9 Serpent

The Earthmover Timewave offers us change. Day 9, which in this timewave is ruled by the Serpent Daykeeper, suggests that we wake up to the end of one mini-cycle of activity or focus, and come back to the body, to survival issues and/or issues of personal power.

Kundalini Awakening, image from here

Today is a day to survive and flourish on the next level of reality. A day to awaken to your future upgrade and recalibration, as the environment of our reality continues to change.

Today you feel a power surge, a sense of your passion. Today you are conscious of the life force – sexuality, power and survival – all of which are charged by the life force. The kundalini life force in your body is your personal instinctive power that is derived from the species’ will; it is the impulse to survive and to evolve.
 

Kundalini rising, image from Pinterest

Serpents are highly adaptable. So is the life force, which is instinctively driven to solve the paradox of survival versus security (the latter being opposed to change).

Day 9 brings the awareness of large cycles of time and with it the connection to that which is seeking completion and that which is complete.

You are impulsed today to do what is necessary for your survival and will feel a sense of passion for life. See what is seeking completion; complete something.

What would empower you, if you work towards it? Where are you ready to change? What skin can you shed? What are you working towards?

Just feel those drives; do not get stuck in the head. You do not need to think about it all, nor work it all out through analysis.

You will be called to action. An impulse from the body will activate your actions with some urgency.

You might become aware that a thread of time has ended as the result of your activities, so be here now in the body. 

Shiva-Shakti, image from Google

The nexus of eternity converges into the instinct that arises in each moment through your life force. The life force is not merely yours, but is one head of the thousand-headed Cosmic Serpent that keeps life alive and flourishing.

Your simple but inspired action now affects the future.

Follow the call to immediate action.

Spirit merging with cosmic serpent. Image originally from here 

8 Lizard (Seed)

Today holds the image of a compressed vortical tunnel...

Blue Swirl by Meggymoo71 from Deviant Art, from here

Day 8 is a day of commitment. You planted seeds in the last timewave — some of them now need watering and attention. An intention started might need more of your engagement.

Thank you to Robert Burton
for this beautiful photo of their well-tended lotus pond

Day 8 is always a day of compression of the non-locality consciousness of your spirit into time and space. This is a not the full manifestation of your divinity; it is not full embodiment, nor compression into full density. But compression, nonetheless, for the free-roaming essence of your being.

Enjoy the sense of bringing your Master Intention closer to manifestation. Feel the squeeze and breathe into it. Relax and trust as potentialities narrow in exchange for actualizing potential. 
 

LjL inviting us to spin

Movement, specifically spin, is fundamental to existence; celebrate the dynamic movement of life that maintains enduring structures of experience due to the consciousness, the intelligence and the intent that pervades creation.

Whirling Dervish by Amy Elkins in Bursa, Turkey, from here

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

Between the worlds; a still point between the past and the changes to come. 

LjL in the Lamma hills, being still and between the worlds
Many thanks to André Eichman for the photo

The pre-requisite for transformation – for fundamental change – is the ability to look into the shadow and to see the positive aspects that are hidden in the darkness and the negativity.

Today, there might seem to be a disconnection, a discordance or a point where things do not quite come together; something strange, disjointed or dislocated.
 

It is not an error. Be mindful of the gap and move into the gap. Do not be afraid of any disturbing feelings. Feel the comforting feeling that exists in the space where reality has ripped. Tune into the surreal quality of the day and find the enjoyment inherent within it.

Today is the day where we welcome in the alchemical soil for change. This might mean a resonant encounter with the shadow of your inner life and the gems hidden within the darkness.

Notice your gems.

Notice your gems. Original photo thanks to Dominic Cryer, gems added by me

6 Wind

Receiving, conveying, moving, linking, forming.

LjL jumping joyfully from one thing to another, on the beach in Whitstable

Follow the flow of communication. Jump from one thing to another, never settling too long in one place or on one bit of information, but just long enough to be stimulated by the message.

A great day to feel you are moving forward after yesterday’s gathering of energy.
 

LjL getting ready to jump, Macau

The power of Wind is controlled nicely on Day 6. A good day to present a powerful and provocative idea in a cohesive and concise manner.

Maybe speak the truth...

Created by Carey
The truth is there is really only one wind turbine on Lamma, so far...

5 Crocodile

Look all around you, be at peace and accept it all. Recognize the nourishment that life is offering.

Laurence, being peaceful and receiving the nourishment of life,
in the Tropical Spice Gardens, Penang, Malaysia in August 2009

Today, 5 Crocodile is a day of beingness, of nurturing yourself by sitting in the centre of your world and accepting all that surrounds you.

