Natural Time

2.1.21 - Day 12/13 of the Yellow Seed Wavespell - Resonant Moon 24

I watched the Beatles 'Get Out' documentary and did an astrology overview of the band and the fact we continue to cycle 52 years after seminal 1970s events at the moment. Also new wavespell on the horizon - Red Earth - and new moon - Galactic.

1.30.21 - Day 10/13 of the Yellow Seed Wavespell - Resonant Moon 21

For now it's a weekly podcast...take note of it being the Yellow Seed wavespell within a Yellow Seed year. You can learn themes and overarching karma about the year during this 13-day stretch.

1.23.21 - Day 2/13 of the Yellow Seed Wavespell - Resonant Moon 14

We're halfway - exactly - through the 13 Moon year, and we can take stock of what moons remain. The Yellow Seed portals begin tomorrow for the next 10 days! And I have Omicron.

1.17.21 - Day 9/13 of the Blue Monkey Wavespell - Resonant Moon 8

It's close to the end of the Mystic Column. The last 20 days count as a continuous portal run, maybe without the spiked intensity of days that pop alone in the rest of the Tzolkin. It's more like a micro-dosed, slow-burn gateway then a potent psychedelic paradigm shift. As we conclude with Yellow Planetary Sun, we return to the light, we rise to it. And then we start again in the Tzolkin's eighth column at the top, in Red Dragon, for our next rebirth.

1.12.21 - Day 3/13 of the Blue Monkey Wavespell - Resonant Moon 3

Blue Monkey Genesis! That's an old, old Arguellian term from the origins of Natural Time. There was a pseudo-board game called Dreamspell that Jose Arguelles invented, sort of like Dungeons and Dragons and also like a UFO manual. It spoke of the first 130 days of the calendar count - the Tzolkin - as the Red Dragon Genesis, initiated by the Red Dragon wavespell. The second 130 days start with the Blue Monkey wavespell, and we're in that time now. The second half of the Tzolkin is less arduous in many ways. That seems accurate about Blue Monkey itself. I think of Red Dragon as birth, nurturance, the Great Mother of us all, and Blue Monkey is the child. We are shown life full of lessons through a mother's eyes in the Red Dragon Genesis, and in the Blue Monkey Genesis we get to try things out on our own, a bit of independence and in some ways there's less challenge, ever-arduous and demanding life lessons. So we're in the Blue Monkey time, the wavespell, the Genesis, and we get to be childlike and playful for a while.

1.2.21 - Day 7/13 of the White Mirror Wavespell - Rhythmic Moon 21

The Tzolkin is depicted as 13 columns with 20 days each, one for each of the 20 tribes. The central column of the Tzolkin - the seventh of thirteen - is called the Mystic Column. It's the only column without any portal days. That would seem to indicate there is no portal energy for the whole 20-day run, but the reverse is true. It's as if the entire central column is a portal, a channel running between heaven and earth. It's just more nuanced than the portal days we color black, less dramatic. There's a gentle, fluid and peaceful opening we enter when we get to this middle column, as if we're moving in slow motion or the weightlessness of outer space. This is the physical experience of mysticism. We are just a few days in so see where you float off to in those that remain.

12.27.21 - Day 1/13 of the White Mirror Wavespell - Rhythmic Moon 15

We're entering one of the most essential and culturally alien sectors of the Tzolkin. White Mirror is a euphemism for the human sacrifice ritual that the Maya are infamous for - and possibly why they are rejected from a rarified role in the enduring canon of world spirituality. Obsidian rock was used for the blade that cut the heart out of a sacrificial victim, and it's what people polished to see their own reflection. We are in the White Mirror wavespell and it's the ancient time of ritual sacrifice. It's watered down in our modern age to be an iteration of what that sacred act offered: confrontation of fear, reduction of all extraneous focus, ascendance to an otherworld, charged with divinity. We will have our versions of losing what we're grasping, and our own importance. We will feel immediately in the space that has been cleared of material attachment a greater connection - a pathway - to the heavens. It's the usual ego shattering arc: we let go of control and we gain access to god. So your work this wavespell is to allow the fear and loss to arise without resistance. It's organic, timely, sacred.

12.23.21 - Day 10/13 of the Red Serpent Wavespell - Rhythmic Moon 11

It's John Lennon's Mayan birthday. I think a lot in the Red Serpent time about survival, the base instinct of a reptilian existence that drives life, and makes fixated self-preservation possible - not distracted by overly imaginative thoughts. It's a thrill to feel safe in the Red Serpent surround, 'I will survive.' John Lennon, born in the Red Serpent wavespell, did not. He was murdered, and we were all caught off guard as he was in that moment. Each day of a wavespell - each person born on such a day - serves the tribe's intent. White Planetary Wizard is the peak of the Red Serpent wavespell, the highest point of its power of survival, but it's also when the journey of ends. When the maximum energetic force is beat back by something much larger and impregnable. So John Lennon survived the loss of parents, the trauma of childhood, the demands of fame, the disintegration of his band of brothers, the reflexive judgment of the fanbase, all of the cultural fixation...and then he succumbed early to death. His planetary influence as a wizard-shaman lives on.

12.19.21 - Day 6/13 of the Red Serpent Wavespell - Rhythmic Moon 7

We're halfway through the portal days of the Red Serpent wavespell. Think of them as energetic doorways where there have been walls, or as if a thicket of obstruction has been cleared. We just walk through. Sometimes there's velocity in the vacuum force pulling us into the opening, and that can be intense, disarming. Sometimes it's just like the best moments of moving through cultural bureaucracy, when things work and you feel fluidity and ease. If you prepared yourself, you know the limitations of Red Serpent and are able to make the adjustment into limited visionary awakening, lessening of sharp analytical capability, and are just enjoying being close to the earth, adept at survival because you are so focused only on it. The portals help us shed our old, worn snakeskin, and we can in actuality really thrive in the process of losing that old constriction.

12.15.21 - Day 2/13 of the Red Serpent Wavespell - Rhythmic Moon 3