6 Crocodile

Nourishment and Flow

Refresh your experience of the ordinary and allow all else to flow organically. Accept the easy cadence of this day, with its gradually unfolding and emerging nourishment.

Today offers nurturing through learning; acceptance of the ever-changing life flow; a slow emergence with a thick viscosity of energy, like the flow of treacle.

Life slowly revolves and returns to experiences, emotional states and environmental atmospheres you have visited before. This time around, you can potentially feel more appreciative.

The day offers satisfaction, as it is both a flowingly structured and a nurturing day. Be prepared to nurture without being possessive or expecting too much from the outcome of your gifts. Receive what life is offering without wanting more.

Enjoy the nourishment of today as a day unto itself; it is a reminder of the value and joy within the existential and the commonplace.

Six days in each timewave are fairly practical. The energy is nicely structured in a flowing manner.

Crocodile days represent, or are resonant with, the primal watery origins of the Earth, the turbulent power of creation held within an embrace. Crocodile is an edgy, instinctive, survival consciousness that belongs to the Goddess who looks after her own. Protective nourishment and sustenance. Base reality, brooding, waiting, stillness – yet with great latent power waiting to be unleashed.

The Six tone allows that energy to flow with a quite matter-of-fact quality.

5 Sun or Flower

The light of your centre shines out from your heart. Open your heart and vitalize your truth with light, prana and subtle energy. Add power to your truth without concerning yourself with mental chatter; get into the feeling. Power up and flower up. Today is about authentic confidence.

A flower is a temporary celebration of the eternal beauty of the soul, both impermanent in form yet representative of timeless truth.

How can we find our essential timeless truth?

We live in a multilayered tapestry of frequencies that can be logged and understood. If you want to see your whole self, write down the feelings as they emerge on a daily basis. The story of your life and the threads that make up the totality of your life become apparent.

Know your own history in order to see the continuity, the strands of energy that flow through your life and how the energy is changing and growing.

Within the process of detailing the personality self and its history, the essential unquantifiable self becomes evident. The true self is behind everything in your life and inherent within everything in your life.

4 Storm

A day of dynamic re-organization. A day of adjustment.

A day with something new in it that challenges you to remain true to your truth, your way of life and your purpose, whilst simultaneously adjusting that truth. The challenge then strengthens your foundation.

We cannot have it all. Life is about choice – not all experiences are appropriate to us, but we adapt where necessary.

Old ideas that do not fit your real self are cleansed out of your system today.

Recalibrate.

Storm is the blood lightening in the body, the activator of the lightbody that seeks to integrate our consciousness of body, mind, soul and spirit. This activation disrupts our patterning. Storm is a power that seeks and demands liberation, bringing drastic change.

Storm days are therefore also the awareness of chaos outside our space of safety, home and emotional sanctum; the chaos of potential total change.

Change is exciting, change is frightening.

Day Four in the timewave is a foundation; energy is held.

The Warrior or Vulture Timewave is strength. Part of that strength is the patience to hold energy, so today we have to contain the electrical energy and allow it to recalibrate, rather than getting fully intoxicated by the thrill of the lightning and its promise of total liberation.

Message from Laurence: Stay conscious, stay centred, have faith in life, intend the benevolent, act upon the more noble, integrity-based impulses you have and be the light we need you to be. Relinquish your life in order to regenerate your life with a new calibration.

I highly recommend that you do some sort of meditation or whatever consciousness practices work for you. Release and reaffirm your life, release negativity and allow your life to reformulate at the template level.

3 Obsidian Mirror

The mind reflects upon its reflection. Be conscious of the temporary nature of thoughts; feel the energy behind the ricochet of thoughts. The mind holds one small piece at a time, seeing just a few degrees of the curve of a sphere – however, 360 degrees of knowledge is required for enlightenment.

See all angles without coming to a conclusion. Enjoy the energy of the intuitive mind.

If you are in tune today, you can be in a state of multifaceted lucidity, as the many faces of a single subject flicker before your awareness.

Here are the essential components of understanding for today:

Three days in each timewave are the days of movement. We might say they are fickle days, restless days, but the energy of Three is momentum, the first essential movement for creation that is closest to Source.