You are a divine being, but nobody exists in isolation. Everybody has a diverse range of needs and all those needs can potentially be met. Just enjoy the way that life sustains itself and offers sustenance in all new situations.

Photo with very kind permission of Vicky Baker

The Goddess is forever feeding reality.

Even with change and disruption, life is sustainable.

A good day to feel at peace and to have a moment of exuberance as you let go of fear.

The day is quiet. Can you be?

Feeling at peace, image from here
(Photo courtesy of Pexels)

4 Flower (Sun, Lord)

Today is the day that teaches us to be in our sovereign psychic space, protected by the confidence that comes from our divine selves.

A day of self-establishment.

You are what you are. No apology needed.

Pacal Troll, presiding over our Medicine Wheel,
on the roof terrace of our Enchantments Centre, on Lamma Island

Today – 4 Ahau (Flower, Sun or Lord) – is a day which tells us that change requires a foundation of confidence, based on recognizing that you are a divine being of light.

Every person is divine and every person, if conscious of that, should rightly be confident and glowing.

I know there is a fine line between confidence and arrogance or ego inflation, but today consciously err on the side of confidence.
 

Laurence paying homage to all that is beautiful and beatific.
Huge thanks to André Eichman for the wonderful photograph.

Your sovereign power is found when you celebrate life. Pay homage to all that is beautiful and beatific; by so doing, you are beauty and you are divine.

Today, claim your sovereign spiritual power for yourself.

We need you to do this now, more than ever.

Heartfelt thanks to our dear friend Robert Burton for this beautiful photo

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 4 Flower:]
Tune into the fact that this is the same day in the Mayan Sacred Calendar as it was on 21 December 2012,* so that we can connect to another octave of the 2012 influx.

As in Western astrology, the Mayan astrology we use here is a fractal system, which means that today, 4 Flower, is in resonance with the Maya end date of 20:12, which signified the end of a chapter in the evolution of the human species, and the beginning of a fundamental transformation.

Today, you have the opportunity today to glean personal and direct inspiration about the nature of change and how you can best navigate it in this transformational era.

Setting the Parameters of Change
A day where you can potentially feel the different boundaries in your energy field – the boundaries and space you now exist within, as well as the extended boundaries of your realizable potentiality.

Main image from Google

On 4 Flower of 15 February 2010, I experienced this in the hills of Lamma, looking out over the sea, as I was suddenly aware of my personal space, the living space around me and the living space I walk around in.

Today, be aware of who you are, without sentiment, and then feel into the potential energy that lies just beyond your present state.

 

Image © Baloocartoons.com

You are changing and evolving. Set the scene for your unfoldment as you will step into a larger space and a larger expression, perception and experience of life.

The expansion of your reality will involve an expansion of membership and an identification with yourself as being part of or belonging to more of the human species. Growth creates a greater affinity with more of life.

Today, become conscious of your energy spaces and the different scales of environment within which you have your being.

[* Note from Carey: In calendrical terms, 21 December 2012 was the end of the then-current ‘Great Cycle’ of the Mayan Long Count Calendar, which comprises 13 periods of time, each called a baktun, covering a total period of approximately 5,125 years in the Gregorian calendar. The 2012 date is considered by some to be the end of the Fourth Sun, or the fourth creation era.]

 

Created by Carey, using four fabulous kite photos
with huge thanks to Katherine Forestier

[A personal message from Laurence, posted on 4 Flower, 21 December 2012:]
My day started many hours ago with a greeting to the dawn. I was met with a spectacular display as four kites, our local birds of prey, rolled and clustered around each other in the sky, directly in the east, four hundred yards in front of me.

Then one flew back to me and, facing east with me, hovered about 12 feet in the air and 20 feet away from my right shoulder. Together we greeted the dawn of a new day.

3 Storm

The Quickening
The restless spirit is seeking novelty and freedom, spontaneity and vigour. Your hunger is good; the vibration of change is shaking the air.
 

Storm, by Annie Knibb. Thank you!

Movement and Flexibility
Feel the storm out there, respect its power. The electrical charge of the psychic environment seeks a pathway into your life. Observe the novelty of the day.

Today is a good day to follow and act upon any unusual or different opportunities. Generate energy by doing something out of your ordinary.

Be alert; don’t think too much, just go with it. Be with the energizing vibration.
 

Solar flare space weather, image from here

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 3 Storm:]
In all timewaves, Day 3 allows us to move out of the block we might have felt on Day 2.

If you had a day of constant self-reflection without resolution yesterday (even leading to inertia), you might well find that the 2 Obsidian tension actually created an energy that transforms today, 3 Storm, into a degree of creative resolution through vitality.

