Faster Horses, 3 AM Hot Yoga and Mushrooms in the Rain: Why Mutation is Not Linear [E77]

[00:00:00] Welcome to Clear Signal. Five years ago, I was sitting in a tent in the pouring rain on Halloween recording a voice memo about the collective shedding that I saw coming. And that was the seed planting for what was to become this podcast. If you plant seeds in a garden or you look at the moon, it takes about five days for the seed to start to sprout, for the light to start to build.

And we are actually at that point. This episode was originally supposed to drop in on 11/1, 111, and that was the date of that tent situation. It was the day after Halloween I've done episodes on this platform on 11.11. I've also done episodes about 13 and 31. Why don't we drop it in on the 4th?

Because what does 13 and 31 add up to? Four. What does 1-1-1-1 add up to? Four. This [00:01:00] upcoming couple of days will be the countdown to the Scorpio New Moon and also the Diwali, which is the Indian New Year. Today is the last warm day that is sunny where I live until at least spring, and we're entering the darkness.

I am preparing the podcast for a real birth. A normal person would do eight episodes as a launch. I did 80 episodes as a launch, or I will do 80 at least. It might be 88. And many of you guys know this brand was birthed on 8/8. Many of you guys know or may not know that the aura around the body in Human Design is 88 inches from the body.

Also, the unconscious chart of Human Design is cast 88 days before you're born. So In preparation for that, I'm going to be putting together a trailer, potentially an intro, all the bells and whistles, probably a start here episode for new folks. [00:02:00] And what is that for? It's to orient them. So that you know what is this podcast about and where could I get started that would be the shortcut. I mentioned X Marks the Spot in a prior episode. You probably heard a trailer for that, if that's still running. That is the shortcut to your prosperity path.

That is the intersection between your innate gifts, where you are brilliant, what people will pay you for, what do you double down in, what is the root core of your positioning? Everything else is built off of that. I cannot emphasize that enough. Messaging, platforms, strategy, everything. And understanding that will remove the friction you have in your head about, "But wait, I'm selling to this person, but I'm also selling to this per- No, you start there.

Intersected with your prosperity path, which is your way to make money. When you have a map, Google Maps could tell you to go A, B, C, and you get to decide the route. And in theory, one might take you longer, one might be shorter, one might cost you money in [00:03:00] tolls, but in theory, you're gonna end up at the same place, right?

Prosperity path doesn't work that way because when you are on your prosperity path in the right way, opportunities will show up when you're on your journey and leveraging you need to leverage that they might not show up in the other way. So it's not as cut and dry. However, what I can tell you is you have a prosperity architecture, and you have an innate value architecture, and I have built a very simple back-of-the-envelope solution based on a very complex architecture that intersects those. Three slots left at the time of this recording. One's even gone since I recorded this. Haven't marketed at all. Put a couple episodes up on the podcast. Didn't put these up on YouTube, and we're just rolling with it. That's the energy we're in. Check that out. That is for you. That is a no-brainer.

It is under $200 for a strategy session with me that is evergreen, will never come again. Run, don't walk, is all I gotta say. And this podcast is the opposite of that because [00:04:00] this podcast is the scenic route. This podcast is let's go down a memory lane of different episodes, which I didn't try to do, by the way, bringing up episodes that without taking you on a journey of the whole podcast, I kinda take you on a journey of the whole podcast.

It's kinda genius in that way. It's not I listen to this episode if you're looking for this, or listen to this episode if you're looking for this. It's kinda like a, oh, yeah, I kinda get the gist of what this was about without listening to every episode. And of course, listen to those episodes you like because they're very useful.

We talk about the start of this podcast. We talked about shedding. We talk about transformation. We talk about so much. And in this podcast, I also mention episode 49, which also talks about transformation and shedding in its own way. That episode is new. That episode is backdated, but it's never been on the platform.

