

Spirit chooses the conditions for this incarnation

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The astral body forms, carrying intention, karma, and character

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The nervous system crystallizes at birth; the Chart is fixed here.

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Physical life unfolds through that wiring.

In Vedantic terms, BaZi maps the prarabdha karma, the portion of accumulated soul history that has been activated for this specific lifetime. Not the totality of what the soul carries. Just the slice currently in motion, crystallized into a nervous system configuration.

In Steiner’s terms, the Chart describes the conditions the spirit volunteered to work through. The specific friction and resistance that were chosen, consciously, before birth, as the developmental material for this incarnation. Fate, but chosen fate.

This is why the Chart is accurate but not ultimate. It’s reading a real layer; the nervous system genuinely determines how you experience life. But it’s a downstream layer. It’s the crystallization of something that originated higher up. It doesn’t read our soul (as many astrologists would like to believe), but it reads our current physical manifestation of that soul, which, in one way, is a limited scope. Still, from a human perspective, it is actually a tremendously large one.

What This Means in Practice

Placing BaZi correctly changes what you expect from it — and what you do with it. Several things that might have seemed puzzling become straightforward:

• Why is BaZi accurate? Because the nervous system genuinely shapes how you process everything — relationships, work, stress, opportunity. Reading it accurately is reading something real and determinative.
• Why does timing work? Luck pillars and annual influences are changes in the astral environment — seasonal, cosmic currents — interacting with your fixed nervous system map. The BaZi Chart is the instrument. Time is what plays it.
• Why do some things stay fixed? Physical crystallization has inertia. You don’t easily rewrite your nervous system. Chart limitations are real. This is why working with your Chart — not against it — is almost always the right starting point.
• Why is transcendence possible but rare? Upstream can always influence downstream. When consciousness develops sufficiently — when the astral body is refined enough to carry genuine spiritual impulse — the nervous system’s configuration can be worked with rather than driven by. The Chart still describes the terrain. The walker is no longer entirely determined by it.
• Why does BaZi not read the soul directly? The soul’s deeper currents — will, growth, spiritual development — are upstream of what the Chart captures. BaZi sees the soul’s instrument, not the soul itself. That’s not a limitation. That’s precision.

BaZi shows you the river. The current, the depth, the seasonal patterns, where it floods, and where it runs dry. That’s genuinely valuable information. Most people spend their lives fighting the current without ever understanding what kind of river they’re in.

But the river is not the whole story. Something is watching the river. That something — Steiner’s I, Vedanta’s Atman, whatever framework you prefer — doesn’t appear in the Chart. It can’t. It’s upstream of everything the Chart can reach.

This is actually good news. It means the Chart is a map, not a sentence. It describes the nervous system configuration you’re working with — the specific wiring, the particular quality of instrument you have for this lifetime. Understanding that wiring clearly is the first step to using it well.

BaZi, practiced at its best, is not fortune-telling. It’s a form of self-knowledge precise enough to be actionable — situated exactly where knowledge needs to be situated to change how you live. Not so high it floats away into abstraction. Not so low that it reduces you to biology. Right at the interface. Right where you actually are.

Originally published at https://omnigram.substack.com.

Spend enough time seriously observing people, not casual observation, but real attention to what drives them, how they construct meaning, what they can and cannot tolerate, and something becomes impossible to ignore.

Everyone is developing their own version of reality, and the process is practically irreversible.

People don’t just have different opinions, but different fundamental orientations, different basic assumptions about what matters, what’s real, and what a good life looks like. Even when two people agree on the surface, there’s almost always a nuance underneath: a slightly different angle, a different weight assigned to the same facts, a different felt sense of what’s true.

The common interpretation is that this is a problem. Fragmentation. Narcissism. The collapse of shared values. Fix the algorithm, fix the education system, fix the culture, and we’ll converge again on something common.

I don’t think that’s right. I think what we’re witnessing is a process. And understanding that process changes everything about how we understand human character, including what a birth chart actually reads.

Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian philosopher and founder of Anthroposophy, described human history as a sequence of cultural epochs, each with a specific developmental task for the species. Not progress in the linear sense. Development, in the biological sense, means each stage builds on what the next stage requires.

