The sign you’ve been waiting for…

This is not just a website — it’s a portal.

We’re charting the frontier of a rising worldview known as archetypal cosmology — a revolutionary lens that reveals deep, mythic patterns connecting planetary alignments and world events. This isn’t astrology as you know it. It’s a reawakening of the ancient bond between cosmos and consciousness — grounded in rigorous research and poetic insight.

Much like the Renaissance, which once reignited the soul of a civilization, we are entering a new era: The Age of Re-Enchantment.

Here, soul and science don’t compete — they converge.
Here, myth and modernity form the architecture of what’s next.
Here, your personal transformation is woven into the turning of history itself.

Whether you're a seeker, a skeptic, or a systems thinker sensing that something deeper is moving beneath the surface of world events — this is your SIGN. You’re not alone. And this isn’t random.

Join us at Numinous Realm as we uncover the patterns behind the headlines — and offer tools to align your life with the unfolding myth of our time.

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FAQ

Who is behind Numinous Realm?

Abeer Desai
Co-founder & Creative Director

Abeer launched Numinous Realm in 2016 as a research project while on leave from CIIS to deepen into the Jupiter-Uranus-Pluto alignment that was coming into orb later that year. This vision grew out of his graduate school research, where he studied with Dr. Richard Tarnas and Dr. Stanislav Grof. Abeer believed the scale of the discoveries by Tarnas, Grof, and their predecessors would spawn entirely new industries and transform the global cultural landscape.

Prior to founding Numinous Realm, Abeer ran a global branding boutique, working with clients across a wide range of industries in North America and Asia. For his first role out of undergrad, he turned down a job offer from JP Morgan Chase in Manhattan to work in the tribal villages of Machur in South India. There, he collaborated with Indian industrialist Dr. Sudarshan Maini, rural development veteran Ganesh Shenoy, and organic farming pioneer Vivek Cariappa to bring a Gandhian model of self-sufficient economic development to the tribal communities near Nagarhole Tiger Preserve.

  • Based in New York City, USA

  • M.A. Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness from CIIS

  • B.S. Economics from NYU Stern

Somya Desai
Co-founder & Chief Cosmologist

Somya joined Numinous Realm as a co-founder in 2021, just as she was graduating from the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she studied under the visionary minds of cultural historian Dr. Richard Tarnas and evolutionary cosmologist Dr. Brian Swimme. While immersed in the soul of academia, she breathed new life into the student group Impact@CIIS, transforming it into a campus-wide impact incubator fellowship—an experimental space for a new generation of philosopreneurs. As her archetypal eye slowly opened, so too did the portal of Numinous Realm’s public offering. In 2023, Somya launched the newsletter and consultation practice, recognizing archetypal cosmology not as a niche interest, but as a sacred bridge between personal myth and collective transformation.

Long before this awakening, Somya’s path wove through the academic halls of Boston, MA, where she pursued three majors and three minors in an unrelenting quest to understand the structure of reality. From probing the unconscious mind of criminals to decoding the mysterious patterns of our cosmos, her journey has always been one of seeking—not the answers, but the questions.

  • Based in New York City, USA

  • M.A. Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness from CIIS

  • B.S. Philosophy, Psychology, Criminology from Northeastern University


What does the logo symbolize?

Inspired by Hindu motifs Abeer encountered while wandering through old India, and echoing the entrance of Jinjas—Shinto shrines—that Somya regularly visited while living in Japan, the Numinous Realm shuriken honors and advocates for the presence of divinity which infuses every facet of the great creativity in the cosmos.


Who are current and past contributors?

Verónica Collins
(2024—Present)

  • Based in Nuevo León, Mexico

  • M.A. student in Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness at CIIS

Valerie Rojas
(2024)

  • Based in North Carolina, USA

  • M.S. in Pharmacology from Duke


Does science verify these claims? Are the patterns described by Archetypal Cosmology real or just projections?

The Short Answer:

These are not projections. Any person with a bit of training can look through the historical record and verify the patterns for themself. Human awareness is the tool, and the historical record is the laboratory. The reason a bit of training is required is that human awareness is the only tool currently available to observe archetypal forms within the caveats of multivalence and multidimensionality. One day AI may be able to do the same, but its initial training foundation and verification will still needed to be developed by human perception. Thus, in a way, the truth of Archetypal Cosmology begins precisely where the usefulness of Material Reductionism ends--there is no material tool that will conclusively be able to "perceive" psycho-emotional forms the way human consciousness can. This is why we claim we are at the beginning of an Age of Re-Enchantment.

The Full Answer:

As Thomas Kuhn describes in his 1962 work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions every scientific paradigm reaches a point where it is unable to account for the diversity of phenomena occurring. The reigning theory is continually "patched" with caveats until a radical new idea is proposed that integrates the previous complexity into a stunningly elegant depiction of the truth. We are at such a juncture today.

Imagine back to the 16th century--for nearly two millennia humanity (with certainty in Europe) held that the Earth was at the center of the solar system and developed increasingly complex cycles and epicycle to account for and accurately predict the true motion of the planets. This was the so-called Aristotelian-Ptolemaic model. When Copernicus presented his "Heliocentric Theory"--it was boldly radical and took generations to unfold and truly be accepted by the mainstream. Along the way, its proponents were even subject to inquisition and ruin in their journey to affirm the true nature of reality. In one elegant swoop, the epicyclic complexities were cleared in the face of a resilient and elegant new truth. It is worth noting that even in the West the heliocentric theory had been proposed thousands of years earlier but for some reason was rejected by the mainstream.

