4 Skull

[Saturday 29 February 2020]

Do stuff that needs to be done. This is a foundation day for sudden change at some point in the future.

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

Computer graphic by LjL,
created using his own artwork,
'Shamanic Substance'

To create a fertile space, as we are doing in this timewave of Foredawn, 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.

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 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.

Rock Skull, Disneyland Paris
Image found on Google

With shamanism, most people want the fireworks, the big experience, and may 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.

LjL in California,
creating a moment of empty space
in between getting things done

3 Serpent

[Friday 28 February 2020]

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. 

LjL in the Tropical Spice Gardens,
Penang

Day 3 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 to 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...

Image found on Google

You may feel vitalised and sexy, without having a direction or place to act out your desire. Today is a day to just 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.

Composite created by Carey;
background image from Google,
central Mandrake root from Science Photo Library, used
in an interesting article entitled' The plant that can kill and cure'

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.

Hidden Energy,
image by ObeyYourMaster
on DeviantArt

2 Lizard (Seed)

[Thursday 27 February 2020]

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! Isn’t 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 the polarity within you 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. 

Image from here

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 (Foredawn) 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.

Image found on Google

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.

LjL and the bifurcating plant,
Tropical Spice Gardens, Penang, Malaysia

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

[Wednesday 26 February 2020]

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.

Hong Kong Cityscape 2,
by Laurence James Lucas

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. Foredawn is the mystery that cannot be grasped, the space of fecundity and potentiality.

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. Evoke the personal sanctuary that is your soul.

The world is full of social compartments, walled off by fragile belief systems that are transparently illusory. 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.

Foredawn Daykeeper glyph, by LjL

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

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 we must leave the fakery behind now. The time has come...

Thank you to Vicky Baker Eichman

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.

Receive the dreams from beyond your self and learn to look in the spaces in-between; look through the cracks, for this is where the new light pours in. Go inside, into the darkness, and create the space for light to enter.

The vastness of the Cosmos is encoded into every cell of your being. Your body is the home of your soul. Inside your home you will find the Cosmic Void.

Within all form is space.

Today, open yourself to the mystery; open yourself to the miraculous.

Thank you to Michelle Harris

13 Wind

[Tuesday 25 February 2020]

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.

Today, 13 Wind, is 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.

But the challenge today is also to slow yourself down a bit and to be more efficient. So do take some time off the internet today; release yourself from the computer, from writing and communicating, feeling emotionally free. By doing so, will allow your subconscious to receive new data from involvement with random activities.

Noosphere image by Tataiana Plakhova
of complexitygraphics.com,
one of Laurence's favourite artists

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.

Image from here

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 13 Wind, first posted on 13 Wind of 3 March 2015:]
PLEASE DO NOT GO YET, I LOVE YOU!

Did you know that most people leave a website after 10 seconds? Ah, that is the price for ‘living in interesting times’; we have all gone manic and anxious. Loads of time on the internet with no time to look at anything interesting!

Image found on Google

Andy Warhol’s ‘15 minutes of fame’ is an eternity on a website!

Here is a challenge for new visitors. Get to the end of the page and you will have risen above the mass hysteria... Can you do it? (Oh, he’s gone already, something I said?)

i-Cybie Robot Dog
Image found on Google,
information about i-Cybie
can be found here

Today is 13 Wind in the Mayan Sacred Calendar and so the attention span of web users is a very relevant.

Okay thank you... you can go now... why not go here…

Laurence and Chocolate
in the hills of Lamma,
releasing the Dog Timewave
on 13 Wind

12 Crocodile

[Monday 24 February 2020]

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.

2012: Vision City
Artwork for LjL's first book, The 21st Century Book of the Dead

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 exteriorised 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.

Goddess Ganga Riding Her Crocodile
Image found on Google

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 12 Crocodile, first posted in 2013, but still relevant today:]
Towards a Planetary Consciousness
As planetary consciousness emerges more strongly in the decades to come, one of the tasks and opportunities is the ability to emotionally feel the personal auric space, the body of light. This is the extended egg of the life force, or chi, that is integrating mind, body and emotions, and which also includes the imagination.

We will learn – and in fact have to learn – to be conscious of our perceptional filters and the interface with the collective environment, so that we can understand the energy, information and emotion that is flooding through us. 

Image conceptualised by LjL,
created for him by Kookie Birjukov (thank you!)

