Natural Time

4.14.21 - Day 4/13 of the White Mirror Wavespell * Planetary Moon 11

The White Mirror wavespell has three stations, and we can see ourselves lodge at one or move between them over the course of the 13 days. You could be the priest at the top of the pyramid, performing the ceremony of sacrifice. You could be in the space of the sacrificial victim, the offering - which feels like getting your heart cut out and then the rarified aftermath as you enter heaven. Or you could be the observer at the base of the pyramid, taking in the remarkable view of others engaged in the most demanding human act of orchestrated surrender. All spaces in this triangulated diagram are holy, awesome, operatic. The White Mirror moment ends up being an invitation to grandeur, grit and present-moment aliveness, such that it feels less like terror than divine awakening.

4.11.21 - Day 1/13 of the White Mirror Wavespell * Planetary Moon 8

It's a remarkable moment, the eve of the Natural Time year's 'Galactic Return.' Every April 12th, or Planetary Moon 9, is 260 days after the start of the Mayan year. July 26, 2020 was Blue Lunar Storm and so our year is named - it holds the energy of that day for its entirety. April 12, 2021 is also Blue Lunar Storm, so it's both the birth of something that was conceived on that first day, as well as a microcosmic augury for us to discern what this surrounding year is about for us personally and collectively. I thought it was helpful to be reminded that Blue Lunar Storm lives within the White Mirror wavespell. That gives an additional perspective on why this year has been both challenging and chaotic, relentlessly churning and forcing us to confront both our weaknesses and strengths. It's situated in the time of sacrifice. Sacrifice is a sacred offering, but it also feels like heartbreak and loss. This White Mirror wavespell will at minimum remind us of the truth that when things are torn away from our grasp, we can open ourselves more easily to the god force.

4.7.21 - Day 10/13 of the Red Serpent Wavespell * Planetary Moon 4

Today is a Planetary day in a Planetary Moon - you have an opportunity to feel into that intensified energy field and understand what this tone is about. It's a lot about being here on the planet, not off in disassociative highs that feel like outer space. It's being solid and dense, stuck here without means to fly away or blast off. It's a time of fruition for the whole year's slow build that started last July 26. We are getting to our peak moment of accomplishment and growth and learning in this Blue Lunar Storm year. Take note that April 12 on the Gregorian is called the 'Galactic Return' because it's 260 days from the start of the year. You can anticipate that in 5 days we hit Blue Lunar Storm again and the year's energy is amplified by cycling back to this same point we began from. Lots of layers to follow the portal days we've been plunged through.

4.4.21 - Day 7/13 of the Red Serpent Wavespell * Planetary Moon 1

We will find in this new Planetary Moon a revisitation of 'challenge' that originated in the Lunar Moon last August-September. There is so much that manifests - comes to fruition, peaks and can be accomplished - in the Planetary moment, but it's also when the ceiling on our growth is capped and we feel our karma of being embodied, incarnated on earth. And with that, again, comes challenge. Problems and suffering are one form of challenge, but it's always an invitation to strengthen and grow. In the Planetary tone, we are not going to have a bunch of new challenges/problems/hardships. Instead it's a revisitation of what has been hard this whole year, so for the last 9-10 moons of our lives. The challenge takes our focus as we finally crest beyond it. There it is again, then it's gone.

3.31.21 - Day 3/13 of the Red Serpent Wavespell * Solar Moon 25

The Red Serpent wavespell regresses us to primality - both a pre-industrial bent with appetites for nature, simplicity and solitude as well as being reactive, tetchy like an instinctual wild creature. It's very difficult to process situational complexity right now - and yet our human lives are set up with all that endless, overbearing detail. It takes time, and discomfort, to fully enter the snake phase when we lose our excess limbs, become relegated to lying along the earth, no longer erect humans or birds in flight. As we transit fully into the acceptance that we are reptiles operating from base survival for this passage, we have to suffer the loss of control of what our higher mind usually sorts out and solves for us. Instead we are in our amygdala, scanning for safety and danger, ways to eat and procreate and rest. The portals that characterize this wavespell, day after day, take us deeper into the primitive evolutionary self until we find ourselves at peace with its limitations.

