9 Vulture (Warrior, Owl, Turkey)

[Sunday 24 January 2021]

Heightened Perspective
A high-synchronicity day as an alignment with Earth magnetics is heightened. Deep feelings are evoked as intense energy passes through you, opening your awareness beyond your usual emotional, mental, ethical, philosophical and aspirational constraints.

Tree Spirit
(aka Transcendental Freedom),
by LjL

Today, you can be conscious of larger cycles and chapters in your life. What is coming towards completion? Access this energy through stillness, strength and confidence in your truth. Truth is the connection between Heaven and Earth through the central channel of your subtle body.

Remembering your truth from beyond time.

Soul memory is the memory beyond time, which we can connect to at the end and beginning of personal cycles, for this is when small portals open for us to access TIME beyond the time we normally think of as time.
 
Today is a good day for transcendental freedom.

Earth's magnetic field,
photoshopped by Carey,
original image from here

 

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 9 Vulture:]
You Cannot Fail
Empowering the self is a decision to be your truth, speak your truth and live the way you feel you need to.

For those leading alternative lifestyles, this often means having more courage in order to be self-sustaining, compared with those who are embedded in corporate culture. No criticism is intended towards people leading the latter kind of life, but I am talking to people now who have chosen to live largely outside the mainframe. You might have a corporate job, yet be well and truly free of its mind-field.

These words are written mostly for those who are ‘doing their own thing’. If you are following your heart, doing what you love doing, then you are a success. 

Image found on Google

This is the truth and every single day that you recognise that you are a success because you are doing what you are doing, because you are following your heart and passion, you are a success. Every day that you forget that you are a success is a day that you have not succeeded.

What did I just say?

Success is largely attitude.

Okay, so we know that success is normally measured by money and public acclaim or recognition – and we all need a certain amount of that to be able to function.

Composite created by Carey,
candles from Google

But, if you perceive the world as a theatre for the soul to experience, rather than as a mere physical domain, then you know it is your experience that matters. Your experience of life is, of course, linked to your relationship with other people and with external conditions, but your internal attitude, perspective and autonomy of perception are the sovereign rulers of your experience.

Every day is a challenge, regardless of what you do; every day asks us to re-grasp and reconnect to who we are, to what we know and to what we are doing.

Success is not a static entity; it is a continual task of self-belief, connection, self-management and the reclamation of truth.

Pacal Troll

No matter how much money or acclaim someone receives from the outside world, once they are yesterday’s news they only have what they developed inside.

A successful life, for many people, is one of love, sharing and relationship. No argument from me there – this is perhaps the greatest of treasures – but I am specifically focusing on the task of doing your own thing, doing a vocational project, being self-employed, perhaps as an artist of consciousness, a player in the matrix, an agent of humanitarian endeavour, a facilitator of joy, a radiant sun in the community, an artist with a heart or a musician with a message.

If you are putting your heart and soul into your vocation, expressing your authentic self to the best of your abilities, then you are a success and you cannot fail.

Empowerment through the Heart,
drawing by Carey

Even if you spend years seemingly ‘getting by’ without major recognition or financial reward.

I have found that rewards always come to me when I am putting myself on the line and have soul in the game. Having 'soul in the game' means exposing yourself by risking failure, whilst being authentically creative with your life – in this situation you will always get a win.

Here is the catch.

It might not be through the intended goal; it might not manifest as a linear response from your actions. You might appear to fail at a task, but if the energy was invested, the energy will come back to you threefold.

Composite created by Carey

Your purpose is to live with purpose, to follow your passion, to speak your truth to the best of your ability and to continually claim your success through the practice of connection, self-management and self-empowerment.

In this challenging epoch, those of us leading an alternative life need to remind ourselves that if we do lose heart from time to time, we have not failed.

Do what you love doing and you are a success.

You’ve heard the phrase "think outside the box",
well Laurence doesn’t just think outside it, he lives there –
day in, day out,crafting a self as noble, poetic and visionary
as the Enchantment realms themselves.
He is a master of transformation, one of the most creative
and most free(and freeing) people I have ever met ...'
Jayne Storey,
Tai Chi Principles Adapted for High Performance Sport
Photo of Laurence thanks to André Eichman

8 Eagle

[Saturday 23 January 2021]

What is present?

