12 Monkey (New Moon 11:47 GMT/UTC; 19:48 HK time)

Our good friend Garrick Cheng, by Kit Yeung.
Is he working? Playing? Having fun? Or finding a highly creative solution to something?

Light creates all and today you can understand that light creates shadow – even darkness comes from light.

Play-work-vocation-fun-drama all seem so interlinked on 12 Monkey.

Novelty enlightens you today, so follow your curiosity and see what you can craft from what you find.
 
Sometimes you have to work hard to have fun. For some of us, fun comes from ‘serious’ issues – fun arises spontaneously – while some things that the world says are fun can feel like hard work.

LjL having fun while researching serious subjects,
in the midst of moving chaos.
Photo thanks to our dear friend Annie Knibb

In the Flower/Sun/Lord Timewave, Day 12 is Monkey, giving us the understanding that the creative power of light is inherently filled with novel, fun, tricky and spontaneous energy.

The light that radiates from the Sun is not merely inert photons – it is real energy, energy that is vastly intelligent and a little wild. It is wild in as much as it has a potent volatile creativity, since it interacts with living organisms (be those planets or individual humans) and it responds to the inbuilt directives of that organism.

These directives are the totality of the cacophony of desires, needs and impulses springing from the multiple levels of the bio-psychic organism.

Today is a good day to come up with highly creative solutions to major challenges.

Macro-photo of trichomes by Frank Fox, from here

11 Dog

Chocolate at Secret Rock, inviting us in

Let Someone In
What was solidifying yesterday becomes more transparent today. So, for example, if you were feeling stodgy and stuck within yourself yesterday, today a door opens to lead you into another emotional space that is more relational and more resonant with those around you.

Allow someone into your emotional space.

Alternatively and/or simultaneously, your relationship patterns with friends, lover or family turn inside out and offer you another perspective, not only on your relationships but on the whole sphere of community, connection and relating.

The sovereignty of self grows today through the adaptive ability of the basic emotions and common needs we all have for the company of others. A good day to modify your needs or feelings.

Day 11 of each timewave always feels like doors are opening after the solidity of Day 10.
 

 Variation de la Victoire, by René Magritte (1898-1967), 1965

[Extra message from Laurence, posted on 11 Dog of 25 March 2016:]
Today I was blown away by a photograph (below) and some kind words that appeared on my facebook wall.
 

Artist Kit Yeung and her partner Garrick Cheng, who is a Holospheric Astrologer, are good friends and a very talented couple.

Please forgive me but I want to post what Kit said...

‘He always sees from a different perspective which I never thought of. He brought me to a different world where I discovered my inner substance and true potential. He enjoys being in nature and connects deeply to it. His mind is free, like birds flying in the limitless sky. The most important thing is … he teaches me to “BE ME”.’ 

- Artwork and words by Hong Kong artist and photographer Kit Yeung

10 Water (Moon)

Image from here, but unfortunately not credited to the artist

A day when your recent feelings solidify into a cohesive unified whole. Feel the complex array of feelings and recognize that through the agency of feeling, your spirit becomes real.

Day 10 of every timewave is the day when that timewave manifests into form. It is the day when the consciousness of the timewave – its particular Earth–Galactic signature – comes into solidity. The Flower (Sun, Lord) Timewave, which is the energy of spiritual light and sovereignty, manifests today as the soul.

Feel the soul as a tangible form today.

The manifestation of the timewave also means that the implicit challenge of the timewave is felt. The challenge and the manifest realization of Flower – the divine sovereign self – is in the subtle feeling body.

You do not get the fully reasoned understanding today, as that integrated understanding is always reserved for Day 12; however, you do have the opportunity to acknowledge the manifestation. In the case of the Flower Timewave, the way the subtle pranic light moves into density is the formation of our sophisticated, extraordinary and wide-spectrum feeling nature.

If you feel heavy today, process and lighten the emotional body with physical activity outdoors in nature. Set your intent to clear and cleanse; find the gratitude after owning the dark emotions.

