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9.13.21 - Day 13/13 of the Red Dragon Wavespell - Lunar Moon 22

Red Dragon wavespell is over. Next. I have that feeling about it. It's incredible and powerful to experience life through the lens of feminine creativity, of nurturing and motherhood, and it's exhausting to feel the cultural shadow of misogyny that accompanies any passage through goddess energy. Especially during the Lunar Moon. Challenge identified. Challenge accepted. White Wizard - the wavespell - is actually something we've been living the last two years on a larger scale. July 26, 2019 began a 13-year White Wizard wavespell, and immediately introduced us to the Coronavirus. We can enter this 13 day wavespell as an interesting reiteration of the larger themes of our recent years. We can look for connections in ourselves to bigger picture views for what our life holds in the 13 year arc we are passing through. Hint: timelessness and enchantment are what Jose Arguelles described as White Wizard's power points. You are in a timeless enchantment phase personally, we are in one collectively. And we will be for a long time forward.

9.9.21 - Day 9/13 of the Red Dragon Wavespell - Lunar Moon 17

We're coming up to the climax of the Red Dragon wavespell, its highest peak of accomplishment, its greatest reach toward the stars, its most stark demand on us that we are exposed to the powers of the divine feminine impulse that leads all creation. We can both feel the power of our feminine way - male or female in gender - and the forces that challenge or deny this entity of goddess in our culture, internalized in ourselves. Just notice, that's the gift of the wavespells we undulate through. Of course we are affected by the lessons - emotionally, psychologically and beyond - but its worth remembering that we're just riding waves, not the ones that caused them, not the ones that can flatten them for our own comfort or anyone else's. It's the time of exploring and accepting great feminine power, this moment so particularly as we reach the wave's crest, and then like a watery explosion the power surge breaks - disseminating the lesson and also dissolving it. And the next wavespell teaching, the next tribe, takes us to our next awakening.

9.6.21 - Day 5/13 of the Red Dragon Wavespell - Lunar Moon 15

The Lunar Moon moves into its third week, in the west, and accordingly the ways we are challenged - strung out by stress or conflict, internally upset and polarized - are coming to an emotional head. We can celebrate by the end of this week the plainspoken emergence of what our challenge is this new Mayan year, and what about it is connected to the year we just had which was rooted in the Lunar tone. It's kind of like seeing everything about challenge in our personal life and the cultural collective with underlines, exclamation points, so we don't miss the clear message: this is what is hard and what you'll integrate and overcome by the end of this year - and also by the end of our current 13 year cycle of such obvious, ominous upheaval.

8.31.21 - Day 13/13 of the Yellow Star Wavespell - Lunar Moon 9

It's the end of the Tzolkin, a portal day. Tomorrow the next Tzolkin begins, also a portal. There's a fluidity to this transit different than ending our solar year and celebrating the Day Out of Time. The Tzolkin is not demonstrating evolutionary change as much as marking our creative accomplishment. It is a calendar modeled after gestation in the womb, the most instinctual creation the human body produces. The Tzolkin cycle is a way to celebrate, honor, recreate our own original gestation, and to let the time flow inspire further processes that are life affirming, creative in the vein of Creator, and letting us release something deep within us into the outer world. In the Red Dragon wavespell to come, we see the birth of what was seeded 260 days ago, while simultaneously beginning a new creative endeavor - whatever karmically arises in the next few wavespells - that will come into being another Tzolkin cycle forward. Happy new sacred spin!

8.28.21 - Day 10/13 of the Yellow Star Wavespell - Lunar Moon 5

We are almost to the end of the Yellow Star wavespell, but that climax is overshadowed by the simultaneous ending of the Tzolkin. In a few days we will begin the Red Dragon wavespell and the next 260-day cycle. You are in a metaphysical completion of a gestational phase that began in the last days of the Gregorian year 2020. What started late fall, in mid-December, that is finishing now? How can you feel the sea change of something that has been propelling you, growing from your creativity, coming to an end or decisive shift? Look around at your life - 'good' and 'bad', it's the culmination of the last 260 days. While you were busy with your individual changes, a collective shift has also occurred. Late 2020 we were jovial and optimistic about a 'new year,' goodbye to layers of lockdown and one administration's Machiavellian gestalt. But 260 days later, we've only been pushed farther into spiral of dismay, of a kind of doomsday. And maybe - the silver lining - out of denial.