What is here, available and moving through you?

What is?

The Immanence (aka The Vision), by LjL

 
A day of integration as you feel the need to be who you are, without effort or affect, to clear your vision of impassioned views, so as to allow all of your perspectives their place within your psyche. A certain degree of emptiness allows us to see more of who we are, rather than just one facet.

The commitment today is to the integrated self that stands before you, to the degree of integration you can recognise at present.

What is present? What is here, available and moving through you? What is? The answer is the Immanence; the Spirit is present in all that is.

Metal Eagle,
by Eddie Stannes, from Flikr

Eagle is sometimes known to the Maya of the Highlands as ‘Metal’. This is because of Eagle’s ability to see an expansive worldly vision – thus it is associated with money and wealth.

Day 8 is a day of commitment. So, if you have a vision, one that was forming during the last timewave (Eagle Timewave), take note and recognise its value.

Opportunity is present; abundance is available. We often cannot see it because, generally speaking, we get in our own way. Call upon yourself, call upon your higher self to perceive what is immediately present.

Dream Seeds,
Deep within the Shamanic Mainframe,
by LjL

Metaphysics
The Dream Seeds I talked about yesterday are tangible potentials in the etheric psyche of our planet and belong to the Devic realm. I suggest the Dream Seeds are not easily accessible via clairvoyance, as they are deep within the Shamanic Mainframe.

Image found on Google

Today though, we are in touch with the more accessible visions of Eagle. 8 Eagle speaks to us of the immanence within the sky and the terrestrial stratosphere, whereby the potentials from within the Devic Kingdom can be selected and refined, and when choices can be committed to.

Today’s commitment is made within the perceptional field, where your energy naturally interpenetrates the collective human consciousness and where that also meets the Earth Mind

Image found on Pinterest,
credit to Xiaodi Jin

 

7 Jaguar

[Friday 22 January 2021]

Jaguar is at home in the shadows. Today you have a resonant connection to the underworld, or a shadow perspective on all that glitters.

Cave Wall by LjL
'Cave art images are gleaned from psychotropic states
on another frequency of reality.'

The bright-light glamour of the material world, the allure of charisma, and the magnetic attraction of people and places all spring from cosmic light. The light of the stars shines with wonder from the inky night sky.

However, the glamour of the consensual world is fading, so we are being asked to look into the darkness, beyond the foreground bright lights that are being presented to us, in order to see the next level of luminosity. The Earth is recalibrating and we are to come into resonance with the powerful influx from the cosmos in this 2012 era.* 

Laurence and the lights
Heartfelt thanks to Annie Knibb
for the photo

Yet to do this requires the instincts of the stalking jaguar; there is no herd to follow.

Be brave, strike out into the darkness and stalk your power. Today you can feel that resonance.

Use your imagination evocatively. The imagination is your interface with other dimensions – it contains your filters and your personal way of translating and perceiving, but it is the interface. The virtual world of the imagination is a two-way mirror and, if you activate your imagination, you will learn to be receptive to incoming imagery not generated by your mind.

Black Panther Spirit by Diane Neubauer

Today is a good day to be evocative.

You can transcend easy definitions of good and bad and enable yourself to be playful with the astral realms whilst holding the light. Sometimes we must venture into unknown realms in order to gain the necessary power for our survival in this world.

The activated imagination acts as an invitation to the ‘otherness’ of the Sacred Calendar we are following here, an invitation for the spirit of Supranature to pierce your walls of perception. Life is anthropomorphic – it really is alive; this is not just our projection. The Mayan Sacred Calendar** is attuned to the life forms that inhabit the living field which permeates our planet and galaxy.

Panther Spirit and Shaman
Image credit: Omer Haciomeroglu, found here

Today, attune to the veiled but immanent energy and enjoy your instinctive intelligence. A good day for shamanic awakening and a connection to the magic of life; today is a good day to immerse yourself in the shamanic experience.

Starlight reverberates throughout the earthly realms and stabilises as the Dream Seeds of the Earth, which contain all future potentials, including the futuristic communities and technologies of a post-material civilisation, not limited by terrestrial consciousness.

Image found on Pinterest,
from here

The Jaguar Shaman talks to and listens to the Earth’s Dream Seeds.

