8 Crocodile

[Monday 31 December 2018]

Created by Carey, using images and backgrounds from Google

Today, 8 Crocodile, make the commitment to move into accepting who you are and feeling the nourishment that life is looking to give to you.

Nurture yourself and others. Be patient with your desire to renew your life; set a deep resolve for change that recognises and acknowledges the reality of how ingrained your habits are.

Activities that emphasise sustenance and maintenance are in accord with the Mayan energy of the day. Practical activities that support the nourishment of your life are highlighted. Keep your life going, and feel the viscous emergence of that which is emerging.

A day of commitment to essential acceptance and trust.

Being the Mystery
Crocodile is also the primal force that gives birth to all things. What new undifferentiated essence has been born in you? The birth of energy today is one of appreciation, lovingness, protection and care, rather than a surge forward with any goal-orientated project.

Whatever you are doing, simply appreciate the juice of life and sustain life with a sense of the slow, forward movement that emerges from the depth of your primal roots.

Feel into the mystery and recognise the ongoing emanation that springs from the Goddess.

One of my favourite images
of  Avalokitesvara–Kuan Yin Bodhisatva, from Google

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 8 Crocodile:]
Healing Superstars
One of the myths of the new age is that to heal ourselves means to rid ourselves of our stuff.

I suggest ‘healing’ actually means acceptance, accepting all the levels of one’s being. You were a child and now you have an inner child – I don’t care if you are a world leader, a guru, a political journalist or a hard-nosed scientist, that brat and/or little sweetie still lives within.

The healing is the acceptance, which then allows us to gain some detachment from the lower levels of our psyche. We do not need to be ruled by those lower levels, but we can acknowledge and accept them.

Acceptance
Image from here

7 Flower (Sun, Lord)

[Sunday 30 December 2018]

Primal Earth Intelligence,
graphic by LjL based on his artwork 'Nature Intelligence'

Harmonic Resonance with Your Divine Light
A day of feeling the resonance with the subtle light. The frequency of light you are attuned to could come in many forms – ancestral guidance, simple radiance, a sense of power, an opening of the heart.

To feel resonant, keep the day as simple as possible, if you can. 

Do not be tempted to expend it all; stay sensitised and allow the natural flowering to occur and you will shine where it is appropriate.

A day where your divinity is empowered.

Express your sovereignty easily; be in your authority naturally.

6 Storm

[Saturday 29 December 2018]

Ideally, dance through the day. The tension and background chaos keeps you on your toes and keeps you responsive, alert and moving into the new space of freedom that is continually opening up in front of you. 

Photo thanks to Koike-san

Staying one step ahead brings you a sense of exhilaration as you recognise that you enjoy the novelty of the Storm Day.

Respond to the deep body impulses, the consciousness within the cellular matrix, as knots within your energy field reveal themselves and then dissolve as you keep on flowing.
 

Created by Carey

Systemically cleanse the soul of concern for the world, clear the negativity, free the mind from the global drama, break free from the matrix throughout the day, acknowledge the emerging fears, darkness and negative hooks that are flying around...

Keep clearing and breaking free.

Storm Clouds: Tribute to Laurence
by André Eichman

5 Obsidian (Mirror, Flint)

[Friday 28 December 2018]

Thanks to André Eichman for this wonderful image

Today, stay centred in your own radiance whilst surrounded by the darkness. Find your own centre and move through the smoke as best you can. 

‘Though I walk through the valley of shadows…’

What do we see when we look out into the world with the penetrating X-ray eyes of a cat? We see the dark agendas, the lower-spectrum frequencies – yet we know that this is just the terrain we walk through into the illuminated landscape.
 

Original image from Google

The smoky mirror of romantic yearnings and infinite possibilities comes with the sadness of never being able to fully embody all potential.

We incarnate through a funnelling vortex. The vortex is a darkening veil of forgetfulness that spirals down to a point of light, which is the Star Gate that we pierce as the soul jumps through into the physical world.

Today, listen to the courage of your heart to look through the dark mirror and smoky veils to see the light source. 

Today, more of your soul seeks to incarnate or descend into form, into the light of day.

A good day to turn obstacles into opportunity through being centred and reflecting back energy. A negative carries the seeds of a positive within it; just turn it inside out.

