Learning

Found: What is a Chakra

Posted on June 23, 2026June 23, 2026 by savethesavages

When I was practicing crystal healing on people, the way my teacher taught it was to work with their chakras by placing corresponding crystals and stones on the body while also pointing high frequency crystals such as Quartz on these chakra / acupuncture points on the body – thus facilitating healing energy.

Chakra is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘wheel’ or ‘disc’. They are spinning energy centers in the body which process subtle energy and convert it into chemical hormonal and cellular changes in the body.

Each of the chakra relates to different levels of consciousness, developmental stages of life, emotions, thoughts, colors, sounds, body functions and much more. In order to bring more harmony to our entire system, subtle energy healing and/or vibrational medicine tries to assist the individual in bringing the chakras into balance when they are blocked or overactive.

There appear to be seven major chakras, each associated with a major nerve plexus and a major endocrine gland. They are situated in a vertical line ascending from the base of the spine to the head.

The lowest, called the root chakra, is near the coccyx.
The second is located near the spleen.
The third or solar plexus chakra lies in the upper middle abdomen below the tip of the sternum.
The fourth, also known as the heart chakra, can be found in the midsternal region directly over the heart and thymus gland.
The fifth or throat chakra is situated in the neck near the Adam’s apple.
The sixth or brow chakra is in the region of the mid-forehead and
the seventh or crown chakra is located on top of the head.

5/6/2022 + 5/6/2026 Synchronicity

Posted on May 6, 2026May 9, 2026 by savethesavages

This is an old photo of cards I pulled for Friday, May 6th…it may have been from 2022. Yet while searching for something else today (Wednesday May 6th 2026), this photo somehow came up. Time is wild, I can’t stress this enough. I’ll be back to add the message I’m getting from these cards 4 years later.

You have the power to become anything you want. Set your expectations for yourself, and know that you will become whatever you think about.

How do I read cards for myself? I will start with the tarot pulls since those are harder to interpret:

I read from one of my many tarot books that instead of looking at the cards, step inside the scene itself. What is going on inside each card?

Card 1: X of Wands – the doggie is carrying too many wands = you’re doing too much and overwhelming yourself.

Card 2: IV of Cups – are you meditating or procrastinating? Maybe you’re avoiding something or someone.

Card 3: VIII of Wands – no people just wands moving fast in the air. Perhaps you’ll need to act or create something fast or a creative opportunity is coming your way (sometimes they say within 8 days).

Card 4: V of Cups – the figure is upset because there are 3 cups that spilled, even though there are 2 still left standing. Disappointment, grief, not seeing the positive side.

For the oracle cards, they’re easier to read because there’s words on them:

Card 1: Power – you have power available to you at all times. What kind of power would you like; is it self serving or does it help others?

Card 2: Talisman – stones, crystals, keys, rings, necklaces or any object that has magical powers can be useful in enhancing the energy of your magical requests and manifestations.

Card 3: Focus – focus on what you want. But make sure it’s in service to your highest and best good.

By the way, when I ask questions during readings for myself – believe it or not, I am not there to judge (this takes A LOT of practice btw). The tarot and oracle cards help us to “see” and “hear” different aspects of ourselves. A lot of the times it can be contradictory but if you learn that everything in life is contradictory, you’ll eventually learn to make sense out of the cards.

Infographic: 10 Things You Need To Do If You Were Fired Yesterday

Posted on April 29, 2026May 2, 2026 by savethesavages

James Altucher inspired me for a bit and so here is another one of his infographics that I had saved from probably 9 years ago. Though I think about getting fired A LOT, it has yet to happen. I have been laid off though. It’s good to think about this stuff because life is unpredictable (even more so now) and you just never know what’s going to happen these days.

It’s hard to read so I typed it out:

10 Things You Need To Do If You Were Fired Yesterday

Do just one thing today. And then one thing tomorrow. And the next. That’s all you need to do.

Ideas

Make a list of places or people you might want to work with. Then come up with a list of 10 ideas for each that can make them money. This way you keep your idea muscle intact. Then pitch your ideas to each. If you can’t, move onto the next one. THIS TECHNIQUE WORKS.

Write

Write a book in the next three days. You can write a 30-page book called “100 Things To Do The Day After You Are Fired”. Make it funny. Time to dominate the publishing industry while you are unemployed! Make a list of all the possible 30-page books you can do. Then tomorrow start one of the books.

Lunch

Schedule a lunch with someone you haven’t seen in three years. Could be anyone. But it has to be someone you haven’t seen in at least three years. This injects new blood into the system. You need a total transfusion to get rid of the infected old blood.

