My kid needed me to be there more than the world needed me somewhere else.

School wasn't working for him. We're a neuro spicy household, all of us, if I'm honest. My wife works full time as a teacher. Someone needed to be the one who stayed, and that someone was me.

We lived off what the universe provided, month to month. Somehow it was always enough.

Between the to-dos and tasks, I made time to grow and paint. Spent time becoming whoever I'm supposed to be next.

This year I'm doing it again.

You clicked because something stopped you.

You're in the right place.

I paint animals in threes.

Not randomly. I pull three together because together they teach something more than just a single animal can.

The animals came to me through the tradition of the dream arc. I painted my own understanding of the connections into each image and triptych; the underlying structure is an exploratory map for conscious growth.

• One animal shows you the part of yourself you might have avoided....
• One animal shows you the glow-up hiding inside that same pattern that's running.
• One animal shows you what it looks like when it's expressing the pattern in fullness...

Put the three side by side and you've got a whole growth-arc.

A way of practicing refinement, or exquisiteness, or boundlessness, or the kind of authority that only comes from having lived through a thing instead of reading about it.

The images do their job through the eyes, whether you're sitting still with your coffee or catching thirty seconds between one thing and the next.

I've been matching them this way for a while now. The lessons keep showing up whether or not anyone's watching for them.

Last October, my walking buddy Dennis and I got talking about how the new world we're finding ourselves in is going to require actual neighbors. Not 'followers' or 'fans'. Neighbors. People who wave, who ask for things, who offer things, who know your name.

We were on one of our walks when we saw them. Grasshoppers, everywhere, all at once. I said, I painted a grasshopper not long ago, part of a set I'd been working on. I went home and re-read what I'd written about it.

I printed the set. Three animals, a poem. Signed them. Tied them in twine. Dropped them in mailboxes, no ask, no pitch. Just an introduction from the guy who'd been walking past your house every morning for six years.

We delivered to over 150 houses that week.

Tom is always out in his garden now when I come through. Mike works from home, we talk through the fence. Krystal texted to say the art meant something to her. I've got a dozen stories just like this.

That's what a real object does when it finds the right person. It's not a following. It's a neighborhood.

Every month is an alchemical initiation into the great mystery...

It comes with a PDF guide to Alchemy and instructions for how to practice....

You do a real, physical activity that matches the animal images and practice alchemy;

The guide walks you through each image and shows:

- a part of yourself you're running from.

- a opportunity hiding inside that instinct.

- What life looks like once you've made peace with it.

You also get handmade - signed prints and the poem to "Lock it in" in your life...

Not ready to commit? Get the Horizon Practice Guide free, the exact format that comes with every Monthly Mystery.

You untie it slowly. The first animal. The second. The third. You don't know why this particular pattern arrived this month. But something about it is exactly right.

4.5" x 6" prints on archival paper. Hand-signed. Chosen for you by the Captain.