The Obsidian Daykeeper is the Obsidian knife, or flint, derived from the volcanic glass that can be used for surgery – it is sharp enough for that level of precision. Obsidian carries the precision of technology, or the precision of the points of separation between dimensions, and the clarity of the laser that can cut out unhealthy energies from the soul.

Each dimension is an inversion of the last dimension, like a reflection.

Tohil, the deity associated with Obsidian, is called Smoking Mirror.

Obsidian days will reveal shadow aspects of yourself to you. The discomfort is an ally, for you can clear outworn energy from your psyche.

2 Earthmover

The challenge of two dynamic impulses moving in opposite directions – we want this and we want that; give me cake, let me eat it. To develop inner strength we must be able to hold our centre, despite the polarity of our desires, to make sure we do not get pulled apart by our duality.

Or: Two dynamic impulses pulling you in two directions, neither of which you thought you wanted. Synchronize your field and hold the space; just hold.

Or: You manage to successfully accomplish things in two opposing directions that will ultimately synchronize as one.

You might enjoy the power building up within you today, revving up the engine of evolutionary transformation.

Earthmover is movement, the impulse towards integration, so it stimulates the mind to pull everything you have been working on into a unified whole.

However, as today is a Two day, we feel the inherent duality of how we might do that. The practical short-term solution competes with the longer-term, more satisfying endeavour.

Earthmover is also traditionally called ‘Incense’, the Thoughts of Heaven.

Today, if your mind becomes stuck in the polarity, then light incense with intent to release the thoughts into the higher realms. Give them up and allow the solution to be worked out for you.

1 Warrior

Come to stillness, find your centre and set your intention.

Today the Warrior Timewave begins. Thirteen days of truth, strength, holding the centre and defending the enduring wisdom of the ages, learning how to come back to your centre time and time again. Learning to move from your centre, consciously experiencing the inevitable loss of centred-ness as you open to life, and then coming back to centre once more.

The Warrior Timewave asks you and gives you the opportunity to be true to yourself.

Accept the challenge.

Strength of mind is needed and resolve is rewarded. Allow in the beam of light, like a laser; invite in a coherent light source from the top of your head, down through your central column and into the ground.

The overriding message today, and the teaching of the whole timewave is to:
• resist the easy impulse to give into your own whims and those of others;
• come back to your centre;
• be the clear light;
• and notice how other people are naturally attracted to you, once you are in that position.

Stay conscious of your heritage, your ancestors, your spiritual tradition and your base humanness. Be humble enough not to believe that you know the absolute truth.

The challenge for all yogis, meditators, gurus and pandits is to recognize that the super-spiritual-ego is very sneaky. The bliss of a truth based on purity often blinds us to the cosmic humour, our universal human base, our ancestral heritage and all that we are product of.

Real wisdom has a sense of humour and is anchored in the feeling of being a human being, like all human beings.

Message from Laurence: In the spirit of this day, I honour and respect the Mayan people for bringing this calendrical system into the world. I also give thanks to the Mayan spirits and others who have inspired me, taught me, laughed at me and with me, and who continue to guide me on my journey of working with this 260-day count.

What Does It Mean to Be a Warrior?
The full challenge of Warrior (aka Vulture or Owl) is being strong, yet open. Life is often tough; it requires real strength of mind that comes from holding intention, yet also having the ability to constantly adjust.

Strength is both adaptable and resilient. Strength requires a healthy physical foundation and a connection to stillness, nature and spirit. Can we be the authors of our lives and be defenders of truth?

The Warrior Timewave manifests as power (10 Serpent); and requires the commitment of inner security, whilst allowing subtle energies to permeate your psyche (8 Foredawn). The wisdom of Warrior (12 Deer or Hand) is the power and strength of being, to hold a dynamic systemic coherence.

In traditional culture, you get rewarded for being a pleaser. Warrior energy is expressed only as righteous indignation and in defence of the cultural clichés of fixed morality. This is okay.

In the mainstream, you get richly rewarded for being ruthless and connected to larger ruthless groups. The survival-of-the-fittest myth, which includes strategic alliances, is perpetuated. For most people though, a reward of comfort comes through compliance with the cult of the individual, honouring the winners and accepting one’s place. This is okay.