'I Am Love', painting by Robby Donaghey, from Google images

‘The ability to hold Light is directly proportional to the courage to see darkness. Choosing to see just one creates distortions and illusions. It amazes me that something so simple and common sense can be so difficult to even discuss with “spiritual” people who insist on remaining “positive”. Actually, this avoidance is based on unacknowledged fear that their inner light might be somewhat “dispersed” by seeing darkness and therefore not giving the light much credit at all.

‘I think there’s also fear that they might somehow become “tainted” or the darkness might “manifest” in some form in their lives. But the opposite is true; it is the fear, especially unacknowledged, that has much more chance to manifest than darkness exposed to daylight and investigation. Just like we must be fearless about our own inner shadow, we must also be fearless about seeing this huge shadow of humanity. Or we will have the power to transform precisely nothing, within or without.’

- Anis Springate, quote from here

'A Test of Skill', 3D digital art by Kevin Radthorne
Image from here

9 Rabbit (Star)

Noosphere Download, by LjL

Downloads and Inspirations
A day of awakening to your divine cosmic power. However, this can be accompanied by, ‘Yes, but how on earth can I express my true self?’

Remember the part of you that comes from the stars and is connected through omni-directions to nature and to other realms of existence. Part of your essence exists as a non-local consciousness, not limited by this time frame.

Aspects of your divinity are converging from the future and from multiple timelines into your field of consciousness. 

Artwork by Josephine Wall, from Pinterest

Consciousness and 9 Rabbit
Your life today is a result of past intentions. If you can accommodate the fact of multiple pasts, you are empowering yourself to be truly creative and can then draw upon a far greater potential. Although this sounds incredibly abstract, allow your imagination to go there.

The rational mind reduces things, which is useful for everyday life, and the suggestion I am making sounds absurd to the rational mind. However, today is a good day to take the position of gnosis – that you are in essence an immortal soul and therefore are not merely contained in linear time. You cannot be reduced to a rational explanation.

Ahkenaton worshipping the Sun
Image from Google

On a higher level of reality or consciousness (than the human species presently and commonly enjoys) is a multiverse of radiant time. I am convinced of that reality and believe myself to have had a convergence of this sort in 1994, when an aspect of myself walked into my being in this realm. I have met many people who have had similar and far more profound experiences, including the full walk-in from another star system.

Extraterrestrials from other star systems do visit us from light years away, unbelievable distances, because they access superluminal consciousness and technology. In other words, it’s not so much space travel as time travel, which is not just a technology, but a state of consciousness. Linear time is derivative of or symbiotic with linear mind, whereas our greater consciousness is multidimensional.

Today, 9 Rabbit or Star, is a day of sublime creativity, actualized by assuming you have previously intended all that is in your life to be here and that you can pull in other realities.

How do we express it? How do we cope with the enormity of our true self?

Today we can connect to the eternal now and engage with the emerging unfolding reality that we are co-creating.

Spiritual Guides. Image from here

8 Deer (Hand, Grasp)

Graphic by LjL

Holding on with just the right tension, being responsive to the alchemical mix of your life. Commit to a dynamic balance, the non-static union of opposites. Transcend the political correctness of gender politics to find true equality. Embody the male and female.

Commit and hold onto reality – but if your reality is too small, then let go and grasp a bigger one.

There is plenty of reality pie to go around, you know... recal-liberate your energy field.

Life is an adventure. It is easy to forget that if you listen to Channel Normal.

Is Life too tight? Well, mash it up and remix your energies.

Surf the channels of your energy field: Sex, food, music, silence, art, shamanics, yoga...

Get soul funking.

Soul Funking, painting by LjL

Just be flexible and do not believe you are forever that which you find yourself to be at any one point in time.

Commit to navigation – life is forever changing and your challenge is to flow with strength and grace.

Laurence and Michael Chung navigating the Amazon,
while on an adventure in Peru at an Ayahuasca camp in 2008.
Photo thanks to our dear friend Scott Morgan

7 Skull

Pacal Troll trusting his authority
and being clear with the borders and definitions of all things
Guangzhou, March 2016

A good day for definitive thought. Be resonant with your clarity. This day can be easy if you trust your authority.

All Skull days bring the theme of death and rebirth, as well as cutting out unnecessary sentiment.

Today is a rare day of resonance with the precise borders and definitions of all things – enjoy this day of clarity.