3.28.21 - Day 13/13 of the Yellow Human Wavespell * Solar Moon 22

We are transiting from the Yellow Human wavespell to Red Serpent, readying ourselves for the ten consecutive portal days that start Tuesday. The best approach to every growthful passage of the Tzolkin is to have spaciousness to your life - either from people or commitments or with time in nature - so you can let the intensity diffuse into openness and not bound up plans and complicated situations. As you enter the Red Serpent's instinctual drive and fear-response proclivities, find your grounding to the earth, find the rock you can slide under for refuge. The portals ask us to examine for the last time something we've outgrown, are ready to shed. Be patient with yourself as you face your old skin and slough it off to emerge lithe and sensual once more.

3.22.21 - Day 7/13 of the Yellow Human Wavespell * Solar Moon 16

We are now in the third week of the Solar Moon, situated in the West, where the element is water and our associated emotional changes. It's intense, transformative and a plunge into darkness: the West is colored Blue for the falling night sky. Watch the fast action acceleration and accomplishment of these next few days. Meanwhile, we wend our way through the Yellow Human reckoning, being seated in our species - a home base - instead of allowed to shape shift into other animals and elements represented by the other nineteen tribes. Humans are fallible - 'human error' - and humans exercise free will which seems to be a kind of repudiation of parental divine will, a rebellious streak to resist guidance and go our own way. These are challenging parts of the Yellow Human time. The good news is that humans are great at ideas, innovation and achievement. Inevitably, right now, you are getting something done.

3.14.21 - Day 2/13 of the Yellow Human Wavespell * Solar Moon 11

The Yellow Human wavespell can feel like a relief after the expansiveness and rapid changeability of the Blue Storm. Now we are contained in flesh, not vapor/wind/crackling electricity, now we are right-sized, not outsized. We might feel more comfortable. But Yellow Human is a heavy karma to inhabit. Unless we can align with the Mayan hieroglyph which shows a hollow-eyed face, zombie-esque, dulled with inexpression. Then we might find ourselves more like empty vessels ready to be filled with energy, light. Puppets ready to be orchestrated by divine intent.

3.14.21 - Day 12/13 of the Blue Storm Wavespell * Solar Moon 8

Onward into the Solar Moon of fiery, earned intentionality. We have waited all year to be this prepared in terms of knowing what we want, how we plan to attain it. We burn bright like the sun in showing plainly our desired outcome. Alternately, we are just completing the Blue Storm wavespell where light is lost to dark clouds and deluges of rain. Maybe you got disoriented or oversaturated in the time of the sky's upheaval. Maybe you felt people personifying chaos, exploding under pressure around you. Maybe you were that person who lost control, had to purge tension through anger, upset, grief. The Solar Moon made the Storm faster, stronger, more intense - and there's no prognosis for anything particularly slowing or de-escalating soon. Be brave, be still in your movements as you're carried away by the acceleration underway. All you can do is ride this light-speed ascent.

3.10.21 - Day 8/13 of the Blue Storm Wavespell * Solar Moon 4

It's not easy in the convergence of the Blue Storm wavespell and the outset of the fiery Solar Moon. You might feel tossed into chaos by wind and driving rain (blast of communication conflict and feelings of sadness, grief), while at the same time watching the temperature get hotter, the speed of life's swirl increase to the point of recklessness, loss of control. This is not a time of peace and harmony, except for the strength you can find inside to bear what is challenging you and demanding versions of surrender. I'm not sure when these demands of our resilience will abate - it's hard to see the end of a storm when you're in it. Just know it passes, and the ensuing return to light, clarity feels sweeter for having lost it for a while.