In the new age community, you get rewarded for having some personal expression and for being in agreement with the collective sentiment, with espousing a ‘politically correct’ approach. This is okay.

However, if you want to be a true Warrior and live your purpose, there comes a time when the cultural norms no longer fit, especially as you get older. Embrace the full spectrum of society, but defeat and release that within you which no longer serves you.

The Path of the Warrior eventually requires personal leadership and authorship of one’s own life. This is tough, unless one is incredibly strong within, as there is generally not much support from outside oneself. Draw on the strength of resilient adaptable continuity.

Challenge has to be welcomed and enjoyed, as much as is possible, and decisions must be made fairly swiftly and consciously – and then ACTED upon.

A Warrior is alert.

13 Eagle

Today offers an expanded vision that is one step beyond words or grasp, an expansion of consciousness into a higher perspective. Your imagination expands and diversifies.

After Jaguar’s psychic engagement with the immediate occult environment yesterday, today Eagle sees a bigger picture without such visceral connection, while 13 days are dissipative.

The mind is diffuse, but in a good way, as a wide-spectrum awareness opens the vision. Just relax into it and operate from your inner eye. Accept and allow new images into your being.

Something you have hidden from yourself is revealed; it was hidden in plain sight, staring you in the face all the time.

The vision will be devoid of inhibiting filters today. A great day for a 360-degree sophisticated perception, even if it scattered.

A good day for emotional intelligence, offering a profound understanding of feelings and relationships. Insights may well come thick and fast – often overwhelmingly so, forcing the mind to let go as you surrender to the heart and the heart’s intelligence.

A chance to release the self from limitation and to move into the freedom that is available in your life, exactly as it is. With no apparent change of situation, you find the freedom to be and to live your life freely.

12 Jaguar, Wednesday

The timewave of the Dark Night, the Foredawn or Abyss, reminds us that ultimately, as Ram Dass says, there is nowhere to stand, no place of permanence.

If we are not careful, this information can lead to a sense of nihilism. However, a fuller understanding allows for both an emptiness – the clarity of detachment – and a recognition that we are constantly being asked to choose our life.

All is movement, all is in flux, and therefore we traverse a terrain that requires our alertness and responsiveness.

Understanding yourself as an underworld creature, you prowl with pleasure for you fear no evil. No, not because you are the meanest son-of-a-bitch in the whole damn valley, but because you are a player in the game. 

All systems are switched on, ramping up the alertness of your psychic field as it extends out into the jungle.

A good day for emotionally intelligent instincts as you traverse through shadowy realms, feeling empowered and vital, present in the game of life.

Also, today you can become conscious of the different spaces you inhabit: Your house, the different rooms and your urban locality, as well as your head- and emotional-space. Each space has a specific function and feel and enables a specific experience.

Move consciously through the different doorways that would normally be traversed. Become conscious of each separate space today.

Power and the Benevolent Path
What is power? Power is the energy of the collective consciousness and the environment, which expands by degree into eternity and infinity. Power cannot be owned by an individual, it can only be used.

If an individual tries to own power, then it will destroy them. By its very nature, power cannot be contained. One person is too small a vehicle for the power. Power is energy – always moving, growing and expanding. We can use or borrow power, but only to pass it on.

As sovereign beings, we can be conduits for power, so that we may empower others.

11 Skywalker, Tuesday

Tune into the Mayan energy today and the open doors. The doors between the Heavens, Earth and the essence of Nature are accessible today. The doors can be seen and the doors are open.

Moving up and down reality, we modify and adapt what comes into our soul, home and sanctuary.

Today doors to the sky open up. Great beings are looking down from beyond at your life and you might be looking up at them.

Or: You have your spacesuit on and are hopping through multidimensional realms.

Today is a day of exploration of ideas. Let part of the mind go into free-fall – or, should we say, free-rise and free association. Expand your mind; consider more for your life.

Do not seek easy conclusions today. Just follow the inspiration up and down the scale from Earth to Heaven, so as to open the Stargate, the portal between the abstract and practical or the mind-body connective tunnel. There will be some natural integration within yourself from this movement of mind.
 