8.15.21 - Day 10/13 of the Blue Eagle Wavespell - Magnetic Moon 21

We're back to our first Yellow Seed day since the Yellow Electric Seed year began. It's been 20 days since July 26, and throughout this 13 Moon year, every 20 days we'll return to the Yellow Seed tribe, called our 'yearbearer.' Every Yellow Seed day also initiates a new 'vinal' - a 20-day cycle through the tribes that the Maya used to favor over month-like moons as a way to count through their earth year. Wow, what a lot of space age concepts to parse! Think of the Maya dividing the 365-day year into 20-day months, called vinals. Every time it's a Yellow Seed day, a new vinal begins. Every vinal has a poetic, mystical phrasing to describe it - and the one we enter today is 'listens in silence.' The vinal we just ended was the first of the year, 'the one who knows.' So we have the beginning of an odd, lyrical reflection in these two first vinals: the one who knows listens in silence. And that's each of us. We are the ones who are coming to know, and now we must listen. *Please consider buying my colorful Natural Time Handbook if you want to track the vinals and their musings on your own.

8.12.21 - Day 7/13 of the Blue Eagle Wavespell - Magnetic Moon 18

It's a portal day, the last one until our final day of the Tzolkin, Yellow Cosmic Sun. Feel the intensity, the opening that a portal moment offers, and then find yourself in a countdown of sorts as we pass through the 20 tribes one last time this Tzolkin. Finishing a Tzolkin cycle has the same kind of slowed-down enchantment, an exhalation and celebration of the journey that we've been through, as when we complete the 13 Moon year. Take the torpor that's offered, the lightness of spirit that comes from having shed layers in the churning demands of our own growth. The energy of resolution is usually one of slowness and peace, then in a new cycle there is acceleration and the discomfort of an undiscovered path laid before us. So enjoy the relative ease of this wind down, this last slide down the column of our 20 tribal stations.

8.10.21 - Day 5/13 of the Blue Eagle Wavespell - Magnetic Moon 16

Today is my Mayan birthday. Since I'm the voice of Natural Time, I think it's worth disclosing. My perspective, my perseverance for 22 years in the dedication to the Mayan cycles and teaching them publicly is anchored in the disposition of being Blue, and Overtone, and a Storm. It's probably irritating plenty of the time, even alienating, to have to deal with someone who is bossy, who is high energy and turbulent, full of outpouring and less able to receive, situated in the western sky of drawing in the night's darkness. Of course it is also my own form of magic, majesty and enticement that I live as the embodiment of the storm front and the dreamtime and that my energy is designed to empower myself and those I touch: Blue Overtone Storm. It's been 260 days since my ultimate rebirth at age 52, and I am also confident that to share my truth in this passage that describes Mayan transcendence from a life of survival to a life of service, is also important, instructive. We have an ego not to overindulge and turn to arrogance, but to on occasion recognize our own value, the specialized worth of our particular existence. So I celebrate having gifts - infused in me by my karmic astrology and some divinity that designed it - to share with you.

8.8.21 - Day 3/13 of the Blue Eagle Wavespell - Magnetic Moon 14

Blue Eagle is a solution-oriented experience, at best. Because we are so high in our minds, cut off from lower chakras and oriented to an overview perspective, we can see big picture ways through the hardships we encounter. Think of it literally: from above, high in the sky, we can see the way around obstruction that a small creature on the ground could not fathom. They see the mountain, the fallen tree, the waterway that blocks their path; the eagle sees the topography from such a larger perspective that they know the blockage is finite and how to avert it. This reflects how our mind has recognition of our personal history and having been in places of conflict or confinement in the past - that we have gotten around, outdistanced, resolved. And it shows us that now, in this wavespell, like a map: here is the way out or through.

8.5.21 - Day 13/13 of the White Wind Wavespell - Magnetic Moon 11

The White Wind time of abundant talking is finally over. Now we transit to Blue Eagle where if there's any extra sound, it's someone 'holding forth' from the top of their head, analytical and observant but hardly empathetic. Usually, though, Blue Eagle is a quieter contemplative turn, more remote, and the kind of cheerful oversharing with strangers that has been a pleasant part of the last 13 days is unlikely to continue. And also take the last notes on the spirit information White Wind has given you. Some truth came through. Maybe people or activities that are untrue have disappeared. Maybe what things remains, or are underscored, can be seen as 'your truth,' and you can proceed with full embrace of them.