This 260-day cycle of the Mayan Sacred Calendar (known as the Tzolkin) is an enormous asset to creativity and understanding as it allows you to plug into the emerging energy, the gestating energy of potentiality, and all that is seeking expression.

It doesn’t matter if you have only just discovered the 260-day cycle. It will take a few cycles to fully tune in, but you will feel it after only about two cycles – and then you have rare access to the soul realm.

The key to learning any subject is to connect to nature and to the cycles of reality, to observe life and – yes, indeed – to feed the mind with information, but then to hand it over to your soul. Give it to the unconscious.

As we are witnessing, the small-context box of material science and mainstream conservatism has reached the ends of its usefulness. The oxymoron of modern pragmatism is that it is totally impractical for the continuing progression of human life.

The rational mind is just a tool, to be used but not revered. It is the intuitive, creative, heartfelt approach that needs to dominate the rational mind.

Follow the energy and texture of the Mayan Sacred Calendar days. So simple, yet so overlooked. It will reveal its richness to you, and it will allow you access to the creative realm of the soul. 

Artist’s rendering of a solar storm hitting Mars
and stripping ions from the planet's upper atmosphere.
Credits: NASA/GSFC

2 Obsidian (Obsidian Mirror, Flint)

 A good symbol for contemplation today is two mirrors facing each other.
 

Original image from Google (apologies could not find credit),
then photo-manipulated by LjL, and again by me, using Photoshop

Inevitability, as compared to flexibility.

Today some things are inevitable, but within that framework there is room for flexibility. Do not get too rigid. Stay open to responding to the finest details with full consciousness.

Today is a day where you can potentially operate with great clarity by separating your truth from that which is not relevant to you, by separating clear mind from distorting emotions, and by separating essential feeling from confused thoughts.
 

Beautiful image from here

The Challenge of the Day
The duality of transformation and evolution; the shadow and the shadow of the shadow; and the reflection of the reflection of the reflection into eternity.

The challenge today is to open the heart to embrace the paradoxes and polarities; to sit with them and accept them, but not to make decisions about one’s whole life.

The limitations of the linear mind can be seen today. The linear mind always says ‘Yes, but...’ to everything. There is always a ‘Yes, but...’ with the linear mind.

Today is a great day for clear action and immediate decisions, as long as you just deal with each thing in its own right, as it appears, in the context of the moment.

Create compartments for your life today.

Reflections, at Butte Lake. Heartfelt thanks to the very talented Vicky Baker

1 Earthmover

A new timewave begins today; thirteen days of Earthmover (Caban), the synchronic recalibration. Feel the force and move with it!

LjL moving with the tram
photo with heartfelt thanks to my sister Justina Vail Evans

Recalibration
Follow the synchronicity trail to find your new evolutionary pathway in the next 13 days.

The timewave theme seeded today is one of evolution – ground-shaking change that can synchronize us with a new level.

It does require some adjustment and integration to be in synch with the new level of reality, but change is inevitable.

To some degree, you have the opportunity to move your life on in an integrated manner during this timewave. A little earthquake of disruption is part of that higher integration, so bear that in mind.

Shake up, throw away and dispel anything blocking forward momentum.

Shaking it all up. Photo of Chocolate thanks to Dominic Cryer

Direct-ion
Connect to the dynamic force of change. Listen to it, feel it and be strong, so that you can go with it in all confidence. A little internal superhero attitude would not hurt!  

Image from Google

 
[On 1 Earthmover of 6 Feb 2015, Laurence shared a short message and a link:]
I have written a short evaluation of the opportunity/challenge and imperative for us at this time. This short article, posted on Mystic Cyber Crow, highlights how we are at a crossroads for our species and is called: The Alchemical Transformation of the Human Experience
 

Two Men on a Beach at Night, by Robert Morris Munroe

[On 1 Earthmover of 18 December 2012, Laurence added a poem by A. W. E. O’Shaughnessy; first published in 1873. This has great resonance with his own work:]

Ode
We are the music-makers.
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world forever, it seems.

With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world’s great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire’s glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song’s measure
Can trample a kingdom down.
We in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o’erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world’s worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

A. W. E. O’Shaughnessy
First published 1873

 

[Note from Carey:]
This is the 13-day timewave that took us through the Mayan Long Count Calendar ‘end date’ of 21 December 2012, which was a 4 Flower day (also called Sun or Lord; Ahau to the Maya).

As Laurence has previously stated, ‘this is the 13-day cycle of the 2012 era…. The Earthmover Timewave allows you to tune into the 2012 message for yourself, to find the resonance in your own life… and to tune into the evolutionary changes seeking emergence during the 2012 era (ed: 1980¬–2016, and for some decades beyond, in terms of fundamental transformation of the species’ consciousness).

