2 Dog

[Saturday 28 January 2023]

The Duality of Needs

Hold the space and meet the challenge.

Chocolate and Sambal: first kiss

The duality of feelings from the soul manifests most obviously in the realm of relationship. This is challenging, of course, but also offers the beauty of contrast. Feel beneath the surface of opposition and you will enjoy the contrast you get from your significant other. Sometimes two people can act as one and look out into the world together.

Composite created by Carey

2 Dog is a day of emotional contrast. As today can be emotionally challenging, accept and feel into the duality or polarity of the day without trying to work out a resolution in the mind.

Poppet and Sambal

The Dog Daykeeper is related to the basic emotions and needs of our psyche – needs for companionship on the good road of life, as well as our appetites for food, sex and comfort.

Poppet and Chocolate

Dog rules emotional territory and the defence of that territory. This includes personal and community territorial boundaries, as well as the laws that accompany the emotional boundaries of a person, a relationship or a community.

Stacy and Sunny, in my youth

Dog is also the day of guardianship – and that can include the spirits that guide and protect us on the subtle planes.

Laurence and me in Penang in 2009

1 Water (Moon)

[Friday 27 January 2023]

Today, 1 Water (also called Moon; known as Muluc to the Maya), sees the start of a new 13-day timewave, one which gives us access to the deepest and most subtle of feelings, the soulful and the ethereal.

Image from Imgur

The teaching of the Water Timewave is how to be in the flow of life’s energies; how to surrender to and feel – and thereby be connected to – the River of Life.

Give of yourself; cleanse and purify the soul; make offerings to Life and to other people, to increase your sense of soulful immersion in the deeper dimensions of reality.

Composite created by Carey
using images found on google

The consciousness of being a droplet in the ocean of spirit…

The Water or Moon Daykeeper represents the connection to soul and greatly increases sensitivity. This Daykeeper (and its timewave) requires us to retain our connection by honouring the fact that our existence is dependent upon all that has gone before, as well as upon the stream of life in which we swim. To this end, we are to remain conscious of clearing and cleansing the blockages in the stream.

Composite created by Carey
using free iPhone wallpaper background;
moon found on google

The Maya associate this Daykeeper with ‘owing’ and ‘offering’. Our existence owes much to divinity, to the ancestors and to those whose work we build upon.

This is the timewave to cleanse and consciously purify with the spirit of water, to burn incense or light candles in a sacred manner and to feel the gratitude within us for our lives.

Part of that is allowing yourself to have what you really need, in order to be in a space of gratitude. You cannot fake it. Repressing one’s desires just leads to resentment.

Water purification ritual  
Image found on google, from here

If you experience turbulent emotions, feel blocked, are suffering or feel impoverished, then this timewave is the perfect period to clear debts and do ceremonies of gratitude. You will find that peace and tranquillity can return quickly if you do this, and you will feel immersed in the soulful realm.

Spend time near water, allow yourself to feel things deeply, and regain a deep sense of connection over the next 13 days.

Heartfelt thanks to Ewa Wilkinson
for use of her gorgeous photo

13 Rabbit (Star)

[Thursday 26 January 2023]

The truth of you is that you are pulled in many directions, but choices have to be made. Today is a day where you can become conscious of the many things you are attracted by.

LjL was very attracted by the beach,
the sea, stones and pebbles,
and by making patterns of everything he found.
Composite created by Carey

Truth is everywhere, in everyone and everything. Today you can access the realisation that you are radiating your story, your perception and your take on the world into the universal sea of light.

A day to appreciate the abundance of everything and how all life experience is valid in its own way.

The proliferation of all things in all directions. Celebrate this day, enjoy the expanse of it as the day has a luminosity and a lightness of spirit to it. It is a good day to indulge yourself and let go of your normal restraints and balance – not forever, but for today.

Graphic by LjL

A good day for speculative enquiry into the bizarre, the fringe and the portentous.

