4 Deer (Hand, Grasp)

Photo-collage of Laurence by the fabulously talented Kit Yeung
Photo credit: Kit Yeung (kityeung.art@gmail.com)

Today, open your proverbial palm and see what you are holding. Anything that we desire too strongly would not actually satisfy us or make us happy. Grasping brings anxiety and inner torment; in the extreme, grasping creates hell and the hellish moments of life.
 

Illustration of the structure of Hell according to Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy,
by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1485).
According to Carl Gustav Jung, hell represents, among every culture,
the disturbing aspect of the collective unconscious. [image from Wikipedia]

Happiness is the true acknowledgement of what we have. Having-ness is a joy.

The Deer is powerful yet graceful and somewhat elusive. The refined consciousness of Deer requires both male and female aspects of our psyche. Embody the grace, stillness and silence of the Deer.

Today – being a 4 Day and therefore a foundation day, as well as being Deer/Hand/Grasp – is a day to seize the moment, to develop ideas or plans and to go the next step, without necessarily knowing the outcome. Take the next step then leave it at that for now.

Hold something, without grasping; exercise some control; achieve something, then let go.

Do not overrun...

Spirit of the Forest by Zariel Charoitite, from here

3 Skull

Day 3 of each timewave is generally energizing, while Skull rules completions and endings.

Today is a good day to make many small decisions. Be ruthless if necessary. Get real.

Three skulls, by Joern Zimmermann, UI Designer/3D artist Image from here

Be energized with the vitality of this day through those little completions. Cut off and restart; clarify your life through the ability to release clutter and distractions.

Keep it simple.

Edit your life.

Get to the point.

Sweet Release. Uncredited image from Google

2 Serpent

The second day of each timewave presents the duality that exists within that specific timewave. Serpent days in general concern physical vitality, amongst other things.

Double-headed serpent, Aztec figurine from Mexico (A.D. 1400-1600),
made of about 2,000 small pieces of turquoise set on a curved wooden frame, from here

The challenges of survival and making a living can come to the fore today – the issues of health versus money.

Today can be a challenging day, or just a day of opposites. 2 Serpent represents the dual impulses of the life force inherent within all growth – security versus the urge to grow.
 

An unnamed painting by Laurence,
placed on a background and played with in Photoshop by me
It just felt appropriate for today

Allow the two forces to be. Feel the creative tension that builds as this is your power, which you will soon be able to harness.

If you feel tense, be sure to get into the body today. Move and dance.

Liam Scarlett’s Serpent. Photo: Michele Mossop from here

To be aware is to bring the light of awareness into the world. Hold the polarities within you; see both sides of the potentiality; and get in touch with your body and your instinctive power, for that is the intelligence of survival.

Image from Pinterest

1 Lizard (Seed)

A new 13-day timewave, that of Lizard or Seed (Kan), begins today.

Sterculia (tropical chestnut), with its many seeds.
Apparently named after Sterculius, the Roman God of Manure,
for the delightful aroma of its flowers! (Photo by Carey)

The Lizard or Seed Timewave gives you the opportunity to be centred in your essential template, which is the subtle manifest form of your divine essence as expressed in this life. Your template holds the basic intention for your life, your dharma and the structure within which your free will operates. Your intentions for different aspects of your life are the seeds that you generate within your mind and imagination. The more aligned you are with your master template, the more effective your intentions are.

Lizards enjoy the abundance of the Sun. They are masters at storing the Sun’s energy, just like the seed does. Seed is the living example of universal abundance. Every seed contains a life; every living thing produces seeds in outrageous amounts. Nature does not adhere to ‘one plus one equals two’ – the totality of life is not just the sum of its parts, but an ever-expanding proliferation of life.

Iguana in the ruins at Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, Mexico. January 2005,
photo by Bob Metzler, from here

Absorb the light of the Sun consciously today to enhance your awareness of your divine intelligence. Recognize that light carries the seed for all manifest form –  light is intelligent – and by so doing, you increase your connection to your master template.

This 13-day timewave gives you the opportunity to plant many seeds for your life.

Today, just start with the simplicity of recognizing that there is a template of your being and for your life.
 

'Sterculia', with the very kind permission of
the multitalented Daniel Clarke, on Daniel's Daily Drawings

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 1 Lizard/Seed:]
The Seed (aka Lizard) Daykeeper is a community networker, as each seed is both separate unto itself, yet embodies the morphogenic field to which it belongs.