Allow for a split-screen perspective and some detachment from the mundane.

However, as with all Skywalker (aka Reed) days, we are asked to give thanks for our home, family and food. Though the mind wants to roam free, we also have to accommodate the practicals.

Be strong enough to follow the inspiration, whilst flexible enough to recognize your role within the community.

The dissonant distractions that interrupt your thinking will be the open doors and will actually allow you to receive higher truths.

What adjustment is being made today within your psyche?

This is also a good day for prayers of gratitude that ensure our future lives on Earth.

10 Long Good Road, Monday

Today challenges old concepts of reality. Are you able to explore the edge of what we call reality? Can you keep your awareness open to experience the dreamscape that saturates the world?

Today show us the merging of subjective and objective realities, where imagination and physics meet. 

A tangible sense of solidity based on emptiness, as in, your being-ness is the cup or container for consciousness; the abundance of not wanting for ‘Ye shall not want’; the abundance of not clinging or demanding, for ‘Ye are the chalice and the road ahead is expectancy’.

A good day to recognize that all human experience, through all stages of consciousness and all human endeavour, is of itself inherently good for those having the experience. All is good and all is empty, in the Buddhist sense.

Although we know that there are consequences to everything, and that purely selfish pleasures—especially of the extreme kind—are destructive to other people, we can recognize that everything that everyone does is motivated by enjoyment.

Enjoyment evolves as we evolve.

Today is a day when we can access the transcendental amorality of all desires, not so that we give permission to the dark, vile and destructive self-serving actions that take place, but merely to expand our perception and acceptance to become more open to what life actually is.

A day where we let go of battling so as to become more open and trusting of life and of the inherent divinity in all life.

This expansive opening of the psyche brings more benevolence, abundance and community connection into our world.

Acceptance overcomes struggle and light dissolves darkness.

The deep heartfelt acceptance of what is enables the good, the true and the beautiful to supersede the bad, the false and the ugly.

For what is life when viewed from 10 Long Good Road, Grass or Human? It is the ever-expanding journey of life from the lesser to the greater, the ever-expanding discovery of more, the ever-expanding increase in the enjoyment of life by Life.

9 Monkey, Sunday

Monkey trickster wakes up to the dirty games of the world and human nature, but with his edgy humour we are challenged not to take the tricks too seriously.

Life is an Enchantment; existence materializes through stories. The illusion is the idea of permanence as we experience god’s dream as it passes through us.

Today, retrieve any Monkey energy that has slipped away in recent years. Access your creatively wickedly funny yet conscious self.

Call upon the soul to recall your creative spirit, your playful yet resilient self that enlivens and stimulates, and which can craft a life of joy and vibrancy with whatever is at hand.

Monkey is the weaver of time and, on Day 9, can create a story worth living.

A good day to read Carlos Castaneda.

8 Dog, Saturday

Today is a day for commitment to your relationships and your own emotional needs and boundaries. 

Being an 8 day, this energy will follow on from the previous timewave, which was the Dog Timewave, as you accept the commitment you received during that 13-day timewave.

Define your territory in the universe and defend it if necessary. Be true to your own needs. Commit to the guidance you receive and the guidance you offer.

The vastness of the Cosmos requires us to create an enclosure, a home, a structure – the expanse of eternity and infinity would swallow us if we did not define a territory.

Territory is an emotional space filled with those you love and its walls are walls of thought, belief and understanding.

By understanding territory and the different scales of space, as well as the borders, boundaries and gateways, we can connect to other realms. The Cosmos is unified in essence, but – in experience – it is full of separations. We need to recognize the separations and define the boundaries between any given space, domain or realm before we can connect to it properly.

This in turns allows us to locate the empty space, our inner sanctum, a place full of potential.

7 Water, Friday

A powerful day for evocative feeling, a visceral divine memory; something you tangibly feel without actually being physically in the experience.

Today, 7 Water or Moon, your whole state of mind will be in deep resonance with your emotional body and the various frequencies and issues that are being held within it. Today will provide you with the full gamut of your feelings, from discomfort to joy.