Alternatively: Allow the self to explore all of your most exciting potentials and fantasies through the imagination, as an exercise of release, renewal and elasticity.

The explosion of excitement creates the implosion of awareness to the central core of your soul.

Scatter your thoughts in all directions with abandon (and detachment) to the outer edges of your psyche, and then be conscious of the blissful emptiness that is revealed at the centre.

Earth collage by LjL

The timeless anticipation of pure consciousness as it awaits to encounter all experience…

Rabbit is the ripening of consciousness with its accompanying abundance, richness and vitality – and is therefore intoxicating. The spirit shines outwards from within and illuminates all things. As this is a 13 Day, which is movement in all directions, you can understand the vitality of the energy on the 260-day count frequency.

Be sure to find a moment to replenish and rejuvenate with a power nap if you feel drained at any point in the day.

Power napping Nougat, our Prince of Whiteness

12 Deer (Hand, Grasp)

[Wednesday 25 January 2023]

A great day to feel balanced between reason and intuition. A day where you can hold the essence of your truth in your hand.

The whole truth of your life, your opinions and your aspirations is a vast, complex and seemingly contradictory energy. So how do we synthesise this truth into a coherent systemic whole?

The essence can be held, but of course the array of details have to be held lightly, without clenching.

Feel the breeze – maybe shoot the breeze – whilst enjoying a sense of having a firm foundation rooted in the ineffable.

A beautiful fractal pattern
by Mobius Dragon IFS, from here

A great day where you can feel a real connection to the source energy, the essential truth, not as a concept nor as an equation, but as a flowing adaptive light that has an enduring quality, as it is a continuum that runs through your life.

Complex organised patterns emerge in your psyche, then slowly morph into a new form that retains the essence of the previous revelation.

At the same time, you recognise that you need to actively choose to place your attention on that which resonates with your core truth. There are limits to what you can do, who you can be and what you can attend to – you cannot hold it all in your psyche.

Another gorgeous complex organised pattern,
Fractal by Jax from here

Come into alignment today with the enduring thread that runs through your life, the thread that has been woven by your divinity. Choose to stay in alignment with your soul through the cascading journey of life.

If you have been following this 13-day cycle, the truth that has been building in this timewave is now present; it has organically emerged. Today, a sense of one’s truth and personal strength surfaces.

Cervus: God of Earth,
by Golphee on Deviantart

11 Skull

[Tuesday 24 January 2023]

Today is a powerful day for stepping into a new energy, for stepping over a threshold from one type of energy to another and for appropriate surrender.

LjL, stepping over a threshold,
from one type of energy
to another...

Examine your life without sentiment, exploring two opposite viewpoints of who you are and what you will become. Enjoy the sense of the dissolution of outworn aspects of the self. This is creating a portal for the emergence of new aspects of self.

You may well find that there is an element of ruthlessness today in your attitude to what you personally regard as obviously deluded, uninformed or deliberately misleading, or to be a manipulative fabricated story. Other people’s lies or delusions – as well as your own self-delusion – appear transparent to you as your spirit rips a hole in the fabric of the theatrical backdrop.

Reality Is an Agreement,
flipchart by LjL

Today, the light of a cohesive picture can shine through the trivia and distractions. Use that ruthless attitude to rip through the superficial information flow with your clear perception.

Today is a good day for realistic considerations. However, the challenge is to not be cynical, but to stay open to the positive existential elements of life, as well as the cold bare bones of the Skull Daykeeper.

Mysterious Tibetan carved skull,
image from here

11 Days are where the energy of the timewave opens up laterally and to the past. Today, aspects of yourself – possibly not that flattering – seek to be heard, as 11 seeks a degree of integration or adjustment. 11 Days can be quite unstable in order to loosen you up and shake you up.

LjL shaking us up, September 2008,
Power Station Beach, Lamma Island
with his very good friend Dom

Your life is part of a continuum. You have an ancestral heritage that has brought you here; that heritage is a story of grand adventure for sure, but also of ordinary drama and ordinary living.