The epoch we’re currently in, what he called the consciousness soul age, began roughly in the 15th century. Its defining characteristic is the emergence of individual self-awareness as the primary mode of human experience. The task of this epoch, as Steiner saw it, is for the individual “I” to become fully conscious of itself. Self-determining. Capable of standing alone.

What looks like fragmentation from the outside is, from inside this process, exactly what’s supposed to happen. The collective containers, religious, tribal, and ideological, are becoming insufficient as primary sources of identity. Not because they’re wrong, but because the developmental task has moved on. The individual is being asked to stand on their own ground.

Everyone developing their own version of reality is not the failure of culture. It is individuation working correctly.

There’s a cost that nobody talks about honestly. As each person develops a more finely differentiated version of reality, the overlap with any other single person’s version gets smaller. Not because people are becoming more isolated, but because genuine individuation means the specific gravity of your perspective becomes harder to find mirrored elsewhere.

Earlier stages of this process feel like liberation. The person who first breaks from inherited belief, religious, cultural, familial, experiences relief, expansion, possibility. The container was too small. Getting out feels like breathing.

Later stages feel different. The initial liberation has settled. You’ve built your own framework. And you discover that almost nobody else is standing quite where you’re standing. Partial resonances everywhere. Complete resonance almost nowhere.

This is why the loneliness of a certain kind of thinker isn’t neurotic and isn’t a social failure. It’s structural. The very development that makes their thinking valuable is what makes full resonance rare. You can’t have it both ways, not at this stage of the process.

The major Eastern philosophical traditions offer important insights into the individual self. But on this specific question, whether individuality is the direction or the problem, they split in ways that matter enormously.

The evidence from the incarnation process itself points toward the third position. If souls select specific genetic lineages, arrive with accumulated character, and receive a precise birth configuration, then individuality isn’t an error being gradually corrected. It’s a direction the universe is actively pursuing.

Pure dissolution of the soul doesn’t need precision; individual soul development does.

There’s a common confusion between individuation and individualism. They’re not the same thing. In fact, they move in opposite directions at a certain point.

Individualism in the cultural sense is the adolescent phase of the process. My truth, my reality, my boundaries, my brand. The self as defended territory. This is real and necessary as a developmental stage. But it’s not the endpoint.

Full individuation, the completion Steiner points toward, produces something that looks paradoxically like its opposite. When the individual “I” becomes itself fully, fully transparent to its own source, it discovers that the source is shared. Not identical across individuals. Shared. The most individuated being isn’t the most isolated. It’s the most capable of genuine meeting with other fully individuated beings, because there’s no defended ego distorting the contact.

This is the resolution of the loneliness problem, but it can’t be a shortcut. You can’t have real unity between selves that haven’t first genuinely become themselves. What passes for unity before that point is usually undifferentiated merging: people agreeing because they haven’t developed enough individual perspective to disagree meaningfully. Conformity dressed as community.

The sequence is individuation first, then genuine communion. In that order. Not simultaneously, and not in reverse.

The universe is apparently committed to producing irreducibly individual perspectives, each one a slightly different angle on reality that no other configuration can generate. The question worth asking is not how to reduce that difference, but what it’s for.

If individuation is a real process, cosmic in scale, spanning lifetimes, producing genuinely irreducible individual perspectives, then the question of which tools can read it becomes serious.

Most character frameworks flatten the question. Personality tests sort people into categories. Psychology describes distributions and deviations from the mean. Even most astrology operates at the level of archetypes, broad patterns that many people share.

BaZi does something different. It produces a configuration so specific, day, month, year, hour, interacting across four pillars, that genuine chart duplication is extraordinarily rare. The system is built for irreducible individuality. Not types. Not categories. This particular arrangement of elemental forces, active during this specific window of time, produces this precise configuration of the nervous system.

BaZi entered this picture for me not as a fortune-telling system but as a precision instrument. Many years of working with it seriously produced one persistent question: what is it actually reading? Not what does it say, but what layer of reality does it touch?

That question led to Steiner, to Vedanta, to the nervous system, and eventually to this series. The individuation process is the frame. Everything else is an attempt to locate, within that frame, what we actually are and what tools can honestly see us.

The birth chart is one of those tools. But to understand what it sees, you first need to understand the architecture it’s reading. That’s where we go next.