* The 2012 effect began in the mid-1980s and will continue to affect us well into the 2020s.
** If you want to follow the Mayan Sacred Calendar with more connection, I would suggest you keep a journal and draw the glyphs for each day to bring you into energetic resonance with the 260-day pulse.

Image found on Google

[Note from Carey: You can now find Laurence’s own artwork of the modern stylised version of the 20 Daykeeper glyphs on our ‘Your Mayan Daykeeper’ page on this blog (scroll down that page). I have also added a list of the 13 Day Numbers, or Tones, with their key concepts.]
 

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 7 Jaguar:] 

The Full Immersion
The plant kingdom naturally contains psychoactive ingredients. The experienced shaman not only ‘goes on a trip’, but enters into a relationship with the intelligence of the plant.

The image above is the front cover
of a book Laurence
wholeheartedly recommended

The full psychotropic experience proves that there is a dimension of nature hidden from the mind, a dimension which is teeming with aliveness and character. The extraordinary contrast between being drunk or on recreational drugs and the full psychotropic experience is so profound as to be indescribable. 

The connection and confirmation this brings is that we do indeed live in a universe that is vitally alive and animated. This is not merely an idea – this is the Shamanic Knowledge.

Image found on Google

Psychotropics should definitely be respected, but at the same time they reveal that life inherently has a sense of humour about anything we call reality.

Day 7 has a magical resonant quality, as it is in tune with the essence of things. Today, being 7 Jaguar, you can tune into the shamanic experience whilst living an urban existence.

So, while there is no need to fully immerse yourself in the shamanic psychotropic experience, it is worth remembering – and tuning into – the shamanic message gifted to us by the plant kingdom.

Image found on Google

6 Reed (Skywalker)

[Thursday 21 January 2021]

A day where the energy moves organically from one thing to another. You may feel like you are skimming from person to person, and/or event to event, detached but conscious with an overlighting intelligence.

Earth Stepping Stones,
graphic by LjL

Day 6 in every timewave is both structured and moving. It exhibits the quality of rhythm, so potentially you can move from one thing to another with a sense of satisfaction, shaping and forming your ideas and your different endeavours.

Reed or Skywalker is the overlight that shines down into the Earth, like a laser beam – the guidance, the teaching, the informational structure.

Hong Kong Cityscape 1,
by Laurence James Lucas

Our challenge is to receive this guidance, without rigidly concluding anything. It is very easy to over-interpret what life is teaching us and to assume a finality.

‘I am always like this, I always do that, I always fail, I never get this, She always does that, He is always...’ etc.

Sky Mirror,
by Anish Kapoor
Image from here

Maintain a detachment from your conclusions and evaluations. They may be true for now, but not for all time. Listen to the teaching without immortalising it.

In a natural and easy way, ideas or insights emerge today that create a basis for being in the rhythm of life’s abundance.

Image found on Google

5 Good Road (Human, Grass, Long Good Road)

[Wednesday 20 January 2021]

Today, enjoy the fullness of life through emptying your mind to become the cup, the vessel and the conduit for communal energy.

Chalice Well by Angie Latham of Celtic Mystery
With heartfelt thanks for permission
to use this beautiful image

Day 4 of every timewave creates a four-cornered foundation, while Day 5 brings an opening in the centre of that square. Specifically, yesterday (4 Monkey) we recognised the creative spirits who live parallel to our world; today, Day 5 of the Rabbit Timewave, we come back inside ourselves to the heart and to the anticipation we feel as we walk upon the Long Good Road of Life.

Five Paths, Robert Long,
New Art Centre Roche Court,
England 2002
Image from here

The recognition that life is an adventure is the key in our hearts to abundance. The message is to enjoy the mystery of the journey, rather than fixating the mind upon the arrival.

On the Long Good Road of Life, you will meet many people and, if you meet them from your heart, they will be the deliverers of abundance on every level.

5 Good Road in the Rabbit Timewave says to me: ‘Life offers us many choices. Stay with the adventure of it, no matter what path you take.’

This day requires us to find the calling within our hearts and to feel the sense of anticipation that resides within us.