And that episode was added because I took down the highlight reel of the episode after that, which was also about shedding and transformation. You're getting a theme, right? Diwali, Scorpio new moon, Halloween, it getting colder, collective shed. [00:05:00] And when you listen to the origin story of the podcast in the tent, you'll understand why it's relevant

I had an episode on the feed earlier talking about this, but I took it down. I don't know why. Maybe because it wasn't ready. This episode is already very long, and I'm gonna make it even longer by sharing this here One of the things that I talked about a lot in season two was Human Design for Business the basics you need to know to understand why Human Design is relevant for business, not to teach you everything about Human Design that's not the work I do, and that's not my area of interest I use these as tools under the hood Same thing with astrology in season one, I did a lot of spiritual stuff, but also I did stuff around conditioning.

I did an episode very recently on Human Design centers because I wanted you to understand this notion of conditioning, and that's what makes Human Design unique to traditional personal development tools. Even though I don't do personal development in its [00:06:00] purest form, when you're making decisions and you don't understand the soup you're swimming in, you don't understand the influence you're in that's a problem what happened is I was at a place, I was doing mushrooms on Halloween, and it was a heart-opening dose, which I don't do, because heart-opening doses are very small amounts of mushrooms. I know me, that'll just keep me up all night so I was prepared for the fact that I'd be up all night, and I'm in somebody else's house with a bunch of people. It's quiet. I can't eat. I can't go home. I can't make noise. It would feel like prison. So I planned ahead, and I decided I was gonna spend my time in a tent. Halloween off the coast of Rhode Island on a typical New England fall is not warm, and that particular night was torrential downpours. [00:07:00] I'm a bit unusual. I beat to my own drum. So I bought trash bags, and I slept in the tent. Knew I wouldn't be sleeping, but I was outside all night in a torrential downpour when it was freezing very close to the Atlantic Ocean.

I couldn't sleep, so I pressed the voice memo app on my phone, and I just started talking. I have that voice memo, and at some point I will play it. You won't be able to tell that it's really sound of rain falling outside and hitting the tent.

I'm sure it'll appear when it's the right time but the point of that is it's five years. So later on this episode, I mention the moon. You think about the moon. We've talked about the moon. What is the moon?

It's a reflection of the sun. It's this duality of light and dark. What are the phases of the moon? At five days is about when you start to build light, and in personal cycles, five years would be five days. It would make sense [00:08:00] that now is the next phase of whatever this is gonna be And I could have had that personal thought, but I thought I'd share it with you that has to do with Human Design centers because if you think about the notion of conditioning, oftentimes people will do stuff to please others or not to look weird or to go along to get along, and I don't really roll that way. I don't care. I'm sure people thought I was crazy. Probably some people are like, you're crazy, but I don't know, but you're kinda all right." That's the thing, right? When you're afraid to be yourself, you are not a beacon to the people who are meant for you, and it's not gonna be everybody. It's gonna be a select few, especially if you're alternative.

What came up on the voice memo was this notion of shedding and transformation. I knew, I saw society having this midlife crisis, this pivot, and how many podcasts have come out since then? Pivot point and the pivot I saw this massive [00:09:00] collective shed of adults who were like, "I'm leaving my job.

This career isn't working. This life isn't working," this shedding, to be trite, of Paul Coelho, who wrote The Alchemist, and he said, something like, "What if what you're meant to be is to shed everything that you thought you had to be so you could be who you truly meant to be," that's what people are in right now, and I saw it coming five years ago. A lot of the earlier parts of the podcast were about transformation, right? I think there's three or four episodes talking about snakes. On 11.11, which is coming up, the five-year of that, that's when I met the snake that I talk about on the 11.11 episode, and

in some ways she kinda kicked it off, she really did, for reasons that are not important. So this podcast itself was birthed in a very unusual way. Nothing about this brand is typical, and my origin stories for things are not typical, [00:10:00] which goes back to an episode I did called Brand Evolution. About you don't have to make your stories relatable to people. I just got interviewed by somebody for my platform, it'll be on here soon, talking about the origin story of my product line. It's not something anyone's gonna relate to in any way, shape, or form.