13 Vulture (Warrior, Owl, Turkey)

Day 13 of each timewave is a day of disintegration and release of that timewave, as it opens up or sets free its energy for the next timewave.

Warrior, Vulture and Owl are the living symbols for holding one’s centre – for keeping hold of your essential truth.

Diversity of Truth, flipchart by LjL

Today you might be experiencing a disconcerting diversity of truth moving out all around you. The challenge is to hold a multitude of perspectives lightly, without losing your energetic centre. This means letting go and then finding a new temporary position of comfort, then releasing and re-grasping your centre once more.

A flood of relativistic perspectives can make us think that all truths are equal. Equally, the populist perspective that life is an accident and existence is neutral can leave a person spiritually inert and acting purely out of self-interest.
 

Image from Architectureimg.com, as a free desktop background,
entitled 'Stonehenge Stars Night Sky Pictures/

However, life requires a strong choice. Whatever the situation, choose benevolence and abundance. Look to enjoy some gain, but not at the expense of others. Choose life. Choose that life will flourish; choose that there is plenty for everyone.
 

The Best Things in Life, flipchart by LjL

Recognize that life is grounded in consciousness, love and abundance.

Whatever the situation today, choose Life.

Uncredited image from Google

12 Eagle

Today is a good day for perspective.

Heartfelt thanks to our talented adventuring friend, Vicky Baker Eichman,
for permission to use this wonderful perspective photo of Butte Lake, CA, USA

Your perception will be connected to real human issues, to normal everyday living, yet with the benefit of an elevated view. You may have a vision for your life or a project that is soft focus but big picture, and/or you will gain clarity about what you need to focus on right now.

Day 12 of every timewave brings us some understanding on a linear-mind level of the whole timewave and its theme, its reason and its teachings.

'Eagle's eye' by © Braid44. Image from here

This being an Eagle Day means that this mental understanding is seen through the Eagle’s vision. Eagle sees the whole world, but then focuses on one particular point on the ground in great detail. Eagle is powerful yet compassionate, and is able to hone in on that which is relevant.

Today, stay in the worldly realm of the skies and the hills – don’t go skywalking far out in the cosmos. Stay within the Earthly realms, then see what catches your eye on the ground. Focus upon that detail, for it will reveal the intelligence that is inherent within this timewave and will nourish you with an understanding of relevance that you can share.
 

Fabulous, but unfortunately uncredited, photo found on Google

An extremely powerful day of pertinent vision connected to your emotions.

A very good day to have a big, yet balanced, perspective on the present maelstrom we call the world.

Eagle's vision, image and video from here 
 Definitely worth watching this short video of Darshan the Eagle's flight fom the top of Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest tower, from Freedom Conservation
(Also this link)

Two Spins of the Tzolkin

Laurence was clear that it takes only two spins of the Tzolkin (that is, 520 days, or two cycles of the 260-day Mayan Sacred Calendar, the calendrical system that lies at the heart of at least 17 interlocking calendars used by the ancient Maya) before the energy and texture of the days are encoded into your own energy field. 
 

‘It will take a few cycles to fully tune in, but you will feel it after only about two cycles – and then you have rare access to the soul realm. The key to learning any subject is to connect to nature and to the cycles of reality, to observe life and – yes, indeed – to feed the mind with information, but then to hand it over to your soul. Give it to the unconscious.’

He noted that 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’. 

He also maintained that ‘the Sacred 260-day calendar we follow here is an aid to consciously connecting to the potentials that are seeking manifestation through you. Such things as shamanic healing, or ceremonially planting intention into your unconscious (another way of saying planting a seed idea in the subtle mental body), are stepped down from mental to emotional to physical over approximately 260, 520 and 780 days.’ 

To him, therefore, the stretch of time equating to two spins of the Tzolkin is an important transition of some kind; a pivotal period of transformation or initiation.

Today, 11 Jaguar, happens to be two spins of the Tzolkin since Laurence James Lucas, man of my heart and soul, beloved by me and loved by many, shrugged off his mortal coil and took flight to merge with the plasmic ocean of the cosmos. I still cannot fully take this in and I still cannot find a way to fully live my life without him.  

Today also happens to be Full Moon (at exactly 19:56 HK time; 11.56pm UTC/GMT; 12.56pm BST), so the emotions and energies will be amped up.

Also today it happens to be my own solar return, in other words, my birthday in the Gregorian calendar.

