1 Eagle

[Wednesday 22 February 2023]

A 13-day ripple in time starts today with the Eagle Timewave (known as Men to the Maya), where the consciousness of the World Mind and its vision can make itself seen through you.

Eagle Immanence
Created by Carey

The Eagle is of the sky, surveying and scanning the world and able to see the abundance of the world as it hunts for the specific abundance available to it. The Eagle can see the micro-reality below, as it hones in on what is available and appropriate.

Scan your environment today and then place your focus on that which is specifically useful for you right now.

Image originally from here

Open your heart and imagination without undue sentiment to receive the vision from the Eagle.

What is it that the Spirit of the World sees? Can we see it?

Yes, it is the existential Joy of Life, enjoying its own simple existence. The World Mind is Immanent.

Painting thanks to Daniel Clarke

Meditation will often take you beyond the world into the transcendental zone, but the Immanence is here and now, inherently within your physical pleasures and your struggles, as an expansive consciousness that helps you appreciate your life as an art form.

Now is a good time to get a feeling-sense of your personal vision for your life, or for your life as it stands right now, or for your life to come in an immediate sense. Trust the intuitive and the imaginary faculties; allow yourself to validate your gnosis.

Eagle sees a world of abundance.

This fabulous image was created for us by Kit Yeung,
Hong Kong photographer and artist, as the main image
for Laurence's new 8-part Shamanic Training course,
called 'Planetary Walker',
which we had been due to launch in March 2017.
Thank you Kit! (kityeung.art@gmail.com)

13 Jaguar

[Tuesday 21 February 2023]

The ever-present wildlife force enriches this day as the atmosphere is quietly crackling with cat-like anticipation, while the air seethes with mysterious, brooding, feminine intelligence, stalking us and reminding us that life is alive and not just an idea in our heads.

Bladerunner, by Laurence James Lucas
 'Inspired by cityscapes, including Hong Kong.' LjL

The Wind God can be an angry god and on this day, being the last day of his timewave, he disperses his energy – maybe through anger to clear the air, either verbally or through dramatic thunder and lightning storms.

Alternatively, the Wind God activates your connection and your awareness of the unlimited nature of reality. The truth is that existence is not only stranger and more extraordinary than we imagine, it is far more incredibly unlimited than we could ever imagine.

Image found on google

However, we have to work with and within useful limits.

So what is the net result of what we can work with? On one hand, there are no limits within the bounds of existence – and yet we experience very real limitations in our own lives...

The sum total of this energetic equation for today allows us to release some of our limitations.

A good day to align with your shamanic instinct, to blow off outworn thought forms and to release some of the unnecessary limitation that has been placed upon your life.

Image found on google, from here

A powerful day for the raw power of nature. The timewave of information and communication dissolves the headspace you may have been in as the wild free natural world calls to you.

Day 13 allows us to access the eternal now and, on Jaguar Day, that comes from direct connection with the natural spirit of the world. So today is a great day just to BE in nature, especially to be still, sitting down and feeling the energy.

Allow the energy of today to flow through you and disperse that which is ready to be dispersed.

Image found on google

12 Reed (Skywalker)

[Monday 20 February 2023. NEW MOON 07:05 UTC/GMT; 15:06 HK time]

A day of great clarity in areas of complexity. You see your life with real detachment, from above. With this, a profound understanding is possible. The mind is aligned with higher, complex ordered intelligence.

Nature Intelligence, by LjL

Surrendering to the intelligence above, you receive that intelligence so as to formulate new patterns and new understandings, and to bring divine intelligence into the body, into the Earth.

Be an Earth conduit for the Sky and the Stars.

Cosmic Intelligence
Image found on google

You can resolve some difficult paradoxes today. If you have been struggling with a situation that is full of polarised, conflicting and confusing dilemmas, then you may well find that by tuning in, you can see a larger pattern, a more complete truth that allows for discordancy within a larger dynamic harmony.