A lot of my stuff is shocking, and I lean into that. Not out of contrarianism, not out of a desire to be... when people try to be shocking, it doesn't work. It feels weak. You know what I mean.

One of the episodes snake skins and shoes and things that don't fit, talking about, when nothing fits anymore, what's next?

I'm sure you're feeling it. I'm sure you're like, "How is she in my head right now?" Yes, I feel the collective vibe.

In that episode, I talked about this yoga mat, and I talked about going to storage, and I talked about throwing away shoes or giving away shoes, and there's this whole brief exchange in there where I mention this yoga mat, and I go off on this yoga mat, and I could have easily cut it out.

It was irrelevant to the story. But I [00:11:00] chose to leave it in, and I knew why. I knew there was gonna be a moment where I wanted to bring in why. I mention of the fact that I go to this yoga studio, and I decided to keep in this thing about the yoga mat, and the point of it is, is that you work out in this facility, and the things are heated up to 135 degrees. , Or, like, 115. I'm sorry, 115.

Very, very hot. Now, infrared heat is not the same thing as sauna heat, but it is very hot, and people who love the heat love the heat. I'm Scorpio rising, we love the heat. I've always been in infrared sauna, Bikram Yoga. You name it, I'm into it. What is interesting to me about that is that franchise is from the South.

The guy is Southern. Would anybody think that people in the Deep South wanna work out in a facility that is heated to at least 110 degrees? No

And that is [00:12:00] what the Channel 360 is. Mutation, innovation is never gonna be what people think makes sense

I did an article on category one. On Substack. And in that I said Henry Ford, "If you'd asked people what they wanted, they would've said faster horses."

Innovation is not what people want. People don't know innovation. People who have gate three, people who have the channeled mutation, they're bringing things that the plane isn't ready for, and that's why it was such a big deal that Pluto was sitting there. Because gate 60 is what we can see. It's existing forms, and Pluto is death and rebirth anyway. Way, alchemy and Scorpionan en- energy and all that anyway. We can see that playing out in society right now with all the structures, which I've talked about on the Dark Matter show for a very long time.

I just wanted to share that because that to me is mutative. [00:13:00] It's this concept that's asinine, and it's very successful franchise against what would make any sense

In fact, the only reason you even go there is for the heat, because the classes are not that good. They're recorded, so it's very profitable because it's 24/7. Yes, you have people going to 110-degree sauna at 3:00 in the morning. Yes. Would anyone have thought that was a business idea? No

So that wanted to come out. I don't know. This notion of innovation, this notion of

disruption for innovation That is where we're in right now the last time you heard from me was October, and I've been doing some back-end stuff on the podcast and other things

it's the energy we're in, not just the time of [00:14:00] year. It's a macro collective shed we're in. I've told you that one of my gifts is this notion of mutation. It's gate three. It's this ability to create something into form where something doesn't exist. It's often in an inventor channel. It's called order to chaos in Human Design, but the English doesn't really mean anything because when you think order to chaos, you think organizing a closet, organizing bookkeeping.

And let me tell you, the last thing you ever wanna do is hire me for any of that. It's a organization in the sense that chaos is this notion of something that doesn't yet exist until it's brought into form. Most people are not gonna have that ability to bring something that doesn't exist into form because they need something to work with.

Does that make sense? [00:15:00] First you create something, and then you add the bells and whistles and all of that. So that's what I've done all in due time, all in my own process. This platform was always designed for 2027. Everything that I believe to be the next wave of a lot of stuff too numerous to talk about.

I've talked about it here. I've talked about it on almost 300 episodes of The Dark Matter Show, most of that in the last year. That in itself was a mutator process. In the process of editing past episodes

Two things have happened. One, I've had to go down memory lane of the podcast. Two,

I just added episode 49. Feel free to listen to that if you'd like. I did a 10-minute preamble because there's a lot of backstory to that, and then the [00:16:00] actual episode is about 30 minutes that episode was recorded February of '25.

And there's obvious reasons, that I chose to put that on the feed. The timing of it considering the season we're in, considering the energy we're in, considering the tonality of this message, might be interesting for you.