Your truth becomes more encompassing today as you release some brittleness. The spiritual seeks to be grounded in the mundane and the ego dies a little.

Part of my ancestral heritage;
Great Grampa and Great Granny Vail

Today you can open up to a greater truth as you release a block in your perception and your personal boundaries, ultimately enabling you to reach out to more of life. Enjoy the liberation that comes from accepting that whatever scenario manifests or is true of you does not matter on a deep level and that you are free. You are free to be whatever is.

Free wallpaper image found on google

10 Serpent

[Monday 23 January 2023] 

Plug into body and the vitality of the Sun as it moves through your body.

Composite created by Carey,
using images found on google

The body is the foundation for confidence, for living a life that is based on truth and for being true to your personal axioms. Listen to your body and what it needs.

Power starts with your bodily instincts. Listen to your body and respond appropriately today. Conscious connection to the instincts leads to confidence and to the clarity of personal truth. The power of what is true for you is your power in the world. The nature of truth evolves, as does the nature of power.
 
What is power? It is the efficacious energy of the life force that creates reality. I will be bold and suggest that the world needs conscious individuals like you to step into your power.

Plug into your power
Image found on google

Get plugged into the god force through your body, for the body is expressing divinity. The world needs ‘ordinary’ people to be empowered on a physical level to counteract the disempowerment by design and desire by those who abuse power.

10 Serpent is all about power. Today we see our power; we see how we feel about our personal power and we recognise the role of power in a spiritual context.

Today is Day 10 of the Vulture or Warrior Timewave, and today is a reminder that we are all warriors defending our truth. This is an aspect of being spiritual. We are not here to roll over in the face of oppression; we must defend our sovereignty.

The 13th century Indian poet-saint Gyandev
created a children's game called Moksha Patam.
The British later named it Snakes and Ladders.
Image found on google

At this time in the world, those who are awakening to the new, emerging expanded reality – and who care about our planet, our species and the natural sphere of life in which we have our experience – are being called upon to be stronger.

The power of money, as it is perceived today, is a temporary illusion. The fear of lack that accompanies it is likewise a temporary illusion that the species has to overcome. We are being challenged to incrementally, step by step, honour our truth as spiritual beings having a physical experience – and to live by that truth as best we can.

Existence has unlimited abundance and will supply you with what you truly need.

The Temptation of Eve
by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
(c. 1887)

[Bonus material for today:]
On 10 Serpent of 14 May 2017, our good friend Daniel Clarke made a composite tribute to Laurence James Lucas, taken from various podcasts they did together over the years. Thank you Daniel! Click this link to enjoy a snippet of LjL's wisdom and humour...

'The world needs conscious individuals
like you to step into your power',
Laurence James Lucas

9 Lizard (Seed)

[Sunday 22 January 2023. NEW MOON 04:53 HK time. Chinese/Lunar New Year of the Rabbit. Kung Hei Fat Choi!]

Reconnection and Core Intention Awakening

An old intention is reawakened. A plan from the past, based on your real needs, is either implemented or actively embraced. You see now how a plan that you had forgotten about, or had only half formed, has reached a place that is ready for planting.

Building the Noosphere, by LjL

Aha!

9 Days are good days for breakthrough realisations. Today you can consciously reconnect and recover an innocent and unconscious connection to life you had in the past. A good day to consciously recover and own that which you were previously unconsciously part of, or which you were embedded within.

Bring the inherent intelligence of innocence into your conscious mind.

Aha moment;
image originally found on google,
photoshopped by Carey

Things actively and passionately desired often elude us, until we forget about them. When we do so, we detach from the outcome and the desired energy can then be released, after which it can return as your manifest experience.

Today is one of those days when previously intended manifestations resurface or appear.

Fields of Light by Bruce Munro, from here

Day 9 is the frequency of cycles. Day 9 can be the day when you recognise where you are stuck in a groove, looping back and over again. If that is the case, then it is through bringing your awareness to this scripted situation that you can shift to the next octave.

