I thought the most memorable moment this holiday was when — on our final midnight walk — Vlad and I saw a fully grown deer bolt across the privately lit community college parking lot, only to stop and stare back at us from a relatively safe distance.
We frequently see deer on our mountain hikes — and only a few times in the grove of trees across the street from our house — but never in the parking lot.
We took it as an auspicious omen.
Yet the next day we were graced with an even more on-point synchronicity: despite one more Mercury-in-Retrograde snag since last week’s newsletter, Amazon finally approved my manuscript — fittingly on Thanksgiving Day.
It is indeed All In The Timing (Meditation HERE).
There have been some major events in Cosmic Timing lately.
Specifically, the comet 3I/ATLAS — only the third confirmed interstellar object ever observed passing through our solar system — passed just 18 million miles from Mars in October.
After sweeping inside the Sun’s orbit and going out of view, it has now reemerged and is visible again.
NASA expects its closest approach to Earth around Dec. 19, 2025, at about 170 million miles.
It may, however, be the only comet in history to merit a press conference.
NASA held one on November 19th not just to share cool images from space, but also to emphasize that it “looks and behaves like a comet.”
They were clear to state they found nothing artificial about it — perhaps in part in response to growing speculation from the likes of Harvard’s Avi Loeb that it might be something of alien origin.
In a few weeks, maybe we’ll find out … and — with a potential mothership landing —my next topics might all be moot.
First, I’ve decided to offer a FREE workshop on New Year’s Day.
You can register for it HERE.
We’ll gather for a simple, powerful intention-setting experience to open the year with clarity and ease.
A spacious reset.
A grounded beginning.
The emphasis will be on the power of writing, with both journaling and a goal-setting moment.
It’s also the unofficial kickoff to my January program — The Science of Reinvention.
More about that in a moment.
You can’t really find someone more legit than Avi Loeb.
He’s the head of the Galileo Project, founding director of Harvard University’s Black Hole Initiative, director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the former chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University (2011–2020).
Without getting too far into the science, which as a non-astrophysicist is way over my head, both tinfoil crackpots and Ivy League professors look at 3I/ATLAS with curiosity because of several unusual factors.
These include its non-gravitational acceleration, anomalous composition, and trajectory — all different from what has ever been seen before.
And Loeb openly approaches life’s mysteries.
In fact, I recently discovered a great quote of his in Scientific American:
“When you are not ready to find exceptional things,
you will never discover them.”
It reminds me of another great genius’ line.
Roald Dahl — who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda — famously penned:
“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
I love when science, fantasy, and magic mesh, perhaps best encapsulated by Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law:
“Magic’s just science that we don’t understand yet.”
This synergy has been my exact focus lately.
Since I’m launching the Science of Getting Rich journal — which actually has the word “Science” in the title — I’ve actually been focused on more than just the metaphysical aspects of transformation.
I just finished my first big interview — details soon — on the topic, and I’m slated as a podcast guest to discuss more of the same.
This content — blending the spiritual with the scientific, the practical with the mystical — deeply excites me.
That’s why it’s the outline for the January 2026 Science of Reinvention course:
- Week One: Purpose
A clarified direction that organizes your energy - Week Two: Gratitude
The emotional state that rewires your perception and momentum energy - Week Three: Visualization
The neuroscience of future identity - Week Four: Faith
The cognitive shift that dissolves resistance - Week Five: Action
Consistent, aligned behavior that locks in the new story
You can find out more details — and get early-bird pricing —
Because it was so beautiful and fleeting, poetry seems the best way to capture the quicksilver moment with my “Midnight Deer.”
You can never really go wrong with a Mary Oliver poem, and while I was very tempted to include “This Morning I Watched the Deer,” I decided against it.
Unlike my nocturnal deer, she spied hers early in the morning.
And very much unlike me, she felt a heaviness around it.
Even so, I can’t resist offering this fragment, since I share her desire to
”touch their faces, their brown wrists—
tossing some sparkling poem into
the folds of their ears;
then walk with them
over the hills
and over the hills
and into the impossible trees.
In the spirit of holiday generosity however, I am, going to offer in full another Mary Oliver poem, one I feel more aptly describes all my hikes with Vlad.
How I Go to the Woods
Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single
friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore
unsuitable.I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds
or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of
praying, as you no doubt have yours.Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit
on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds,
until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost
unhearable sound of the roses singing.__
If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love
you very much.
They say your vacation begins the moment you close the laptop.
Allow me to paraphrase that and say that your reset might begin the moment you sign up for the (Free) New Year’s Day Workshop HERE.
And definitely, if you commit to the Five Week January Tell A New Story Transformation Course, you’re pretty much filling out the shipping label for a remarkable 2026.
More than ever it seems, what lies before us is a great mystery.
Indeed, a few days ago, Avi Loeb wrote that the final verdict on the comet is still unknown.
In a Medium essay he reminded us that the raw data itself will be posted on NASA’s JPL Horizons website, “underlining the inescapable truth that science is always a work in progress, not to be settled by the authority of NASA officials in press conferences.”
His (non-crackpot) position is essentially:
“Trust the evolving data, not institutional certainty.”
As I go deeper into my scientific research about the metaphysical and scientific truths underlying Purpose, Visualization, Gratitude, Faith, and Action, this seems like an overwhelmingly sound guiding principle.
Even if a mothership does not enter our orbit on December 19th, magical moments abound, leaving their data points behind.
I’ll never forget that my book was approved on Thanksgiving Day, or that encounter with a midnight deer.
Or perhaps taking a walk in the woods with you.
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