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8.1.21 - Day 9/13 of the White Wind Wavespell - Magnetic Moon 7

There are a couple of pressing questions orienting us to Mayan time right now. If you are having intense experiences, some that seem to surprise you with their arrival out of nowhere, or their undeniable boldness in your life, then you can apply the questions to see if this happenstance is in fact an answer to either of them. For the new Yellow Electric Seed year: How can I best be of service? We shifted a week ago from the constant Lunar drumbeat of What is my challenge?  to this more expansive explorations of service, of getting from 'me' to 'we.' This is welcomed for the whole culture. The Magnetic Moon asks, What is my purpose? and its answer as we can see it indicated means for this whole year. A dense push gets us going, shakes us into awareness of new purpose, specific purpose to play out for the year's duration. So find the conjunction between these two questions. One might be, my purpose is to be of service. If that's true, you'll see clearly how that is being enacted in your life right now, and how it will only grow as the wavespell of the new year progresses.

7.28.21 - Day 5/13 of the White Wind Wavespell - Magnetic Moon 3

The White Wind wavespell has gotten a bit buried by the storyline of a new 13 Moon year, but we can revisit it now the hoopla of the transit between years has abated. And notice that this whole Yellow Electric Seed year is held within the White Wind wavespell. When we consider Yellow Electric Seed, when we live from within its purview, we are seated in the White Wind tribe and its impulses. Truth is one factor of White Wind, and archetypal fatherhood and male aspects of being in the world. The words of the spirit world, or Great Spirit, travel on White Wind's currents and communication, spoken aloud, is one of its manifestations. See what you're saying right now, and hearing. Your words and those around you are iterations of otherworldly influence and direction. And allow the days to be full of chatter, ramblings, connection through conversation. It's how we fill the absence the male archetype brings, ever so busy in an ancient world away from us.

7.25.21 - Day 2/13 of the White Wind Wavespell * Day Out of Time

Today is called the 'Day Out of Time' as a poetic description of being unconnected to any of the 13 Moons. It's neither the furtherance of our recent, final Cosmic Moon or an antecedent of the Magnetic Moon that launches our new year on July 26. It's a day's breath away from the 13 Moon wavespell that is demanding work for all of us who follow its fluid changes. In that way, time stops - no consideration for the purposefulness that tomorrow's Magnetic tone drives, no last grip on the year that was completed in a form of transcendence in the Cosmic time. Like the late night of New Year's Eve in the Gregorian tradition, we're awash in enchantment, finalizing and releasing the past while turning wakefully toward the future. It's a special way to be in connection to the ancient cultures that saw July 26 as the new year - the Maya and Egyptians both - and to feel caught again in the power of any devotion you feel to this modern Mayan movement.

7.21.21 - Day 11/13 of the Red Moon Wavespell * Cosmic Moon 25

Today is the first day of the 'vayeb,' the 5-day period that ushers in the new Mayan year. You can imagine in an earlier time that all went inward and in particular found ways to shepherd out the old year's events and energy. Blue Lunar Storm has been trial by fire, a deluge of grief, an immense shadow-light polarization structure. The darkness was undeniable except for constant flares of conflict. It's ending now. In the Electric year we'll feel the influence and confluence of a higher power than human emotional combat filling in the vast chasms of dissonance we've created. Take time to let go of this intense, historic passage we've endured. The next one won't have fast, easy harmony, but it's building toward acts of service, instead of self-preservation, which will help break this hard cycle.

7.18.21 - Day 8/13 of the Red Moon Wavespell * Cosmic Moon 22

Don't miss the transit this week to the new Mayan year. It's a way of connecting to thousands of ancient souls that had no doubt that this is the time of epic renewal. You can open your day to the energy field, open your mind to something beyond the daily tasks at hand and find the thread to original Mayan belief and celebration. The most obvious action is to reflect upon and release this year that was. When we hit the new year, the new Magnetic Moon, we'll be consumed by the karma we attract, the wind up for a new 13 Moon adventure. But now as the dusk descends on Blue Lunar Moon, we are loose and spacious at the end of this road and can really pay attention to the finishing touch of these next days.