The end date of 21 December 2012 of the previous cycle of the Maya Long Count Calendar – which the ancient Maya used to measure huge intervals of time in cycles of approximately 5,126 years of our system (5,200 tun in the Mayan numerical system) – brought us the opportunity to break the script and to spiral out of the flat loop onto a higher dimension. Think of the flatland of a flat circle, like a record on a record player, or the rings of Saturn – this is ‘default reality’ and to break the pattern, there needs to be a shock or a surge of will.

The rings of Saturn, NASA

[Extra message to contemplate on 9 Lizard:] 

The Psychic Landscape Is a Time–Space Energy Field 

The empowerment of humanity comes from taking control of our attention, which is the commodity of our age. Attention is intertwined with time and space. We need the head-space and the time to focus on a more positive script, based on an expanded reality. The tapestry of time frequencies conditions our reality by creating the context for our experience.

To move into an expanded space of consciousness requires an awareness of the calendrical codes. The present calendar supports the ‘time is money’ script, but this has reached its culmination of usefulness – and it was a useful product of recorded history, which ended on the subtle planes with the Winter Solstice of 2012.

Another beautiful light installation
by Bruce Munro, from here

The 260-day Mayan Sacred Calendar count shows how life is unfolding from within – this is ‘involution’, or the evolution of consciousness. The 260-day count is the inherent frequency within all of the planetary cycles and reconnects us to the impulse of spirit to come into form, to come into manifestation, into the body and into society.

When we integrate this with the real time of the external world – which is based on real astronomy of the Sun, the Moon and the Galaxy – we are connected to life.

The Winter Solstice, for example, is the real end and beginning of the year, being the darkest day and the point when we turn back to the light.

1 January is the beginning of the civil year and connects us to the nation state. It is not bad as such, but is an indirect frequency, disconnected from nature.

The civil year has now served its purpose as the primary code for creating the time context.

Image originally found on google

The old world has run out of time, which is why the script of the mainstream is: ‘There is not enough time, money or space’, and ‘There are too many people, not enough resources, too much debt’ (which is itself an artificial construct). This, of course, creates a sense of anxiety about survival and gives rise to a confused understanding about the true nature of the environment.

The true nature of the environment is that it is an environment of consciousness and energy, and the life force of the human species is the key commodity of the Earth’s environment.

See the Expanding Perception,
flipchart by LjL

Once we move into an expanded space of consciousness, with its accompanying expanded frequencies of time, we find that there is plenty of everything to go around. The cosmos is infinitely abundant and we just need to access more of that abundance.

Human ingenuity can solve the basic problems of lack in this world very easily, if the species is unshackled from the present restrictions on time and space.

Image originally found on google,
photoshopped by Carey

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

[Saturday 21 January 2023. NEW MOON 20:55 UTC/GMT (tomorrow at 04:53 HK time)] 

Today, commit to the empty space and the dawning awareness you created and received during the last timewave, which was Foredawn or Dark House.

The base graphic for this image was
initially created by LjL,then altered,
layered and photoshopped by Carey

Trust in life and evoke the benevolence that is within (or behind) the void as an invitation to new energy that secures you in your authenticity.

Be committed to emptying yourself of absolute expectation. Allow your truth and the structure of any projects you are working on to become organised and coherent within your unconscious.

Hand your problems over to the wisdom and self-organising ability inherent within your unconscious.

Contemplate the mystery of the void that births all that you need.

Composite created by Carey
 Photoshopped version of a free 'dark background'
wallpaper, from here

The mystery of consciousness gradually coalesces, the soul is forever in formation...

Today teaches us to have faith in life itself, to find inner security – security based on the fabric of existence. The very fabric of existence is orientated to become, grow, flourish and encompass. Feel the sensations, no matter how subtle, that confirm the interconnected web in which you have your being.