Originally published at https://omnigram.substack.com.

Dakota Johnson’s chart is built around one central force: seduction as strategy. She is a Yin Fire Day Master, seated upon a double Rooster with a Snake anchoring her roots. This alone tells us everything: Fire burning over Metal, glow reflecting in polished surfaces, heat meeting restraint. It is the classic pattern of the Dominance Talent Bridge, Fire conquering Metal, which in BaZi often translates into sexual power, charisma, allure, and intoxicating control dynamics.

Yin Fire is not a bonfire. It is a candle in a dark room, a spark in the mind, a gaze that lingers longer than it should. When Yin Fire sits on Metal, especially Yin Metal in the form of Rooster, it creates one of the most irresistible elemental relationships in the system. Fire melts Metal. Metal gives shape to Fire’s reflection. This dynamic produces people who attract naturally, not through loudness but through subtle attention manipulation. They do not seduce with force. They seduce with timing, restraint, contrast, and suggestion.

In Dakota’s case, she does not just have one Rooster, but two, sitting right under her Day and Month Branch, which means constant internal interaction between Fire and Metal. It is not an occasional mood. It is her default operating system. She thinks in seduction. She speaks in rhythm. She moves with deliberate softness, not weakness. It is softness with an edge.

Then comes the Snake in her Year Pillar, a branch historically associated with sensuality, mystique, and forbidden magnetism. The Snake also carries hidden Metal and Earth, supporting the same Fire over Metal melting cycle, but doing so more secretly, internally, and emotionally. If the double Rooster represents outer seduction and polished aesthetics, the Snake represents inner erotic intelligence, the kind of charisma that does not broadcast itself but pulls people inward.

Combine Rooster with Snake, and you have someone who knows the social rules of attraction in the Rooster domain but rewrites them from within through the Snake. A person who understands elegance and propriety but also knows how to weaponize silence and suggestion. This is not the energy of a loud bombshell. It is the energy of a woman who already knows you are looking at her before you do.

Now, consider the Yin Water on her Month Stem, which represents Authority and Power for a Yin Fire Day Master. In simple terms: powerful men. But not just powerful men. Men who are emotionally controlled, strategic, and quietly dangerous, mirroring the Yin Water archetype. When Yin Water is placed high and central in the chart, it suggests she attracts men of high status, restraint, or psychological complexity. Not weaklings. Not entertainers. Predators who meet another predator.

What is crucial is that Yin Fire, her Day Master, controls Water through Yin Earth yearly stem. This means she was never meant to be submissive for long. Even if her early career placed her in roles of perceived vulnerability, especially in Fifty Shades, which painted her as the one being acted upon, her BaZi structure shows the opposite. She wields submission. She does not fall into it. It is part of the seduction tactic. Softness functioning as dominance.

Yin Earth in the Year Stem provides Output energy, specifically Artistic Output. This gives her intelligence, elegance, and restraint in expression, making her less chaotic Fire and more crafted Fire that is curated, intentional, and enigmatic. Yin Earth softens her Fire, giving her feminine composure instead of uncontrolled passion. This refinement makes her even more attractive, not a wildfire, but a glowing ember you want to get closer to.

Since 2011, she has been in a long succession of Fire over Water luck pillars, giving her external Fire support, which she lacked in her natal branches. This period essentially activated the seductress within her, pushing her onto global platforms where that Dominance Talent Bridge could finally operate at full strength. The early part of this period, during the Fifty Shades era, showed the raw and hungry phase of seduction, the Fire fighting for visibility over Water. Now, as she moves deeper into Yin Fire over Water, her Fire matures. She no longer seduces to gain power. She radiates power and seduces without effort.

In recent films, she no longer plays the girl discovering her sexuality. She plays the woman controlling the room with her silence. The shift is evident, from active huntress to passive sovereign.

In BaZi terms, the Dominance Bridge has completed its conquest. Fire has melted Metal and now sits on its throne.

Dakota Johnson is not seductive by accident; she is structurally programmed for magnetic dominance. And she has the looks.

And unlike many who weaponize sexuality chaotically, hers is balanced by elegance, structured by Metal, fueled by Fire, and matured by Water.

A seductress not just in youth but by design, by element, by destiny.

Originally published at Talent Hero.

