{"podcast":{"title":"I am OPTimist","slug":"i-am-optimist-7143643","podcast_index_feed_id":7143643,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/731823.rss","website_url":"https://www.monikabravo.blog/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/731823/a21b09d8cc174423adcae82bcde087d4.jpg","author":"Monika Bravo","episode_count":184,"summary":"Exploring the creative architecture of a polymath and multidisciplinary artist, sharing a living and individuated journey across shadow work, bitcoin, evolution, astrology, myths, art, and the principles of freedom, Austrian economics, and natural law.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-23T06:19:12.920320+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-am-optimist-7143643"},"episode":{"title":"Some Exhaustion Brings Some Closure","slug":"some-exhaustion-brings-some-closure","published_at":"2026-08-29T16:57:05+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-am-optimist-7143643/some-exhaustion-brings-some-closure","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-am-optimist-7143643","url":"https://www.monikabravo.blog/p/some-exhaustion-brings-some-closure","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/213211137/e9ec6110c3889a524f8acc38140b8fec.mp3","summary":"Hey everybody, the Lunar Eclipse was last night, around 12 hours ago, and I had been anticipating this for a while. The good thing about being an astrologer is that nothing comes as a surprise, but even if you know the relationship between the planets, their archetypes, and the power that they have, you cannot really predict. The whole scope is not about prediction, but it’s about understanding the meaning and the potentials, which is the reason why I follow the stars, or they follow me, whichever way you want to see it. It’s been building up for a while, and I can really confirm that the release is here. I have felt it tremendously through a feeling of sorrow, loss, endings, and dissolutions. I actually would like to stay with this feeling for a couple of days if I can, because it’s within the space that I have enabled to sense and feel it in my body. I can really look back and say, “Oh my God, this was coming for a while, and it was being built. It had its crescendo, and now it’s just in the pure state of dissolution.” Not everything is going to be washed away, but certainly there was a lot of cleansing in many ways. What I feel, other than the sorrow, is that there was a lot of confusion. There were veils that were taken off, and I could see a lot of ugly things. At the same time, I did not want to feel defeated. I didn’t want to feel depressed, like anything with a D: defeated, depressed, desolated, disillusioned, desperate. I wanted to be able to feel more attentive to this cycle. I can go 18 years ago and tell you what was going on, or even 36 years ago, but I don’t want to do that exercise to try to figure things out. I want to stay here. I want to stay with the uncomfortable feeling that I had, this morning a little bit after the eclipse. I woke up in the middl…","meta_description":"Hey everybody, the Lunar Eclipse was last night, around 12 hours ago, and I had been anticipating this for a while. The good thing about being an astrolog…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":608,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/i-am-optimist-7143643/episodes/some-exhaustion-brings-some-closure/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-am-optimist-7143643/some-exhaustion-brings-some-closure.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}