Original photo by Jason Quinlan, of an ancient obsidian mirror
found in the north area of the Catalhoyuk Project, Turkey, from here

4 Earthmover

[Thursday 27 December 2018]

What energy are you drawing from the Earth? What are your roots and what has taken root in your life? Survival is dependent upon connecting through the body into the Earth force.

The basic imprint of the evolutionary agenda in your life – and in Life in general – is present in this day. Life is forever changing.

Today you can recognise how the tectonic plates of reality are constantly moving and sliding. However, the life force impulse is coherent and is underlying the shifting terrain.

Today you sense an enduring underlying interconnection. A reoccurring idea or feeling that you have had throughout your life resurfaces into your awareness.

The 260-day pulse of the Sacred Mayan Calendar reveals the Galactic pulse on Earth.

The associations of the Gregorian Calendar, with its 24-hour clock, 7-day week and 12-month year, weave solid baskets of thought all around us. Can you walk in this contextual structure and yet also awaken to the numinous potency of the 260-day vibration?

The City, by LjL

Create roots in the shifting context and find your own sovereign connection, whilst navigating the fluctuating social environment. The world is in high flux due to the evolutionary change we are in the midst of it; it is down to each of us to create our own foundation each and every day.

Today is a great day for synchronising your field with your own energetic foundation.

Artwork by Douglas Blair from here

3 Vulture (Warrior, Owl, Turkey)

[Wednesday 26 December 2018]

The key phrase is ‘coming into alignment’.

A day to feel energised by your power. If you connect to the Mayan Sacred Calendar frequency today, you will feel strong and confident.

Draw upon the wisdom of the past, or your innate wisdom, to feel the move towards the centre. The central column within you carries the essence of all that you have experienced.

Created by Carey

A day of moving towards an integrated confidence; a confidence based not on arrogance, but instead based on your own experience.

A good day to validate and reinforce that which you know. Recognise that your life experience gives you authority to be the author of your life.

Photo thanks to André Eichman

There is a need to go forward with resolute strength, knowing the social terrain is uncertain, as energy is being released from all outworn structures. Fortune favours those who can keep on reconnecting to their centre on a daily basis, moving forward with Sacred Warrior attitude tempered with elasticity.

We have to accept the world is in a state of massive change and that there is an air of uncertainty and fragility – and yet there is the possibility of an incremental jump forward. From this foundation of knowledge, we can find the resolve to work with the energy and we can prosper.
 

Uncredited image found on Pinterest

It is not a time to be weak or to seek excuses. Remember to continually re-find your strength on a daily basis and that personal responsibility to your sovereign calling is required. Feel the pulse that comes from within you; do not expect the social environment to be a comfort. Stay away from the mob and be your own person, for all our sakes.

Quiet resolve, open alertness, determination to keep coming back to the core, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and keep on stepping forward. Feel the force of a highly energised environment and adapt to it, and it will befriend you. Life wants change.

Alignment: Image from here

2 Eagle

[Tuesday 25 December 2018]

Today, dual visions compete in your soul; two futures present themselves. This is a good day to see the inherent contrast of your life, your self, your needs and your aspirations.
 

Created by Carey

Emotional tension can be strong today as your heart tries to reconcile your sense of the ubiquitous duality of life.

The underworld door has opened and the world has two visions – one is dystopian, the other is egalitarian abundance. Within this polarity lies creativity from the friction, but the good should win out over all.

Day 2 in every timewave is about polarity and also about relationship. The contrast of opposites helps us differentiate and gain great clarity about the whole, leading to a more conscious unity.

Hold the dual forces within you, knowing that this tension is part of the creative process.

Image from Pinterest

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate today, first posted on 2 Eagle of 25 Feb 2011:]
As often is the case, when doing my early morning qi gong practice, birds of prey were flying overhead and one came very close this morning – I felt the resonance in my movements with the kite.

Today is a good day to see your energy externalised in the shape of a separate ‘thing’ or person and to feel the connective thread between yourself and the manifest object or life form you have drawn towards you.

Two Black-eared Kites,
Yung Shue Wan, Lamma Island,
by the amazing photographer,
Katherine Forestier, with thanks

1 Jaguar

[Monday 24 December 2018]

Spirits of the Forest, by LjL:
'The forest is a living spirit; everything is alive.'

The Jaguar (Ix) Timewave starts today.

13 days in which you can experience the enchanting nature of reality. Jaguar consciousness pulls you into the evocative environment, the captivating and seductive magical thread that runs throughout existence.

