Part 8 of an Ongoing Experiment
Month One gave me a baseline. Even though my Solar Return occurred in Colorado, the first month of the year felt almost entirely like Tampa—structured, productive, contained, and focused on systems. I wasn’t pulled outward. I wasn’t reacting. I was building.
So going into Month Two, the question was straightforward: would the Colorado imprint finally take hold, or would the same pattern continue?
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The answer, at least for now, is more nuanced than I expected.
The Structure Intensified
The structure didn’t disappear. If anything, it intensified. This was an extraordinarily productive month, even by my own standards. I completed eight books—five that had already been drafted or heavily outlined, and three new ones developed from blog content I’d written in the past. At the same time, I completed three soundtracks tied to my books and got them uploaded to major platforms. I also made meaningful progress on restructuring my website, though that work is still ongoing.
None of that felt chaotic or scattered. It felt deliberate. It felt like I was working within a system that is becoming more efficient by the day. I’ve also been investing time in learning how to use tools like Claude Cowork and Anti-Gravity to handle the kinds of repetitive tasks that used to slow me down. The result is that I’m not just producing more—I’m producing more with less friction. That doesn’t feel like reinvention. It feels like acceleration within a structure I’ve already built.
Something Opening Outward
Where I did begin to notice a shift was in public visibility. In Month One, I had one unexpected moment of being quoted by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. It was interesting, but it felt like an isolated event. In Month Two, that changed. I was contacted three separate times by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters and served as an expert source for their work. My expertise was also referenced again in a second story. At that point, it stopped feeling like coincidence. Something is opening outward, even if it isn’t yet defining my day-to-day experience.
What’s interesting is that this visibility hasn’t disrupted anything. It hasn’t pulled me away from my work or changed my direction. Instead, it has layered on top of what I’m already doing, almost as if the infrastructure I’ve been building is beginning to carry my work further than I’m actively pushing it.
Creatively, this month also expanded, but again, in a way that remained grounded. I created music videos for my books and songs and shared them online, which added another dimension to the work I’ve already been doing. It wasn’t a shift into something entirely new. It was an extension of existing projects into new formats. The creativity felt integrated rather than scattered, which is consistent with everything else this month.
Relationships were present, but they did not drive the narrative. I had genuinely enjoyable time with both friends and family, including attending a long-awaited concert with my daughter. Those moments mattered, but they didn’t take over the month or redirect my focus. There were no major relational turning points, no sense that my identity was being shaped through partnership or interaction. If anything, relationships felt supportive and steady, rather than central.
The Moment That Captures the Year
One experience stands apart from everything else, though, and it’s the one that feels most aligned with the deeper themes of this year. I received a significant financial windfall. And after considering it carefully, I chose to give it up in order to help heal someone else’s long-standing wound. That decision wasn’t impulsive. It wasn’t driven by pressure. It was deliberate, and it felt aligned with my values in a way that is difficult to explain but very clear to experience. If there is a moment that captures the core of this year so far, it’s that one.
Health-wise, this month brought clarity rather than concern. Several intense medical tests came back with very good news, which was both reassuring and grounding. At the same time, some older test results—taken before my Solar Return year began—revealed issues that I now understand more clearly and have a plan to address. The difference is that this no longer feels uncertain or overwhelming. It feels manageable.
Where the Experiment Stands
So where does that leave the experiment?
After two full months, the foundation of the year still feels like Tampa. The dominant themes remain structured productivity, systems building, strategic execution, health management, and a certain level of emotional containment. At the same time, Colorado is beginning to make itself known, particularly through increased public visibility and the gradual expansion of my work into wider arenas.
The terrain hasn’t flipped. It has layered.
The structure is still doing most of the work. But something is beginning to emerge on top of that structure—something that is outward-facing, but not yet dominant.
Month Three will be the real test. If Colorado is going to fully assert itself, it will need to move from background influence to defining force. And at this point, I’m less interested in whether that happens and more interested in how it happens.
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