2 Wind

[Tuesday 21 March 2023. Spring Equinox in HK at exactly 05:24. NEW MOON 17:24 UTC/GMT (tomorrow at 01:23 HK time)]

Feedback, receiving communications and releasing ideas.

Dancing with the Wind, by Carey

Challenges may arise with communication, delays, arguments, difficult decisions and more. Hold steady, for today is 2 Wind.

Our blocks, created by the duality within us, reveal themselves today. First, accept the situation in order to move beyond the duality lock.

Wind is an activator, the Breath, the Word, the Spirit that Initiates. Day 2 is duality. Wind is changeable and adaptable; it can be destructive, but it is always refreshing.

Image by Adrian Sommeling, from here

Potentially, this is a day of black-and-white divisions and opposites, as well as the clarity of knowing what you like and what you don’t like, what you need and what you can let go of.

The evolutionary impulse of spirit towards greater union is an oscillating process of merging and separating, cooperation and competition, dependence and autonomy.

Image of the Hunab Ku,
found on google

Today, hold the space to separate that which has become a conglomeration – and which thus feels inert – so as to be ready to move forward.

Become the Captain of your own Enterprise and make a black-and-white decisive move.

Prepare to make it so...

Image found on google

1 Crocodile

[Monday 20 March 2023. Spring Equinox 21:24 UTC (tomorrow morning in HK). Sun at 0° Aries. (Autumn Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere). (20 to 21 March) Blessings for Ostara]

The new timewave that begins today, Crocodile (Imix, also known as Dragon), brings 13 days of nourishment as we move into a state of trust with life itself.

Dragon, by Laurence James Lucas
The Crocodile Daykeeper
is also known as Dragon

What is truly nourishing? How can you nourish others, and what truly nourishes you on a basic level? What brings more love, protection and acceptance into your life? How can you cultivate your primal trust in life?

Pay homage to the Goddess. The Nurturing Mother has a dark side; the feminine can devour – she has our respect.

Keys to the Goddess series:
Dance of Empowerment
Painting by Carey

Today, accept the nonlinear as primal energy enters into your life; this energy is to be received for it nurtures you. You have survived this long, you have been supported by Life up to this point and Life itself is always willing to support you more.

Dig deep within your feelings to open your heart to a deeper level of protection and sustenance.

Uncredited photo found on google

 
The Crocodile comes rumbling into reality, yet offers profound food for your soul. Enjoy the natural world today and recognise the way that life takes care of us.

The heart rules the head more than usual in the next 13 days.

Protection; image from here

[Note from Carey: Today, 1 Crocodile, is the day that Laurence considered was the first day of the 260-day Mayan Sacred Calendar (Tzolkin) cycle. Happy New Mayan Sacred Year!]

Mummy crocodile protecting her baby
Uncredited photo found on Pinterest

13 Flower (Sun, Lord)

[Sunday 19 March 2023]

You can access the state of subtle transcendental bliss today. No worries.

A day of dissipative light. Release all heaviness, gravitas or profundity and feel the graceful emanation of the energy of today.

A day of soft focus as the flower fully opens; a celebratory feeling is inherent within the last day of the Rabbit Timewave as we open in readiness to the Crocodile Timewave tomorrow.

Composite created by Carey
using images found on google

Today you can potentially see the divinity of life, the omnipresent light of creation, everywhere and in everyone.

The male transcendental spirit hands over to the Goddess tomorrow.

Composite created by Carey
using images found on google

12 Storm

[Saturday 18 March 2023]

Refresh the Mind, Free the Mind

The self-organising intelligence of your complex life appears before you. See the coherence within your randomness.

Consciousness and the plasma brain, by LjL

Day 12 of each timewave gives us the rational understanding of the energetic signature of that timewave. It is a day of organised information, the intelligence and structure that our minds can connect to.

Storm is the purifier, by rain and lightning, that breaks open reality structures which are inhibitory and/or no longer working, and which are too tight. Storm is a liberator and on a 12 Day, it is an organised liberator.

