7/29 PRAY FOR ME
1/3 of the S&P Kicks Off
I think so far following what I laid out last Wednesday has served us really well, and while I’ve been off writing a paper on AI for the US Government thinking a lot of it would eventually translate, most of it dived into classified.
I think we have another actually fun week ahead of us, with the potential for more market action.
What I will say is, I originally wrote on Wednesday, expect upside, but I think it is getting trickier than that partially because of the Treasury Refunding, but also because of the markets momentum slowdown. I want to say I believe easily we will see continued upside, but you have to wonder if markets are planning a goal post switch.
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Pray for Me
I think many know if you’ve been an OG Tribe member that I was raised catholic. Raised in DC, worked in DC my whole life, while traveling far and wide but now spending a lot of time down in Georgia. It’s a different pace of life down here.
I went from everyone on edge with ambition to a soft mosey. It’s something that I appreciate, because I think when I move around it has always helped me recalibrate and integrate a new way to think.
What Georgia has taught me a lot of is to spend more time in the action, and to be more thoughtful towards others. At the same time, it is jarring being in a new place.
Especially at night. The city boy in me generally has the instinct of when the sun goes down, you are locked away in your house. However, last night, I needed to run to get a few groceries. It was peaceful and well past my bedtime at 9pm at night.
The sky had turned into a dark navy blue. The crickets chirped, the birds hummed. The air was cool, and I drive without any music on normally with the windows down to breath some air. It was a nice night, and grabbing the groceries was uneventful.
I made my final turn back about to cross over the highway when blue lights flashed in front of me. An officer was trying to cross from the highway through our intersection. He slammed seeing me coming down in my beat up tacoma that I love.
I stopped at the green light and saw him pass. It unnerved me, even though I had been used to so much police and military in DC, my time here it just doesn’t really happen an officer if weaving traffic.
2 more lights and 2 fire trucks come firing past. Something’s up. It has to be. What is going on?
In that moment, I felt the need to pray. I recited a hail Mary and asked for intervention from the universe for whoever needed it, which from our catholic youth was sort of the go to prayer. As I went to turn, I kind of snapped back realizing the meditative state I had been in, and found it odd.
First off, I’m a smart ass and a bit of a skeptic. There’s no way getting around it, so when people told me to pray as a young wiz when a first responder past, I had always gone a sorta - ya ok - if I did that I’d be praying my whole trip into DC.
So why now? I had felt moved by the cars racing. I thought almost for the first time, if not me who asks for an intervention, who? What if someone on that end is a mom and she’s bleeding and her kids dialed 911 to save her?
If it was a revelation, it was awfully late to the game some 600 and something years in. I felt sort of a tear - why now when I’ve never cared before, but also I know when I am moved by my spirit. I can’t necessarily describe it well, but there is a trance I enter when I would say the universe is hitting me with full signal.
The full signal was on and I prayed very humbly again even after debating and wrestling with myself over what changed.
Did I just not care before? Was it the environment? Why now? I still am chewing on it even as I write to really sort through this.
I just know that a spiritual flow reawakened within in that I have not felt in a while, and before I go too far, I don’t claim to be some holy man. I seemingly have always looked to the spirit to guide me, whatever that is. If there is 1 thing in my life that I repeatedly believe, it’s that I can commune with the spirits and they will help guide me if I come genuinely to them. In return, I am a vassal for the will of good to be spread on this earth. I think that is a very simple pact that we all can have with the spiritual world. That if I open myself to them for help, I allow them to flow through me to do others good at the same time.
Without discussing my whole spiritual history, this has waxed and waned in strength of my connection to them, but I also genuinely seek guidance whether it is the spirits, the universe, God, gods, or my ancestors. It doesn’t really matter to me whose on the other end…I don’t think it ever will. I just know that if I enter into this trance, I know it is important.
I think a lot of what I was taught when I was young was stained by moral high grounders, or people that were so locked in to their faith that they never wrestled with it. It was almost always a disappointment and why I think I shook off a lot of what appeared to be ritualistic.
In the midst of it, I probably have gone too far in some areas. I should pray for other people. I should pray for you. I should remember that the universe is in everything, and that others really need me and they need you. We all need each other to pray for us that strength can find us to do good.
Our spiritual loneliness that I think a lot of us have probably wouldn’t be so lonely, not only if we made it more of a habit to pray and recite a mantra, but if we also asked for help.
I wrote maybe 2 months ago, things couldn’t be better, but I’m still wrestling with what has happened in my life. Well same with last night, I thought if I was on the end of that 911 call, would someone be praying for me? Would they ask their faith to intervene and ensure I was ok?
As the veil things, would I have to walk to Hades by myself, or would someone’s spirit join me for comfort because they prayed?
I’ve said this many times, but I pray for you, and I hope you know that I love you. I think that love is funny in that transcends what we really know about it and that it is much stronger than we imagine. On days you don’t have strength, the ole wiz is there giving you the extra strength I have to make sure you get through.
I think we need it, and I hope you pray for me too, because I know especially I need it too.
May all beings find the courage within themselves
To act with kindness and compassion.
Grant them the strength to choose what is right,
Even when the path is difficult.
Let their hearts be filled with resolve
To create positive change in the world.
May they discover the power of their own goodness
And use it to uplift themselves and others.
Amen, Amen, Amen
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