Everflowing Chalice,
by SteveArgyle on DeviantArt

4 Monkey

[Tuesday 19 January 2021]

What is the foundation for a life that is radiant and which shines with the magical light of a free spirit?

4 Monkeys, Ubud, Bali
Photo by Carey

A recognition that life is creative and playful, but is also full of challenging moments and the odd comic trickster. The comedic elemental will yield to you, if you have the courage to live your life without the trap-pings of social conditioning.

Day 4 of each timewave tells us about the underlying principle, the foundation of truth, for the whole timewave. Today, the Rabbit Timewave, which is the multiplication of all things, is underpinned by the creativity, humour and trickster spirit of Monkey. 

Baby spider monkey
   Image from here;
photo credit: La Verdad

Creativity springs from the elemental kingdom, a parallel kingdom to humanity. These elemental beings are right little monkeys, for they create just for the sake of creation. The elementals are really automatons – they just say ‘Yes!’

So be spontaneous today. Respond to the inherent creativity of today with a sense of humour and the day will bring pleasant surprises.

Spirit of the Night, by
John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)

Dare, be courageous and life will respond. Work is play, play is work; secure yourself by recognising you are co-creating your life with your energy and consciousness.

You are not victim of the world, for the creative spirits that are inherent within the totality of the environment are simply reflecting your consciousness back to you. Step into the space of knowing that you are creating your life.

A good day for connecting to the muses, the devas and the elementals.

Tree fairy–dryad,
image found on Pinterest

3 Dog

[Monday 18 January 2021]

The emotional body is energised today. And doesn’t it feel good?

Emotional body
Composite created by Carey using images found on Google

Today is a day for dynamic exchange and social activity. A day of energising, emotive communication. This is a great day to be with people and to enjoy their company, for it is through others that we feel the real abundance of life.

And/or: A day of feeling nurtured by the abundance of life all around you and the opportunities in front of you.

And/or: A day of new emotional energy as you refresh your feeling for life or feel inspired, yet somewhat unsettled.

Receive and accept the energy; recognise that today is invigorating a part of your life.

Composite created by Carey
using images found on Google

2 Water (Moon)

[Sunday 17 January 2021]

A day of two atmospheres, two feelings and the contrast of two environments and how they complement, conflict or converge with each other.

Special thanks to Vicky Baker Eichman

Day 2 of each timewave reveals the inherent duality and challenge within the whole timewave. With Rabbit Timewave, we ask ‘Where is the substance behind the abundance?’

The answer is within the soul, within relationship.

2 Water (also called Moon) asks us to feel into the multitude of objects, people, ideas and energies and to recognise their energetic signatures:

• Is each emergence in resonance with our soul state?
• Is it abundant, or is it pulling us in the wrong direction?
• Are we dissolving our soul in the welter of abundance, or are we expanding our field of consciousness?
  

German photographer Markus Reugels
created these amazing photographs
of miniature planets in water droplets.
Image from here

We live with the duality of our desires and the duality within all action, intent and thought. There is an abundance of things in this beautiful world to entertain us, to study, to act upon or to long for, but they do come with the inevitable cost of an energetic clash created within us.

We could call this karma, the shadow of all agency, or more accurately, our unconsciousness of the totality of any action.

Image from here

There is no escaping it, unless you choose the transcendental path: excitement breeds anxiety; bliss breeds deflation and inertia; and even joy can breed depression, if we chase it.

Today is a good day to clear your energy field, to burn incense, to ask for forgiveness from life, to forgive life and to give thanks for your life as it is.

Accept the duality of agency and release yourself from struggle today.

Thanks to Ewa Wilkinson of
Ewa's Eden
for use of her gorgeous photo

1 Rabbit (Star)

[Saturday 16 January 2021]

Your World Shines

The last timewave ended yesterday with a vision, or an opening of the energy field to a larger sense of reality. Day 13 of each timewave always opens up into the next timewave.

Composite created by Carey

Today, 1 Rabbit, sees the start of a new mini-cycle – 13 days of abundance; 13 days that are fertile, creative, playful and beautiful. The Rabbit Timewave (also known as Star, or Lamat to the Maya) is about the multiplication in all directions of all things.

This new timewave brings light and vitality; it is fun, it can be superficial and even slightly silly, and of course it can be overwhelming – but it radiates a joyful luminescence that originates within your Cosmic Heart.