The Seductress was originally published in Talent Hero on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

The story of Charlie Kirk’s assassination took America and the world by storm. He was already one of the most influential conservative commentators, but after the assassination, his work and legacy went to another level.

I generally avoid discussing causes of death through a BaZi lens, as that is not something we want to focus on. Instead, let’s look at his strengths and the legacy his chart leaves behind.

Charlie Kirk was born as a Yang Earth Day Master, sitting on Dragon (day branch) and Dog (month branch). This already shows a solid, self-assured structure. The Rooster year added Metal output and Performer Talent, bringing outspoken qualities and a relentless drive to challenge authority.

The Water element in his chart was also strong, creating the Dominance Talent Bridge (Earth + Water). This bridge gave him the ability to hold and channel power, like a river rushing through the mountains — forceful, directed, and removing obstacles along the way.

The placement of Yang Water on top of the Dog acted as a Flamboyant/Communicator Supertalent, sharpening his mind, speeding up his thinking, and giving him the capacity to structure arguments in a clear and impactful way. This is why he was such an effective debater and organizer, able to build his own political and media presence into a lasting institution.

Overall, Charlie Kirk’s chart was strong and well-utilized. But what makes his story even more striking is the timing. In July this year, he entered the Yang Earth Horse Luck Pillar. The Horse combines with the Dog, producing strong Fire. Fire fuels Earth and balances Water, activating the Entrepreneurship Talent Bridge (Wealth + Resource). This is classic money luck, the kind of cycle that brings expansion, opportunity, and the ability to take one’s business to the next level.

Tragically, he was just stepping into this highly favorable period when his life was cut short. Yet, the Luck Pillar remains active even after death. His wife, Erika Kirk, has stepped into his role, consciously or unconsciously leaning into his Luck Pillar and legacy. She is drawing on that momentum, and we can already see the results: the movement initiated by his assassination grew tenfold almost instantly, and it continues to expand under her stewardship.

From a BaZi perspective, this is a fascinating example of how Luck Pillars can extend beyond the individual, influencing their family, brand, and legacy. Charlie Kirk’s chart shows not just a strong personality but also the foundation of a legacy that will likely continue to grow for many years.

Originally published at Talent Hero.

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy was originally published in Talent Hero on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Spending time under the guidance of a spiritual master with a genuine lineage can evoke sensations akin to divine intervention. It’s as though the touch of a higher power has cleansed your being, leaving your mind clear, your heart untainted by grudges, and your spirit poised to forgive all. In this heightened state, the trivialities that once plagued your thoughts appear minuscule and insignificant.

World affairs such as politics and financial markets lose their grip on your attention as you immerse yourself in the purity of the moment. The world around you takes on a newfound clarity, with colors appearing more vivid and purpose permeating every aspect of existence. Yet, this heightened state of awareness is transient, akin to catching a glimpse of a crystal-clear signal on a satellite dish before it fades away.

Initially, the fleeting nature of this connection can be disheartening. However, with dedicated practice and unwavering determination, it’s possible to cultivate a stable connection over time. This journey is not measured in years but in decades, cautioning against those who promise shortcuts to enlightenment. True mastery requires patience, discipline, and an unwavering commitment to the path.

Upon attaining mastery, one becomes a conduit for transmitting this profound connection to others — a custodian of spiritual lineage. Masters appear in our lives when we are ripe for transformation, often during our moments of greatest need. Merely being curious is insufficient; one must possess an insatiable hunger for truth, a willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of understanding.

For those fortunate enough to find a genuine master, holding onto their guidance becomes a matter of survival. The bond forged between master and disciple is akin to a lifeline, anchoring the seeker in a turbulent sea of existence. For in the realm of spiritual enlightenment, the journey is as treacherous as it is rewarding, and the master serves as both guide and guardian along the way.

In the end, the quest for mastery is not merely about personal enlightenment but also about sharing that light with others. It is a journey of self-discovery, transformation, and ultimately, service to humanity. So, if you find yourself on this path, remember to tread it with reverence, humility, and an unwavering commitment to truth. For in the pursuit of mastery lies the fulfillment of our highest purpose as spiritual beings.

Master and you was originally published in Mind Hero on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Yes, at first, I thought it’s just fantasy, but the older I got, the more realistic that movie came to be, to the point where I watch it now almost as a documentary.