Today we stand at a similar juncture. The primary foundations have been laid by historian Dr. Richard Tarnas in collaboration with his mentor the psychiatrist Dr. Stanislav Grof. The primary discovery, emerging during initial research in the 1970s and further developed over the subsequent 30 years, established Human beings living on Planet Earth have been participating in an ongoing correlation between the position of planets in our solar system and themes of macro psychology over the eras. The initial research included attempting to predict the nature of a psychedelic trip--specifically with LSD--given the diverse outcomes between two individuals within the same set, setting, and dosage. This came as part of Grof's role as the preeminent clinical researcher globally on the therapeutic effects of LSD, as he was in residency at Esalen Institute, with Tarnas joining him as a recent graduate out of Harvard. As Tarnas and Grof uncovered the improbable truth that a person's natal chart (the position of planets at the time of birth) were a reliable indicator of the psycho-emotional experience a person would have in the ego-dissolved state of a psychedelic trip, Tarnas went on to spend the next 30 years establishing that these same principles were operative at the macro-historical scale as well--bringing to this claim his position as one of most celebrated historians of our age. This research was published in 2006 in the book Cosmos and Psyche.

It is just as difficult for the contemporary mind of the 2016 (when Numinous Realm was founded) to accept the empirical validity of planetary alignments having anything to do with events on Earth. And as any true scientist will tell you, we must let the data speak for itself. Any person can look at the historical record and see for themselves the unfolding patterns of Archetypal Cosmology. We consider this field as different from Astrology as modern surgery is compared to folk herbal remedies. There is an eternal truth and wisdom in the folk remedy--however evolutionary cycles have brought to bear a different order of precision and outcome when it comes to surgery. Just as evolution places crocodiles which have existed for millions of years right next to Homo sapiens which evolved a few hundred thousand years ago, time is not the measure of success. Only the truth is.

Finally is the question of where does this all fit into science. As presaged by Kuhn--science itself must undergo a self-revision to account for the archetypal phenomena playing out on the world stage on a daily basis. For a start, we can reflect on the scientific method:

  1. Observation
    We look at world history as the petri dish of archetypal phenomena. Archetypal phenomena is unfolding on the personal level as well, but this is too subjective to establish a commonly accepted truth. We notice that world history is unfolding in correlation to the alignment of planets as generally described by the diverse and global astrological community that has developed over millennia of observation.

  2. Question
    Are the psycho-emotional heart of world events evolving in correlation to Archetypal Cosmology?

  3. Background Research
    We look through what has been explored by previous researchers in the relationship between planetary alignments and micro/macro psychology.

  4. Hypothesis
    We make the claim that yes indeed, we are observing world history be shaped in a psycho-emotional way according to the archetypes established by the astrological tradition--in concert with contemporary research into Depth Psychology and its iterations of Archetypal Psychology and Transpersonal Psychology.

  5. Experimentation
    Two types of experiments.
    A. Phenomenological: Can an individual on their own perceive the archetypal qualities being described.
    B. Empirical (historical): Can the archetypal qualities be perceived in the historical record.
    C. Empirical (real time): Can archetypal qualities be perceived in real time as world history emerges.

  6. Data Collection
    The only "tool" available to perceive psycho-emotional phenomena is human awareness. Recall we are not talking about simplistic material measures such as dilated pupils and elevated heartbeat.
    Phenomenological: Trained human awareness engages in a continually reflective process to perceive and label psycho-emotional phenoma with archetypal labels. This is similar to the Buddhist/Hindu practice of being aware of one's own consciousness, with the additional layer of archetypal coloring.
    Empirical: Trained human awareness processes highly regarded secondary and tertiary sources to get a sense of the arc of history in times past. And bring the same standard to emerging world history.

  7. Analysis

  8. Conclusion

  9. Replication
    These steps can be and have been replicated by countless post-grads emerging out of reputable academic communities including CIIS, Pacifica Graduate Institute, and others.

  10. Communication

  11. Further Research

The bottom line is that these ongoing correlations challenge the heart of our modern cosmology--our understanding of how to cosmos is constituted and continues to unfold. The only tool available is trained human awareness, but this is a journey any human being with the requisite interest in careful observation and study can undergo.


How can archetypal insights help me thrive in challenging times?

The farmer who understands the seasons is better equipped to survive and thrive than a farmer who is oblivious to them. Archetypal phenomena are continuously constellating the entirety of macro psycho-emotional trends in dynamic dialogue with evolving material factors. Our approach is radically disruptive, empowering a new generation of creators to out-evolve the status quo.

The status quo today in how society understands and anticipates reality comes in three main flavors:

  • Empathic Rockstars
    Experienced veterans who have proven their ability to anticipate and create deeply from the moment--whether in fashion, film, tech, venture capital, investing, marketing, art, or any other human endeavor that interfaces with human psychology.

  • Synchronic Analysis
    Looking at the word around you to try and piece together trends. This is fine but completely misses the historical component, and is susceptible to black swans.

  • Data Science
    Data science is fine and dandy, but is limited to data which can be physically measured. Thus it is completely blind to psycho-emotional phenomena. At Numinous Realm our methodology is to be the world leader in archetypal cosmology analysis combine with a rigorous appreciation for the material dynamics that are interacting in a complex system.


How do you track the planetary movements?

Planetary tracking at Numinous Realm is based on NASA's DE431 Data Set -- the same used by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's On-Line Ephemeris System.


What are your key principles?

Transform, not Inform
"Transform, not inform" emphasizes inspiring change and fostering growth rather than merely conveying information. It aims to catalyze spirit, prompting readers to think deeply, reflect on beliefs, and consider new perspectives. This approach leaves a lasting impact, encouraging readers to apply insights in ways that enhance their lives and communities.

Slow but Deep
"Slow but deep reporting" is a meticulous approach that prioritizes depth over speed. It involves extensive research and a thorough understanding of the subject. By delving deeply into stories, this method uncovers nuances, provides context, and delivers profound insights, fostering a reflective audience.


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