Sunday, 30 April 2017

9 Monkey, Sunday

Monkey trickster wakes up to the dirty games of the world and human nature, but with his edgy humour we are challenged not to take the tricks too seriously.

Life is an Enchantment; existence materializes through stories. The illusion is the idea of permanence as we experience god’s dream as it passes through us.

Today, retrieve any Monkey energy that has slipped away in recent years. Access your creatively wickedly funny yet conscious self.

Call upon the soul to recall your creative spirit, your playful yet resilient self that enlivens and stimulates, and which can craft a life of joy and vibrancy with whatever is at hand.

Monkey is the weaver of time and, on Day 9, can create a story worth living.

A good day to read Carlos Castaneda.

Saturday, 29 April 2017

8 Dog, Saturday

Today is a day for commitment to your relationships and your own emotional needs and boundaries. 

Being an 8 day, this energy will follow on from the previous timewave, which was the Dog Timewave, as you accept the commitment you received during that 13-day timewave.

Define your territory in the universe and defend it if necessary. Be true to your own needs. Commit to the guidance you receive and the guidance you offer.

The vastness of the Cosmos requires us to create an enclosure, a home, a structure – the expanse of eternity and infinity would swallow us if we did not define a territory.

Territory is an emotional space filled with those you love and its walls are walls of thought, belief and understanding.

By understanding territory and the different scales of space, as well as the borders, boundaries and gateways, we can connect to other realms. The Cosmos is unified in essence, but – in experience – it is full of separations. We need to recognize the separations and define the boundaries between any given space, domain or realm before we can connect to it properly.

This in turns allows us to locate the empty space, our inner sanctum, a place full of potential.

Friday, 28 April 2017

7 Water, Friday

A powerful day for evocative feeling, a visceral divine memory; something you tangibly feel without actually being physically in the experience.

Today, 7 Water or Moon, your whole state of mind will be in deep resonance with your emotional body and the various frequencies and issues that are being held within it. Today will provide you with the full gamut of your feelings, from discomfort to joy.

Allow your feelings to flow and you will move through any difficulties to a place more enriching and soul-connected.

Water is analogous to soul, feelings and emotions. We cleanse and clear our emotions by letting them flow. We pour out our pains in order to go deeper and to find gratitude for our life, which then leads us to reconnect with the Source.

The emptying of our feelings to the best of our abilities today creates the clear water of the soul that then allows the light to shine through us with less distortion.

The lower emotions are the past, recycling themselves.

The outflow of feelings, if undertaken consciously, clears our stories. We can also choose to erase at least some of our personal history today, so that we are more awake and alert in the present.

Thursday, 27 April 2017

6 Rabbit, Thursday

A day that is flowing and moving with abundance and light.

Be the dance. Aesthetics and rhythm.

The energy of today is dissipative; it will unlock blocks in your energy field and get your energy moving.

An orderly outpouring of expression that leads to a gentle implosion that penetrates the fabric of your reality.

This timewave, Foredawn or Dark Night, is the timewave that creates a new space, a new womb. Today, 6 Rabbit or Star, we can connect to the expansion or expenditure of light. The Star must spend its energy before it implodes into a black hole/white hole.

The black hole/white hole is the portal or wormhole to another level of creation.

Quite simply, today means allowing yourself to express the stream of ideas and imaginings and to put out your creative expression as part of the process of emptying.

You might also find you are moving through your personal menu of pleasure, addictive habits and attractions to the glamour and allures of the shiny, glossy surface of the world.

Wednesday, 26 April 2017

5 Deer, Wednesday

The fifth day of each timewave is the day where the power is stepped up and your intention for the timewave is transmitted, whereas the fourth day is a foundation day, where an intention, plan or idea is formed (or is forming) as a set of components. Day 5 is when you then bring all of the elements together, simultaneously emanating that energy and consciousness.

Deer (also known as Hand or Grasp) also has great power through its capacity to operate in all dimensions in all manner of ways. But Deer has to learn not to try to do too much, to hold too much or to utilize too many techniques or options.

Today, be in your centre, yet stay connected to the peripheral reality. Feel the energy that breaks in the external world you are traversing. Hold the centre gently and feel the circling energies from the external environment.

Today is a good day to see the world through your shamanic eyes. The future requires a greater synthesis of consciousness from us between our modern selves and our archaic body selves. Today is a good day to feel connected to the aliveness of all that surrounds us, in all directions.