Reality is enchanting and the world of rationality is interesting – but the mind-dominated reality of our society is a limited and watered-down version of existence.

The Jaguar Timewave brings you into the experience of how everything is alive; this is vitalising and electric. Life is visceral and this gives you the opportunity to cut through outworn defences and to feel connected.
 

Nougat, our Shaman Cat, by Carey

13 days of Catlike instinctive connection begins today; a chance to be responsive to the energy of the Earth and to your immediate environment. The energy is more feminine than masculine during this timewave.

The Maya consider the Jaguar to be the Shaman. Instinctive intelligence is body-based telepathic connection – images and thoughts of a telepathic nature arise from the result of visceral connection to the electroplasmic currents that surround you.

Fabulous image from here, via Google

Today gives you access to your instinctive sovereign power – the courage to be who you are without apology and alert to the fact that everything you need right now is available right now.

Are you riding the waves?

Feel the way the energy of the Sacred Mayan Calendar shifts from one cosmic coordinate to another, teaching you how to shift your assemblage point, as in Toltec Shamanism.

And an extra image for today, from Google (uncredited)
For those of you who celebrate it, Merry Christmas!

13 Reed (Skywalker)

[Sunday 23 December 2018; Full Moon at exactly 01:49am Hong Kong time]

Frogs in Space, by LjL:
'The morphogenic fields of life extend out into infinity.'

Expansive Light
Free the mind from the dictates of necessity and free the soul.

Today the mind might feel scattered; this is veiling the freedom inherent within the day. A good day to construct complex patterns of knowledge, or to acknowledge that a higher level of complexity will emerge after this day.
 

Image from here

The higher mind feels free to roam in all directions and observe the abstract. Welcome bizarre thoughts as they push the boundaries of your consciousness deep within the Earth, way out into Space and beyond the limits of the normal Time restraints.

Explore Atlantis, the Akashic records or just enjoy a sense of vitalized intuition.
 

New Atlantis, from here

Today, energy is in a heightened state of flux; it has a chaotic element which can lead to a new level of organisation.

The structures and patterns of life are re-organising themselves.

Stay connected to the benevolent intent of the life force that oversees all disruption.

12 Good Road (Human, Grass)

[Saturday 22 December 2018; Winter Solstice (in the Northern Hemisphere) at exactly 06.23 Hong Kong time. May the growing Light illuminate all our lives. It is also Full Moon at exactly 17:48 UTC/GMT, but not until early tomorrow here in HK, at 01:49]


A day of understanding that is an open-ended understanding, rather than being conclusive. Enjoy the journey of insights as the adventure unfolds.

The 12th day of every timewave gives us a clear sense of the message of the whole timewave. Crocodile Timewave has a basic theme of nurturing, birthing and female wisdom. 

Queen Bee, by LjL

The Grass Daykeeper, also known as Human in the new age system, and Good Road by the indigenous Maya, refers to the abundance of the human community and the universal quality of life’s journey.

Everyone is on an adventure, the enjoyment of which is dependent upon retaining an openness to life and recognising the possibilities of new adventures around the next bend. What stops this adventure is when the mind becomes fixed and absolute about life – our own life or the nature of life.

Today, embrace the uncertainty of these times and the edge of uncertainty about knowledge and you will be in resonance with the path of humanity.
 

LjL in Whitstable, 2008

Living with an edge of uncertainty does not mean we know nothing. It is easy in today’s overwhelming information environment to throw our arms in the air and announce that all truth is equal and therefore nothing can be embraced. This is a cop out.

You have learned much from your life experience and this needs to be honoured. So walk towards the horizon of uncertainty with confidence in what is true for you.

Horizon of uncertainty

Now open your heart to life before you. 

Today, you are an empty vessel on an adventure, willing to receive the nourishment that life is always offering you.

Photo thanks to my sister Caroline

11 Monkey

[Friday 21 December 2018; Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, at exactly 22:22 UTC/GMT, but tomorrow morning 06:23 for those of us in Hong Kong. May the turn of the Light bring many blessings to us all.]

Cosmic Interface, by LjL

Today is a day to loosen up. Trickery and cosmic humour force you to play, whether you want to or not. See the funny side. Be lateral. Today is a strange mix that offers a chance for fresh inspiration, if you can let go of the mind’s obsessive need for control.