The psychic fecundity of the highly charged plasma environment enables a whole new level of feeling, a higher resonant emotional connection. The challenge includes greater awareness of energy transmission – the totality of our output of emotions and thoughts – in order to regulate our magnetism. The totality of our output attracts same-same, or self-reinforcing reality tunnels. The challenge also includes consciously filtering out that which does not support or nurture our expression.

The gifts include the ability to feel greater unity, love and communion with all manner of people.

LjL's Map of the Liquid Light Body

I developed a Lightbody practice in the 1990s, which is based on expanding the ball of chi to a full twenty-foot-diameter egg. This allows for a continuum of felt sensation from body to full personal auric space and the interface with collective energy and informational fields. The interface portals in the energy field can plug into any type of cosmic energy, so willed.

Many years later, I am still developing this ability. It is a slow process at present, but as the energy change accelerates, this will become much more available to a lot more people.

This may sound science fiction-esque, but really it is very intuitive and natural.

Noosphere image by Tataiana Plakhova
of complexitygraphics.com,
one of Laurence's favourite artists

The environment is always offering us the nourishment we need. We will be able to absorb more light and synthesise more nutrients directly from the plasma as the planetary field awakens. Similarly, free energy technologies that draw upon the environmental energy are already available (We are not in Kansas any more, Dorothy).

It is the totality of human consciousness that is presently inhibiting the full development. If enough people become aware of the abundance of every kind of energy that is inherent within the planetary field, then no amount of suppression would or could stop the manifestation of a whole new civilisation.

Emotional Intelligence
Image found on Google

[For more about Laurence’s work and thesis, please visit our portal website]

11 Flower (Sun, Lord)

[Sunday 23 February 2020. New Moon 15:32 UTC/GMT; 23:32 Hong Kong time]

A Door Opens into the Light
Today, 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.

Main image for our Storyteller workshop
of January 2007
Image conceptualised by LjL
and created by Kookie Birjukov

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.

Flipchart by LjL

In my experience, I have found that generally speaking we are operating through two (or sometimes three) chakras at a time. At each stage of development of consciousness,* 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, tree, car or human – is the ‘solidified’ form of a unique kaleidoscopic mix.

11 Flower (also known as Sun 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.

Remember: All types of consciousness are substances.

Chakras by Ero, image found here

[* Note from Carey: To understand more about Laurence’s model of the Enchantments of Life, his groundbreaking map of the evolution of human consciousness, go to the Enchantments page and sub-pages on our portal website.]

Bringing in the light;
LjL in his homemade icosahedral geo-cage,
UK, early 1990s

10 Storm

[Saturday 22 February 2020]

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

Rain in Hong Kong, photo thanks to André Eichman

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. Day 10 in each timewave 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.

Tapestry of emotional needs
Composite created by Carey,
using images found on Google

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).

Today find the peace within yourself.

Healing the Emotional Body-Skywatcher
Artwork by Susan Seddon Boulet, 1941–1997;
image found on Google, from here

9 Obsidian (Mirror, Flint)

[Friday 21 February 2020]

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.

Created by LjL

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 realisation of how your past reflects this moment and how your future will have a resonance with your past.

Uncredited image found on Google

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 (also called the Nine Lords of the Night).

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’ (derived from the Mayan Long Count Calendar) was the end of one Galactic spin of 25,600 to 25,920 years. The world was subliminally primed to recognise large cycles of time and to remember that the larger context for our reality is truly cosmic.

The Cyclical Nature of Time
Image from here

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 9 Obsidian:]
Towards the Planetary Awakening
The conclusive message of my lifetime’s research is that the human species is in the midst of manifesting a planetary consciousness.

We live in an increasing level of background stress, psychological and psychic pressure or urgency. There is an evolutionary imperative to reach and step into the planetary landscape of the mind.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin foresaw an acceleration of complexity towards an Omega Point. In a very similar fashion, Terence McKenna spoke of the acceleration of time, complexity and novelty to a Concrescence Point. From a purely materialistic point of view, Ray Kurzweil speaks of the ‘singularity’ and the convergence of all technology, implicating physical longevity and artificial intelligence. José Argüelles was a prophet of the shift to a post-technological society, where time is art. Jean Gebser observed human cultural and individual evolution awakening to an integration of all that went before and a subsequent trans-temporal state of consciousness.

‘You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience.
You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.’
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

All of these well-known pioneers are but the tip of the iceberg of a host of visionaries who in essence perceive the same general truth.

Barbara Hand Clow expresses a belief that we are moving to a nine-dimensional experience of reality. She finds parallels with Carl Calleman’s theory of the Nine Mayan Underworlds, which is a fractal view of evolutionary timescales.