Today, connect to your resonant energy fields, for they extend beyond the limits of your mind. Human intentions only grow and fully flower in the fecundity of community. 

'Morphogenetic field, Dom Perignon 1990',
by artist photographer Seb Janiak, 2016
Image from here

In this 13-day period, we can connect to the underlying intelligence of this momentous period of the human story – the cyclic change of the 2012 era and beyond. Trust your sense of how life is changing; trust your insights. Your direct experiential knowledge will give you a facet of the truth – not the whole truth, but a facet of the truth.

This is extremely valuable, so make the effort to connect and understand what it is you are being given, without presuming it to be the absolute definition.

Tai Peng Community Garden, Lamma Island

13 Foredawn (Dark House, In the House, Dark Night)

Cosmic Awe, created by Carey

Let go and jump into the mystery; open yourself to go beyond what you know. The energy of today is conducive to creating space in your life for the renewed clarity of intention that will be emerging during the next timewave.

A great day for contemplating the stars and the cosmos and feeling the bliss and awe that comes when you allow yourself to reach out into the unknown.

The Monkey Timewave ends with cosmic awe. Monkey draws upon this experiential truth to retain his humour and spontaneity.
 

Uncredited image from Google

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 13 Foredawn:]
Today, it could feel that your mind is wandering, as if the furniture of your psyche is being shifted around.

Also, you might feel like you are locked inside your own psychological complexity, unable to function clearly or even leave the house.

If this is the case, remember: Behind the veil of the mind, energy is being adjusted as a new space is being prepared. Tomorrow (1 Lizard/Seed) will feel far more together and coherent.

 Base image from Virginia Air & Space Center, NASA Langley Visitor Centre,
then augmented with various layers and overlays using Photoshop

Today the Monkey Timewave disintegrates and releases its energy. So let go, maybe celebrate the mystery of life… The meaning of yesterday now dissipates, so in the release you create space. Be empty and enjoy the freedom of that. The darkness of the night sky breeds anticipation.

The wisdom of slackers, the surrender of the mystic, the muse of the dreamers are all in operation as you explore the extraordinary potentials of your life.

Create a space, for tomorrow you plant a seed that can grow before your eyes... it might just be miraculous...

12 Wind

Today, the Monkey Timewave reveals its order and rationality. When Wind falls on a 12 day, it is more stable; the mind works in an orderly fashion. The trickster element within your life reveals its wisdom in a way that makes sense – if you are listening.

Created by Carey

Wind is the transmitter of ideas, the messenger, the activator. It can also be impatient, anxious or angry.

Today, harness the power of Wind and bring it under the control of your reasoning. This will allow you access to exciting and fresh ideas that motivate yourself and others.
 

'The Neverending Dreamer' by Cameron Gray, from here

Today is a good day for understanding the chaos that has recently arisen in your life and how it has brought you gifts.

Gifts, wrapped by Carey and Laurence

11 Crocodile

Today we are asked to nurture our creations by allowing for fallow time.

The Virgin and Infant, by Jean Fouquet, 1450
Image from Google

The strong confidence of yesterday’s light dissolves into a brooding need to have some soulful security, to slow down and to open to the feminine.

Allow more into your area of love; it is a day of acceptance and nurturing.

Nutrients from Arcadia flow into your psyche and you can share the love.

Probably my favourite Renaissance painting, The Birth of Venus (mid 1480s)
by Sandro Botticelli, in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Public Domain image, this version from Google Art Project via Wikipedia Commons

The primal birth of the Earth, the Goddess realm, resonates through the ethers as the door opens to the ever-present birth of Earth.

The question is: Are you still being nurtured by what you think is feeding you?

Are your expressions and is your creativity nurturing you?

Also, are you allowing yourself enough space in between your activities for the primal connection to Source to be felt?

Make sure that you are not becoming a robot. Allow for the ever-present primal energy of the Goddess to enter your life.

Nurturing Monkey
Sacred Monkey Forest, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
Photo by Carey

10 Flower (Sun, Lord)

A day of manifest light. The Monkey Timewave manifests as the light within the trickster, which is humour with grace and the radiance of the heart opening.

When the face is lit up with a smile, the light of the Sun can be seen.

Today is all about smiling.
 