To me, Matrix movies nailed two aspects of reality. The first aspect is spirituality. I’ve spent 20 years practicing and researching various spiritual methods, and Matrix is almost a perfect conceptualization of the spiritual world. Maybe a bit exaggerated, but directionally very much on point.

The second aspect is the Matrix itself, the clearly recognizable elements of it in our current world, becoming more vivid further we go.

World of Matrix is equivalent to what many spiritual masters call a post-natal world. It’s a world run by humans and machines, it’s very physical, and it’s governed by a system of contracts, a human-to-human or human-to-corporation contracts.

But there is another world, called pre-natal, where humans are not top dogs and where contracts are established in the ethereal world, and they are much more sophisticated or, let’s say, smarter.

Ethereal. Contracts. Smart. Got it?

I could probably stop here; I already shared plenty of alpha ;-)

But let’s go deeper.

We already established that Matrix runs on man-made contracts.

So, for example, if you want to get a student loan, you have to make a contract. If you want to borrow money to build a house, you have to make a contract. If you want a job, bank account, water, internet, electricity, etc., you need a contract.

Now, individually they don’t seem like a big deal, but when you put them all together, that’s a lot of obligation, a lot of pressure, coming from the Matrix.

It’s a prison of contracts, and if you don’t perform and fulfill your duty, there is a big chance that you end up in a real prison.

But, here is the plot twist. We don’t have to live in the Matrix and adopt their rules. Detaching ourselves from it is really hard, though. We can never truly leave the Matrix, but we can minimize its impact on our lives a lot.

Crypto plays a big role here because the purpose of these contracts is for us to reach financial independence — freedom. With crypto, suddenly, we can reach that independence without signing a single contract, even without revealing our identity to the Matrix.

And this is a big deal; this is the reason why so many people are excited about crypto. For the first time, humans have a chance to become truly free, in the full sense of that word.

The free world, the one outside of Matrix, does exist, but it’s not 100% independent, as long we share the same physical reality with the Matrix. That’s where digital reality comes to play. We can now create a new reality that shares the same physical space as Matrix, but on a digital level, is independent.

These are early days, and these blockchains, complex decentralized systems, are still very fragile, but each day they are getting more robust and more resilient. At one point, they will be so strong that Matrix won’t be able to penetrate; they will be forced to let us go.

We use smart contracts in this free world, like those on Ethereum, but we also use a genuine human-to-human contract, which we usually call a gentleman agreement. We can see in the crypto world that a lot of communities are functioning on these gentlemen agreements. In most cases, individuals are completely anonymous, but they organize in groups and build trust. The trust is based on reputation. We trust anons because we know their history, and based on that history; we believe that their actions are sincere. Of course, this can fail, but you would be surprised how often these kinds of agreements work and at which scale.

These agreements are very similar or even identical to ethereal contracts. They have a deeper meaning and larger impact than any man-made contracts, the one with a stamp and a signature enforced by the Matrix.

Ethereum is built on the idea that humans need contracts for society to be productive. These smart contracts built on blockchains are still rather cumbersome, slow, and complicated, but they will become more sophisticated; there are no questions about it.

This doesn’t mean that Ethereum is a perfect, god-sent system of contracts; far from that. I’m absolutely convinced that Matrix will use the power of smart contracts to lock humans even further, so be very careful; there will be friendly blockchains and hostile blockchains, learn how to recognize the difference.

We are still living in between two worlds, we need Matrix for basic living conditions, but all our creative energy is now moving towards the free world. This is at least true for those who can see it. Unfortunately, the majority still can’t, and it might take a long time until they reach that point of clarity.

I believe that humans originally belong to the pre-natal, ethereal world, but certain powerful individuals hacked our reality and created this artificial world that puts humans above God, above nature.

This has been developing for centuries, and most people don’t even realize that we live in the Matrix, but the movie gave us the first glimpse, and recently we could see the first cracks. A crack big enough for an army of autistic degen apes who believe in freedom to enter and wreak havoc to the well-oiled slave machine.

This is why it is essential to establish immutable, bullet-proof financial railways to limit our exposure to the Matrix. These are our tools, our weapons, our shields, and it is of utmost importance to keep them strong, to keep them independent, to keep them uncorrupted.