Today, you are able to organise your thoughts for effective communication, and/or you really understand the complex pattern of communication. This could mean gaining awareness of a specific exchange you have had with someone recently, or being able to discern the general communication dynamic you have with people.

'Silhouettes' by Harry Finder, via Imgur

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

[Sunday 19 February 2023]

A good day to listen and to be open, whilst not letting yourself get pulled too far. Apply yourself in an adaptive manner – activities that involve making adjustments are favoured.

The Long Good Road
to 'Abundance Portal', Lamma Island

Abundance is being offered; new potentials could open up. Be alert enough to read the signs and hear the messages.

Lateral paths open up, but be conscious of not getting lost in a myriad of the inconsequential.

Have an empty mind, but do not be an airhead.

Image found on google

Utilise the energy that comes towards you.

The path opens up before you. Do you stay on course, or do you get distracted? Feel into it. If the path is taking you into the wilderness, see it as a distraction. Change direction a little.

A good road in the woods
near Canterbury

Be conscious and sensitive of the options in your life, as small things grow into big things from this moment. Take a moment to see what small adjustments are needed.

Make an adjustment, but do not throw everything away and start again.

'Make a small adjustment'
 Thanks to Daniel Clarke

10 Monkey

[Saturday 18 February 2023]

10 Monkey is the ‘manifestation day’ of this timewave, which is Wind. The Monkey is an artisan, a creator of the tapestry of reality, sculpting reality from thoughtforms, ideas and perspectives.

Composite created by Carey,
using one of my monkey photos

This is a great day for finding creative connections between different ideas and paradigms.

Monkey also knows that information has limited value because Monkey is the one who plays with all ideas, all threads, to create the illusion of form. Monkey teaches us to laugh at ourselves, especially if we take anything to be absolute gospel, be that science or spiritual philosophy.

Photo from here (worth reading especially if,
like me, you love monkeys!)

So give it up a little today. Enjoy music and art and the wonderful absurdity of the world. Enjoy creative thinking, writing, electronic communication and conversation; be entertaining, rather than coldly factual. Have fun with ideas.

Today is also a good day to explore your inner world through fantasy. The creative innovator is someone who is constantly open to moving laterally, to surrendering to the fallow periods, and to allowing the cosmic intelligence to speak to them and through them.

Composite created by Carey

The world is hungry for – and ready for – fundamental innovations, not just superficial novelty. Be ready.

A brilliant day to create a poetic witty composition.

Work is play, play is work.

Laurence in the Falcon, Clapham Junction,
the 'longest bar in London', where he sometimes
worked playfully with clients, and where
in this photo he was enjoying deep conversation
and the exchange of ideas with his good friend Dom.
Heartfelt thanks to Dominic Cryer for the photo

9 Dog

[Friday 17 February 2023]

9 Days give us access to a larger timeframe and today, being a Dog Day, you can connect to the meta-narrative of your emotional scripts; you can feel the enduring emotional pattern that runs through your life.

My beloved Chocolate in 2008
Photo thanks to my sister Caroline

This is a great day for emotional lucidity. Be sure to take time off from busy-ness. Also a good day for consciously reaching, communicating and really connecting with people who are in resonance with you.

A good day to get in touch with the deepest needs we have, linked to being conscious of the nourishment that life just gives us automatically.

Image found on google

A day of clear conscious communication that is emotionally connected as you awaken the soul’s memory of who you are in relation to society, and as you evoke the soul in your emotional body.

Today you can feel how life reaches out to you. You are not alone. There are special people in your life and life itself is sharing your journey with you.

Sharing the journey:
Photo thanks to Kiwi

Open to a higher perspective on your mood and your emotions. Feel into the simplicity of love, rather than the imperfections of your experience with others.

Alternatively, just be with yourself. Enjoy stopping, being still, being on holiday, feeling slack. Go to sit in nature, stare at an old brick wall, whatever it takes to just relax without trying.

The world is so driven by an economic imperative these days that it seems hard to consciously go slack and enjoy the beauty and tranquillity of the world without necessity. We need peace in this world, which first requires permission to not be actively concerned with survival.