7.14.21 - Day4/13 of the Red Moon Wavespell * Cosmic Moon 18

The Cosmic Moon is pushing us to be one with the cosmos, a natural conclusion to any year's journey of hard work - like an endorphin high from exercise. We are also in relative stillness compared to the action-packed drama of the Blue Lunar Storm siege we've been through, and every wavespell has a variation on this storyline of fast-paced growth that concludes in the Cosmic tone's break from so much active evolution. Enjoy the spaciousness and slowness - just days left before we wind up again and encounter the forceful, fateful blast of the new year's Magnetic tone. The Cosmic Moon holds the typical pace of an open-ended summer season; the Magnetic Moon has the urgency of too much heat, when unscheduled freedom turns to the fretful impulse to get ready for a long, dark winter season. It's harvest time after the final stages of agricultural bloom. So enjoy the bounty of everything you tended to all year, and know that another round of demanding - and illuminating - growth is set to arrive in days.

7.11.21 - Day 1/13 of the Red Moon Wavespell * Cosmic Moon 15

New wavespell in the watery realm of Red Moon - the moon cycles are celebrated along with their influence on the tides and our own liquid bodies. It's also the opposite of Blue Storm, our current year, which means we close out the whole experience of cataclysmic, explosive, tension-releasing anger and sky-crying with water that only wants to seek balance. Nothing explosive about Red Moon, except maybe the vulnerable exhaustion that comes from at times having to reflect so much direct sunlight. So we get to flow into the last phases of the Cosmic Moon and our 13 Moon year's end.

7.7.21 - Day 10/13 of the Yellow Warrior Wavespell * Cosmic Moon 11

We're winding down the Mayan year - only 19 days to go until we begin again. In this last tour through the tribes until we arrive at Yellow Electric Seed on July 26, we can really feel the way the year dissipates, turns to an ether memory, even as we relive its echoes. It's as if our experiences with Blue Lunar Storm - continued conflict, polarization and explosive outbursts - need to be reemphasized right now as we finally turn to the Yellow Seed's ascent. Don't miss out on this uber-Mayan moment - the transition between years is historic and sacred.

7.3.21 - Day 6/13 of the Yellow Warrior Wavespell * Cosmic Moon 7

The Yellow Warrior wavespell turns out to be full of war. That sucks. It's not like we haven't been steeped in polarizing face offs and open enraged conflict this entire Blue Lunar Storm year. So as we enter the Cosmic Moon it's a perfect summation of the year - the final thoughts, the post script - that we would watch ourselves and others be quick to ire, offensive/defensive and inclined toward protecting our hearts with a shield instead of leading with them openly. Endure and Transcend, says the Cosmic tone, in order to experience Presence. Endure the infighting, the backbiting, the survivalist flares of temper as people try to save themselves from increased pressure, encroaching threat. Transcend by seeing the bigger picture surrounding us - climate catastrophes and the usual angles of greed and self-preservation coming from people in power. Where is your place in this human trauma? There is grace to be found. Maybe you have it easily, or you have to forge it daily, reinforce it against the enemy infiltrator, the energy field of destruction. Then you have a space that's calm, inward, safe, so that your present moment is not only fraught, challenged, but also peaceful. Cosmic.

6.28.21 - Day 1/13 of the Yellow Warrior Wavespell * Cosmic Moon 2

Bonus episode: the war is waged, watch your decibels of defense and reactivity. I had to throw another podcast up to reposition myself as this time of war begins. I am naturally inclined toward conflict and excessively defensive posturing, but to be in the homeland of the original archetypal warrior makes me want to be careful, clinical in battle - not flailing, not in full-scale artillery fire. I had someone start a fight with me on this first day and was reminded that people will be inclined that way for now. But there's an opportunity if you follow the Tzolkin calendar to clarify your own draw toward conflict to be the 'right fight' for the cause you care most about. Don't get confused and join every battlefront. Find the actual hill you would die on and see what service you can provide there. The honed in focus on what you care about - to protect, serve and defend - will make you stronger and survive the danger of the war-zone. Plus it's the Cosmic Moon and I can feel it. Sink into the oneness with the cosmos we have earned after a year of growth in our sentient bodies, our life on earth.