For the past few years I (in collaboration with Astrologer Elodie Miaow) have been deeply researching the traditions of lunar syncretisms across geography and time, usually systems of 27 or 28 which witness and participate in the phenomenons of the Moon in her sidereal cycle around the ecliptic and what layers of expression flow forth through our experience. The Arabic lunar mansions, the Indian Nakshatras, the Chinese Xiu, cosmogenesis in the Greek Magical Papyri, the later grimoire tradition and it’s echoes into New World Traditions, as well as our own immersion through ritual engagement, automatic writing, trance movement, channeled drawings, and copious daily noting of dreams, moods, occurrences, synchronicities, and whatever else so as to begin to feel and sense in an embodied way the narrative essences and archetypes of the Moon’s passage over cyclical time through sky space and terrestrial experience. What has formed is a coherence of a highly subjective, elastic, emotional, intuitive, subtle, imaginal, dreaming living story inhabited with celestial, otherworldly and underworldly elemental and often animal or biological personae narrating a story of physical and metaphysical undulation within which our bodies and beings partake, whether we pay attention or not. Essentially a rather large swath of what mobilizes the moods burbling through the natural world and what we might consider the subconscious. We held dream groups to see if it was true that the correspondences and dynamics we saw at play streamed into the nightly activity of any cross section of society. Patterns abounded. We forecasted for over a year on a podcast relying on our collection of lunar zodiacal criteria, and found it effective in prognostication, of what would occur on an archetypal level but penetrating into the subjective, emotional, intuitive, subconscious, dream, imagination, sexuality, sensory, primal currents which we all take part. Our nocturnal participations in reality. Whether night or day, our scintillating darkness. (find our ongoing research HERE)

I began to think about crypto. About how astrologers in the space were so concentrated on the Moon cycles. About how the kind of astrological observations they were making seemed to invite a response from the markets, but not only the price action but the narratives. As if the astrology, markets and those talking about it were all dialoguing together forming relationships. I looked at the chart of BTC, which often doubled as the industry chart as a whole and I noticed that the placements from a Lunar Zodiacal perspective told a particular story, one in which the spirits of the grimoires, the ecstatic rites of the Mystery Traditions all wove and wired into and through to paint a particular picture of the Crypto space’s biology of being, it’s inhabited and animated form and function, essentially it’s deep hauntedness.

A large part of what we began to notice in the lunar research was the integral role of eclipses in the happening of reality, as well as in the story of creation, and the human/animal experience of being in a world where there is narrative tension between primordial chaos and fertile flourishing, and what would become the story of civilized creatures, animals in complexifying societies, remediating the turbulence of the ongoing creation/destruction process of existence. My first glance at the BTC chart I noticed that it was hardwired into the Nodal Axis, it ran on eclipses, it was a thing spiraling around the gates of manifestation, it was a mysterious expression in reality that seemed to ride along the scales of the primordial serpent.

The South Node on the Ascendent in the Caves where Zeus hid in exile as a child to escape being swallowed by Kronos and nursed in the secret shadows by a She Goat until he was mature and ready to claim place in the Universe. A cave haunted by spirits by the early modern period which are said to bring money, as much as is desired, and inhabited by beings known in the New World for mining, locating value from the inner earth and networking through shadow markets. The North Node on the Descendent in the Shape of a Garland, the type which decorated tombs and literal crypts in the Grecco-Roman world, where the passage from death to rebirth pivots, a place of hiding and storing treasure, protecting fruiting trees with fencings, inhabited by a spirit to whom in one late grimoire is said to ask for a hair on your head, but you are advised to give him one of a fox’s instead- reminiscent of the mascot which appears when connecting your Metamask wallet in which you store your gems. Clearly we could see making obscure value out of nothing and holding it in secure, anonymous ways that benefits the growth of the ecosystem under the virtue of cleverness fit the mythological reading well to the actuality of Crypto.

Another dead ringer is where the Moon falls in the BTC chart. This is the 1st Lunar Mansion, which the list central to our work from the Greek Magical Papyri has as OX. This refers to a lead initiate in the traditions of Dionysian Mysteries in the classical Mediterranean world, but derives its origins from Neolithic civilizations such as at Göbekli Tepe, but likely also further into our pasts. Each individual participating in the larger crypto ecosystem, known commonly by their wallet address 0x-etc. is perhaps an initiate into a mysterious unfurling world of collaboration which seems to intend to melt away the post polis empire, which repressed the mysteries from the start. In properly haunted crypto the daimons and elementals and celestials and dead and beings of the primordial natural world seem to be turning back the tides on the centralizing empire who first wielded the single entry ledgers as state run agriculture emerged. Now, with multiplicitous ledgers as innovations in the world of exchange and collaboration, the cat is out of the bag. Beautiful stigmergic motions of natural symbiosis have been unleashed, and all are free to participate. Like the mysteries themselves, every man, woman, child, elder, slave and so on could participate in direct experience of epiphanic reality. The Roman state attempted to regulate and bury these activities, and ongoing empires continued this suppression. Perhaps here from the shadows of primordial cosmogenesis mosaics of autonomous cultures swallow up the pillars of central authority and redistribute the particulars into compostable potential with an issuance of cryptic breath and the sound of creation resounding as Orphic Zeus the threatened child divine was mythologically hodled in obscurity now integrates once again into communication with our collaborative behaviors, values and psychology.

What you will find appearing here, at least to start, is my ongoing meditation on the mysterious, mythological, haunted, inhabited, biological, cyclical, and phenomenological articulations within the Crypto and Web3 forms. Sometimes more as essay, sometimes in the spirit of channeled prose, literary non-fiction. A medium from which a more ecosystemic, stigmergic, and symbiotic society may grow, in relation to and under the guidance of the spirits of the natural world who describe a holistic web upon which we might graft our mass collaborations.