The Nine Lords of the Night,
from the Codex Borgia
Original image in the public domain,
from Wikipedia, photoshopped by me

The Nine Underworlds refer to nine levels of consciousness that exist within us. The multidimensional experience is something we already have and is more ordinarily explained by developmental psychology.

What I am suggesting is that every person already lives multidimensional lives – it’s just not recognised as such. The acceleration is the awareness of the totality of Earth’s dimensionality that is expressed through human psychological experience.

Mirror ... Tell me ... by
Mahhona from Deviantart

The essential truth is not explained merely by the exponential doubling of information, technological innovation or the increasing environmental crisis. It is, rather, the pressure to awaken to the planetary level of consciousness – not the global physical reality, but beyond that to the planetary field we live within.

Whether it’s the outrageous economic situation, or the fragile geopolitical world, the dynamic is pressing towards the big picture.

Composite created by Carey
Central image conceptualised by LjL
and created for him thanks to
Kookie Birjukov

When you integrate all of the different strands, the array of issues and personal crises, they integrate on the level of planetary consciousness and the future planetary civilisation that is product of that consciousness.

We are experiencing an intoxicating and bewildering acceleration to a new fundamental reality. The planetary stage of development is where all the contents of the different paradigms of science, spirituality and culture are experienced as contexts. We step beyond the acceleration into the ever-present toroidal flow of each moment, both experiencing the speed and chaotic relationships within each of the theatres that make up our world, and being existent in the stillness of the central channel.

Acceleration of Time
Photo by Gary Cummins,
from Flickr via Google images

Within each moment, we are simultaneously feeling the dense tapestry of emotion and yet are free from the full immersion that is experienced by those whose reality wholly belongs to just one religion or one paradigm – be that Catholicism, scientism, new-ageism, conspiracy-ism, shamanism or any other kind of singular truth mindset.

Modern shamanism is perhaps a more inclusive and malleable paradigm that comes closest to this new consciousness, one which en-souls complexity science within the immanence – the immanence of consciousness, the inherent totality of Earth.

Loneliness
Uncredited image found on Google

The greatest challenge to this level of consciousness in its early stage of its emergence is loneliness. The conundrum is that once your connection to the whole planet grows more visceral, the comfort of membership you once had with moral certainty, materialistic science, or idealistic mindsets erodes. The ego still exits as an arising artefact that comes and goes in the flow of realities, as the freedom of the void and the exquisite aliveness and intimacy of existence simultaneously call upon you. The conundrum is the ever-present death and then recapitulation of the ego-self that is required for the liberation of consciousness on this level.

The mind becomes more lucid, and yet is felt as more restrictive, as complex concepts appear annoyingly easily and, by doing so, pull us from the simplicity we yearn to attach to. The challenge is nonattachment whilst engaging in the flow of unending death and rebirth.

The planetary level is not the same as the transcendental state of stillness of the ancient traditions, but is a more radical, more human experience of living within and being the dynamic movement of life.

[And here is an extra link, first posted by Laurence on 18 June 2009, as well as another link to a YouTube video:]
More on time from me here: Time Decays Over Time 

The Acceleration of Time
And here is Terence McKenna weaving his magic in this wonderful 3 minute video. 

Terence McKenna
Created by u/witzowitz,
image found here

8 Earthmover

[Thursday 20 February 2020]

Change Coming into Being
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.’

Composite created by Carey

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.

Time Travelers by Tashi Norbu
Image from here

If you follow the 260-day pulse, you will start to notice certain mathematical patterns, such as Day 8 of each timewave being ruled by the same Daykeeper as the first day of the previous timewave. Thus, today being 8 Earthmover, we are reminded that the last 13-day period (a ‘timewave’) was the Earthmover Timewave.

Being an 8 Day, today is a day of committing your energy – or, we could say, incrementally committing more of your energy – to that which emerged during the previous timewave. The nature of change that surfaced during the Earthmover Timewave – which would have revealed an inherent evolutionary facet of your life message – is now showing itself again. You are being called to synchronise and integrate with it.

Image found on Pinterest

We get what we ask for. That is not always such an easy ride, because we are also aware of the infinite potentials that lie beyond this choice we have made... but it is worthwhile, enriching and deeply rewarding to see it through.

Image found on Google

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.

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

What You Want, Wants You
Beautiful artwork by Jennifer Currie,
found on her blogsite