Tune into the centre, the subtle and ungraspable energy; feel it without trying to define it or own it.

Tools, like the computer or a smartphone, are useful – but remember they are just tools. You might want to use the search engine on the net as an extension of your intuition today; feel into the energy emanating from yourself and google it.

The internet is a training tool for our natural psychic sensitivity. If it were to become restricted as a medium of free speech, then we would naturally find that our connection to the Noosphere becomes more readily available.

Today, you can attune to the fundamental substance of reality, which is pure empty consciousness. However, it is slippery – you can understand it through receiving it, you can be a conduit for it, but you cannot ‘have’ it or frame it. Allow and navigate with a loose grip and a disciplined sensitivity.

Today, hold the truth that your body is the ultimate tool in this world, programmed to self-heal and regenerate if you align with the innate life force and energy field.

Tuesday, 25 April 2017

4 Skull, Tuesday

Do stuff that needs to be done. This is a foundation day.

Secure the space, with a bit of repair, maintenance and mundane tasks of preparation.

To create a fertile space, as we are doing in this timewave, requires you to create some walls around the space. Set some parameters today; shape your boundaries, find the edges, define the separations. Schedule some things in order to create empty moments.

A foundation day for sudden change at some point in the future.

Today is a good day for internal clarity, a clear unsentimental acceptance and perspective on your old self. As ever on Skull days, cut to the bone where it is appropriate. Set boundaries.

A great day for laying pristine foundations in your psyche.

A good day to be real, as they say, which means to temporarily cut out conjecture and sentiment, not for all time, but certainly for today. Enjoy a sense of freedom from your wants and separate the chaff from the wheat.

Message from Laurence: With shamanism, most people want the fireworks, the big experience, and see the preparation as boring. However, once you start to see the results of good preparation, you become more wiling to do the little things, the mundane cleansing and the small and simple evocations.

Monday, 24 April 2017

3 Serpent, Monday

The life force is stirring. Today is about the movement of energy and the dynamics of power; the shifting nature of power and who has power.

Day Three is always somewhat restless and when it comes to power we have to watch the ego, especially when living with access to spirit. Frustration can lead to desperation and then the dark side, if we compare our successes to those of others. Stay true to yourself. Do not compare your life to external images of success.

Stay with the life force...

You may feel vitalized and sexy, without having a direction or place to act out your desire. It is just a day to feel the life force stirring. Venom and anger can change into soma and higher consciousness; poison can be used for healing.

See how energy changes. Feel that subtle point where pure primal desire can be used for any endeavour as the energy shifts and turns.

The higher expression of Serpent transcends survival-fear – as well as the flip side of this primal fear, which is the urge to have power over others – and manifests as the ability to rejuvenate the body.

The body will indicate the path of rejuvenation today, so listen carefully.

Sunday, 23 April 2017

2 Lizard (Seed)

Today we see the inherent duality of our intentions and evolutionary impulses. We want two different realities simultaneously.

One intention is safe. The other is more risky. Both come with a consequence. What is the cost of each and which one are you prepared to pay?

The question then might be, ‘But I cannot choose! Is there not some resolution of this paradox available?’

The result of this energy is that we might have moments of complete inertia. The best thing to do is to hold both intentions and to feel the differences. The tension will create some energy for tomorrow and you will benefit from being conscious of your duplicity today. Tomorrow brings forward momentum in the shape of vitality.

Or: We might see the two opportunities sprouting from the same junction. These are the bifurcating potentials of reality, akin to the growth of a plant as it sprouts new stems.

Life is abundant. To live in abundance, we need intentionality and grace, so as not to be overwhelmed. Make choices – but hold those choices lightly.

I remind you that the energy of this timewave is to allow some empty space of mystery to develop; to create a fecund space within the psyche. Face the shadow with an attitude devoid of solution-orientated logic. Open up your energy to the mystery and embrace the feeling of expectation.

Consciousness reflects upon itself. This is the movement of consciousness; the movement of consciousness is what we know as Time and Space.

The question you may ask concerning a resolution of the paradox should be held for now as a question. Allow the polarity to exist.

Saturday, 22 April 2017

1 Foredawn, Saturday

Today, 1 Foredawn (also known as Dark House, Dark Night, or In the House: Akbal), begins a new 13-day timewave, one which asks you to enter the crack between the worlds.