Breaking those man-made contracts within the Matrix will be hard; for some, it might take decades, but that is the only right thing to do.

Personally, I’m freeing myself from all man-made contracts. I don’t work for anybody; I don’t have debts, soon, I won’t need a bank either. I’m building a house in a rural area so that I can ditch renting and cities altogether.

Cities are the worst when it comes to man-made contracts. It’s impossible to live there without signing them. The only ones who do live without contracts are beggars on the street.

That’s the reality of the Matrix; if you want to be free, that’s your only choice, give up everything and beg for money. And that’s what people in Matrix are forced to do now. The economy is collapsing, jobs are disappearing, but people need basic living conditions, and they need entertainment, and governments will provide them.

The price? Not much, just your freedom.

The Matrix wants us hooked to artificial reality, artificial food, and recycled air to reach the ultimate goal, harvesting our consciousness by occupying our attention.

The free world shouldn’t shy away from the digital tools but use them to protect nature and the natural way of living to help people recognize and reject the Matrix.

Once and for all.

There is a way being rapidly built in front of our eyes, and I’m very excited to see where it will take us.

Matrix, the prison of contracts and free world was originally published in Qi Capital on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Maximalism is a natural occurrence, though; it’s happening in every area of life where people identify themselves with certain groups and ideas. There is healthy maximalism, like in sports, where people cheer for their teams but are mature enough to accept defeat and acknowledge the temporary superiority of the other side. But there is also a toxic type of maximalism that stifles progress and is deteriorating the ecosystem, and that’s the type of maximalism that I would like to address here.

I believe that it is important to fight toxic maximalism ferociously because it is an extremely destructive force. To do that, we have to understand its root in order to challenge them publicly and occupy the higher moral ground.

Yes, moral ground, because morality is the essence of every maximalism, a belief that somehow their system is morally superior to every other system.

Moral superiority is their Achilles heel though, the soft underbelly.

I often compare blockchains with religions and how their supporters inherit similar dogmatic behavior. This phenomenon will get more obvious; further we go in the crypto timeline. In my old post from 2018, I said that crypto is a spiritual journey of our digital generation. A spiritual journey naturally attracts individuals who tend to develop dogmatic beliefs because of their insecurities and narrow-mindedness.

Maximalists are here to stay, though, so we have to constantly keep them at bay, make sure that technology is moving forward, and stays relatively neutral. Technology should serve all layers of society, not just fanatics. If we leave technology to fanatics, then it’s all lost for us humans.

In essence, Bitcoin maximalists are more interested in moral superiority than sound money.

People obsessed with moral superiority have an inherent desire to be right all the time and control the narrative, to the point where any contrarian opinion is labeled as blasphemy. Bitcoin maximalists often talk about having sound money, but I believe this is not their true goal, but just a cover-up to exercise their need for gaining moral superiority at any cost.

Some people believe that humans are in control of nature; therefore, they develop a belief system that puts humans in charge as know-it-all entities. These kinds of people cling to belief systems and technologies to exercise that superiority and control. But on the contrary, humans have very little control; all we can do is react and adapt to outside stimulations.

Dogmatic people are afraid of such reality, being helpless, being in the dark, not knowing true from wrong; therefore, they create a system that puts them in charge, artificially, to come up with their own rules, deciding what is right and what is wrong.

Bitcoin is a perfect vessel for onboarding fanatics. A new concept that evolved around the idea of being pure, above humans (trustless), leaderless, with only spirit of Satoshi and holy Whitepaper leading the way.

The problem is that moral superiority is the exact opposite of A/B testing; it basically forbids ever to question the A with a B.

In order to adapt, humans are continuously performing A/B tests, in all areas of life, from food, energy, clothing, housing, technology; we test all kinds of materials and concepts to produce the best possible results. The A/B testing is an essence of every technological and scientific advancement,

Maximalists are essentially afraid that if B is better, in any way, they will lose their moral superiority, and that’s something they can’t allow, so they must defend the A with everything they got.

Losing moral superiority is their biggest fear. They are ready to sacrifice everything for that, including the very thing they are defending, in this case, the idea of sound money. A typical case where excessively loving mother chokes her own child by holding it too tight.

