Helping at Scale
It was not my goal at the outset to become an astrologer for other people. What pushed me over was observing that it was one of the most scalable ways of helping people I had yet stumbled upon.
Reflecting on this, I sort of wish I had made more life choices on that same basis.
My ability to scale things peaked 10 years ago. I am at my lowest scalability since I was, like, a baby. A thing I can do asynchronously on the internet is about all I can afford.
But there are always different capacity limitations, and they must be played off each other. Like, 10 years ago, I couldn’t have helped in this particular way because I didn’t have the life experience. I helped people with divination one at a time, but I couldn’t have scaled it.
I was reading tarot for people then, but that was a 90-minute conversational medium that could not have been done asynchronously. I had to learn about human life from the beginning over and over again from each person to do those.
Only now, having made the life choices I’ve made that have constrained my capacities the way I have, do I have enough experiential resources to safely and supportively hold my own perspective enough to do multiple readings a day from people with wildly different lives.
Prior to this, the scaling factors I used were institutional ones. I joined ✌️“mission-driven organizations”✌️ and let those be force multipliers. I’m not sure those were the most scalable ways I could have helped people, but maybe they were before I had enough experience.
Not that I have ✌️“enough experience”✌️ at this by any stretch, but that’s sort of the thing with spiritual work: All the training is on the job, but the entire job is training. So all I can do is say, “Here’s what I know so far,” and the rest is a collaboration.
What experience does here is set the expectation that it won’t always be like this. Time is a scale, too, and observing the way temporal scaling changes things is sort of the definition of life experience.
It looks like this now, but it won’t always, or even for long.
I’m glad — grateful — that this is helping right now. It’s helping me, too. It’s shaping my work. It’s letting me fund my project myself and determine its direction, but more importantly, it’s bringing me closer to understanding people and what they need.
But this is still the very beginning of something, and it doesn’t end at divination. That’s part of a discovery process at cosmic scale of what beings like us need to live and grow. Growing towards that is where I’m going.