Today brings you an insight into going with the energy of the day and being a conduit for a reorganisation of structures in your life. Your challenge for today is to become conscious of the dynamic, flowing structure inherent within this day.

Fractal storm, image found on google

The Rabbit Timewave is an explosion of everything and, if you go with the chaotic element of today – if you surrender and yet apply your mind to seeing the pattern – a beautiful, complex exhilarating understanding will emerge.

Rabbit in the Mayan Sacred Calendar is also called Star, since Rabbit is attuned to the cosmos – the subtle energies penetrating Earth. The quality of Rabbit is in being able to respond, adapt and stay alert to subtle cosmic energies and, in so doing, Rabbit can frame a bigger picture of reality.

The Rabbit Timewave challenges us with its abundance and the understanding that ‘all that glitters is not gold’, yet with the recognition that we are here to be enchanted, to become captivated by the allure of life.

Original photo thanks to André Eichman

The world is forever in a state of being enchanted; reality is a spell cast by all manner of beings on multiple dimensions and by us, for us all.

The dis-enchantment with the old consensual world grows, as does the enticement to become seduced by the new incoming frequencies, information, philosophies and the Grand Myth. The Grand Myth is the essential story that finds a resonant, common agreement amongst the greater part of consciousness.

Transitional times of culture are when we collectively renegotiate the Grand Myth. Most people do this fairly passively – they are fed stories and inadvertently align with them, without deep inquiry.

Today, elevate your intuition and your consciousness.

Image and quote from here

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 12 Storm:]
It is in times of great duress that the biggest breakthroughs in consciousness can occur.

The consciousness field at this time – during the 2012 era (which began in 1986 and will continue to affect us well into the 2020s) – is open to the grand picture of existence. This is because the consensual agreement on reality is in a state of flux and the structure of society is weak; the field is therefore full of holes.

In contrast, during times of comfort, when society seems to provide a clear direction for purpose and function, our consciousness is contained.

Creation story at the levels of
Saturn and Uranus Enchantments,
flipchart by LjL

Each Enchantment of culture is held in place by the underlying mythology, the meta-myth. The meta-myth of ‘material science’ is no longer adequate for experience. The Mayan ‘end date’ of 21 December 2012 (based on the Long Count calendar of the Maya) has clearly delivered its promise of large-scale change, and this process is still unravelling before us.

Each story for each stage of culture is the essence that generates the structure of consciousness within the totality of consciousness in which we are walking around and within which we have our being. Each structure is controlled in the shadows by ‘enchanters’, those who deliberately control, design and orchestrate the context. Within that structure, we are entertained. We are given a theatre that provides us with an enormous life experience, purpose and growth. This continues until the structure no longer holds us; instead, it inhibits us and we see the shadow, we see the manipulation and we see our own co-creative dependency and our responsibility for being held within this bewitchment.

Cosmic Storm of Stars
Composite created by Carey
using images found on google

We become disillusioned and we rebel. We become frustrated with our own contribution and our choices that put us into that theatre. It is easy to beat ourselves up for being fooled, but in reality, this was what we needed and was as much truth and expansion of experience and consciousness as we could handle at the time.

What I have found from my extensive research is that this 2012 era, this transitional period in which we now live, has similarities to the late 1880s and the early 20th century. In the 1890s – in particular around 1892 – the old world of moral certainty and religious conviction was falling apart, while the Darwinian vista and new moral imperative of material growth, competition and economic progress was emerging, but not yet dominant. In this state, the alternatives to religious and scientific consensus were wide open for exploration.

There was a seeding of higher consciousness in and around 1892 (expressed by the Neptune and Pluto conjunction). A tremendous amount of visionary art forms in all fields of human endeavour was being expressed. Science was still forming and the metaphysical was popular among the intelligentsia, leading to cross-fertilisation of the spiritual and material perspectives. The 1890s was also a time when some of our most profound mystics, visionaries, artists, writers and scientists were born. The contemporary cultural phenomena of Steam Punk reflects the extraordinary nature of the 1890s, which was far wilder than history has told us.

