GETTING STARTED
As I continued my every other day bike rides around the lake, I experienced more close encounters with many hawks and owls. Peregrine Falcons continued to make broad circles high above my apartment almost daily as hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies took nourishment from my flower garden. I paid close attention to their messages as all of this nature appeared to have a consciousness of its own.
Madonna posted a message on her Instagram account on my birthday, July 22, 2025, which included her song Forbidden Love. It was a positive sign that her soon-to-be-released album would set the stage for the last two years of my adventure. I had chosen this song for my Open Letter to Madonna posted on 02/14/17, and the Confessions On A Dance Floor album and tour was an incredible time for her art and me. I remained hopeful.
Two days after my birthday, during the New Moon in Leo, I received an email from Dan. It had been fifteen years since the two of us ran into one another in a bar in Guerneville, California, on Day Five of the 72 Days of God adventure. The last time I heard from him was in 2010, during my Emperor year. The timing of our reunion was fascinating, considering that I was now in my Judgement year, and the name Dan or Daniel meant “God is my judge.”
Dan came over to visit, and we drove out to Carolina Beach to have pizza and donuts and to watch the Thursday night fireworks. Madonna released Veronica Electronica during the powerful New Moon on the 25th.
I drove to my hometown on my sister’s birthday, July 27th, and spent a couple of days with family. My Uncle Seth, my mother’s baby brother, turned 91 years old on July 29. We had a lovely visit, and to honor my parents, I took the time to place flowers around their tombstone.
During the drive back to Wilmington on the 29th, I kept hearing my mother confirm that my sister had bestowed upon herself our parents’ estate in the late 1980s. Even so, my mother was pleased that those resources were now being used to help care for her baby brother during the final years of his life, and I was grateful for this realization.
After I arrived back in Wilmington that evening, Dan and I attended a drumming circle at a local bar. The atmosphere in the bar reminded me of bars in Portland, Oregon. Afterward, Dan showed me around various parts of Wilmington that I had not seen before. It was a delightful evening. I ordered a new drum the following day.
On August 2, 2025, this video was published on YouTube explaining the controversial 13th Zodiac star sign, Ophiuchus.
I returned to the sacred tree on Saturday, August 3, for inspiration for my Judgement year. As soon as I pulled up to the tree, an Oppossum strolled quietly beneath the portal as if to offer inspiration. In Native American traditions, the opossum often symbolizes resourcefulness, adaptability, and cleverness, awareness, curiosity, instinct, illusion, problem-solving, psychic skills, sacred geometry, strategy & tactics, surprises, and truth-seeing.
The Lion’s Gate Portal occurred several days later on August 8, 2025, an annual astrological event when a powerful alignment of the Sun in Leo, the star Sirius, and the Earth creates a potent energetic doorway for manifestation and spiritual growth. It was on this day in 2025 that we also experienced a full moon, which added the moon to the powerful alignment.
That afternoon, my niece gifted me a book that she had found in a thrift shop while visiting family in Virginia the week before. The book was published in 1974 when I was 13 years old. One hour after my niece gave me the book, I received an email from Shutterfly reminding me of photographs taken at Hopi 13 years earlier. The numbers in the message felt like another affirmation of sorts. I felt the spirits of my mother and Ahote.
That evening, I set out for my next bike ride around the lake. I stopped at the sacred tree, placed my left hand on the tree, turned to face the portal, and said the following out loud three times.
The true purpose of my life will manifest as it should, when it should.
After being rained out for several days, I finally made my way around the lake on Saturday, August 16, 2025, on Madonna’s birthday. I performed the same ritual as above, and spoke out loud the following.
What I need will come.
And again on Monday, August 18, 2025.
I am deeply loved, and love flows effortlessly into my life.
On Wednesday, August 20, I returned to the sacred tree. With my left hand on the tree and while facing the portal, I spoke the following words out loud: “Money is drawn to me in unexpected and abundant ways.” But then I decided to change the phrase, and as I was speaking the following out loud, a hawk or owl flew directly across the portal. It was at that point that I knew the revised phrase had been heard.
Money is attracted to me and everyone else in unexpected and abundant ways.
On Friday, August 22, the day before the Black New Moon in Virgo, I returned to the sacred tree once again. With my left hand on the tree and while peering through the portal, I spoke the following words out loud:
Every answer I need is on its way to me now.
On Sunday, August 24, the day after the Black New Moon in Virgo, I returned to the sacred tree once again. With my left hand on the tree and while peering through the portal, I spoke the following words out loud:
My health will continue to improve.
As I continued around the lake, I put the following song on repeat. Strangely enough, I had purchased this album the day of its release, fifty-one years earlier, on my thirteenth birthday. Realizing this, I noticed that the number 13 was popping up all around me.
On Thursday, August 28, I returned to the sacred tree. With my left hand on the tree, I looked keenly into the portal and expressed sincere, heartfelt gratitude for my life.
I returned to the sacred tree once again on Saturday, August 30, 2025. Connecting with the tree and the portal, I spoke out loud…
The Father and I are one.
I stand before thee in the Light of the Christ
For I am Light
I am Light
I am that Light