Take the plunge into your subconscious without fear; see the truth of your own feelings without the emotion of doubt.

Subconscious mind, image from Google

6 Serpent

Kundalini Energy Dance, by LjL

Go with the body instincts. Listen to that first impulse; act upon it and the day will flow.

Remember: Serpent days are all connected to survival and power themes. Be responsive to your power. Your kundalini life force, not money, is the foundation of your true power in this life.

A day of rhythm, gradually changing direction under the guidance of the body wisdom.

A day of vitality.

Above: LjL's friend Jayne
Below: LjL

5 Lizard (Seed)

Original image from here

A good day to feel connected to an intelligence within you that transcends the boundaries of your separate self.

There is a coherent intention for your life encoded into every photon you absorb.

The Cosmos is holographic and the Divine Intelligence is fractally encoded into every particle and most accessible through every photon.

Today, receive the Light. Gather energy, hold energy and know energy is intelligent; light creates everything.

Soak up the Sun. Image from Google.

Your life has a basic plan and that plan is part of a basic pattern for evolutionary unfoldment.

To be actively co-creating our reality, we need intent. Intent is far more than a decision formed in the mind – it is decision that is aligned with our deeper feelings and soul purpose.

It is particularly challenging at the moment to reach this alignment because there is a storm on the astral planes – the emotional realm of Earth – due to the cosmic influx. The imperative for our species to survive and evolve is triggering the extreme polarities of the collective emotional realms.

So, if you feel overwhelmed today by a circle of thoughts and circumstances, remind yourself that there is a cohesive intention for your life.

Today is a good opportunity to find some alignment and to summon up intent.

Baby monitor lizard, Penang

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

Created by Carey,
using part of a fragment of an LjL painting as the background

Boundaries
Create a space for light; locate some inner darkness and sit with it.

The foundation for one’s enlightenment is the allowance of the vacuum that you can maintain. Set the parameters of the void within you, a void of expectancy that you yourself deliberately hold.

Created by Carey

Make the space for space; make the time for timelessness. Use your will to step outside your activities.
 
This could also mean a change of action, if there is something you have been putting off doing.

Have you been looking after your home and/or your soul? If not, bring your consciousness home – bring your consciousness into your emotional sanctuary. Feel the sense of home within yourself. Be at home in your soul.

Secure your space in whatever way it needs securing.

Abundance can only come in when you make space for it.

Trance, by Slawek Wojtowicz
Image from here

3 Wind

Photo thanks to our good friend David Mullins

A day of ideas forming and communication building. Exploration of the mind, as you get in touch with your true expression, feeling the movement of the spirit breathe upon your psyche, stimulating the deep unconscious through the interplay of light and shadow.
 

Image from Google

Or: A day of dynamic communications and thoughts. Moving out of polarity through discernment; ideas ricochet back and forth; judgements swing one way, then another, to create the energy for choice.

The fickleness of the mind is a reflection of the constant dynamism of Yin and Yang, the trial and error of creation. Watch your inconsistencies with detachment and you will also discern the emergence of true intention.

Crop Circle Yin-Yang
Image from Pinterest (sorry, no credit found)

 

2 Crocodile

Two versions of our Energy Temple graphic,
created for use in some of our handouts for workshops and shamanic rituals

Accepting the existential aspect of existence.

Today offers you the opportunity to accept without guilt, judgement or blame that the full polarity of your life right now, as it IS, is a result of the totality frequency of your energy. This profound acceptance opens the door to becoming a true sovereign of your own life experience.

Your life is a direct result of the sum totality of your energy, that is, your choices on every level of your psyche.
 

The Law of Attraction is basically true, but it takes more than momentary desire to manifest because of the intentions and desires that are locked into the unconscious from previous excitements – and when we say previous, we also mean pre- and past life.

The bigger the dream, the more persistence is required to overcome the objections within us... However, those objections to our heated desire do often have value.

So, when we look at our life in all of its fullness, we can appreciate the whole spectrum of choices (many of which are invisible to us right now) that have brought us here, now.

The momentary mind will react with frustration to the suggestion that we created the limitations we experience, but if we can recognize the fullness of our life as it stands, we can move into the space of acceptance and, of course, gratitude.

