Natural Time

5.22.25 - Day 7/13 of the Red Skywalker Wavespell - Spectral Moon 21

The days keep intensifying, and there's not a true end in immediate sight. But we are stepping out of the 'third week in the west,' or the accelerated and transformative section of the Spectral Moon, and hopefully the pace and urgency can scale down a tad. There's also a weekend of some equanimity coming, and even some prognosis of slighter calm next week as well. In other words - hang on, it's a gnarly wave break and we are getting thrashed. This level of discomfort might be the outer max, so if you can get through it, you're acclimated to the kind of drama that usually tracks through this part of the Tzolkin, every cycle.

5.21.25 - Day 6/13 of the Red Skywalker Wavespell - Spectral Moon 20

Today is a portal day. It's helpful to pay attention to them, but I am reminded that once we discovered the internet and smashed our computers down to pocket size, we normalized having wide open gateways through time and space to the point that every nanosecond is a portal. So when they arise every now and then in the Tzolkin, who really cares? You can, a little. It's an intensification of the tribe and tone at hand, and also there's a door where the was formerly a wall, and you pass through. We combine that portal process with the White Mirror ritual of sacrifice, of giving up control and accepting an invitation into a much more heavenly space, via our own physical suffering. Physical here just means sentient, embodied in our incarnation. The sacrifice could be in work, relationship, walking through your day and creating an ache in any of your limbs that reminds you that to be human and planetary involves suffering. But if we endure it, we allow it, we experience transcendence. That is White Mirror, the way into the ultimate comfort of feeling our surroundings more truly reflecting, and affirming, ourselves.

5.18.25 - Day 3/13 of the Red Skywalker Wavespell - Spectral Moon 17

This is a special edition to address the 'why is life hard?' question that can emerge at obvious moments in the stacked layers of Natural Time. I spoke last podcast about the Red Skywalker wavespell and how I believe it ushers in a long string of wavespells that challenge the human egoic wants, humbling us. This episode reminds you that it's not only the part of the Tzolkin we've entered that can stress our ease. It's also the Blue Rhythmic Storm year, and the Spectral Moon within it. The year is cacophonous and demanding of internal and external transformation. The moon undoes stability and even the outward-facing achievement we may have felt pride about when we hit our Planetary peak. And there is the overlay of the year 2025 having the Mayan astrological orientation of sacrifice. I guess this episode is for those who need reminders that you are not making up any pain or struggle that is arising. It's universal, and it's natural. Hang in there.

5.17.25 - Day 2/13 of the Red Skywalker Wavespell - Spectral Moon 16

Red Skywalker is so distinctively like being high that I encourage you to move through these 13 days without adding any actual plant spirit medicine to its baseline. Immediately I am more spaced out, out of body, weightless and detached from a bunch of reality. That is a good place to swing into from time to time, and for the 13 day arc of Red Skywalker we can affirm our cosmic consciousness and take a break from hardcore planetary intensity. You probably are feeling called to get high separate from this natural state - that is, to escape. All the ways to escape, your own personal trove of shortcuts to disembodied 'bliss,' are beckoning. Again, try to imagine not piling on inebriants to this expansive and wondrous moment, or slow it down and simplify your escape plan so you can actually pay attention to its nuance, and not just obliterate.

5.15.25 - Day 13/13 of the Yellow Sun Wavespell - Spectral Moon 14

We are moving into two very intense passages, the third week of the Spectral Moon and the Red Skywalker wavespell. They are intense because they undo stability. Red Skywalker is a time of prescribed disassociation, traditionally through plant spirit medicine. In other words, it's a time to get high. Or feel as though you are. The energy field of Red Skywalker is that out of body, elevated and mystical space that imitates all the biochemicals and pharmaceuticals people use. At the same time, we are plunging with more acceleration and topsy-turviness through the Spectral Moon's breaking wave dissolution process. Things may be falling apart before they also fall into place. 'Letting go' is pretty easy right now - in fact, it's hard to hold on. If you feel aspects of your life slipping out of your control, trust that this is for the highest good, and open your unclasped hands even wider.

