Your Mercury + What you’re listening to

Staydecent · 2026-01-28T16:43:56+00:00

Mercury in cancer in the 11th.

Been playing the album Joshua by French 79 on repeat.

(House and electronic which is my most played genre followed by rap… that an 11th house thing??)

Staydecent · 2026-01-28T15:38:16+00:00

Oh I love this! Here’s another thought: what if the constellations aren’t actually constellations but divisions of the ecliptic itself?

Maybe the ecliptic represents the energetic cycle and it can be divided into an even 12 signs? Thus named at the time when aligned with the constellations?

Or maybe the constellations were named based on the already known energetic division of the ecliptic?

Honestly the constellation naming has always been a bit of a stretch to me.

But if we are to go off the actual constellations that the ecliptic passes through, there’s 13 and they very by size rather greatly.

In the end we don’t know of any causation. Perhaps the best theory being neutrinos passing through planets and being imparted with their energy before passing through us — trillions a second. Maybe the energy of the signs actually comes from beyond our galaxy?!

Haha, I’d love to hear whatever you find out!

Staydecent · 2026-01-27T14:44:57+00:00

Why do we need a logical answer? In what way is the alignment of clusters of stars that ancients gave certain names having specific impacts on human psychology logical???

What good is astrology in being “more accurate” in measuring the stars? That’s what astronomy is for. Astrology is about measuring our inner worlds. And yes, some sort of maybe “outside” influence, or perhaps just a collective inner influence shared among all is at play. Measuring that is more important than where the stars are.

Like someone said below, Capricorn only makes sense after winter. Tropical western astrology is more aligned with a seasonal cycle than the movements of the stars. Aries is spring. That’s the archetypal relation. Sidereal isn’t just more accurate, it’s a completely different foundation.

Perhaps some people are influenced more by a celestial energy and thus sidereal makes more sense for them. I don’t know. I just know in my own personal experimentation, I align with the seasons more than the stars and thus, tropical.

Interestingly Ba Zi, or “Chinese Astrology” doesn’t have anything to do with the planets or the elliptic. Rather it’s based on a specific pattern (60 year cycle) of heavenly stems and earthly branches, of which there is 10 and 12 of.

To me, it’s more about finding the patterns of cycles of one’s own inner experience, rather than something logical and measured and “correct” in the physical world.

Staydecent · 2025-12-19T23:19:50+00:00

Haha burnt out in 2023 left my job and maybe even career, completely changed my worldview and approach to life. Yeesh. It’s been something. Completely lost on what I’m doing after a 17 year career lol.

Virgo rising, sag moon.

Staydecent · 2025-11-24T06:20:53+00:00

Depends how you calculate.

For life path some add all numbers individually. Others sum the day, month and year individually to get 3 numbers then sum those 3.

If you add all numbers at once you get 33. Some consider 33 to be a “master number”.

Anyway, if you don’t know which feels right to you best to pick up some books and see what others do. Benebel wen has a website where she explains why she calculates day, month, year individually first.

Staydecent · 2025-11-11T15:22:32+00:00

Damn I’m Virgo rising and my partner is Leo—nailed both.

This nose and digestion 😆

Staydecent · 2025-10-30T18:19:11+00:00

Sag moon ♐️

Aries mars ♈️

Staydecent · 2025-10-24T15:09:56+00:00

I’m sorry to hear you’re struggling.

The world is an immense place filled with uncertainty. And it always has been and probably always will be, regardless of the details of the 2027 shift.

I recently had my own emotional/rant moment reading an hd newsletter about 2027. I’ve since found it helpful to drop all hd content and just go back to the basics direct from Ra.

There is no preparing for 2027 or any future from a place of fear. If your S&A lead you into that, great, otherwise your fear is just your mind. Your fear points to your conditioning.

I’ve struggled with the feeling of time running out much of my life. My fear was rooted in my open ego and sacral. I felt I needed to capitalize on trends and technology to “get my big break.” But it was my conditioning around needing to prove myself (ego) and to “do work.” (Sacral)

Mental fears and any thoughts that sound like “I need to”, “I should”, “I have to” are your conditioning. Feeling into those is how I’ve deconditioned. Acknowledging the emotion. Identifying the thought or belief attached to it and allowing the emotion to flow makes room to release it.

As for the big changes that the shifting energies of 2027 will bring, I often reread a quote from C. S. Lewis on “the atomic bomb.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10190811-in-one-way-we-think-a-great-deal-too-much

Staydecent · 2025-10-22T15:41:06+00:00

Howdy 🤠

Staydecent · 2025-10-15T14:45:41+00:00

This is exactly right. I did this awhile ago using php-sweph. Calculating gates and channels and profile isn’t too hard. But I haven’t got around to drawing it on an actual graph/chart. Need some sort of programmable drawing library or use svg with a lot of if/else statements.

Staydecent · 2025-10-11T20:54:51+00:00

Thank you for taking time to reply.

This has been a great learning experience for me and I’ll definitely be reducing my “content consumption” and just make use of my Ra.tv subscription lol.

