Through the Musebreath

This project weaves together memoir vignettes with a cosmolutionary novel where the reader can choose their own adventure. The story tells how an empirical scientist nicknamed the "quintessential quantifier" became impassioned with the cosmos as a child upon learning he was born on a total lunar eclipse. His desire to have a daughter drives him to desperate measures. Upon discovering he can never attain his greatest desire, he starts to write her letters. She eventually responds through poignant images in his dreams.

He encounters an extraordinary historian who specializes in the way supremacism at all levels has been key to the dominant paradigm for thousands of years. She's a revolutionary activist, musician, and lover of blue moons. When we first meet her she is at a peace demonstration singing the song "End of Empire." Flashbacks to her childhood with her beloved father and his teachings on the truths about truth fill the story.

The historian/musician/activist and the scientist first meet online with an app meant for those looking at the lighter side of life. His know-it-all arrogance soon clashes with her self-righteous attitudes. Hard-core scientist meets hard-core activist. Their connection would not last long except for their mutual passion around lunar rhythms.

As they combine their respective knowledge, they discover a connection between how blood-blue moons point to revolutions in the last 300 years. They explore the Agricultural Revolution when the first seeds eventually grew to extreme domination by our species over Mother Earth.

Much to their astonishment, beQuo and M* discover that astronomical rhythms of the earth's shadow engulfing its lunar satellite combined with the calendrical patterns of the second full moon in one calendar month point to, not only when patriarchy first emerged, but when it, along with all forms of supremacism, come to an end.