Steam punk images found on google

The decade leading up to that new millennium was full of hope and adventurous inquiry, as it was in the 1990s. The structure of consciousness within the totality field of consciousness was not yet consolidated in the late 19th century.

The Neo-Darwinian structure was not well established until around 1930. This led to history being rewritten yet again, and the Neo-Darwinian meta-myth became pervasive as the dominant structure.

Charles Darwin (1809-1892)

So here we are once again – we have access to greatly expanded perspectives of truth. However, to access them requires a journey through the Shadowlands of assumption, a disturbing confrontation with the previously useful illusions we willingly took on.

In recent years, the niche spiritual enquirers who are cognisant of conspiracy have started to recognise that the control mechanism is cosmic and that, like Star Wars suggests, the ‘battle’ between dark and light is aeons in age.

Image found on google

One of the most illuminating suggestions has been the notion of the ‘false light’, that is, the manipulation of spiritual seekers through the presentation of a saviour philosophy, ET race, alleged spiritual masters, whistleblowers etc etc. This has made the information terrain extremely hazardous, yet exciting and compelling – like a psychic game being played out within the environment.

The imperative falls upon the individual to neither dismiss nor become totally enraptured by visionary perspectives, but to retain their own sovereignty and free thinking.

Do your own research and work it out for yourself.

A seance scene in the classic German silent film
Dr Mabuse (1922), directed by Fritz Lang.
Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
'Communication with the spirit world through séances
became very popular with the establishment of
the Spiritualist movement in the mid-19th century.
Séance parties were also a favoured form of entertainment
among the fashionable members of society.'
Quote from here

11 Obsidian (Mirror, Flint)

[Friday 17 March 2023]

Doorways, Reflections and Dimensions

Transparency and integration. A good day to be transparent or to see through everything, to see through the data and the one-thousand interesting things that arise, to encounter the flickering light that reflects the unity of all life.

Photo thanks to David Mullins

The flickering light of creation is akin to the shimmering light of the sun on the sea.

Obsidian is the dark mirror and the scalpel; Obsidian is used to look into the shadow and to cut out the elements of the psyche that are toxic. Day 11 is the energy of integration and on 11 Obsidian we look to find a doorway through the shadow.

Photo by Carey

Today, doors are opening into the holographic universe and an experiential realisation that matter is the intersection of coherent beams of light becomes possible. In other words, look through the form, events, occurrences and people who are mirroring you today to see beyond the illusion.

A day of penetrating clarity of consciousness, a clarity that emerges gradually out of the smoky mirror.

Photo found on google, credited to Geoff

All forms are just energy vortexes giving the impression of solidity. Energy is a reflection of the movement of consciousness. Consciousness spins at different speeds, which creates the different levels of existence. All levels of existence are reflections of what we might call God, refracted through the dimensions of apparent separation.

Image found on google

As we become more conscious, more levels of existence become transparent.

[Extra link from Laurence to contemplate on 11 Obsidian:]
I will offer this haunting and beautiful rendition of  Simon & Garfunkel’s classic, The Sound of Silence, performed by heavy metal band Disturbed. Something about this seems to capture the moment.

10 Earthmover

[Thursday 16 March 2023]

Something materialises today – this is a small piece of starlight that has appeared before you. Today brings change into your life in this physical realm, revealed through and recognisable to you by synchronicity coming into form.

Tectonic Heights:
The energy that sculpts landscapes, by LjL

Meaningful coincidences coalesce into something tangible. The synchronic trail, or the multiplicities of opportunities, reach a temporary full stop. Perhaps the Zen Master’s stick has just hit you on the back?

Something might seem to have fallen apart. You may feel shaken or disturbed, so we ask, ‘What needs to broken up, in order for your life force to flow?’

Earthquakes allow the hidden riches to surface, but first there may be a disturbance to shake us out of our comfort zone.