Smiling Flowers
Free wallpaper image from here

That does not necessarily mean grinning with recognition at everyone you pass in town today – it could be a song or a dance that brings a deep smile to your face.

Smile with the recognition of your divinity and the blessing of being sovereign of your personal reality. Be conscious of natural light today. Today is a day when the subtle creative light of existence – the wholly affirmative energy within life – manifests and is easily accessible through the agency of natural manifest light.

Created by Carey

Monkey tells us that life is drama, full of dark humour, paradox and trickery, and that the key to playing the game successfully with a positive attitude requires that we draw upon the light.

The Divine Light contains the intelligence of existence and we are processors of light. The intelligence of all life far surpasses the intelligence of any machine or technology, no matter how advanced it becomes. In psychology, the computer metaphor has gradually replaced the study of the soul. This metaphor for the human mind (replacing soul) is known as the cognitive approach. We are indeed partially cognitive – that is, information processors – but the internet is already more efficient than any human for accessing all of the information of human knowledge, no matter how bright the individual. 

Thank you so much to Roberta Raine for this beautiful photo

So are we to surrender our divinity to the machine?

No, because the Divine Light contains the intelligence of life, which includes far more than information – it is imbued with the ability of unlimited creativity. We are co-creators, far more than we are information processors; co-creators who are interconnected to the unlimited adaptability, spontaneity and joy of creation itself.

In today’s world, as the technological continues to progress, it is increasingly true that our connection to our sovereign light, our creative channel, is the most valuable commodity we own.

Today, bring more light into your being by smiling.

Lamma sunsets make us smile!
Thank you so much to Karen Argyle for the light and the smile and the gorgeous photo

9 Storm

[ New Moon today, plus Partial Solar Eclipse: see below for more details]

The shaft of light then enters the drama, a window of awareness into the completion of the cycle and the new space being offered…

Shaft of Light
Photo taken by me from 'Secret Rock' overlooking Yung Shue Wan

The Mayan Sacred Calendar measures a different but ever-present realm; it is the layer of the tapestry of reality that connects the Earth, Nature and the Human World with the greater Cosmos. This day, 9 Storm, is a wake-up day.

A day of realization. Not a rational understanding, but a soul-felt liberating connection, a memory from the future. A reminder that you were meant to drop that ‘thing’ you had already planned to let go of, or to break out of ‘this’, or to wake up from ‘that’.
 

Free wallpaper image from here

A sudden bolt of lightening acts to cleanse, purge, purify and catalyse you. This could include meeting some strange but familiar person.

A good day to feel the Spirit of Freedom that lives within you.

9 Storm is a day to be alert to a peak experience, as a hole in time opens up in the most unexpected place and in the most unexpected moment.

View from the Waterfront Restaurant on Lamma
where Laurence and I sometimes went for special-occasion sunset dinners

[New Moon: exact time 09.57 UTC/GMT (10.46 BST); 17:58 HK time. Plus there is a partial eclipse of the Sun – maximum eclipse at 9.46am UTC/GMT (10.46am BST), 17.46 HK time. ''This partial solar eclipse will be visible from northern and eastern Europe, northern parts of North America, and some northern and western locations in Asia, making it the most watched solar eclipse of 2018, weather permitting, of course', but not visible to us in HK. Click on this link for more details.]

Image from Google

8 Obsidian (Obsidian Mirror, Flint)

Energy moving towards manifestation.

Committing to the Game of Life requires accepting the totality that results from your desires – which includes living with the shadow of what you want. However, the price is never as high as it might seem. The shadow is a scary spectre that dissolves with the light of your courage as you open up to new dimensions.

Created by Carey
using a number of different images found on Google and remixed

‘Mirror, mirror on the wall: Who am I?’

Today is a day where you can recognize how you are attracting what you ask for. You have the life that reflects the totality of your emanations – what you put out – and you are challenged to commit to accepting that, to seeing the shadow and the price of your desires. However, looking deeper into the smoky mirror of eternity, you will find that other worlds open up as you make the commitment.
 

A Sulawesi black monkey checking himself out in the mirror
by photographer Ronny Buol (Image: Caters)
Tangkoko conservation area, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Image from here

Day 8 of each 13-day timewave is a day of balanced, controlled commitment; it is the energy of feeling prepared. Obsidian is a day of truth and surrender, of accepting the shadow and the universal reflection of one’s reality at the moment.

However, as we are in the Monkey Timewave, there is a subtext of ‘Do not get too serious or rigid with your commitment.’