The universe keeps dropping challenges onto us all the time; therefore, technology development can never stop. Those who are stuck in a maximalist mentality suffer internally because they are fully aware of their limitations, but they can’t give up their superiority in order to grow; therefore, their brains kick into cognitive dissonance as a last resort to protect their view of the world.

An interesting showcase of toxic maximalism is Bitcoin energy consumption. In those early days, the Bitcoin maximalists developed their moral superiority by claiming that Bitcoin technology is pure, there are no downsides, and humans can only benefit from it. But last few years, we all became aware that the Bitcoin network is energy-hungry and is turning into a real-world problem.

Suddenly, their moral superiority is challenged. The only way to keep that illusion alive is to kick into cognitive dissonance, dismiss these problems as unreal or overblown, or attack other blockchains for being inferior or trying to damage Bitcoin. Suddenly their moral superiority is not so superior, and it makes them nervous; therefore, they are becoming more and more aggressive in defending it, which further alienates moderate supporters.

I believe that Bitcoin is much bigger and more important than these fanatics and that eventually, they will become a minority. At the same time, Bitcoin will march forward, attracting more mature individuals who are willing to acknowledge issues and work on them.

Therefore I believe that the future of Bitcoin is bright. Eventually, those issues will be addressed and resolved, and maximalists will be pushed into their little dark corner, where they belong.

They will continue claiming moral superiority, but at that point, nobody will care; the world will move on without them.

Bitcoin maximalism & moral superiority was originally published in Qi Capital on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Crypto farming is a relatively new phenomenon, popularized during the legendary DeFi summer when we witnessed a spectacular rise of various farming platforms. In those early days, 100% of those farms were built on Ethereum, which is notoriously known for its slow speed and expensive gas.

I actually avoided those activities; it felt too risky; I was focused more on accumulating DeFi tokens, like YFI, SUSHI, or RUNE. My first real farming experience was with BAO sometime in December 2020, and I fell in love with that crazy game. Meanwhile, the Ethereum gas prices went sky high, and it became costly to farm anything, so people were looking for other solutions. Binance’s BSC came out as a big winner, but I didn’t like its wild nature and poor choice of projects, mostly just pump-and-dump schemes. (It got better meanwhile, so please anon, don’t shout at me ;-)

I had my position in Serum, built on Solana, so when I heard about a new project that uses Serum DEX, aiming to compete with Ethereum equivalents in farming, I was very interested.

That project was Raydium.

Now, getting there required a bit of a learning curve because Solana blockchain is very much different from Ethereum, and it takes time to figure things out.

The first step is to create your own Solana address, which you can do on sollet.io.

Once you got your address, you can head over to Binance and buy some SOL and send it to your address. The transactions on Solana are so cheap that 20$ worth of SOL can last you for months.

You need SOL for transactions but also to generate addresses for other tokens.

Solana supports wrapped Ethereum tokens, like ETH, YFI, USDT, or USDC, but to move your funds there, you have to convert them first into SPL tokens, Solana’s equivalent to ERC20. You can use FTX exchange for that or a neat little tool in the Sollet wallet that gives you an option to export your ERC20 tokens directly from your MetaMask wallet. This is not cheap though, even with low gas, it will cost you more than $100, while FTX transaction costs are negligible.

You have to bear in mind that if you want to send tokens out of FTX, you are limited to $2.000 per day if you are unverified, which can be annoying. But if you are desperate enough, use the ERC20 converter within the Sollet wallet.

Once you have your tokens in your Sollet wallet, you can head over to Raydium and start playing with it. https://raydium.io/farms/

To exchange your tokens, head over to Swap; it works the same as Uniswap, so nothing new here. Warning: It’s super fast.

To add liquidity, go to the Liquidity tab, choose your pair, and click Supply.

Once you supply both sides of the pair, you will receive LP tokens, which you can then stake to earn farming rewards, which is on top of usual liquidity providing fees.

Raydium has two main products; one is called Farms, where you can pair RAY with some major assets, like USDT, SOL, SRM... The APR is pretty good, between 60% and 120%. These are considered to be less risky farms. RAY token itself is also quite stable.

Because transactions are so cheap, you can restake your rewards daily, so technically, this APR should be much higher.

