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12.12.21 - Day 12/13 of the Yellow Human Wavespell - Overtone Moon 28

The Overtone Moon is over, and the Rhythmic Moon begins. We have been living the Jose Arguelles-coined question How can I best empower myself? for the last 28 days. Now we turn to the more convoluted and brain-bending How can I extend my equality to others? It's always nice to have a whole moon to try to understand the intent of the Rhythmic tone, and the complexity of the question Jose invented to accompany it. It's nice to keep the question in mind as a riddle, not just for the answer, but in its mystical intent. We will learn we are equal to others in this time - that's implicit in our ability to then give that sense of sameness and power balance out to the world. It's a potential for class and race harmony over conflict - equality extended where it's too often denied. It's an egoless stance: I am equal, not better, to others and I'm going to let them know I know it. It's a seasonal act of humility, of deference, of easing tension. I don't know why more Christmas holiday gatherings don't seem to hold so much of that, but maybe if we focus on the Rhythmic Moon, and the Natural Time's inclusion of Solstice and another approaching full moon, and not the mercantile side of Christmas and "New Year's," our own experience will be one of peace.

12.8.21 - Day 8/13 of the Yellow Human Wavespell - Overtone Moon 24

The Yellow Human wavespell feels stultifying and cynical. The human experience is not that impressive this time around. Free will, one of the descriptors Jose Arguelles gave us for the Yellow Human tribe, has become an ugly feature of the human personality, run amok, rather than something we would esteem. It's another way to say 'I'll do whatever the fuck I want,' at its worst. And at its best, free will means we fight oppression - with the fallibility of also using our will to oppress others. We're so mired in hypocrisy and the inability to see how much we project our failings onto others, as a species. And this is the fun run through the Yellow Human wavespell. It's nearing its capitulation point, however, with a Storm day, a brilliant Sun day and then arrival in the maternal vessel of Red Dragon. That the Yellow Human wavespell peaks at Red Planetary Dragon reminds us that at our best, our closest to divinity, we are deeply feminine and holy, nurturing and caring for others.

12.2.21 - Day 2/13 of the Yellow Human Wavespell - Overtone Moon 18

Yellow Human is upon us - we get to see our species from the outside while being inside its Mayan designation. I think, if we follow this calendar, we are liberated from being human most of the time. We instead get to be animals and celestial bodies and weather fronts. We get to be specified roles in human culture that are rarified: the warrior, the shaman, the priest. But then we come home to our karmic embodiment of the human being, homo sapien, for 1/20th of the Tzolkin time. And after shapeshifting into other elements, other animals, we can suddenly assess what is special and different about our own species. One thing, we're certainly smart, learned, honed in our ability to make real what our minds actively imagine. On the other hand, we can't fly, can't orbit the cosmos, can't explode fire from water particles, can't even shimmy up trees and swing from their branches. So the Yellow Human time is full of capability and accomplishment, but the concrete kind. Celebrate your know-how, your life experience that has taught you lessons, your wisdom from so much vast brain activity. And own the karma of our limitation as a species: that we are not particularly cosmic, not that important in the grandest scale, not invincible. We know so much because of trial and e

11.27.21 - Day 10/13 of the Blue Storm Wavespell - Overtone Moon 13

The Blue Storm wavespell is at its peak. Can you feel the wild weather disturbances around you? Are you having breakthroughs from denial, resistance, any kind of pervasive slog or fog? These are Blue Storm indicators, at their highest pitch. Try to account for how you were unstoppable the past ten days, and how you were unstable, too. All of the sturm und drang is about to ebb, however, as we capitulate to Red Spectral Moon and the soothing flood of water that is the Blue Storm tribe's antipode. A storm's strength comes from a combustive mix of water and air - and fire! An alchemical explosion. What makes the storm swoon is a mass of one of these elements, instead of an unsteady mix of all three. And we're heading into the day of water, the extreme influence of water, and the swells it brings to calm our nerves and mood. Therein Blue Storm has served its purpose, to transmute tension into tear-break that fills us with feelings, with life.