Surrender your emotional tightness so as to open the heart and be a divine mirror.

Created by Carey
using detail from The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck as the central image.
Public domain, from here

The Monkey knows that on each level of the game, he faces his shadow.

In so doing, he is able to create and to weave new fabric into reality.

John William Waterhouse: Mariana in the South, circa 1897
(from Wikimedia Commons)

7 Earthmover

 A good day to feel a resonance or actually synchronize with the impulse of life to change towards the beneficial and the magnificent. 7 Earthmover is a high-energy day, full of magical potential.

Beautiful fractal art by Italian designer Silvia Cordedda, from here

Take time to remind yourself and to create some space, to experience the fact that all of Nature is alive, just like you. Feel the vital fizz of life; see it all around you.
 

Shrooms by John Shannon, from here

Alternatively, a day to enjoy the magical surprise of a spontaneous element that comes into your life which takes you off track – meaning off the linear path of linear mind, so that you can integrate and synchronize with the force of evolution.

Life has an intelligence beyond our personal and immediate understanding.

What gift is here for you today?

Created by Carey

'Nature is alive and talking to us. This is not a metaphor.'
Terrence McKenna

Quote from here

6 Vulture (Warrior, Owl, Turkey)

Created by Carey

Flowing strength, clear harmonics, relaxed and moving with the ebb and flow...

To be a Daykeeper means to follow the rhythm of the 260-day calendar each and every day. Slowly, patiently, receive the pulse of the vast reality beyond the mundane realm of worldly matters. 

Cosmos, A Spacetime Odyssey by Neil Degrasse Tyson
A free HD wallpaper, from here

The pulse resonates at the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere where our planet is looking out into the depths of the Cosmic Ocean. Simultaneously, this pulsation is immanent within all material concerns.

Dame Margot Fonteyn,
assuming a relaxed stance at a window, in Granada, Spain.
Image found on Pinterest. (Photo by Baron/Getty Images)

Today is a day of receptive, responsive action and surrender, with an easy strength of mind. Assume a relaxed stance and be ready to respond with nobility and creativity.

Wisdom unfurling...

Image from here

5 Eagle

A great day to see yourself in the centre of your world. See the environment all around you, above you and below you.

The difference between being isolated and dislocated from all that circles you, and being connected and engaged with your world is whether the heart is open. 

Created by Carey

Keeping the heart open requires an enormous effort and diligence in the world today, for we also have to be discerning about what and who we open up to. Utilize the clarity, compassion and precision of the Eagle to locate the most appropriate place in your world today and then apply your efforts there.

Created by Carey
using various uncredited images from Google and layers

A day of empowerment. Speak from your vision, because the vision you have today is nicely centred and you are able to recognize the joy of material reality whilst holding the wisdom you have accrued. 

Image copyright Julia Watkins from here

Empower yourself with the Eagle energy today and you will attract more abundance into your life – if not today, then soon.

The clarity you have today needs to be appreciated and recognized for its magnetic ability.

Laurence James Lucas, more than anyone else I have ever met,
had an extraordinary ability to keep his heart always open.
Today, which happens to be my Mayan birthday, and every day,
I call upon his Spirit to help me by imbuing me with some of his clarity, his compassion,
his breathtaking depth of vision, his irrepressible joy in life, his refined discernment,
his unique capacity to empower those around him, his wisdom, his humour and his contagious laughter.

4 Jaguar

A good day to feel grounded within the matrix of the living spirits of the Shamanic Earth. Allow the energy and vibrancy of the natural forces to lead you. 

LjL grounding himself with shamanic seaweed and pebbles of power

The creative process is a lateral process; the foundation of its energy is derived from the Mystery and the Muses.
 

Fabulous image by Melissa Nichols from here

The Shamanic World is fully inhabited by spirits, all vying to contribute to the open channel of your psyche as you endeavour to express the moment and your state of being, whether by painting, writing, dancing or solving problems.

Today, stay relaxed so as to be alert to the relevant moments when you can achieve something. Do not try to work hard all day on something. Do not labour your projects.

LjL's love of paint

Today you can create some structure in your work fairly spontaneously, but do not overrun. Know when to stop and just chill.

Accept what is and recognize the ongoing dramas, struggles and duality of life that you encounter as part of the terrain and experience. It is what it is.

Uncredited image from Google