Allow your feelings to flow and you will move through any difficulties to a place more enriching and soul-connected.

Water is analogous to soul, feelings and emotions. We cleanse and clear our emotions by letting them flow. We pour out our pains in order to go deeper and to find gratitude for our life, which then leads us to reconnect with the Source.

The emptying of our feelings to the best of our abilities today creates the clear water of the soul that then allows the light to shine through us with less distortion.

The lower emotions are the past, recycling themselves.

The outflow of feelings, if undertaken consciously, clears our stories. We can also choose to erase at least some of our personal history today, so that we are more awake and alert in the present.

6 Rabbit, Thursday

A day that is flowing and moving with abundance and light.

Be the dance. Aesthetics and rhythm.

The energy of today is dissipative; it will unlock blocks in your energy field and get your energy moving.

An orderly outpouring of expression that leads to a gentle implosion that penetrates the fabric of your reality.

This timewave, Foredawn or Dark Night, is the timewave that creates a new space, a new womb. Today, 6 Rabbit or Star, we can connect to the expansion or expenditure of light. The Star must spend its energy before it implodes into a black hole/white hole.

The black hole/white hole is the portal or wormhole to another level of creation.

Quite simply, today means allowing yourself to express the stream of ideas and imaginings and to put out your creative expression as part of the process of emptying.

You might also find you are moving through your personal menu of pleasure, addictive habits and attractions to the glamour and allures of the shiny, glossy surface of the world.

5 Deer, Wednesday

The fifth day of each timewave is the day where the power is stepped up and your intention for the timewave is transmitted, whereas the fourth day is a foundation day, where an intention, plan or idea is formed (or is forming) as a set of components. Day 5 is when you then bring all of the elements together, simultaneously emanating that energy and consciousness.

Deer (also known as Hand or Grasp) also has great power through its capacity to operate in all dimensions in all manner of ways. But Deer has to learn not to try to do too much, to hold too much or to utilize too many techniques or options.

Today, be in your centre, yet stay connected to the peripheral reality. Feel the energy that breaks in the external world you are traversing. Hold the centre gently and feel the circling energies from the external environment.

Today is a good day to see the world through your shamanic eyes. The future requires a greater synthesis of consciousness from us between our modern selves and our archaic body selves. Today is a good day to feel connected to the aliveness of all that surrounds us, in all directions.

Tune into the centre, the subtle and ungraspable energy; feel it without trying to define it or own it.

Tools, like the computer or a smartphone, are useful – but remember they are just tools. You might want to use the search engine on the net as an extension of your intuition today; feel into the energy emanating from yourself and google it.

The internet is a training tool for our natural psychic sensitivity. If it were to become restricted as a medium of free speech, then we would naturally find that our connection to the Noosphere becomes more readily available.

Today, you can attune to the fundamental substance of reality, which is pure empty consciousness. However, it is slippery – you can understand it through receiving it, you can be a conduit for it, but you cannot ‘have’ it or frame it. Allow and navigate with a loose grip and a disciplined sensitivity.

Today, hold the truth that your body is the ultimate tool in this world, programmed to self-heal and regenerate if you align with the innate life force and energy field.

4 Skull, Tuesday

Do stuff that needs to be done. This is a foundation day.

Secure the space, with a bit of repair, maintenance and mundane tasks of preparation.

To create a fertile space, as we are doing in this timewave, requires you to create some walls around the space. Set some parameters today; shape your boundaries, find the edges, define the separations. Schedule some things in order to create empty moments.

A foundation day for sudden change at some point in the future.

Today is a good day for internal clarity, a clear unsentimental acceptance and perspective on your old self. As ever on Skull days, cut to the bone where it is appropriate. Set boundaries.

A great day for laying pristine foundations in your psyche.

A good day to be real, as they say, which means to temporarily cut out conjecture and sentiment, not for all time, but certainly for today. Enjoy a sense of freedom from your wants and separate the chaff from the wheat.

Message from Laurence: With shamanism, most people want the fireworks, the big experience, and see the preparation as boring. However, once you start to see the results of good preparation, you become more wiling to do the little things, the mundane cleansing and the small and simple evocations.