So what is the thematic arc there? Snakes, shedding, darkness, alchemy, transformation, collective shed, mutation. When I talk about gate three, unrelated to why I brought it up just now, gate three is a channel of mutation in Human Design. So when Pluto was sitting at gate 60, which is the late stages of Capricorn, early stages of Aquarius, society is mutating, and you saw that, and it left that December 9th of 2025

And I went on a podcast very close to that date. That is the first episode of 2026. [00:17:00] It was an interview I did with someone named Danielle. I recently interviewed her. She'll be on the podcast soon, and I'm gonna go on her podcast next week. Almost a part two. We recorded that on the Scorpio new moon last year.

Next week, for me, is the Indian New Year. The Indian New Year is always the dark before the dawn, which I mentioned in the alchemy episode. It is the dark moon before the Scorpio new moon every year.

Indians don't follow Western astrology, but the moon is the moon, so it's following that particular moon every year. Wherever that falls, that's the Indian New Year. So this is the ending of everything, and I'm feeling it, and you're feeling it, and collectively we're feeling it.

In listening to a lot of the episodes, I also listened to a prior episode that I did, which was about nobody knows what they're doing in business right now. Very highly downloaded. I can't tell if it's 'cause of the clickbaity title or it's because people are actually feeling that, and I think I was a year early 'cause now people are talking about that.[00:18:00] 

We're almost on the other side of that. Give it a couple months people are probably gonna emerge next year with fresh energy. I'm speaking collectively. I am speaking of the collective field that I'm picking up on. It's almost like a part two of the shed we're in until spring of next year, and then we're out of it. Then we're out of this of seven-year period of time that started in the spring of 2020 through the spring of 2027, and if you don't think that affected business, you're nuts.

It's gonna affect business owners because business owners are people in reviewing all the episodes, yes, I had to look at all the ways that I have improved, which is cringe-worthy, but also that's why people are afraid of putting themselves out here, wh- which you talked about in the mastery episodes and I talked about letting your business be a teacher and the three-line episode.

We're going through memory lane here. This notion you build on things. You just have to not care [00:19:00] because you're just gonna improve and get better, and it's rewarding to witness the progress.

So that's number one. Number two, like I mentioned, in doing that I noticed this theme of, or alchemy and mutation. The final thing is that I listened to a lot of the thematic arc of the first couple of seasons. There are some evergreen episodes in there that I think are plums, treat your business like a teacher, treat your business like a game, your brand is not a font, it's an identity, and a couple other really great ones.

The rules of life are made up. The one about money and gratitude. There's some solid messages in there that I think are timeless pieces, and those will go up on YouTube. But A lot of the other stuff was stuff I wanted to say about things that no one was saying in the business world about this notion of magnetism and repulsion, this notion of your wound is your wand is lazy storytelling.

This notion of [00:20:00] vulnerability content. I actually didn't even drop that episode, but I alluded to it in the visibility stuff. This Parroted advice that is pathologized and repeated, and that's it. This notion that internet gurus sell you this framework as the way, and it's really their experiment in fancy packaging.

I did that February of '25, which aged like a fine damn wine. And in fact, I talked to somebody about topic ideas and some of the topics that she mentioned for me, I was like, "I already did episodes on that two years ago," 'cause I already anticipated what people are gonna talk about.

But I kinda said what I wanna say about that. I'm not teaching Human Design that's not the lane I wanna go in. I focus on positioning and value proposition, and that's a lot of what I do in my offers,

I have a bunch of case studies and guest spots and [00:21:00] things to drop in that they're video as well, so those will go up on YouTube, which might represent a shift in the platform

I do have a website for this. That's a nice announcement, podcastclearsignal.com. There might be slight UI tweaks but the site's up. Looks good. Eventually there'll be blog posts on there this is the kinda content that's gonna be found in the future, and this is the kinda content that's gonna be found through the web.