The second product is called Fusion, where you can find a bit riskier farms with higher APR, so be careful with those. Definitely DYOR on individual projects before jumping in.

Some of these farms offer dual yield in the form of RAY tokens and base tokens. So, for example, if you are in OXY- RAY farm, you will earn RAY and OXY tokens.

There are also farms with USDC, my personal favorite, because it reduces the risk and overall volatility, while rewards are still pretty high.

For example, I really like COPE and MEDIA; those are solid projects, so farming with USDC is a no-brainer for me. I’ve been farming for several months, and I really enjoy the whole experience. Sometimes I do 30–40 transactions in a single day, moving things around and spending less than 10c the entire day.

Another beautiful experience is the speed; it’s lightning-fast. Solana sometimes behaves a bit glitchy, but less and less every day, and I never lost a single penny because of it. I also have to mention their Discord channel; people there are super helpful, so if you get stuck, head over there.

Raydium farming — A quick how-to was originally published in Qi Capital on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Ok, we have to admit, this one took a while, but we finally got it; the Android app is finally here.

BaZi Hero - Apps on Google Play

We had plans to release it in 2020, but COVID messed up all our plans big time; we had to put energy and resources into other, more important things.

The BaZi Hero for Android is identical to iOS when it comes to features. Building for Android is far more challenging because of dozens if not hundreds of different Android phones, but we hope that it will work on most of them.

If you do notice some issues, please let us know.

Originally published at Talent Hero.

BaZi Hero for Android — yep, finally here was originally published in Talent Hero on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Following politics these days is tough; there is so much disinformation, dishonesty, and corruption that it is hard to distinguish truth from lies and propaganda. It’s happening on both sides of the political aisle in almost every country.

Due to the power of social media, every story gets distorted very quickly. So when we read the daily news, unless we are trained to recognized filters and propaganda, we will most likely fall for false information.

So when it comes to New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s situation, again, we are faced with the same issue; it’s difficult to recognize who speaks the truth or whether the truth is distorted in some way. There used to be an unwritten law in the old days that everybody is innocent until proven guilty. But in today’s world, with social media amplifying everybody’s opinions, once you are accused, you are almost instantly proven “guilty” before the legal process even began. The system we have now is closer to the witch-burning process in the 15th century than to a modern and just legal system.

Andrew Cuomo is going through the same process after being accused by several women of sexual harassment. We will look into his chart and see what kind of clues we can find.

Please bear in mind, the chart cannot tell us whether somebody is guilty or not, but it could show us tendencies, like in the case of Joe Biden, which we analyzed a few months ago.

Cuomo is born as Yang Water Master Element, with Water Element being extremely strong, even excessive. He is currently going through the Wood Snake phase, which is quite good because those two Elements, Wood and Fire, utilize his Water and Metal quite well. There is a Fan Yin between Metal Pig month and the current Dynamic Luck, Wood Snake, which might add some instability to his career.

Andrew Cuomo is known for his exceptional communication skills, which got into the spotlight during the pandemic when he was regularly on the stage informing the public about the situation. He was so effective as a communicator that he even got an Emmy Award for that, which is an unusual choice, considering that he is a politician, not an actor. This skill comes mainly from his Communicator Supertalent, in the form of Yin Fire. This Yin Fire is super important for his chart; it has a significant balancing role; therefore, it acts as Supertalent.

The Yin Fire, on the other hand, is also a source of his current problems. Yin Fire Element is very weak, and it represents women in his case. That means that from his perception, he sees women as weak or easy to manipulate. Or he attracts weak women; that is also a possible scenario. He is a strong Yang Water, supported by Metal Element; therefore, it’s easy for him to play a dominant role when around women. On the other hand, women also probably perceive him as a dominant personality. Whether he actually did something illegal, that is hard to say, but perception is important, so it could be that women felt threatened, and they experienced that as harassment.

It could be that Governor Cuomo was not aware of his power (unlikely, though), and from his perspective, he might think that he did nothing inappropriate. It’s hard to say where the line is, so it’s better to leave such decision to the courts. The chart obviously shows a tendency to dominate women, but that’s pretty much all we can say at this point.

Originally published at Talent Hero.

Governor Cuomo — Bully or a victim? was originally published in Talent Hero on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.