The Foredawn Daykeeper is the cave, the bat, the house, the moment before sunrise and the gap between dark and light on the horizon (and also, to some extent, just after sunset). It is the dream world, the surreal, the womb, the abyss, the portal, the wormhole and, ultimately, inner security and psychic protection.

How do we approach the next 13 days?

Find your inner security, evoke psychic protections that allow you to filter and work with incoming subtle energies, and open up some time and space in your life.

The world is full of social compartments, walled off by fragile belief systems that are transparently illusory. The challenge of discarding consensual agreements and stepping into a space of personal truth is hard, but the task is to be honoured – it is a challenge, yes, but one must leave the fakery behind now. The time has come...

The world has never been more surreal; the security it is offering is false. The mass mind is scrambling for solidity in a landscape of passing shadows and projections.

In this timewave, be in the space between spaces and find the security you need within yourself.

Today, 1 Foredawn, make space in your life for the new to enter. Stay with an edge of uncertainty and embrace the intangible energy that exists between time and space, action and inactivity, light and dark.

Friday, 21 April 2017

13 Wind, Friday

The Dog Timewave of companionship and guidance releases its form today and is converted into information; emotion is transmuted into data. The whole feeling of this timewave is harvested and fed back into the matrix.

A day where you flit from one thing to another, from one person to another – texting, facebooking, emailing.

Message the world.

Alternatively: You write up your recent experiences, you convert experience into information – a story, a report or a even a statistical analysis.

Or, you release yourself from the internet, from writing and communicating, feeling emotionally free. In doing so, you are allowing your subconscious to receive new data from involvement with random activities.

Take time off from the internet today. You will still feel the need to do many different activities or things, but allow yourself to release all activity every so often.

Wait until you are impelled to do something useful.

Thursday, 20 April 2017

12 Crocodile

A good day for emotional intelligence and the awareness of how life is always supporting and feeding us.

The essential substance of existence is a supply of unlimited energy and unlimited sustenance. Today, look for the nourishment that life is supplying and understand that existence is, by its very nature, supply.

The Dog Timewave can be understood by the mind today. 12 Crocodile says we cannot let the mind rigidly control our emotions if we are to receive and give nourishment.

Today, we align our mind with the higher truth of the all-pervading omniscient consciousness, the background supply that is inherent within everything and exteriorized as everything.

Today you can find your own personal understanding of how you can move into enlightened acceptance of life as it is.

Crocodile is the face of the Goddess – nurturing and loving, yet jealous, dark and foreboding if scorned. Pay homage today to the Goddess and be gifted with a deep understanding of your needs and the needs of those around you.

Wednesday, 19 April 2017

11 Sun (Flower or Lord), Wednesday

A day where a door opens into the light.

All types of consciousness are substances.

The form cracks open to reveal the Light. Following the Light through the crack, a whole new universe appears before us, previously invisible but always present.

The world is made of Light. We can use the broad-brush truth of the spectrum of light to describe reality. The chakras correspond to the seven colours of light as a metaphor for frequency. Crown is White and Violet, Brow is Indigo, Throat is Blue, Heart is Green, Solar Plexus is Yellow, Spleen is Orange, Root is Red.

In my experience, generally speaking, I have found we are operating through two or three chakras at a time. At each stage of development* (see below for a link to the Enchantments of Life), we have two dominant chakras open. That’s not to say we cannot have three or more open, but two dominate at any one time.

The manifest world is comprised of a different recipe of light for each form. Each form – be that rock, car, tree or human – is the ‘solidified’ form of a unique kaleidoscopic mix.

11 Sun (also known as Flower or Lord) is a day where reality opens to allow us to read the frequency mix.

Our emotions are an expression of the flow of received light filtering through us, which then becomes our transmission of light. Our emotions are especially felt in the abdomen and heart, and yet they are as light all around us. We live in our emotions and see through the filter of our emotions. The light of the aura is on a finer frequency than the light we can see with our normal vision.

We have our being and move around in the concentrated light near our body, but that radiates out into the whole cosmos as a whisper. In effect, we are also walking around in the collective light transmissions of human society. We particularly pick up on those transmissions that resonate with ours. If we are in a group of people surrounded by incongruous light transmissions, our body of light is either not in resonance – which then creates the feeling of loneliness – or we do receive that light and feel disturbed.

Unless, of course, we can transcend the base frequencies and find a more subtle resonance with people on a higher level, which invariably means operating through the Heart more than through the Spleen or Solar Plexus.