And, on top of all this – and how he managed to work out in advance the synchronicities involved I will never know – I also happened to be born on a full moon, which according to research on Google is something that would reoccur at a ratio of 1:29.5. I assume (but am happy to be corrected!) this means every 29.5 years there will be a full moon on my birthday. So today is the second full-moon birthday since my birth, my second birthday since Laurence died, and the second spin of the Tzolkin since my life changed so inexorably.

Created by Carey

Although I have not had the time nor space – particularly given the limited energy levels that descended upon me after his death – to work on the process of daily journaling with the Daykeeper glyphs and number signs, I have been working on, editing, illustrating and posting Laurence’s daily Mayan Sacred Calendar blog, as I promised I would, as part of our plan to upgrade and refine the work he was putting out. The blog is only a very small, though crucial, part of that work.

At the end of two spins, I find that I have almost completed my work on one entire spin, going back day by day, timewave by timewave, to his first posts in 2009. He began this blog on 3 May 2009 (a 3 Reed aka Skywalker day), having by then already lived, breathed and integrated this calendrical system for nearly two decades, on a daily basis.

As you might imagine (or not!) this has been a relatively full time job for me, and I would now like to ask for help. I need feedback. For those of you who read it (for which, a huge thank you), is this blog of value to you? Would you like it to be continued? Is there another platform that would work better for you (daily email, Instagram link, making a specific Facebook Page, subscription service to the blog itself)? Any other suggestions or feedback (or encouragement!) gratefully accepted. Please either email me on ljl.lifechanges@yahoo.com (with ‘Feedback’ in the subject line) or PM me via Facebook.

Also, if anyone feels moved to support this blog by donating a small amount, either regularly or infrequently or just once, I would be immensely grateful for the help. I am in the process of getting a ‘button’ to add to the blog, but until then, you can use paypal.me/CareyVail, or if you prefer to use another medium, please email me on the above email address, with ‘Donate’ in the subject line, and I will provide bank details.
 

Laurence's beloved daughter Oceana's farewell tribute to her father,
painted soon after his passing

Meanwhile, my grief remains a tricky, slippery process – from unbelievable lassitude one moment, to gratitude the next for the time I did have, then tears, sobs, short bursts of energy, sleeplessness (always sleeplessness) and exhaustion; then brief moments of joy beginning to glimmer through, followed by a sense of such enormous loss that I fear I can’t breathe; then utter bewilderment, sometimes anger, despair, absolute confusion and feeling lost about ‘the future’, total panic about how to survive on the material plane; and finally, an occasional though ephemeral sense of acceptance, along with the clear knowledge that somehow, someway, I need to move through.

Not ‘on’, not ‘over’, but through. And I will move through, I know; I am moving through – but the shape of what is to come is nebulous and as yet unknowable.

Meanwhile, today being 11 Jaguar, I will stay alert; I will be awake to the subtle fluctuations in the environment; and I will call upon Jaguar to dissolve any and all negative unseen energies, so that I may stalk the doorway where new energy enters…

I would also like to say a big heartfelt thank you to everyone who showed such incredible love, care and support, then and throughout this time. Without the kindness of family, friends and strangers, I would not be where I am now.

Blessings and love to all,
Carey 

All photos of Laurence in this post are thanks to
our friend and fabulous photographer, André Eichman

 

11 Jaguar

[Full Moon today, at exactly 19:56 HK time; 11.56pm UTC/GMT; 12.56pm BST]

Stalking the doorway where energy enters...

You are stalking the energy during an era of enormous flux and transition. Stay alert; be awake to the subtle fluctuations in the environment.

Uncredited image from Google

Modify ideas with instinct...

On the frequency of the Mayan Calendar, 11 days always somewhat dissolve the structure we tuned into or found on 10 days.

As you follow the timewave, you get to see how the rhythm moves you first in one direction, then another; into one archetype, then on to another, bringing you into contact with the dancing kaleidoscopic nature of the Galactic frequency as viewed and experienced from Earth.
 

Created by Carey, using photo of Laurence
courtesy of our good friend and excellent photographer, André Eichman

Today – the day of the Jaguar with day number 11 – brings a consciousness and quality to the day that, at least to some extent, allows you to feel more clearly the transparency of your ideas and the energy behind them.

This can be quite disconcerting on one hand but, beyond that – if you look further through the dissolution – the benevolence of life in all its glorious mystery is revealed.

Jaguar’s expression is instinctive and occult. Jaguar is happy to roam in the darkness of the mysteries. The Jaguar is the shaman/woman and protector of the shadowy earthly realms. Call upon Jaguar today to dissolve negative unseen energy.

Uncredited image found on Pinterest. Thank you to the artist