Nature is not just about survival – actually far from it. The insects, birds and animals naturally, unthinkingly express the joy of existence through their sounds and actions.

Koh Samui sunrise,
photo by Carey

The drone of the ‘necessity mind’, as well as guilt, blocks out the ever-present inherent message that life, at its foundation and throughout its development, is good.

Hippies and ‘slackers’ get a bad press, but if we have more conscious slackers in the world, enjoying the bliss and appreciation of what exists, then we could have peace.

Enjoying the bliss, Woodstock 1969

The conscious slacker scares the hell out of the control freaks of governance – the revolution will be a walk out.

To change the world, we must first be able to get off the hamster wheel of necessity more often.

Dog rules boundaries, as dogs are territorial, and therefore Dog rules all kinds of law, including social boundaries. Today is a good day to understand your emotional boundaries based on your emotional scripts. This then brings up deep questions regarding the laws you adhere to: What laws or rules are appropriate?

Sambal, my beloved boy (RIP),
reaching out and consciously connecting

Wake up to the nourishment you really need and feel the ever-present joy of existence, by setting appropriate boundaries, creating structures and setting limitations that are in accord with your true needs.

My sweet little wild-girl Poppet,
now choosing to live inside and to be pampered

8 Water (Moon)

[Thursday 16 February 2023]

Commit to soulfulness and connect to your inner life.

Bliss, by LjL

Give thanks for the contrasts in your experiences and your feelings, for this creates the beauty of who you are.

Living with the richness of soul sometimes means accepting the existential bleakness of life, as well as the bliss.

Another version of our
holosphere image,
created by Kookie Birjukov
and based on a concept by LjL,
for use in our Enchantments of Life
workshops and course booklets

The sum total of life is a quiet joy, a growing sense of awe and appreciation for life itself, free from too many expectations or demands.

This in turn opens your heart to another, without too much sentiment or need.

Created by Carey

Today, commit to your depth and your own profound feelings. Recognise the validity of your life experience.

Allow your feelings to flow to clear any blocks in your energy. This will enable you to implement your truth.

Photo thanks to Annie Knibb

7 Rabbit (Star)

[Wednesday 15 February 2023]

Sparkling with radiant connection, you flit from here to there, spreading the love – or at least some abundant and fecund creative ideas. A sparkly day, a resonant day, meaning a day that mirrors the totality of existence.

Joy, by Laurence James Lucas

Today is a fractal of the cosmic light of creation. Enjoy the abundance of today – the natural inherent abundance – without too much expenditure. You do not need to get carried away with money, partying too hard, or any kind of excess.

Be in the abundance by allowing the light to shine through you.

Original image found on google,
photoshopped by Carey

However, there is a shadow. Rabbit is associated with the drunkenness of Venus, as well the beauty, fertility and love. The shadow is the attraction to everything, the allure of the excitement of this, that and the other, which can be superficial, or worse.

Energy can feel scattered today, which can be disconcerting if you try to control it. The great problem is that if we get disconnected, the feeling which can arise is that everything is sour or unsatisfying, as the mind and the heart are constantly distracted. This can lead to a vapid depression, where nothing seems to fill the hole inside, as we lose the ability to anchor the self and to concentrate on any one thing.

Sparkly fractal
Beautiful image by Mo Barton,
found on Pinterest, but originally from here

If that is the case, simply focus your attention on retaining your centre today.

However, I do not want to overemphasise the shadow, for today truly is magical. Just be the radiant light.

Composite created by Carey

6 Deer (Hand, Grasp)

[Tuesday 14 February 2023]

Today has an organic flow about it. A good day to surf, holding and releasing as you move through the data stream.

Turning the Wheel, by LjL

A day of finesse and subtle responsiveness. Stay attuned; be alert yet relaxed. Move and be alert to the moment when it is time to hold your attention steady.

