3 Skull

[Monday 20 January 2020]

Day 3 of each timewave is generally energising, while Skull rules completions and endings.

Image found on Google

Today is a good day to make many small decisions. Be ruthless if necessary. Get real.

Be energised with the vitality of this day through those little completions. Cut off and restart; clarify your life through the ability to release clutter and distractions.

Three incense sticks
outside a temple in Coloane, Macau

Keep it simple.

Edit your life.

Get to the point.

Three skulls, by Joern Zimmermann,
UI Designer/3D artist
Image from here

2 Serpent

[Sunday 19 January 2020]

Day 2 of each timewave presents the duality that exists within that specific timewave. Serpent days in general concern physical vitality, amongst other things.

Composite created by Carey,
using a fragment of a painting by LjL

The challenges of survival and making a living can come to the fore today – the issues of health versus money.

Today can be a challenging day, or just a day of opposites. 2 Serpent represents the dual impulses of the life force inherent within all growth – security versus the urge to grow.

Double-headed serpent, Aztec figurine
from Mexico (A.D. 1400-1600),
made of about 2,000 small pieces of turquoise
set on a curved wooden frame
Image from here

Allow the two forces to be. Feel the creative tension that builds, as this is your power which you will soon be able to harness.

If you feel tense, be sure to get into the body today. Move and dance.

Liam Scarlett’s Serpent
Photo: Michele Mossop from here

To be aware is to bring the light of awareness into the world. Hold the polarities within you; see both sides of the potentiality; and get in touch with your body and your instinctive power, for that is the intelligence of survival.

Image found on Pinterest

1 Lizard (Seed)

[Saturday 18 January 2020]

A new 13-day timewave, that of Lizard or Seed (Kan), begins today.

Sterculia (tropical chestnut), with its many seeds.
Apparently named after Sterculius,
the Roman God of Manure,
for the delightful aroma of its flowers!

The Lizard or Seed Timewave gives you the opportunity to be centred in your essential template, which is the subtle manifest form of your divine essence as expressed in this life. Your template holds the basic intention for your life, your dharma and the structure within which your free will operates. Your intentions for different aspects of your life are the seeds that you generate within your mind and imagination. The more aligned you are with your master template, the more effective your intentions are.

'Sterculia',
with very kind permission of
the multitalented Daniel Clarke,
on Daniel's Daily Drawings

Lizards enjoy the abundance of the Sun. They are masters at storing the Sun’s energy, just like the seed does. Seed is the living example of universal abundance. Every seed contains a life; every living thing produces seeds in outrageous amounts. Nature does not adhere to ‘one plus one equals two’ – the totality of life is not just the sum of its parts, but an ever-expanding proliferation of life.

Absorb the light of the Sun consciously today to enhance your awareness of your divine intelligence. Recognise that light carries the seed for all manifest form –  light is intelligent – and by so doing, you increase your connection to your master template.

Iguana in the ruins at Chichén Itzá,
Yucatán, Mexico,
photo by Bob Metzler

This 13-day timewave gives you the opportunity to plant many seeds for your life.

Today, just start with the simplicity of recognising that there is a template of your being and for your life.

Watering Can Man,
Tai Peng Community Garden

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 1 Lizard/Seed:]
The Seed (aka Lizard) Daykeeper is a community networker, as each seed is both separate unto itself, yet embodies the morphogenic field to which it belongs.

Today, connect to your resonant energy fields, for they extend beyond the limits of your mind. Human intentions only grow and fully flower in the fecundity of community.

Tai Peng Bike Lady,
Tai Peng Community Garden, Lamma Island.
Many wonderful people plant seeds here
to enhance life for everyone in the community

In this 13-day period, we can connect to the underlying intelligence of this momentous period of the human story – the cyclic change of the 2012 era* and beyond. Trust your sense of how life is changing; trust your insights. Your direct experiential knowledge will give you a facet of the truth – not the whole truth, but a facet of the truth.

This is extremely valuable, so make the effort to connect and understand what it is you are being given, without presuming it to be the absolute definition.

[* Laurence contended that the 2012 era began in 1986 and will last well into the 2020s.]

Morphogenetic field, Dom Perignon 1990,
by artist photographer Seb Janiak, 2016

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

[Friday 17 January 2020]

Let go and jump into the mystery; open yourself to go beyond what you know.

Cosmic Awe
Composite created by Carey

The energy of today is conducive to creating space in your life for the renewed clarity of intention that will be emerging during the next timewave (Lizard or Seed Timewave).

A great day for contemplating the stars and the cosmos and feeling the bliss and awe that comes when you allow yourself to reach out into the unknown.

The Monkey Timewave ends with cosmic awe. Monkey draws upon this experiential truth to retain his humour and spontaneity.

Uncredited image found on Google

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 13 Foredawn:]
Today, it could feel that your mind is wandering, as if the furniture of your psyche is being shifted around.

Also, you might feel like you are locked inside your own psychological complexity, unable to function clearly or even leave the house.

If this is the case, remember: Behind the veil of the mind, energy is being adjusted as a new space is being prepared. Tomorrow (1 Lizard/Seed) will feel far more together and coherent.

Composite created by Carey

Today the Monkey Timewave disintegrates and releases its energy. So let go, maybe celebrate the mystery of life… The meaning of yesterday now dissipates, so in the release you create space. Be empty and enjoy the freedom of that. The darkness of the night sky breeds anticipation.