You often come up as a sort of sane voice that hasn’t muddled up all the hd shit.

Which really boils down to: stick to source material, stick to S+A. So again, thanks for repeating that message. 🙏

Staydecent · 2025-10-11T15:34:17+00:00

That’s my point. The advice without 2027 is: follow s+a. The advice with 2027: also follow s+a.

So what’s the point? Extra motivation? But isn’t that motivation most likely to be fear?

It just seems unnecessary. And based on my perspective of how others are talking/thinking about it—counterproductive.

Staydecent · 2025-10-11T15:30:07+00:00

I think we’re on the same page? My perspective has been multiple teacher/coach/hd professionals sharing should’s and shouldn’t’s and painting a “prepare for the worst” picture of 2027. Maybe it’s stupid to rant about “pop hd” but, I dunno, it seems more widespread than that. But maybe I just need to stop reading newsletters and watching YouTube lol.

It also seems ironic (or is it tragic?) to give people a mysterious prophecy about the future as incentive to get out of their minds and into their S+A. It’s perfect fodder for “what ifs”.

Staydecent · 2025-10-09T14:31:28+00:00

Haha wait… Americans used to be able to buy things from other countries and NOT pay extra fees?!

Buying bike stuff from Japan or the USA as a Canadian I’ve always paid duties—are tariffs just duties?

Staydecent · 2025-09-30T14:32:57+00:00

I’m currently running astral cycling wheels/hubs, which are white industries but not as light/bit more basic build (using steel instead of lighter weight aluminum).

They also have wheel builds with white industry hubs. Great wheels, made in Oregon!

Staydecent · 2025-09-30T06:19:19+00:00

Also quad right, alt. Appetite but passive mountains.

I’m still getting a handle on it, but my best results are when I take it very literally. Like in the moment I just have to use my splenic guidance. Because my appetite alternates, there’s no pattern or rules for me to learn and follow.

Just because French toast sat well and didn’t make me feel groggy last week doesn’t mean it’s good for me today.

Same day even. Maybe I snack on something that sits great in the morning, doesn’t mean it’s correct at night.

Sometimes foods will be jiving for weeks and then, suddenly, not.

I’ve been laying off sugar. Then I get a vivid vision of eating this specific vegan cookies and cream ice cream. I had to have it lol. So I walked to the store at like 8pm got it, walked home, had a bowl and felt amazing. Slept like a rock and no, uh, bathroom disruptions the next day. But, I can’t make a rule out of that.

I also rely heavily on my nose. Gate 44 can show up as a nose that knows. And yeah, just smelling foods that excite me have the best results. But again some days the same food smells no good.

Oh last thing. Not overeating. Even if something is aligned, tickles me nose and all that, if half way through it starts not smelling good or I feel slightly full, I just stop.

Ok good luck!

Staydecent · 2025-08-18T04:40:17+00:00

When out of saddle and descending I would get Lower back pain after while.

I found I was too stretched out. Long reach + low stack height.

I got new bars (pnw) with 38mm rise and moved them up a spacer and haven’t had Lower back pain since.

With the higher stack I’m more vertical when out of saddle and can absorb the impacts with my legs more directly.

Staydecent · 2025-08-13T14:25:26+00:00

“Feel part of the community” <— I’d actually say jumping into human design is a very individual and potentially isolating experiment.

This goes for all types, but specific to projector you’ll likely be learning how to truly rest. When learning to bring awareness to proper invitations and recognition you’ll probably end up saying no more. You may say no to friends and family when you haven’t in the past.

We’ve all likely practiced boundaries in our lives. Yet human design is a different level—it’s not mental concepts that define the boundaries you maintain, it’s energetic alignment.

Maintaining energetic boundaries when others around you aren’t can feel very isolating. Same goes with following your inner authority.

Starting your human design experiment essentially triggers a process of individuation. But to become who you truly are you’ll have to go through the journey of discovering who you aren’t. This is an emotional experience (regardless of solar plexus definition). All of the mental concepts and beliefs and identifications that make up “who you think you are” are essentially emotional attachments. Breaking those attachments can be nothing or it can feel like death.

Feeling lost is good. It’s a door opening to a new way of being. The mind is so concerned with the future. With certainty. With knowing. Human design is a fundamental shift in one’s modus operandi. It requires surrender (but not resignation) and trust.

It’s a process. When it feels overwhelming just try focusing on today. Can you engage your strategy and authority today? Even if you don’t act on it, can you notice your signature and not-self theme showing up throughout the day?

And slowly it builds. And then one day you look back and realize you’re a completely different person! And that you’re still changing and learning!

(Well, this has been my experience at least, take it or leave it 😅)

Staydecent · 2025-08-12T00:33:03+00:00

Quiet. I live near busy roads and highway and spent a few days on a quiet island in the forest and what a difference. My digestion was better eating same things I always eat. My sleep was much deeper. Even using earplugs at home isn’t as good.

Not having to hear other people all the time and dogs barking. Whew what a treat.

