Elon Musk's role as an inadvertent destroyer of corporatism/late-stage capitalism and the FTX collapse

Is anyone else finding it especially hard to talk lately?

I have so many ideas that I feel are important to get across to others, but lately it seems nearly impossible to do so. I’d be interested to see what experienced astrologers can share as it relates to this. I’m an Aries sun/moon/rising, and I know that Mars is in retrograde in Gemini right now. Maybe that has a lot to do with it?

In any case, I felt like I had an epiphany yesterday while watching Elon Musk’s continued seemingly inexplicable series of bad decisions as he appears to be doing all he can to inadvertently drive Twitter into the ground (lol?).

Musk’s role is actually about bumbling along in such a way that he helps bring about the fall of corporatism/late-stage capitalism! I understand now!

Many of you are probably also aware that the centralized cryptocurrency exchange FTX failed, or is quite near to it, in the past few days as well. A lot’s going on, and I’m sure it wasn’t any coincidence that these things happened at the total lunar eclipse on November 8th.

The annoying narrative, per the article linked above, is that keeping FTX from collapse is a “fight to save crypto.” The mainstream is already categorizing this as another data point re: how not-good cryptocurrency is, which makes it harder for projects like Seeds to reach people who would deeply resonate with our mission.

But I feel like I can see the (encouraging) overarching pattern in this as well!

Sam Bankman-Fried (aka SBF) the founder of FTX, talked about wanting to get rich so that he could give his fortune away, and is a devout supporter of ‘effective altruism’ (so the jokes came easy when it was revealed that he needed to cover an $8 billion shortfall/is “giving his fortune away” now). He’s another embodiment of the old masc capitalism idea: that the best capitalists who are the best people will endeavor to make a bunch of money in the old manner, and then give it away to non-profits.

But Seeds is designed to integrate building wealth through helping others, to transcend the dumb binaries baked into late-stage capitalism because of its wrong assumption that people act in terms of rational self-interest at the exclusion of all else. When you help someone in need through Seeds, you receive SEEDS cryptocurrency in thanks, because we want the generous people to be the ones who benefit when the crypto markets go up.

I haven’t come across any other project doing anything remotely like this.

I think this is why the energies set things up so that FTX had to fail. SBF was sloppy and dangerously naive in important ways, and so was a quicker casualty….but significantly, compartmentalization of building wealth oneself and helping others later can’t sustain in the new paradigm of abundance beginning to surround us.

I remember seeing the Gisesle FTX article in Vogue, and even an ad in Architectural Digest or something I think (the only magazine I subscribe to) earlier this year, and just kind of via osmosis taking in the idea that FTX seemed fancy and philanthropic (and designer-y even, by association with high fashion and AD!).

It’s so interesting to see how quickly this unraveled! (Sidenote: if it’s helpful, I made a low fi TikTok explaining why FTX failed, which was essentially for the same reason that banks failed during the Great Depression…that’s how non-innovative they truly were).

So what am I supposed to make of this in my own life? How can I best support Seeds through this stage so that in the next crypto cycle, we’re truly ready to scale, and help hopefully many, many more people?

There are still clear product improvements that need to be made. I still have yet to find the right collaborators, but I’m also no longer entertaining the possibility of trying out a collaboration that I can sense wouldn’t be quite right. This sounds so obvious, but was a big victory for me. I spent years and years going into situations like that knowing it wasn’t aligned, but not believing that I could find something better, because I have so little faith I guess in the energies available on Earth?

It’s time to trust that Seeds can and will connect with a high vibrational wavelength, and align with the abundance of support a project working to elevate all involved deserves. On a personal level, I think I’m almost there. 💗

And I have increasing confidence in my own ability to create the solution myself, as I’ve proven this time and again in situations that were not-infrequently very hard. As I type this, I can feel the fem conditioning pop up - I have to be careful not to sound like I’m celebrating myself and what I’ve learned, or something, so that nobody undermines or attacks. I hope to let that conditioning go soon as well.

Another consideration is that the visibility Seeds has gotten so far has mostly been within the category of “cryptocurrency.” Once I realized I could leverage my experience as a trader/in the crypto sector to teach a course to support our mission until the market for SEEDS could sustain us alone, it definitely helped Seeds out financially as misogynistic investors continued to ignore us.

But the cryptocurrency sector is so gross that we’re getting hit from two sides. We’re ignored because we’re “social good,” and now there’s misguided hate coming in for all crypto projects because the category itself is deservingly seen as bad/kind of evil thanks to dumb/greedy unhealthy masc energies messing things up.

I guess the epiphany I felt like I landed upon helped me understand that I just need to wait, and do my best to improve Seeds as much as possible during this period, to prepare us for what’s next. It can be difficult to see at times, but I feel reassured that I only need to worry about myself and what I control.

Because the energies themselves are taking care of this transition for us, rooting out the bad masc and eradicating it, if we just relax and allow them to - and the pattern and path is there to be observed when I meditate and pay attention. 💗

-Rachel