Lunch, Part II

Have lunch with one person in your industry. Have your ideas ready for that person. Have him critique your ideas. Learn.

Gratitude

Make a list of the people you’ve worked with over the past ten years that you are grateful you worked with. Email them and tell them why you were grateful you worked with them. Ask them sincerely how they are doing. This is one of the most important things on this list.

Resentment

You are going to feel like the people at your old job wronged you. But they are just trying to survive also. Make a list of all the good qualities that person has and send them an email why you think they are good at what they do. Thank them.

Brainstorm

Go completely in a different direction. What other industry can you work in? What other location can you live in? Make up the wildest fantasies about what you can do. Keep going until there is one possible direction you can execute on today. Brainstorm for an hour and some little slice of reality might peak through.

Love Yourself

Wake up early, exercise, take a shower, wear a suit, go into the city, and walk around. Smell that freshness on you. It makes you feel as if you are ready for anything. And you are. That’s all you need to do that day. Heck, go to a museum. You won’t have this opportunity for freedom forever.

Slash

Make a list of all expenses you can slash. Make your runway as long as possible. There are plenty of sites to advise how to do this. Picture your worst – worst case scenario. It’s never as bad as you think. Write it down. Write down the plan for the worst-case scenario. Then take a nap. You just had a hard day. You need to rest.

Reconnect

Contact other people who used to work at your old company. Maybe they even worked there ten years ago. Reconnect. Come up with ideas for them.

The Difference Between Racism and Fetishization

Posted on April 22, 2026May 9, 2026 by savethesavages

This kind of stuff is prevalent in porn (and maybe even dating) unfortunately. Since I can’t articulate it through words but experience it on a regular basis (mostly in online spaces related to sex work).

But first, let’s define the word fetishize

verb

(tr) to be excessively or irrationally devoted to (an object, activity, etc)

So I asked Gemini:

What is the Difference between Racism and Fetishization of a Particular Race or Ethnicity?

Gemini’s response:

While both concepts are rooted in the dehumanization of a specific group, the primary difference lies in the mechanism of erasure: one uses exclusion and hostility, while the other uses objectification and a “positive” stereotype.

1. Racism: The Mechanism of Hierarchy

Racism is a system of exclusion and superiority. It functions by casting a particular group as “less than,” “dangerous,” or “inferior.”

The Goal: To maintain a social, political, or economic hierarchy.
The Effect: It strips a person of their humanity by viewing them as a threat or a burden to be marginalized.

2. Fetishization: The Mechanism of Objectification

Fetishization is a system of consumption and projection. It functions by casting a particular group as “exotic,” “ideal,” or “hyper-sexualized” based on their race.

The Goal: To satisfy a personal fantasy or a psychological “itch” through another person’s identity.
The Effect: It strips a person of their humanity by viewing them as a prop or a script rather than a multidimensional individual. The person’s actual personality, history, and boundaries are ignored in favor of the “aesthetic” they provide to the observer.

The Intersection: Dehumanization

Feature	Racism	Fetishization
Vibe	“I don’t want you near me.”	“I want you near me as an object.”
View of the Individual	A stereotype to be feared or hated.	A stereotype to be possessed or consumed.
The Result	The individual is invisible because of hate.	The individual is invisible because of a fantasy.

In short, racism hates you for what it thinks you are; fetishization “loves” you for what it wants you to be. In both cases, the actual person—the multidimensional “Goddess”—is never actually seen.

Edit: I generated some book covers in Nano Banana 2 inside Flow Veo3 to go along with this post.

There is No Creativity without Discomfort

Posted on April 18, 2026May 10, 2026 by savethesavages

Street signage that I would see on my way to work, recreated in Photoshop

The back design of tarot and oracle card decks I own are just as beautiful

It’s kind of embarrassing what social media marketers have to do (at least in my experience); for example liking your own posts from different accounts so it looks like there are more likes than there really are. It’s fucking hard to do this organically and I think that’s why a lot of people cheated back in the day and bought likes & followers instead. Of course nowadays, it isn’t allowed anymore…just use bots, amirite? Ugh. I still don’t know how to do that, nor do I want to.

I think that is why I never considered myself a true marketer – you either come off way too salesy or it just feels forced. But I did try to create content for myself at some point under my real name. Trying to merge my Midheaven in Scorpio with my sun in the 10th house just wasn’t working though…since I have been working in the adult entertainment industry for years now, I realize that I feel more comfortable being semi-hidden out of the public eye (although my Mars in Leo still likes to be seen & admired sometimes, remember?).