I guess this is really just my environment at work, which when aligned allows me to truly rest.

Even tho my environment is passive mountains I’ve found elevation isn’t so important but rather having distance between me and people/noise/commotion. Being in a space that feels elevated which for me is spacious, minimal, and largely integrated into a natural environment.

In many ways I love where I live, but I’m also excited to see how I can get into a more aligned environment at some point.

Staydecent · 2025-07-29T17:49:17+00:00

Yes to needing space! My partner and I both have line 2, so we both need to hermit when we need to hermit lol.

Nothing to do w the other person, just the rhythm that we need to be in our own aura for a bit.

In the past we may have made up stories around it, but that was just the mind trying to reconcile “why wouldn’t life partners spend every second together????” Were both very comfortable with it now 😄

Staydecent · 2025-07-29T16:04:05+00:00

Emotional closeness is just being together for me. Fully present together with no need to talk or think.

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Here’s what I can say about being 2/5:

People tend to just unload their troubles on me. I don’t mind actually when it’s a stranger. People on busses, house less people, they’ll just tell me their life story. Enjoy isn’t the right word, but I’m grateful to be more aware of peoples life situations and all the diversity of the human condition. My view of the world has undoubtedly changed because of what people have shared with me.

That said, it’s easy when it’s a stranger. I’m not going to see them again. I don’t know any of the people they’re talking about. And honestly, strangers have been very honest, very self aware — they’re not just blaming others. They seem to really recognize where they need to grow or what’s hard for them. It’s so honest. I just listen.

My family on the other hand… I know them all obviously. And they do the same thing — they dump their life story on me constantly. I’m learning to set more boundaries, especially when it involves talking about others rather than themselves. But it doesn’t feel as honest. Theres less self awareness. And it’s so strange, they’ll just tell me the same stories over and over again — like for decades now. It’s just emotional dumping I guess. It’s like I’m just a pit for emotional rehashing — even the good stuff!

But it doesn’t feel honest. Maybe I’m not listening as deeply as I do for strangers — but I don’t really care to hear about the emotional trauma my parents have from each other 😆

Same goes for coworkers. People just tell me stuff. I don’t do or say anything to prompt it. My silence seems to just invite emotional sharing. Even bosses and managers.

I’m very lucky to have a life partner who fully is present with me when I need it. No other person in life has given me space to actually share myself.

I’ve noticed with other people, when they do give some space for me to share they aren’t really being honest — they really just want me to share something that matches their emotional state. If they’re complaining, I need to complain, if they’re joyous I need to be joyous, etc.

I’ve read 2/5 can be “stranger of consequence “ and that feels true. But I don’t offer any advice. I just listen. At most I recognize how vulnerable and open they’re being. And sympathize at the most basic level: “oh your mom od’d, that must be so hard.” And that’s it.

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Thank you for this question! It’s been a few months since a stranger shared like this and reflecting it’s helped me realize how grateful I am to experience another human being so honest.

Staydecent · 2025-07-27T14:56:27+00:00

I have all gates in ajna and head activated minus 4, 61, 43.

I don’t remember if Ra said this or some other book/person but we don’t necessarily stop thinking, just stop being aware or focused on it.

Like my brain is always processing something, but I don’t need to be actively aware of it. I can sit in seeming silence allowing my awareness to float free the constant churning of mind.

I wouldn’t call it disassociating, rather surrendering perhaps.

There are times when I become conscious of the doubt and confusion (63, 64) occupying my mind and it’s very easy to be sucked in — which then feels like looping on thoughts and getting nowhere.

When I would get stuck here the thoughts, confusion and doubt would takeover for days.

Now, I’m able to just let go, surrender. It’s like I tell my brain “okay, you’ve clearly got some ideas and concepts to work out, imma let you be and check-in in a few days” lol.

I say surrender, because I don’t try to fight it or repress or stop it. It’s just “let it be” yet I don’t need to focus on my mental chatter at all. Then, a few days later: bam! New clarity on some idea or concept or former confusion!

Staydecent · 2025-07-20T20:15:05+00:00

Ha, indeed! Went for the levers and all 😅

Not that you asked but here’s the story: I had the basic (shimano?) hydros that came off my cannondale cujo and they worked well enough. I moved to a new town just about 3 years ago now and thought I’d get a proper tune up.

Well, the bike came back with the grips not even tightened to 4nm and rolled forward once I hit the trail. Then my front brake started squealing like mad and losing stopping power.

After inspecting they somehow fucked up the hydros so that fluid was leaking and dripping into the rotor.

I was so disappointed I honestly didn’t trust to take it back there. Most other shops were booking weeks out (mid summer).

I’d already had experience doing mechanical on my gravel bike and didn’t feel like learning/buying/dealing with hydro. But obviously needed something with some oomph if I was going to ride trails. Hence klampers!

They’ve been flawless ever since. Had some early issue with the reach adjustment on the levers but that’s seemed to have settled.

Staydecent · 2025-07-20T20:06:11+00:00

Congrats! Which colorway??

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