It's not gonna be found through a podcast player. Sub Stack, YouTube, et cetera. That's a big back-end project that is part of the reason I might slow my roll with this podcast Q1 because . Number one, when you have a conveyor belt, the more you add to the conveyor belt, the more work you've got.

Number two, this podcast was always for Q2 2027. Always. I didn't make any bones about that. This is where the puck is going, not where the puck is, and so you dance that line. When you build something category bleeding, you have to attach the idea to something, otherwise nobody knows what you're talking about.

You almost have to hitch your wagon to a star. That's not the right saying, but [00:22:00] if you wait for this perfect theoretical idea, you're gonna keep waiting, and you're gonna miss out on the opportunities for mastery that you're gonna gain.

And when I put Human Design foundations on here, part of it is I was studying Human Design two, three years ago, I was in intensives and I was doing formal study, and as a one-line, I would spend hours studying stuff. It's what I do. And half of the stuff that they were saying was shit, and that is why I came on here and started a podcast.

That's what a 5/1 does. A 5/1's a heretic. A 5/1 has this message that they want to share with the collective. And if you have collective circuitry, which I do... I have two types of circuitry. I have collective circuitry and I have tribal circuitry. If you don't understand circuitry, listen to the circuitry episode.

My solutions are based for my tribe. What I sell is based for my tribe. But the insights I give and the things I [00:23:00] share is more of a collective feel, and that's why I have a platform The Dark Matter Show, which was a wake-up call for the collective turned into whatever it's gonna be now. When we had the Saturn-Neptune conjunction, Neptune is art and imagination and spirituality. Saturn is business. Aries is the artist. Aries is the pioneer. I see a conjunction literally of those topics. The artist, pioneering art, new forms, business. What is a business owner? What is an artist?

Where does that line bleed? What is professionalism? This notion of spiritual business has been in one lane. Spiritual business owner, typical spiritual business owner, what you think of as an astrologer or a healer or a guide or an intuitive or they are a business coach for spiritual business owners, they are support for spiritual business owners.

It's a huge market because as a general rule, people identify as spirituals and healers, don't have a business background, [00:24:00] think money is bad often, not all, but have been taught money is bad, and also find selling icky, all of the things. You can not like selling, you can not like marketing, and you can not find it icky.

Do you see the difference? For example, I'm not a tactical marketer. I can't stand tactical marketing. All important, don't give a damn. That's a big difference between saying, "I'm not skilled in that. I don't enjoy that," and saying, "I think there's something wrong with it.

I think there's morally wrong with selling." You see the difference? One is a preference, but you still understand that it's part of the mix if you wanna run anything that's for profit.

That's a great point because I brought up these other episodes, this whole notion of the intuition versus the ego center and why heart-centered marketing is keeping you broke. Because if you don't know that's recognition-based language. People target people with that heart-centered entrepreneur, and it's just targeting a demographic with what they want to hear, [00:25:00] and often it's predatory, and that's why I did that episode. Some of this stuff needed to be said, and I'm done with that chapter of the platform And I'm figuring out what's next, and I'm not gonna force it.

When I did the alchemy episode, I talked about there are four stages of alchemy, and I correlated it to coloring your hair or doing a perm. And I said that you can't rush that process. You can't show up late to a colorist and be like, "Oops, I'm late, so we're gonna speed this up." You're gonna be out $300, and you're gonna have shit hair. It don't work that way. Chemicals don't work that way. Alchemy is chemical process. I know that alchemy has been absconded to mean all this stuff, but alchemy is a transformational science-based process.

Newton was an alchemist there are four distinct stages, just like the seasons. No one's planting a garden where I live now. That would be a waste of time. Alchemy, timelines, process, [00:26:00] mutation in business we don't feel like we can do that because of pressure, because of external optics, because of whatever nonsense.

Podcast is evolving. And I've done content enough between my two platforms that I can feel when there's another evolutionary layer to what I wanna say.