Today highlights the challenge of our need for security and familiarity, versus our need for novelty; the enjoyment of existential reality – life as art in its mundane expression – versus a need to change and grow.

Within the most mundane of circumstances lies the most extraordinary of realities. Likewise, the ‘matter of fact’ is found within the bizarre circuses of the universe.

Existentialist art: 'The Road Ahead' by Rick Borstelman
 Image from here

1 Flower (Sun, Lord)

Lotus of Grounded Being. Acrylic on canvas board, by Carey

The Flower, Sun or Lord (Ahau) Timewave brings you the consciousness of your sovereign being-ness. The totality of your being attracts everything into your life; the totality of your being, the whole spectrum, provides you with your life experience.

Connect to yourself now, accepting who you are, as you are at this moment, as the foundation for your sovereign power.

Too often we are told that we ‘need’ things – we need this training or that qualification, or we need years of therapy, or we need salvation via the priest, etc.

But your life force, your connection to life, is yours and is immediately available.
 

Flower of Life
Beautiful image from Google, apologies I could not find the artist to credit

The Power of Light, the real power of creation, is the subtle energy and consciousness of light.

Light contains all frequencies.

Today begins 13 days of becoming more conscious of how you are sovereign of your life experience.

Move into vibrational resonance with that which you desire by feeling you already have it. If you truly desire it – from the depths of your being – the feeling of ‘having-ness’ will make you feel happy. Be that which your heart desires.

Light is subtle. The subtle is the real power – all else follows.

 

Original image from here (cropped and framed by me)

13 Storm (Rain)

A joyful, energizing rain storm. Photo by Carey

Let go as usual on Day 13, but as this is a Storm day, release with more vitality than normal. This is more of a joyous release that energizes you.

Release anger and frustration by allowing it and then pushing through it. Release all attachments, all assumptions and separation stories.

Remember that chaos brings freedom – you pay with uncertainty, but can tap into the unlimited energy supply of existence.

 

Flipchart by LjL

Reality is compartmentalized. When one compartment becomes too inhibitory, we are offered the chance to break free from its constraints – this takes effort. However, today you get a glimpse of the intrinsic simplicity of releasing the self from the rigid context boxes.

All perceptions of reality are partial. Enjoy the rejuvenation of recognizing that potentiality is always present. No matter how it looks, Life is bigger.

If you are inspired in a diverse and scattered manner today, take heart – any form of overwhelm will allow you to integrate on a higher level in the next timewave.

A day of freeing the self. Release the self and allow your energy to return.

Release.
Image from Google (apologies, I could not find who to credit for this lovely artwork)

12 Obsidian (Obsidian Mirror, Flint)

A big thank you to Alfred Laing for kind permission to use his beautiful artwork.
To see more work by this great graphic artist, please visit Art By Ajil

The Deer Timewave asks us to know where we hold on and where we let go. Today, 12 Obsidian, understand where it is you are supposed to control and hold energy – this is your niche.

Because deer respond so instinctively to rhythmic changes of energy, Deer (or Hand) is considered the natural sign for the Mayan Daykeeper. Assiduous focus for a surprisingly short time on this system organically initiates you as a ‘Daykeeper’.

Today is a good day to understand that the multiple dimensions of reality are both compartmentalized and separate from each other to some degree, yet have a fractal reflective relationship with each other. Each dimension is a reflection of others, but in a fuzzy form.

A good day to see truth with absolute clarity on one dimension of reality, knowing with equal clarity that this insight does not apply totally, nor exactly, to the next dimension. Truth is reflected and distorted on each of the multiple realms, but what is true on one level, is true for now on that level.
 

Consciousness reflects upon itself all the way up and all the way down the epic construct of creation. Each level of reality is a diffracted reflection of light and consciousness.

The unlimited diversity of all consciousness and form in existence is processed by the human psyche through various levels. Each level of the psyche steps down, decodes, filters and translates with its own appropriate level of complexity.

The unfolding manifestation of consciousness requires an oscillating focus of consciousness.

