JULY
July 2025 began with a new video by Thomas O. Mills titled Serpent Mound and the Moon: A Forgotten Message in the Sky.
After watching the video, I initiated a conversation with Mr. Mills on YouTube as follows.
Me: Thank you for this video. I’ve been watching both seasons of Ancient Apocalypse on Netflix, which features a couple of episodes about Serpent Mound. Your video goes into greater depth when covering the moon phases. I also found a video here on YouTube that states Serpent Mound sits in a meteor impact crater. Coupled with your video and Ancient Apocalypse episodes, I wonder if Serpent Mound is also a warning about possible future meteor impacts. I would love to hear your opinion on this at some point. Thanks again for your wisdom. I love your videos.
Mr. Mills: Thanks for taking a look. The meteor that struck Earth near Winslow, Arizona, is known as Meteor Crater, which occurred approximately 50,000 years ago. Perhaps that is the same time that the one struck Ohio? If so, it would align with the Hopi Creation Story timeline: a new world was created by fire 50,000 years ago, followed by an ice age 25,000 years ago, and then a flood when the last ice melted 12,500 years ago, setting up our present climate. Thanks again for your comment. – Tom (edited)
My reply: That’s so interesting. I’ve often wondered how much time passed between each of the four worlds mentioned by the Hopi. Wonder when we’re due to enter the 5th world? Or are we overdue?
Mr. Mills: The Hopi talk about a string of time – like the constellations – a complete shift would take 25,920 years, but they say that the last shift came early, the last time the polar ice caps melted, and there was a great flood. This event occurred approximately 12,500 years ago, known as the Younger Dryas. This event will happen again in 2100 on March 20th, if the date is correct. The primary purpose of the constellations is to indicate our location in space.
Taking inspiration from his video, the outline of Greenfield Lake suddenly took on an entirely new meaning.
And The Fourth Turning now became a double entendre. The 84-year Uranus/Gemini cycle and the Fourth Hopi World transiting into the Fifth, which corresponded with my previous work at Hopi. It all came together.
Vision Quest No. 1 – July 2, 2025 – I waited several hours to embark on my first Vision Quest of July. It had been raining consistently most of the evening, and so I had to wait for a break in the clouds. That break happened around 9 PM.
It was still raining a little when I left the house, and large drops of water were falling from the trees as I passed under them. The road, the trees, everything was glistening. I passed a woman walking barefoot on the side of the street who yelled out to me and asked if I had a light. Racing to beat the next bout of rain, I yelled back, Nope, Sorry, and kept pedaling. I sent her light, but not the type she asked for. Keeping my eyes on the road, I paid very close attention to any large water puddles in the middle of the street to avoid them.
I quickly made my way around to the sacred tree. It was very dark, so I had to keep an eye out for snakes and creepy crawlers. After grounding myself and asking the tree for inspiration for my newly themed quest, I pushed off and continued around the lake.
Unable to dodge it without having an accident, a soft tree branch brushed across my right eye as I rounded a dark corner. I laughed because I immediately understood its message; I now had the right vision regarding Rebis, the lake, and the Fourth Turning. I was on the right path. I made it home safely a few minutes later without incident.
The third interstellar object, comet 3I/ATLAS, was discovered on the same day.
Quest No. 2 – July 4 – I left the house about an hour before sunset. The one thing that stuck out to me the most on this quest was watching a squirrel desperately trying to carry an entire ear of dried corn across the street in front of me. As I approached the squirrel, it abandoned its task and dropped the ear of corn directly in my path. The corn reminded me of Hopi and felt like an offering.
I continued around the lake until I arrived at the sacred tree. Right before I pulled up to the tree, I stopped and took the following photograph of my shadow. The strange thing about this photograph is that it appears as though someone was standing beside me, and the light between the two of us resembles the Native American Sun symbol and the Sun Regeneration symbol used by the Hopi. This also occurred during the Sirius Gateway Portal of 2025. Suddenly, I felt Ahote’s presence. I was utterly amazed by this.
Quest No. 3 – July 6 – I don’t know how I spotted this hawk. It was nowhere near the road or bike path. This sighting ultimately became the central message of the day. Remain still. Be quiet. Wait for the light to turn on.
Six hours later, Uranus returned to Gemini after being absent since 1948.
Quest No. 4 – July 8 – The day after a tropical storm, Chantal, passed through parts of North Carolina, causing major widespread flooding, I embarked on my next adventure around the lake. The start of the ride was quiet and easy.
Right before reaching the sacred tree, I heard several owls and saw one fly through the thick forest next to the lake. I felt an instant connection as if I had been pulled into another dimension. I continued around the lake until I finally reached the sacred tree.
I stopped next to the tree, placed my left hand on its trunk, and then noticed something that I hadn’t seen before. There appeared to be a portal in the space centered between four trees facing north, directly to my right, opposite the tree. While keeping my left hand firmly on the tree, I focused on the portal and felt as though I was being pulled visually into the round opening. I couldn’t stop staring.
After absorbing that into my consciousness, I continued my ride around the lake. As I reached the other side of the lake, an almost full moon created a path of light across the water. Magical.
The rest of the ride was a blur. I looked forward to my next journey around the lake on July 10, during the full moon.
Quest No. 5 – July 10 – I left the house after dark. The vibes on this night were a bit eerie. I had just watched the movie Sinners twice, and vampires were on my mind. The night was dark and still, and the lake seemed to emanate a werewolf and vampire energy. In my head, anyway.