[* To understand more about Laurence’s model of the Enchantments of Life – his ground-breaking map of the evolution of human consciousness – go to the Enchantments page on his portal website: http://www.laurencejameslucas.com/enchantments-of-life.php ]

Tuesday, 18 April 2017

10 Storm, Tuesday

A day where you can experience the present manifestation of your emotional body – the whole tapestry of emotive scripts, wants, needs and emotional patterns.

If you can connect in a tangible way to your emotional totality, you can experience an unexpectedly refreshing, new or liberated feeling.

Storm is refreshingly chaotic; it disrupts to liberate. A 10 day is the sense of something tangible. Today is a day that feels different – your emotional body twists in new directions and it feels strange but good as you have unusual connections.

So allow a new behaviour to happen. Go with the unexpected and see it as a liberating moment with potentially longer-lasting effects.

Today you can connect to your inner sanctum of peace, regardless of the flux state of the world (and of any external weather storms).

Monday, 17 April 2017

9 Obsidian Mirror

A good day to see the shadow and to illuminate the multidimensional mechanisms of nature that condition our moods and feelings. See the causes of those emotions.

Today is a good day to wake up to the way our present emotional space – our total energy resonance anchored in our feelings – generates the story we are living.

The story in which we are living is a continuum that stretches from the ancient past to the far-off future. Our total energy frequency creates a timeline. Change your feelings on the deepest level and change the past – literally – and, therefore, change the future.

Aspects from your past return to your awareness today as you see the mirror effect of the cyclical nature of time.

A cycle of reflection ends today as you have a realization of how your past reflects this moment and how your future will have a resonance with your past.

Waking up to the nature of time and the stories we create with others
We live in the present with our companions and together we create our past in each moment and, therefore, also our future, which springs from our interpretation of the past.

Day 9 in each timewave is the day we wake up beyond linear time. 9 is a Master Number in Mayan cosmology and refers to the Nine Lords of Time.

This era points us towards the past ...
The present transition speaks to us of the future, but in the same breath directs our attention to the ancient past.

... and the Cosmos
The 2012 end date was the end of one Galactic spin of 25,600 to 25,920 years. The world was subliminally primed to recognize large cycles of time and to remember that the larger context for our reality is truly cosmic.

Sunday, 16 April 2017

8 Earthmover

Once again, take a breath and step into the space of courage. Commit to the positive change that is wanting to come through. As someone once said, ‘What you want, wants you.’

Where is the evolutionary opportunity? Step up to it with faith.

Honour your emotional state, acknowledge how you feel, then search for the good.

Reinforce that which is good and what is seeking to establish itself in your life. Affirm your growth; life is forever changing. Affirm the change taking place in yourself. Identify the recent positive changes that are happening to you or within you – even if you feel that you are changing for the worse – because the truth is that there is always an element of positive growth taking place.

If you follow the 260-day pulse, you will start to notice certain mathematical patterns, such as the 8th day of the timewave being the 1st day of the previous timewave. The last timewave, therefore, was an Earthmover timewave. This means that today is a day of committing your energy, or, we could say, incrementally committing more of your energy to that which emerged in the previous timewave.

The nature of change that emerged – which would have revealed an inherent evolutionary facet of your life message – is now showing itself again. You are being called to synchronize and integrate with it. Do not try too hard; just observe the day and remember to commit your energy to what is progressive when Life asks you to do so.

Synergize (Ha! Ha! There you go, a nice corporate word!) your potentials within your present emotional reality.

Saturday, 15 April 2017

7 Warrior, Saturday

Be Still and Listen

That is your wisdom talking to you.

7 Warrior (also known as Vulture or Owl) is a great day to free yourself from the shackles of the mind, a strong silent kind of day as you go about your business with simplicity.

Be still and come into resonance with your true self. Be like the owl and the vulture – patient and resilient.

If you are feeling overwhelmed by demands from the world, hold your energy, for within the maelstrom of being pulled by other people or deadlines, a magical solution and innovative opportunity can arise, if you just hold still.

Allow wisdom to shine through by dispelling the darkness of confusion through your resolve.

7 Warrior is a day of truth. Your truth can harmonize with others, without being exactly the same truth.

Friday, 14 April 2017

6 Eagle, Friday

Smooth, flowing, comfortable rhythmic changes of perception that allow you to organize your dreams and visions.