A good day for concentration as you are able to control yourself, setting limits whilst sensing the organic flow of energy, enabling you to switch your attention to the next appropriate activity.

Photo by Chris Burkard from here

Surges of euphoria can arise today. Allow them through, but without grasping onto them.

A great day for relating to people as your communication is responsive, fresh, eloquent and interesting.

Uncredited image found on google

5 Skull

[Monday 13 February 2023]

Today is a day of strength, realism and positive detachment that allows you to make changes where necessary and/or operate in the more visceral realms of material reality.

Original photo thanks to Annie Knibb,
photoshopped by Carey

Cut back, detach from the crowd, come back to your core, and be a little cynical if necessary.

Or: Be at the centre of your group and be detached enough to be a facilitator for your community.

Enjoy some backbone attitude.

Composite created by Carey
using images found on google

Use crystals to create a resonance with the information carried within your bones.

A good day for clarity when dealing with information.

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 5 Skull:]

I would like to add some more to 5 Skull, which to some degree is applicable to all Skull Days.

5 Skull is a good day to observe yourself interacting with the superficial, the bare-bones material frequency of ego, money, shiny metal toys, the instant comforts and the allure of even the most banal of what the world has to offer.

Composite created by Carey
using images found on google

Skull Days allow us to have a compartmentalised experience. For someone who is spiritually awake, the observer can be present as you take part in the glossy impermanence of the surface.

And remember that occasional full-blown indulgence can release the heaviness and self-importance of the super-ego – the inner priest, as it were – thereby enabling a subsequent deeper connection to the profundity of the ground of consciousness.

4 Serpent

[Sunday 12 February 2023]

Own Your Self-Interest

We need you to survive and to be healthy. Listen to the survival instinct today as the foundation for your own power.

Grounded in the body,
image originally found on google,
photoshopped by Carey

Respect your power to influence the world through the natural transmission of your consciousness; respect it and harness the vitality of your body. Be grounded in the body.

Today, being Day 4 of the Wind Timewave and ruled by Serpent, your role as a communicator and disseminator requires you first to be firmly planted in the seat of your own life force.

'Souls' of your feet
Image found on google

Put your roots down into the Earth, through the ‘souls’ of your feet.

To be effective, remember: Exercise, sleep, get proper rest and nutrition, and yet also desire and honour your power impulses, whilst respecting the personal limitations that are required to contain the excesses of that power impulse.

Roots on a Lamma wall

The ego should not be crushed, rather it should be harnessed.

Today make sure you give yourself the physical foundation for confidence.

Roots on a Lamma shed

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

[Friday 10 February 2023]

Be at home today in between the polarities and between spaces.

In the Heart of the Forest, by LjL

The existential nature of life is sometimes (a time like today, for example) a comforting place in which to surrender, so that we are deeply at home in the midst of eternity.

After yesterday’s activation of 1 Wind comes the space, the silence and the void. Feel the pull of opposites and live betwixt them.

Oil painting by the fabulous surrealist artist,
Vladimir Kush.
Image found on google

A good day for intense contemplative feeling and for finding the crack, in any form, that lets in the light.

Today is Foredawn, Dark House, In the House, Dark Night. It is the space before sunrise; it is a day that evokes an opening in the heart, a sense of the romantic. But, as it is seductive, it can draw you into darkness…

Composite created by Carey

Today we are seduced by the mystery. Without letting the mind draw too many conclusions, feel into things but set boundaries – and do not let yourself get drawn too far into anything dark.

Draw upon your imagination to investigate the potentials of what you are working on or desiring for your life. Feel the space that you are creating for that which is manifesting.

Sunrise over waves on a rocky coast, 1884
by Johannes Herman Brandt (1850–1926)
Image found on google

This can also be taken quite literally to include physical space, including how to create an ambience, perhaps with two contrasting colours and a third subtle colour. The physical interiors – our living spaces – reflect and evoke our psychic space. The clever use of colour can keep a space alive so that energy can enter in between the contrasts.
 

Image found on google