Converging Threads of Change,
by LjL

The synergy and integration of past aspirations and ideas can come together today as they are forced to merge and manifest. If you are tuned into the 260-day pulse, there is a little earth-shaking moment for you as several threads from your subjective reality – be they fantasy or intention – crunch and converge into form.

Generally the energy is vitalising. Take note of what has manifested and how it has manifested.

Suddenly the change will be looking right at you...

Focus brings manifestation,
uncredited image found on google

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 10 Earthmover, first posted on 10 Earthmover of 13 December 2013, but still very relevant today:] 

Do You Hear the Creaking of the Tectonic Movements within the Planetary Organism? 

What we are now experiencing on Earth is a fundamental core transformation. The cogs of history are grinding; slow, deep, profound and enduring changes are taking place within the Planetary Organism. This evolutionary process affects every aspect of life.

We can just take shelter and wait.

Naturally evolving DNA,
image found on google

Or, we can directly connect to the vital force that is underneath this hitherto unseen scale of planetary change. How do we as sovereign souls do this? How can we, as mere individuals, come into alignment with the creaking, shifting tectonic movements of the environment of consciousness in this epoch-unfolding drama?

The answer is … only through holding our attention and our focus on building, securing and incrementally walking forwards through daily practice and navigation of the contextual frequencies.

A chasm exits between the internet and the real-world experience. Will you traverse that gap? Will you convert and translate the inspiration from the virtual world into your direct experience?

Composite created by Carey,
using images found on google

The informational flow of the internet is a wonderful tool. However, it is distracting a lot of people from getting on with sculpting the energy that is required, which is based on plugging into the enormous influx of cosmic energy that is actually available and at hand.

Now, more than ever, we are to call upon guidance, protection and healing to utilise the age-old protocols of spiritual practice, whilst tuning into the unique complex array of the frequencies of the present era.

Free screensaver image found on google

This is from an article I stumbled upon yesterday – yet another article on what I call the Cosmic Influx, aka the 2012 Effect: A Supernova That Exploded In 1987 Caused Something So Huge That It Affects Us All

‘Cosmic rays are light waves of a very high frequency that have been shown to transform human DNA – therefore affecting human evolution.

Even as far back as 1973, famous science writer and astronomer Carl Sagan spoke about how cosmic rays cause DNA mutations and would have affected human evolution.

Cosmic rays are passing through the Earth and our bodies all the time due to ambient processes of the cosmos – hence why there is always a slow and gradual evolution taking place. However, in 1987 – the same year when a spark of change was being felt across the world – something different took place. A Supernova occurred close enough to the Earth that it was visible to the naked eye. Cool, but what does that have to do with anything?

Around and after the year of 1987, many other celestial events have occurred; the most known being a massive increase in solar flares (also producing cosmic rays) and a rapid decrease of the Earth’s magnetic field – both of which are happening to this day. The Earth’s magnetic field is known to act as a shield against high frequencies… so what happens when it weakens? All the goodness of high frequencies seeps right in. Now many would think this is crazy because of the common belief that they are dangerous, however the purpose of cosmic rays and other high frequencies isn’t to fry us alive; but to gradually instigate the evolution of our DNA; the blueprint of our level of consciousness.’
by Elina St-Onge

Supernova
Image originally found on google

9 Vulture (Warrior, Owl, Turkey)

[Wednesday 15 March 2023]

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.

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

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.

Empowerment through the Heart,
drawing by Carey

[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. 

Composite created by Carey, candles from google

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.

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.

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.

Image found on google

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

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.

Pacal Troll

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.

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.

Energy returns 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

[Tuesday 14 March 2023]

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

[Monday 13 March 2023]

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.

Image found on Pinterest, from here

 
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.

Black Panther Spirit by Diane Neubauer,
from 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.

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

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

* 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.

[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.]

Front cover of a book Laurence
wholeheartedly recommended,
as do I!

[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 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.

Image found on google

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