While riding through a dark section of the bike path, I suddenly heard a dog chasing me from behind. I looked behind me and saw a black dog with big teeth panting heavily as it snapped at my back tire. The dog did not bark, which, for some reason, scared me even more. I began pedaling as fast as I could and scared the dog off by yelling at the top of my lungs. The dog finally retreated. My heart was pounding. I was gone, gone, gone in a flash.
I made it to the sacred tree safely. I connected with the tree in complete darkness, still reeling from being chased by the dog. Rattled, I departed from the tree and continued around the lake. I made several attempts to photograph the full moon, but it kept hiding behind fast-moving clouds, which gave off more werewolf and vampire vibes. I made it home, still shaken up by the dog (or werewolf). LOL.
Quest No. 6 – July 13 – As I made my way around the lake, I cautiously rode past the location where the dog had chased me three days earlier. I noticed two “Beware of Dog” signs in someone’s front yard, but thankfully, there was no sign of the dog.
After visiting the sacred tree, I continued my lap around the lake and nearly ran over a small snake crossing the bike path. I felt like the snake was asking me to refocus my attention on Serpent Mound and my connection with the Hopi. I had been thinking about a visit to Serpent Mound for my upcoming Judgment year, after I turned 64.
Quest No. 7 – July 15 – Quiet. Uneventful. Hot and sweaty. Parts of the lake were giving off an emotionally stagnant, congested energy.
Rewind: A few days earlier, on July 11, Madonna released the original demo version of “Gone, Gone, Gone,” a track from the long-rumored project “Veronica Electronica,” featuring rare and unreleased remixes from her critically acclaimed album, “Ray of Light.“
Even though the song had been written nearly 30 years earlier, I couldn’t figure out how it pertained to me in July 2025, near the end of my Sun year. The song did, however, resonate with my story 30 years ago when I left Washington, D.C. to escape that emotionally charged time. I listened to the song several times, trying to figure out a current connection.
It came to me five days later on Wednesday, July 16, 2025.
At several brief moments during the most challenging times of my journey, I felt like giving up on this project altogether. I wasn’t great at self-promotion or fundraising. I needed money to continue my adventure and cover the necessary costs for my travels and website. At times, I felt like everything was a waste of time. Each attempt to raise money and go public was blocked, turned back, or ignored by the Universe, and each rejection left me feeling frustrated, desperate, and overemotional. The love affair with keeping my story and dream alive almost came to an end several times.
The desperation, however, subsided after God, my ancestors, spirit guides, and my niece came through for me with the apartment in Wilmington. That kept me from ending up on the streets. A tsunami of gratitude washed over me, and I fell in love with my spiritual, metaphysical, Neptunian-age story once again. I discovered a sense of peace and turned my attention back to my project, metaphysics, and its connection to Madonna’s music.
Alternatively, the political climate was taking a significant toll on family members and associates at the time of this song’s release, causing considerable infighting and everyone’s willingness to give up. Prozac, Xanax, Valium, and God knows what else were the drugs of the day. Everyone was overstimulated one moment and checking out the next, slowly losing control of their consciousness. The love affair with life appeared to be gone, gone, gone for most.
Quest No. 7 – July 17 – The extreme heat in July made my bike rides a real challenge, but events like the following made it all worth it. I could hear and feel the wind from the hawk’s wings as it blessed me with a flyby. Landing on the ground, I concluded that the hawk was telling me to remain grounded.
Quest No. 8 – July 19 – The one thing that stuck out the most on this ride around the lake was passing the Hugh Morton (Greenfield Lake) Amphitheater and being introduced to the sounds of a band named Flipturn. I had passed the amphitheater on every trip around the lake and heard many different bands, but I connected with the music on this night. The music gave me chills. The sounds of their music and the crowd screaming echoed across the water as I circled the lake on my way home—a different type of wildlife appeared this night. After I arrived home, I played some of their music videos and added some tracks to my favorites playlist.
JULY 20 – THE THIRD PRAYER
I performed the Christian version of the Twin Hearts Meditation by Stephen Co. while the constellation Ophiuchus was positioned directly above the Earth and Orion below. I reminded myself that the mention of The Holy Father and Lord Jesus represents the Light and Christ Consciousness, waiting inside us all in our internal sanctuary. This ritual reinforced the first two prayers of this chapter and all of the prayers I performed on The Transfiguration of Christ Mountain in Phoenix in 2013.
Quest No. 9 – July 21 – I ended The Sun year by video recording my ride around the lake the day before my 64th birthday. That ride and the Twin Hearts Meditation from the previous night are revealed in the following video.
The great ones and all spiritual masters, including the Holy Mother, the Holy Father, Lord Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, and Allah, represent the Supreme God, Light, or source of consciousness energy that resides within us all in our internal sanctuary.
REWIND: Back on April 17, 2025, I ordered a bag of Burpee Wildflower Seed Mix, which I planted in a small patch of dirt next to my shed and carport. I had never planted wildflower seeds in my life, so my expectations of having a successful flower garden were extremely low.
I was blown away by what transpired, which brought the year of The Sun to a spectacular close. Coincidentally, the face on the giant sun that my niece left on the shed reminded me of my mother. Madonna even!?!
With The Star, The Moon, and The Sun years behind me, it was now time to face my Judgement year.