I have a ton of episodes coming up on positioning, orientation and now I'm feeling into what the next version of the platform is

Too often people don't allow themselves that a long time ago, I did an episode called The Paradox of Human Design in Business, basically saying that Human Design is a personal development tool. Business is business. You can absolutely extrapolate that, but they're not the same. You can't just say, "Oh, I'm gonna create something in line with my Human Design, and I'm gonna be successful."

That's not how it works I [00:27:00] mentioned that I'm tribal. My sun gate is Gate 40. Gate 40 is part of the channel of community. It's a tribal gate. And as a 5/1 Gate 40, my job is to create solutions for the tribe, create for the tribe, give to the tribe, which would be paying or in the old world I provide the solution, they'd give me fruit, whatever.

Then I go off into my cave and I do my solutions, and I do my research. I'm a one line. My X Marks the Spot pilot offer it's based on a infrastructure I built, three different schools of astrology, select Human Design placements, a lot of time, a lot of study to come up with a very simple solution.

That is what the 5/1 does. Just like the founder of Human Design you don't need to know the Kabbalah, you don't need to know the I Ching to work with Human Design. And that is what my X Marks the Spot is. You don't need to learn all this stuff. It's not for people who want to learn. It's not for people who want to [00:28:00] be on their healing journey. It's for people who want to use alchemical tools in business to have the edge. Which reminds me of something I said a couple of minutes ago, and let's circle back. I got distracted with the heart-centered entrepreneur thing. So that has been what we typically thought of as spirituality in business, the healer, and I see a wave two coming,

opportunity doesn't necessarily mean it's gonna land. Mavericks, pioneers, visionaries have a lot of ideas. Timing is very important. Timing the choices and biding your time. Knowing this platform won't even find its feet until spring of '27 and still starting a platform in '24.

That's having a vision that's a lot of stuff you may or may not be interested in. But I do think that this coalescence of spirituality and business is much bigger than what we think of now. It's gonna be something different. It's this [00:29:00] notion of art, imagination, play, a blurring of the lines, and that's where I'm creating my solutions at.

Transformation and evolution is healthy. Transformation and evolution of a brand is healthy. The leaves where I live are shedding right now. It's part of the process. Trees are not worried about leaves on the ground. They're just like, "Okay, I'm gonna have new leaves." I've talked about nature a lot on this platform, bees and the moon and the sun and the synodical cycle and tracking animals and understanding how different kinds of animals hunt.

People would be well-versed to study nature. There's so many correlations to business that Are interesting. Takeaways? Shedding, yes. Metamorphosis, yes.

Evolution, yes. Memory lane, yes. There's an episode 49. Lots of good stuff coming up , and a lot of it will be on YouTube 'cause there'll be videos [00:30:00] And I've got a website, podcastclearssignal.com. X marks the spot. There are four slots left in that pilot. I have decided I'm just doing it as a number of slots, not a date. I have barely marketed it. I'll spread the message when it makes sense. But it's there for you, and it's the intersection of positioning, orientation and innate value proposition, otherwise known as prosperity.

Positioning is your innate value architecture plus how you position yourself in the market in my world. That's how I define positioning. You overlay that with your prosperity architecture. You're actually designed to make money in a certain way. You're designed to create value in a certain way that is the most efficient, and you overlay that with your innate value architecture, that's your X marks the spot, and you use that tool to navigate choices.

That's what that is. After the [00:31:00] pilot, you will not get a one-to-one with me. It's under $200 for an hour strategy session. We map this out. You have this for life. It is deceivingly simple, but it is a complex architecture based on four different systems that you don't have to understand any of them to take advantage of that and to leverage that.

Initial pilot I ran this summer was very positive. I was testing the methodology to make sure that it stuck. The answer is it stuck like a gymnast, 10 out of 10. So now second round of that pilot. Link below.

And remember what I said in that 3113 episode, which is worth a listen. There's some Easter eggs I planted throughout the two years that you might pick up on. 31, a foundation for And this notion of building. Three plus one, you flip it, you get 13. And what is 13? [00:32:00] The death card. What is the death card? Mutation, transformation, regeneration. The notion that building and shedding are just two sides of the same coin

And that's what I got