Cosmic Heart
Image originally found on Google,
photoshopped by Carey

Stay conscious within the radiant explosion. Enjoy it, but do not completely acquiesce, agree or invest all of your energy in everything that comes along.

Remember: Anything can be alluring, but do not be seduced by everything that tempts you. Do not spend all of your energy reserves.

Instead, enjoy the luminosity and step into the abundance and vitality. 

Down the Rabbit Hole,
by Timothy Vincent on Deviantart

[Extra message from Laurence for contemplation on 1 Rabbit:]
Contemplation

How does life expand? How does light radiate? How is the cosmos expanding?

Radially, holographically, fractally – with implosions and new radial emanations embedded within a larger expansion. 

The Rabbit Hole,
by j14v6 on Deviantart

To connect to the radiance and beauty that Rabbit evokes, we have to look beyond the ‘false light’.
 
The false light is very strong in the world now; it is the pretension of light that is created by the dark agents who seek to control the Earth. These are interdimensional beings who work through their terrestrial agents, and who will be selling their agenda hard, wrapped in soft reassuring words.

The false light is most apparent within the naïve elements of celebrity; the hidden elements of religion, finance and politics; and the saccharine changelings who seek to cajole the spiritually minded into inertia.

Rabbit in your headlights,
by Rauliten on Deviantart

Now, more than ever, it is important to look beyond the glossy image.

The 2012 effect* – the evolutionary creative challenge of our times – is well and truly under way. A very wide spectrum of potentiality currently exits in the flux state of our world and we are being asked to be far more conscious of a far larger diversity of frequencies than ever before.

So, look to connect to the radiance from natural environments in order to connect to the positive elements of Rabbit.

* Laurence suggested that the 2012 effect began in the mid-1980s and will last well into the 2020s.

Fractal Rabbit, by rydena on Deviantart

13 Deer (Hand, Grasp)

[Friday 15 January 2021]

A day where you feel some elation. Feel the bliss of releasing an enduring block and, in so doing, re-grasp something from your past that you reluctantly thought you had to surrender forever.

Shamanic Substance,
by Laurence James Lucas

Or: Release your grasp and be ready to hold something far bigger, perhaps a larger concept of life or understanding. But do not grasp it tightly; be silent with it and receive it.

The last day of the Eagle Timewave gives us the opportunity to glimpse a much larger vision of our life – if we can let go of at least some of our old imaginings, mental constructs and subconscious projections about our future.

Gift of the Sun,
by Vladimir Kush
Image found on Pinterest,
but here is the website
of this amazing artist

Let go of some old security to welcome more plenitude into your life, the plenitude that comes from grace and openness. Let go, give it up, release old imaginings and visions, relax the mind and open up wide.

Release, let go and then discern where it is you re-grasp and regain control.

The timewave disperses and integrates with the cosmic background.

Image from here

[Extra message and link from Laurence to contemplate on 13 Deer:]
My Plnti website (takes three minutes to view!), which I put up as a personal affirmation and reminder to myself about the plenitude that comes from grace and openness, seems appropriate to this day and may evoke something for you.

See it here.

12 Skull

[Thursday 14 January 2021]

Life begins as undifferentiated wholeness. Then, through contrast, life becomes richer and more conscious of itself.

The Egg, by LjL

Endings and beginnings, separations, barriers, boundaries, restrictions, structures, renewals, discovery – all of these principal experiences bring lucidity.

Today is a great day for structure, as this day can give you the cold-bone reasoning and clear understandings that the mind is comfortable with.

Strange Skull:
image found on Pinterest,
from a museum in Brazil

The potential of this day is that you can actually feel a sense of regeneration. Skull is death and rebirth and, when combined with the mental clarity of 12, it allows for a consciously chosen change.

A good day to appreciate limitations within your life and how these limitations bring you more consciousness. By recognising the value of a limitation, by feeling the profound validity of a restriction, you open the door to a transformation in an area of your life you have been experiencing as frustrating or blocked.

Contrast: Finding harmony
in the balance of opposites,
image from here

Consciously work with limitation today in order to be free.

The vision is implemented and organised and becomes real.

Created by Carey