11.24.21 - Day 7/13 of the Blue Storm Wavespell - Overtone Moon 10

The Overtone experience is one of empowerment, and it doesn't go away once the tone shifts to the next, Rhythmic, and the next, Resonant, etc. It's the wonder of the Overtone time that we simply emerge into empowerment - radiance - that will sustain us through the wavespell's entire climb and the Planetary peak. We add things to our empowerment - Rhythmic order, Resonant psychic ability, Galactic integrity and so on - but we are meant to keep the power source that emerges from within, for the whole run. It's like stoking an internal fire from ember to reliable source of warmth. What you may experience now as ease is a form of health and wholeness, when you find the inner combustion to come alive and aren't dependent on other people or different outcomes, you're purring along engaged with yourself and your power. It's not power over others, just power within you.

11.20.21 - Day 3/13 of the Blue Storm Wavespell - Overtone Moon 6

The Blue Storm wavespell is a journey into awakening from denial. To start the journey, we have to discover what our denial is. For a 13-day Blue Storm wavespell, that's going to be one important factor of our denial, not every last thread of it. If you're uncomfortable at the outset, it's because you're shifting from not knowing to knowing, not feeling to full sensory recollection. The psyche is stirring, and so then the sky. Like the storm your feelings shake tension out of you in outbursts, your mind is stuck in dullness until it explodes vividly, and maybe grief outpours. Then the post-cry peace comes, and stillness, serenity - awakening. We have 13 days to go from one aspect to the other, and we can't avoid the process upon us. Can't deny it any longer, further.

11.15.21 - Day 11/13 of the White Worldbridger Wavespell - Overtone Moon 1

The Overtone Moon begins today, ushering us toward winter darkness and the quietude demanded of the season with a spark inside only getting hotter, brighter. Every year at this time we feel our annual wavespell lift off in described qualities of empowerment and radiance even as the Northern Hemisphere milieu is colder, days are shorter, personal solar power is limited. We feel the losses of light physically, but in the spirit world we are ignited with force and directivity. That's Overtone energy, lifting us up and off the surface of reality towards entrance into the holy atmospheric heavens. On a functional level, the hard work of the 13 Moon wavespell's inception - an invigorating Magnetic Moon, a limiting Lunar one, the tactical preparation that is demanded in the Electric and Self-Existing Moons - pays off. Now we run with what has been arduously and carefully put in place. We had to be slowed and considerate for the first four stages, but in the fifth Overtone moment, it's go time. The acceleration might upset your equilibrium, but it will carry you through the inevitable ascent of the next four moons and the wave's highest peak.

11.11.21 - Day 7/13 of the White Worldbridger Wavespell - Self-Existing Moon 25

The White Worldbridger wavespell is the big metaphor for death. You hopefully are not having strongly literal exposure to death, although if that happens it has sacred and synchronistic nuances and could feel actually natural in this passage. But probably you can point to the small deaths that occur daily, routinely or accrue in a big, building crush. There is so much comfort in embracing the word death, the Death tribe, the allowance of endings. Most of us in a myriad of ways try to orchestrate some parts of our life to be neverending: in love, in material ease, in health, in beauty. Allowing death to overtake us, bathe and nurture us in the truth that everything we grasp is ultimately dispersed by one ending or another, soothes our fear and control and drops us into acceptance. All the buzz words for a more peaceful daily experience. White Worldbridger gives so much spaciousness and expansion for every egoic control-valve we have to release in this time. We'll miss it when it's gone.

11.8.21 - Day 4/13 of the White Worldbridger Wavespell - Self-Existing Moon 22

It's the final week of the Self-Existing Moon and time for a recap about what form your service is to take this 13 Moon Mayan year. You should be able to retrace the last couple of weeks and see opportunities and directions you were shown that fill in the blank of your specific offerings and actions of service. These really don't have to seem like cliche acts of charity. It just means that your soul is destined to act in certain ways that are the fullest expressions of your gifts, and yes - others will benefit. Others benefit whenever we act in truth and integrity instead of self-denial and brokenness. So try to pay attention to what has amassed of the last two moons where service is identified then detailed. And get excited for the journey as it becomes clearer, nameable, a plan and a form for the rest of the unfolding year.

11.2.21 - Day 11/13 of the Red Skywalker Wavespell - Self-Existing Moon 16

We're in the third week in the West of the Self-Existing Moon, and traveling into the Blue quadrant of the medicine wheel in Mayan spirituality is always the place of acceleration, emotion and transformation. Change happens, all the preparation in the East and North leads to palpable, dramatic twists and awakenings. We're also finishing up the Red Skywalker wavespell this week, and you can revisit in meditative reflection, in storytelling with others, what prophetic insight you gained. There is something; if you stop to seek the message of the past days, it will come to you as simple, clear augury.