Composite created by Carey

Foredawn (also known as House, In the House, Dark House or Dark Night) rules the in-betweens. It is the space between two or more obvious states, places or times. As well as being the in-between, it is the expectation or early vibration of that which is to come, like the first point of dawn or that predawn moment.

Dark House is an evocative quality that lends itself to the poetic, mysterious, romantic and impermanent. It is the richness of the shadow worlds; it is the feeling in your home or in a space. Tangibly felt, but elusive to the uber-rational mind or the linguistic bureaucrat.

Painting by Sylvain Lefebvre,
who very kindly granted me permission
to use his beautiful artwork in this blog
(photo taken at the Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair
by Ewa Wilkinson, thank you!). This painting speaks to me of Compassion

Day 8 of each timewave is the day when consciousness is stepped down from the transcendental into the immanent. Day 8 is the day of implementation – and therefore commitment – of consciousness. It is a day on which Mayans mostly perform their ceremonies.

Create space for compassion
Image found on google

Today you own that which you know; you step into the confidence of your gnosis. What you feel is what you feel and its validation is your responsibility.

Today, create space for compassion and benevolence, both for yourself and for others.

Compassion
Image found on google

7 Wind

[Friday 20 January 2023]

You speak so eloquently, so coherently today.

LjL (here and below) speaking so eloquently
and coherently at the
Glastonbury Symposium, 2008

Move into resonance with the unsentimental narrator of the consciousness environment today.
 
Listen and tune in to what is being said to you today.
 
Life is always talking to us and through us, even if we spin it and filter it through our own ego. Today the magic might arise through hearing a colder, even harsher appraisal of our life. If so, listen to it.

Although it may appear unkind at first, hidden between the lines of the message you receive is a truth that can activate your own empowered lucidity. If the day starts out foggy, overwhelming and confusing, it is because you are receiving data from all over the cosmos. Stay with it and clarity will emerge.
 
A good day for the communication of appropriate truth.

Wind is the activator. It separates things that need to be separated, clarified or differentiated. Where we are stuck or inert, Wind blows away the obstacles and gets our energy moving.

Clear mind: composite created by Carey
using images found on google

The Divine Breath can appear harsh, but this is often the inevitable effect of gaining basic clarity through the division of what is and what is not required in our life.

Day 7 is the halfway marker of each timewave. Day 7 is in equal relationship to Day 1 and Day 13, the beginning and the end, and is therefore resonant with the whole timewave. Those born on a 7 Day are most likely to be able to relate to many types of people.

Image originally found on google

7 is the number of basic resonant truth, the general soft-focus holistic truth. Things look different depending upon your position and your perspective, but 7 brings us the universal generalised truth – not the sophisticated truth, but the commonsense foundation. This manifests as the basic ethic in life – we all know what is basically wrong and what is basically right.

More complex discernment is required above this basic level of the commonsense, ethical fuzzy-but-true-enough foundation for civilised behaviour and civilisation.

Fog over Hong Kong, by Dickson Lee (SCMP)
From here

The model of the seven chakras and the corresponding sevenfold layers of the aura is a fuzzy-but-basically-true view of the energy field. I have been working with the energy field for well over 25 years and I know it is far more complex than that, but the essential sevenfold model still holds up as the foundation of understanding.

Seven is, on average, the quantity of things we can hold easily in our mind at any one time.

Harmonious Seven.

Image found on google

6 Crocodile

[Thursday 19 January 2023]

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.

Graphic by LjL

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.

Composite created by Carey
using images found on google

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, as it is a reminder of the value and joy within the existential and the commonplace.

Day 6 in each timewave is fairly practical. The energy is nicely structured in a flowing manner.

A baby crocodile camouflaged among weeds
in a pond, Tangerang, Indonesia,
by Yensen Tan
Image found on Pinterest

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 6 Tone allows that energy to flow with a quite matter-of-fact quality.

Your truth can never be permanent, but it is your truth for now.

Laurence James Lucas,
who was always nourished through learning,
and who always appreciated what life offered.
Photo thanks to André Eichman