5.12.25 - Day 10/13 of the Yellow Sun Wavespell - Spectral Moon 11

The Spectral Moon is moving along at a clip, and we don't have much time in this rapid descent of our annual wavespell. It is 1/10th the time of our long upward climb. So it is chaotic, and quick, and if it feels really difficult, it will be over soon. If you like the cosmic ride of so much intensified change, of the wondrous spiritual principle of letting go, of the relaxation you feel when your personality obliges and accepts what is, then you must enjoy this moment. It's actually probably a fluctuation of liking and disliking what the Spectral tone brings. There are things we love to let go of, and things that hurt to do so. But if you come back to the question of the Spectral moment, How do I release and let go?, you will have a mantra, a touchstone. You can get help with that act, as a prayer, show me how to release and let go; turn me towards releasing and letting go; I'm willing to release and let go - help me.

5.9.25 - Day 7/13 of the Yellow Sun Wavespell - Spectral Moon 8

We are fully in the dissolution of the year's wave, with all the tumult and chaos that it brings. We used to be climbing - or even being carried - decidedly skyward, and for many moons (since 7.26.24). Now we're cascading all that altitude back to earth, or where we began; maybe an oceanic bed of water would help as an image, so you are aware it's going to be a soft landing. What isn't soft - or secure - is the fall. It's end over end, and you lose your grip through gravitational flux or disorientation. So there's a lot that's coming undone, acting crazy, feeling out of control. It's a bit more relaxed than some of the intense and stern scrutiny we've had turbocharged as the world burns. Now it's burning as ever, but are you able to pay attention? Being set free from that could be a gift, as long as it lasts.

Day 2/13 of the Yellow Sun wavespell - Spectral Moon 3

The collab of Yellow Sun and the Spectral Moon - their starting up in tandem - has been a true vibrational shift. We were in the heady, 'doing', practically anti-mystical fusion of Blue Hand and the Planetary Moon, and both prevented a ton of spiritual connection. Now we are in the wonder of being fed pure enlightenment and a connection to the godhead of the sun itself, alongside the invitation or insistence on surrender that the Spectral tone brings. It took a minute to be sure it's real - 'I can feel/pray/rely on the god I understand again' - but now it seems to have traction. I love waking up, experiencing panic about the same set of dilemmas that existed days ago, with the impulse to 'turn it over,' or simply say, 'Please help.' You know it's a time of undoing. With god on/by your side, you can trust where the disintegration, or basic relaxation, takes you.

5.2.25 - Day 13/13 of the Blue Hand Wavespell - Spectral Moon 1

It's the first day of the Spectral Moon, and the eve of the Yellow Sun wavespell. We are about to flip from pretty hardcore human-centric astrological timezones to something way more 'spiritual.' Yes, humans can be spiritual, by filling their cellular bodies with aspirations of light, but we are the very definition of 'planetary' in our sentience. So when we dip into sentience-positive moments - passages that are oriented to earthen reality instead of the infinite, the heavenly, the otherworldly - we can feel so weighted down we forget that light is not just streaming solar rays, but the quality of anti-gravitational boundlessness. Which I think we need right now, STAT. And it's coming: ether and undoing and being rolled by forces greater than ourselves, without control or a clear landing spot back on terra firma. But maybe we will welcome the rush, the release.

4.29.25 - Day 10/13 of the Blue Hand Wavespell - Planetary Moon 26

A Planetary day in a Planetary Moon. We are so far into the Planetary Moon we have some experiential understanding of the tone, but let this doubling of its energy show you further what it means to manifest and feel productive. See what shows up, and notice how it connects to all the phases earlier in the Natural Time year that you were working through. Then get ready to let it all go. This is the peak of our ascent and accomplishment, and it's about to fall apart - into natural disarray such as every environmental cycle: summer into autumn, seeds into sprout then faded bloom, humans who have their own peak ages and begin to decline. This is the point of making our calendar 'Natural' - following time as something that innately, instinctually peaks and dissolves, endlessly oceanic.