Today you are being asked to create some space for more expression, more emotional elasticity. It is less about conclusions and solutions, more about spontaneity and laughter – perhaps a little twisted, quirky or delightfully perverse.

Image originally from Google

The texture of today – the energy of 11 Monkey – invites you to unusually nurture your soul, for the soul needs to be elastic if it is to flourish.

Monkey frees up the emotional body today in the 260-day count. Allow yourself to be more imaginative about the world we live in and the nature of time and space.

Starry Night, by Vincent Van Gogh, 1889

The 260-day Tzolkin (the Mayan Sacred Calendar) is the calendrical calibration of the soul’s cosmic nature as it interfaces with our density – which is to also to say that the Tzolkin is the key to understanding the galactic interface with Earth and this is the ‘secret’ of the 2012 era. Although we can all see the sociological and environmental effects of the 2012 phenomenon, the essence of 2012 is a re-calibration of the Earth with the Galaxy, creating an evolutionary imperative to raise consciousness in the decades after 2012 itself.

One of the more obvious effects is an alteration to the temporal substance –we seem to have less time in a day. The consensual timeframe that we experience at present is losing energy and a less dense level of experience/consciousness with a larger timeframe is being empowered.

Those who have their self-interest heavily invested in the outgoing density are attempting to close the doors, to keep us locked into the economic theatre and that density. But if enough people shift their focus out of the mainstream economic and political game, then the old theatre will dissolve to reveal a more abundant and expansive terrain.
 

Expansive view

Of course that is easier said than done, but one way or another, a new focus and energy attention will emerge. Our role is to shift our attention and our energy into alignment with the evolutionary imperative.

Find the role player warrior within, the part of yourself that is strong enough to play the game with a sense of mission and humour. 

Solstice Sun at Lulworth Cove, Dorset, UK (from 2015)
Image Credit & Copyright: Chris Kotsiopoulos (GreekSky)
From here 

10 Dog

[Thursday 20 December 2018]

Friends, by LjL:
'Different species emerge from the same bedrock of life'

10 Dog in the Crocodile Timewave manifests as our emotional needs being fully apparent. Today you can see the manifest state of your emotional body and really feel what it is you really need.

The essential and general needs for us all can be simply stated as happiness and an avoidance of suffering.

These are mostly found through relating to others, whilst having an attitude of gratitude about what is good in our experience right now.

Me and a rather nice 'dog' I made friends with,
October 2011 at the UK Wolf Conservation Trust

Today is a day of communal emotive connection, or a good day to be peaceful and to feel the truth of what you need.

It can also be a good day to have a party.

Ask yourself what it is you truly and honestly actually need for yourself. Need rather than want.

The answer will include people.

LjL about to board a tram
for a party with many people he was grateful and happy
to know and be with; 2008

9 Water (Moon)

[Wednesday 19 December 2018]

A good day for conscious cleansing of the soul. A poignant day.

Today is a day of transcendent awakening and soulful reminiscences; a day to give thanks and blessings, and to make offerings. 

Pacal Troll protecting our East Gate

If deep and possibly disturbing feelings emerge today, change the muddy waters by transcending the disturbance and by moving into stillness, through feeling that which is good in your life, right now, as it is.

You can regain the peace in your soul and the balance in your psyche quite quickly today by tuning into gratitude.

What are you grateful for?

With gratitude to André Eichman

The story we have of ourselves underpins our reality experience; it contextualises the physical world, technology and the total social arena.

We are not immune to the total environment – and that situation then seeps into our lives in unique, localised and personal ways. Our own small changes and our intimate struggles mirror the profound change of a species transition.

So we have to come back to the moment and be in our own situation with a heightened sense of gratitude, patience and humility for our life as it stands.

Today is a day to reclaim lost feelings and lost soul.

Give thanks for your life.

Image from here
 Photo credit: @DoD News, Flickr

[Note added by Laurence on 9 Water of 13 February 2016, but still relevant today:]
Pluto in Capricorn (2007–2023, approximately) is all about deep, profound and total change – the evolution of our whole culture. Transformation on this scale requires a journey to the depth of the unconscious and the radical revision of human origins, our concept of evolution and our concept of the cosmos – in other words, a whole new meta-myth for the human species. This will be a slow transformation, but it is an inevitable evolutionary transformation nonetheless.

Image from here