The basic structure of our civilization utilizes various calibrations, including a seven-day repeating cycle of planetary frequencies: Sunday-Sun day, Monday-Moon day, Tuesday-Mars day, Wednesday-Mercury day, Thursday-Jupiter day, Friday-Venus day, Saturday-Saturn day. 

Freyja and the Necklace
by James Doyle Penrose (1862-1932) c. 1913

(Note: English has retained the original planets in the names for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. For the four other days, however, the names of Anglo-Saxon or Nordic gods have replaced the Roman gods that gave name to the planets. Thus, Tuesday is named after the war god Tiw, Wednesday is named after Woden, Thursday is named after Thor, and Friday is named after Freya, the goddess of love and beauty.)

In the Tzolkin (that is, the 260-day Mayan Sacred Calendar, the central calendrical system of at least 17 interlocking calendars used by the Maya), the dance of frequencies and calibrations is far more complex, comprising the 20 Day Signs (or Daykeepers) and 13 Tones (or Numbers). The dance of diversity spirals and rotates in multiple directions, taking you towards radial time consciousness. 

The 20 Daykeeper glyphs, by LjL
Glyphs and image, copyright © Laurence James Lucas and Carey Vail

Another way of understanding radial time is quite simply through contemplating fractals. The Mayan Sacred Calendar is a strongly fractal system; the numbers of the Tzolkin can be found within many planetary cycles, as well as within the Galactic cycle.

To calibrate your consciousness with the Terrestrial–Galactic interface requires only a relatively short period of focus, considering our lifetime of standard time conditioning.

 

Roman fresco (c. 55–79 CE) of woman with wax tablets and stylus (so-called 'Sappho'),
preparing to draw her daily Mayan Sacred Calendar glyph.
Image from Wikimedia

If you follow this calendar and put some energy into the system, you will encode the system into your energy field quite strongly by 520 days (ie two spins of the Tzolkin, each of which is 260 days). The process is especially powerful if you draw the glyphs each day and do some free association with the signs as part of your daily journaling.

After the Chiron return at around 52 years of age, people often have a ‘golden period’ of integration. Fifty-two is the common frequency between our standard calendar and the Tzolkin. Seven multiples of 52 gives us the Solar year (364 days), and we have 52 weeks in a year; five multiples of 52 gives us our 260-day Mayan Sacred Calendar year.

Classic Mayan writing, image from Google

11 Earthmover

Designer: LostBritches, Image from here

A day to release pressures building in the unconscious and to open doors that lead you beyond stuck polarities. The door opens into the field of light, the holographic aspect of your psyche.
 

As ever on all Earthmover days, follow the synchronic ripples you encounter, for they are your personal interactions with the movements in the time/space field.

Keywords for today are flexibility, adaptability and spontaneity. Today brings the opportunity to slide through a crack into a new opportunity. If you get pushed one way, follow that momentum through the revolving door of the electromagnetic energy field.

Pyramids of Tikal, Guatemala

Recalibration of your energy through stepping to the side. The door will appear; it will be subtle, but if you are tuned into this 260-day frequency, you will be alerted. Set yourself an alarm.

Perhaps use a simple affirmation of ‘Earthmover, change direction NOW.’ Say it now. It can act as your subconscious alarm-call when the door opens today.

Today is also about releasing tension, as in a small quake now to stop a big quake later.

The value of contrast in order to move on and to break out of polarized blocks.

For me, the most powerful catalyst for refreshing life and opening the heart to the unending opportunity, experience and appreciation available to us is through visiting new places. The rush you get from being in a new environment, with its unique natural landscape and cultural atmosphere, is without doubt one of the most precious things we can do for ourselves.

Maybe this is something for you to consider today. Where do you need to visit in order to refresh and regenerate?

 

Montesuenos, Ecuador. A place Laurence wanted so much to visit;
sadly we never got the chance

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 11 Earthmover:]
The Enchantment Factor
In this 2012 era, we are seeing the dissolution of what we call ‘reality’ in order to transition to a new stage of consciousness and therefore culture. Reality itself is undergoing change.

The underlying mythology of our world is being exposed to us yet more deeply as inadequate. The uncertainty will remain, but for those individuals willing to engage with the visionary realm, this era is offering a profound level of connection to the expansion of our reality.

Laurence in Macau

Laurence in Penang