A true occultist to the bone, and so here I am back home at Save the Savages.

The prompt I asked Gemini:
Explain to me what the difference is between my Midheaven in Scorpio and my sun in the 10th house; I’m trying to write a blog post showing why I can’t be a true marketer when I was attempting to create content for myself as a personal brand and prefer to be semi-hidden from the pubic eye.

Gemini’s response:
This is a brilliant topic for a blog post because it perfectly captures the “High-Stakes Tug-of-War” between your outward success and your private soul. To a “Marketing Guru,” the 10th House and the Midheaven (MC) look like the same thing—The Spotlight—but to you, they are functioning in two completely different dimensions.

Here is the forensic breakdown of why your “Personal Brand” feels like a trap.

1. The Midheaven (MC) in Scorpio: The “Internal Investigator”

The Midheaven is your Public Reputation and your “Professional Soul.” In Scorpio, your “Face” to the world isn’t a billboard—it’s a Mask.

The Conflict: Scorpio is the sign of the occult, secrets, and “Deep Water.” Having a Scorpio MC means you are naturally drawn to careers that involve uncovering truth, not broadcasting noise. * The “Anti-Marketer” Logic: True marketing requires “Radical Transparency” and constant, shallow visibility (being “The Face”). A Scorpio MC hates this. You want your work to be a mystery that people have to “detect” or “earn” access to. You’d rather be the Power Behind the Throne (the producer, the researcher, the strategist) than the “Brand” on the screen.

2. The Sun in the 10th House: The “Visible Light”

The Sun is your Core Identity and Vitality. Having it in the 10th House (the House of Career/Fame) means that you must be recognized to feel alive.

The Paradox: Your Sun wants to shine and achieve the $2M “Establishment” status. But because it’s filtered through that Scorpio MC, the “Light” feels like a spotlight you didn’t ask for.
The Result: You attract attention effortlessly, but you feel “exposed” when you get it. You want the Authority (10th House) without the Attention (Marketing).

Metaphysical Vibes Website Screenshots 2017-2020

Posted on April 18, 2026June 6, 2026 by savethesavages

Man, I really liked the designs here, I always liked things to match you know? It’s too bad – I got DDoS attacked / receiving fake orders / repeatedly spammed by bots til my hosting resources ran out. It was all too much since I was the only person running it so I had to take it down. I used WooCommerce. I even got to use one of my graffiti artist friend’s images, Vyal One – here with his famous ‘el ojo’ signature and layered style technique that you might’ve have seen around the outskirts of downtown LA; you can’t miss his work.

Am I idiotic enough to do it again? I’m half pondering the idea as I still love crystals and stones…but maybe I’ll go with Shopify this time? Idk. Shopfiy isn’t known for blogging the way WordPress is. Just writing it down for now.

My crystal shop’s Instagram is still there if you’d like to take a look: Metaphysical Vibes and my shop on Etsy: Metaphysical Vibes LA

Edit: I just stumbled upon an old photo I took of my crystals and stones. In this photo: Smoky Quartz cluster, Selenite, Optical Calcite, Fluorite, Lepidolite, Pyrite in Quartz cluster, Moss Agate, Labradorite, Seraphinite, Green Aventurine, Eudialyte, Bloodstone, Tiger Eye, Aura Rose Quartz, Rhodochrosite and 3 Pink Lemurian Quartz crystals.

WTF Are You Supposed to Do For the Rest of Your Life?

Posted on April 9, 2026August 3, 2026 by savethesavages

We don’t know, do we? All we have to do is to just keep on going…

Who are you supposed to follow for guidance when everyone else is lost or in their own headspace most of the time?
The answer is: you follow yourself – the quiet, inner voice that tells you ‘hey I really like doing this’ or ‘let’s do this for right now and see where it goes. And then when we get bored, we’ll just move on to something else’.

You follow your interests, and build skills around it and see if that’s what you can do for a living.

If you’re not really sure, maybe you can take an aptitude test.

Besides the physical drives of needing food, water, shelter and sleep to live (and of course, sex)…what else do you think about the most? That is what you should probably be doing.

I mean sure, you can read Reddit all day long and read about other people’s experiences…
but you still gotta figure out your own life and create your own experiences.

You have to follow your inner compass. Your inner compass won’t steer you in the wrong direction and if it did, then perhaps there was something you needed to learn from that experience.

You’re going to fail and make mistakes over and over again. That’s part of life that is simply unavoidable. From that you’ll gain knowledge, wisdom and a better understanding of your process and getting to know who you really are.