Today affords you the opportunity to harmonize your overall sense of reality with your emotional needs; a blend of the earthly and the spiritual.

What’s more, the perceptions you have today can fit nicely with the shifting perceptions of those around you.

Have a smooth relaxed flight, see all around you and zoom in on the appropriate tasks as they surface one after another...

Thursday, 13 April 2017

5 Jaguar, Thursday


A day when you:

1. Walk into and feel at home in the emotional jungle; instinctive and wild, free, belonging to no-one, yet never fully alone.

2. Feel a slight disconnection and alienation that never settles as life is always encroaching.

3. Instinctively feel connected and part of all reality, loving the universal matrix that you are prowling in, recognizing it as a gameplayer reality.

4. Experience a dynamic alertness to life all around you as you are conscious of the immediacy. Things lurk in the shadows all around us, yet we are protected by our sovereign power and instinct... visualize the magnificence of the black panther.

Jaguar is the emotional energy of anticipation – emotive alertness – that arises from your centre in the instant before you relate to anyone or anything. Your emotional centre is a bubbling feeling, full of mystery and movement, instinctive and responsive to other living creatures.

From your centre, you can connect to the four directions of East, South, West and North, as well as Up and Down.


[Exactly 260-days – one Mayan Sacred Calendar year – ago,  on 27 July 2016, Laurence added the following note to his blog for 5 Jaguar, and shared one of his shamanic paintings:]

 

Talking with Crows 

I could not sleep last night after 2.39am, due to this waning quarter moon, which was was aspecting my natal Mars. Eventually I got up at 4am, sat on the roof killing mosquitoes and enjoying the gradual awakening of the day. I got out to my special wild garden by about 5.45am, feeling tired, no way I was going to do a full ceremony. But, as I often forget, the best things happen without ceremony as such. I just did some processing and simple energy exercises and thought, ‘Well, I will wait until 7am, then go home.’ I was simply enjoying the early morning heat and chorus.

At 7am exactly, my friends the Crows turned up. They live in the hood, but like to stay hidden except for special occasions. There was a small group of them very close making a hell of a racket. So I talked to them and they talked back, of course.

One thing I was wondering was how many of them were there, 3 or 4 maybe. At that point they flew as one, and revealed their number – 5... of course 5 crows on 5 Jaguar.

The rest of the conversation is between me and the crows. 

Wednesday, 12 April 2017

4 Skywalker (Reed), Wednesday

Today, Wednesday 12 April, is 4 Skywalker (also known as Reed) in the Sacred Mayan Calendar. 

4 Skywalker offers you the opportunity to see all sides of your relationships, your emotional state or your basic needs, from a higher space.

A day where you can detach from your emotional involvements to see them more clearly. Meta-programme your emotional body.

The challenge today is to not be too fixed about your ideas and opinions. See your emotional script and then set a small intention based on where it is you would like to be. 

Be conscious of any issues you have at the moment but, rather than fuelling the problems and issues, be true to the higher ideas you have about who you are, your life, life itself and human nature.

Accept and understand, yet rise above the emotions.

Tuesday, 11 April 2017

3 Long Good Road (Human), Tuesday

Today is about stepping forward onto the path and beginning the journey.

On the Long Good Road of Life, we are guided by invisible friends from the spirit world.


Walk with joy today as the energy moves out of yesterday's polarity. If you feel stuck today, just do something – it is one step at time. A good day to talk with other people, maybe lots of people, without necessarily worrying about direction; just get energy moving.


Know that life itself is intelligent and will guide you.


The rational mind, the intellect, cannot ultimately guide you, but the mind is not to be negated. Use your mind whilst knowing you cannot reach an ultimate conclusion. Life cannot be fully worked out. However, mental effort enables us to ask better questions – which then supply new partial truths, which then lead on to even clearer questions. 


So it is we move forward.

Step forward with an openness that values the mind as a tool, but not as the determiner of your reality, and you will be on the road that is your destiny.


This day reminds me of the 3 worlds of the shamanic universe and the multiple paths that emerge from the different paradigms of astrology, shamanism, developmental psychology and just about anything else. 


The different pathways of learning and experience all start to converge after a period of time; all novelty-led explorations eventually lead one to integrate. The interconnections and essential truths will eventually reveal themselves if you continue down the road.

Trust in the journey of life.


[Today is Full Moon at 2.08pm Hong Kong time]