3 Serpent, Monday

The life force is stirring. Today is about the movement of energy and the dynamics of power; the shifting nature of power and who has power.

Day Three is always somewhat restless and when it comes to power we have to watch the ego, especially when living with access to spirit. Frustration can lead to desperation and then the dark side, if we compare our successes to those of others. Stay true to yourself. Do not compare your life to external images of success.

Stay with the life force...

You may feel vitalized and sexy, without having a direction or place to act out your desire. It is just a day to feel the life force stirring. Venom and anger can change into soma and higher consciousness; poison can be used for healing.

See how energy changes. Feel that subtle point where pure primal desire can be used for any endeavour as the energy shifts and turns.

The higher expression of Serpent transcends survival-fear – as well as the flip side of this primal fear, which is the urge to have power over others – and manifests as the ability to rejuvenate the body.

The body will indicate the path of rejuvenation today, so listen carefully.

2 Lizard (Seed)

Today we see the inherent duality of our intentions and evolutionary impulses. We want two different realities simultaneously.

One intention is safe. The other is more risky. Both come with a consequence. What is the cost of each and which one are you prepared to pay?

The question then might be, ‘But I cannot choose! Is there not some resolution of this paradox available?’

The result of this energy is that we might have moments of complete inertia. The best thing to do is to hold both intentions and to feel the differences. The tension will create some energy for tomorrow and you will benefit from being conscious of your duplicity today. Tomorrow brings forward momentum in the shape of vitality.

Or: We might see the two opportunities sprouting from the same junction. These are the bifurcating potentials of reality, akin to the growth of a plant as it sprouts new stems.

Life is abundant. To live in abundance, we need intentionality and grace, so as not to be overwhelmed. Make choices – but hold those choices lightly.

I remind you that the energy of this timewave is to allow some empty space of mystery to develop; to create a fecund space within the psyche. Face the shadow with an attitude devoid of solution-orientated logic. Open up your energy to the mystery and embrace the feeling of expectation.

Consciousness reflects upon itself. This is the movement of consciousness; the movement of consciousness is what we know as Time and Space.

The question you may ask concerning a resolution of the paradox should be held for now as a question. Allow the polarity to exist.

1 Foredawn, Saturday

Today, 1 Foredawn (also known as Dark House, Dark Night, or In the House: Akbal), begins a new 13-day timewave, one which asks you to enter the crack between the worlds.

The Foredawn Daykeeper is the cave, the bat, the house, the moment before sunrise and the gap between dark and light on the horizon (and also, to some extent, just after sunset). It is the dream world, the surreal, the womb, the abyss, the portal, the wormhole and, ultimately, inner security and psychic protection.

How do we approach the next 13 days?

Find your inner security, evoke psychic protections that allow you to filter and work with incoming subtle energies, and open up some time and space in your life.

The world is full of social compartments, walled off by fragile belief systems that are transparently illusory. The challenge of discarding consensual agreements and stepping into a space of personal truth is hard, but the task is to be honoured – it is a challenge, yes, but one must leave the fakery behind now. The time has come...

The world has never been more surreal; the security it is offering is false. The mass mind is scrambling for solidity in a landscape of passing shadows and projections.

In this timewave, be in the space between spaces and find the security you need within yourself.

Today, 1 Foredawn, make space in your life for the new to enter. Stay with an edge of uncertainty and embrace the intangible energy that exists between time and space, action and inactivity, light and dark.

13 Wind, Friday

The Dog Timewave of companionship and guidance releases its form today and is converted into information; emotion is transmuted into data. The whole feeling of this timewave is harvested and fed back into the matrix.

A day where you flit from one thing to another, from one person to another – texting, facebooking, emailing.

Message the world.

Alternatively: You write up your recent experiences, you convert experience into information – a story, a report or a even a statistical analysis.

Or, you release yourself from the internet, from writing and communicating, feeling emotionally free. In doing so, you are allowing your subconscious to receive new data from involvement with random activities.

Take time off from the internet today. You will still feel the need to do many different activities or things, but allow yourself to release all activity every so often.

Wait until you are impelled to do something useful.