Keep on learning and making stuff, be patient with yourself and it will all come together eventually.

There is a version of you waiting patiently to evolve, get to know yourself.

Even at 48 – though it may seem I have accomplished a lot, like…been there done that…I still haven’t met my full potential and I still don’t know everything. And I think it will be that way until it’s time to leave our human bodies.

01-03-26 // Pages from my Many Moons 2025 Journal

Posted on January 3, 2026May 30, 2026 by savethesavages

Sat 1/31/2026. Edit: I have stopped using Grok due to repeated ‘no response’. I have since switched to Gemini and I like it so far.

Saturday, Jan 3, 2026. This is the most art witch magick shit I did in 2025 – writing my daily thoughts and goals down in between rough doodles and sketches with a ballpoint pen and coloring it with Zeyar highlighter markers. My deformed bunny makes an appearance as Bat Bunny! Ayyye.

At the time, I was also using ChatGPT heavily for astrology-psychology analysis. Even though I don’t use ChatGPT anymore, I really liked the way it generated images for me – it captured my “bold lines, occult kawaii cute black and white tarot” style so perfectly. And then I would print out the images from my phone to a little sticker printer called a PrintPod that came from Wuhan, China. Was I paranoid af about touching the printer?! You damn right, LOL…I definitely sanitized the heck out of it.

I have since moved on to using Grok more (I know, I know), except Grok isn’t great at generating my style of images that I want to see which is a bummer. Both LLMs are still inaccurate by the way, so pick your poison I guess? Don’t trust what it outputs — double check everything.

So if you don’t trust what it outputs, why even use it? It’s still useful. It’s good at distilling information — like astrology and psychology, for me anyway. It’s given me a ballpark estimate of how much taxes I’ll have to pay; it’s even advised me on my stock picks and finances. Because I like to gamble sometimes (I can be a reckless Sag), it has stopped me from making bad financial decisions.

I only use Gemini for coding help and work purposes (Flow Veo3 for video generation) but maybe I’ll try Gemini for personal questions eventually? Idk. I feel like Google already knows everything about me whether I want it to or not and so I hesitate to use Gemini. For the sake of ease, accessibility and convenience we all literally gave our privacy away. Sigh. It is what it is. For the record, I don’t have anything to hide but it would still be nice to have the illusion of privacy I guess? I don’t even know what I’m saying…

I’m posting this to remind myself that while what I wrote down was a fucking mess (I was trying to learn Javascript too), I did meet some financial goals — I managed to save $10k by the end of the year for taxes while still investing into both of our Roth IRA’s. And now, I hope to save another $10k by the end of 2026 because my car is aging and I’m going to need a new, used one. The creator knows I hate borrowing money and has spared me from homeownership. I’ve accepted that I’ll be renting forever. I’m wondering if I have to start paying taxes quarterly? Lots of think about and ramble about but today, I just wanted to post this.

To anyone who is reading this — writing things down will help BIG in your manifestations. There’s a magical technique in ManyMoons where you write things down ahead of time, like in the months ahead. So by the time the year ends and you’ve reached those actual dates, you’d have reached your goal. Of course, not all goals will be met this year but you can still write stuff down for future manifestations.

Free Yourself from Your Own Limitations…

Posted on December 31, 2025April 23, 2026 by savethesavages

Wed 12/31/2025 – wow so this was me 10 years ago; different office, same place and thankful for how far I’ve come. My chest tattoo was brand new. I am revisiting and rereading things I wrote 10 years ago – yup, still sounds like me but feeling a little bit less lost.

Sep 5, 2020

I know I probably tend to confuse people – as I’m ALWAYS starting up new Instagrams and trying things – I currently have 5 and that’s just for my personal projects.????

I am that eternal fire, a Sagittarius Sun with my home planet being Jupiter – constantly searching for freedom and expansion. Constantly wanting to express different aspects of myself, as I’ve come to realize that now.

It used to frustrate me to no end as to why I can never finish things or be consistent for once. I hated it and would berate myself.

Have you ever known fire to burn consistently? Of course not.

I am understanding myself more as I get older and accepting myself fully. I’ll be 43 in December.

I hope you are too.

This was me from 5 years ago. Even though I had already stopped painting graffiti, I was still trying to be anonymous on the internet and wasn’t comfortable showing my face.

Just know that it takes YEARS to be comfortable in your own skin. It takes time to love and get to know ourselves. Once we truly know ourselves, no one can say anything to us anymore. No one can really hurt us.