I'm learning about Liquidity Pools today.
I've been playing with them a bit. $20 here. $50 there. Just enough to see what they do without risking a catastrophic loss. Not putting bill money in there. Though that can be tempting because the APR on some of the LPs is mind-boggling. I'm doing one that's over 300% APR on my own, and participating in a trading DAO that's doing one that's currently got 3000% APR.
I'm not gonna write a bunch about Liquidity Pools here today. There's other great articles out there, just Google and you'll find some. Or search Farcaster - more and more people are putting out great stuff now that they can earn Moxie and use that to participate in Moxie LPs to earn even more.
This is about my work with the Goddess of Money - Juno Moneta.
When I "work" with a deity, it's all in my head. I'm not a formal ritualist. I just get into the right headspace and "have a chat".
Is it actually a deity or just mental LARPing?
Honestly?
I don't care.
That doesn't really matter to me.
It's a mystical experience and part of how it works is letting it continue to be a mystery.
I do argue with Them about their existence though... I'm strictist of terms, I'm a monist atheist. The Universe just is, and we are the Universe trying to figure out what it wants to be next.
Anyway...
I was sitting in mediation one day, entering that particular headspace where I chat with Juno Moneta about money stuff.
She is, after all, literally the Goddess of Money, as the Moneta aspect of Juno is where we even get the word "money". She was Guardian of the Treasury and Roman coins were minted in her image. "Mint" is also derived from her name.
I "met" her one day when I was doing a money mindset exercise from some money mindset guru or other a decade or so ago when that was The Thing going around the online space I inhabited. The idea was to meet your "money lover." Imagine money is your lover, how would you seduce them sort of thing. For most others following along, they imagined someone hot, maybe a fave celebrity.
What came to me was a very Roman Goddess.
I didn't work with any mythological deities at that point. The focus of my spiritual practice was a made up Goddess I call Paradox, and she'd already led me on wild adventures, but that's another story.
So I do a quick Google to find this Goddess of Money, and discover Juno Moneta. Yeppers, that was her. Okay... what to do with this...
The answer was, just keep working with her and see where it leads.
Where it has led?
Consistently growing income without a job. Self-employed content creating with a constantly growing audience cuz I get biz advice from the Goddess of Money.
Bought a house. Goddess of Money nudged me to post on a particular day on Twitter even though I never use Twitter, and ended up with 1/4 of the funds to buy my house sent to me on Cashapp by Jack Dorsey.
So yeah, I keep following her advice.
And now?
She led me to crypto, and to Farcaster.
Where things are just popping off for me in ways I could not at all have anticipated.
Which is why today, I'm learning about Liquidity Pools and the various risks associated with them.
Because Thursday is for money. It's the day that I spend my meditations focused on that "Juno Moneta" headspace, sorting through my budget, and learning about money topics. Figuring out how to get past the financial plateau I hit the last couple years.
What I can tell you from my meditations is that Juno is meh about Bitcoin, but really likes ETH and SOL for their utility beyond just currency that has the potential to lead to radical new ways of governance and organization that can truly be positive-sum for all of us, not just an elite few.
She's currently hot on $Moxie and $Degen, kinda meh about a lot of the others, but LOVES that people are gradually taking the ownership of currency into their own hands - I had a vision of her in chains many years ago, surrounded by men in suits with tickers covering the walls, chipping away at her golden form, handing out slivers to the masses while they kept the bulk for themselves...
Fun Fact: We don't own fiat currency. The state does. It loans it to the banks who loan it to the companies who use it to pay wages, and then we pay taxes that function as interest payments back to the state so it'll keep the whole scheme going.
So Thursday is for money, because Thursday is associated with Jupiter, husband of Juno, and fuck him, he's part of the power structure that subdues abundance in the first place, and their marriage was not at Her will. I give Her the day rather than her husband as Western astrology has.
She's not led me astray before, and I'm delighted with where she has led me so far.
ā¤ Gwynne