Base image from
Virginia Air & Space Center,
NASA Langley Visitor Centre

The wisdom of slackers, the surrender of the mystic, the muse of the dreamers are all in operation as you explore the extraordinary potentials of your life.

Create a space, for tomorrow you plant a seed that can grow before your eyes... it might just be miraculous...

Image found on Google

12 Wind

[Thursday 16 January 2020]

Today, the Monkey Timewave reveals its order and rationality. When Wind falls on a 12 day, it is more stable; the mind works in an orderly fashion. The trickster element within your life reveals its wisdom in a way that makes sense – if you are listening.

'Harness the power of Wind;
notice what gifts there are in your life.'
Composite created by Carey,
using images found on Google

Wind is the transmitter of ideas, the messenger, the activator. It can also be impatient, anxious or angry.

Today, harness the power of Wind and bring it under the control of your reasoning. This will allow you access to exciting and fresh ideas that motivate you and others.

The Neverending Dreamer by Cameron Gray
Image from here

Today is a good day for understanding the chaos that has recently arisen in your life and how it has brought you gifts.

Composite created by Carey

11 Crocodile

[Wednesday 15 January 2020]

Today we are asked to nurture our creations by allowing for fallow time.

The strong confidence of yesterday’s light dissolves into a brooding need to have some soulful security, to slow down and to open to the feminine.

The Birth of Venus (mid 1480s) by Sandro Botticelli,
image from Google Art Project via Wikipedia Commons

Allow more into your area of love; it is a day of acceptance and nurturing.

Nutrients from Arcadia flow into your psyche and you can share the love.

Nurturing Monkey,
photo by Carey

The primal birth of the Earth, the Goddess realm, resonates through the ethers as the door opens to the ever-present birth of Earth.

The question is: Are you still being nurtured by what you think is feeding you?

Are your expressions and is your creativity nurturing you?

 The Virgin and Infant,
by Jean Fouquet, 1450

Also, are you allowing yourself enough space in between your activities for the primal connection to Source to be felt?

Make sure that you are not becoming a robot. Allow for the ever-present primal energy of the Goddess to enter your life.

The Soul of the Rose,
by John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)
From Wikimedia Commons

10 Flower (Sun, Lord)

[Tuesday 14 January 2020]

A day of manifest light. The Monkey Timewave manifests as the light within the trickster, which is humour with grace and the radiance of the heart opening.

When the face is lit up with a smile, the light of the Sun can be seen.

Today is all about smiling.

That does not necessarily mean grinning with recognition at everyone you pass in town today – it could be a song or a dance that brings a deep smile to your face.

Smiling Flowers,
free wallpaper image from here

Smile with the recognition of your divinity and the blessing of being sovereign of your personal reality. Be conscious of natural light today. Today is a day when the subtle creative light of existence – the wholly affirmative energy within life – manifests and is easily accessible through the agency of natural manifest light.

Monkey tells us that life is drama, full of dark humour, paradox and trickery, and that the key to playing the game successfully with a positive attitude requires that we draw upon the light.

Awaken, by Cameron Gray,
from here

The Divine Light contains the intelligence of existence and we are processors of light. The intelligence of all life far surpasses the intelligence of any machine or technology, no matter how advanced it becomes. In psychology, the computer metaphor has gradually replaced the study of the soul. This metaphor for the human mind (replacing soul) is known as the cognitive approach. We are indeed partially cognitive – that is, information processors – but the internet is already more efficient than any human for accessing all of the information of human knowledge, no matter how bright the individual.

Smooth, grapic by LjL

So are we to surrender our divinity to the machine?

No, because the Divine Light contains the intelligence of Life, which includes far more than information – it is imbued with the ability of unlimited creativity. We are co-creators, far more than we are information processors; co-creators who are interconnected to the unlimited adaptability, spontaneity and joy of creation itself.

In today’s world, as the technological continues to progress, it is increasingly true that our connection to our sovereign light, our creative channel, is the most valuable commodity we own.

Today, bring more light into your being by smiling.

Image of Atlantis
found on Google

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 10 Flower:]
Today is 10 Flower (also known as Sun or Lord) in the Monkey Timewave. Today, Monkey manifests as the ability to draw light directly from Source within the dark and unknown chapters of life. Monkey says that the rules of life are forever changing and that we can play – and should play – by our own rules when the situation demands.

Flower is the manifestation of a plant celebrating life. The plant synthesises light directly to sustain itself. We, on the other hand, in our present state of evolution, require the synthesised light that we get through eating plants. However, can we also synthesise light directly from the solar radiation that infuses the atmosphere? I think we are already doing that, to a certain extent, and that the body can synthesise vitamins and minerals from the atmosphere.

Heartfelt thanks to Roberta Raine

Light from the Sun is encoded with all the energy information for life on Earth – and that includes our consciousness. Higher levels of consciousness within us equate to and draw upon the unseen light from the Galactic Core and all of the stars that surround us. Beyond that, our higher levels of consciousness have resonance with, or are sourced from, galaxies all over the Universe, the Universe itself and then the light of the Multiverse.

The Moon also plays an important role in transducing light, by reflecting the Sun and, in effect, by enabling us to reflect upon ourselves through our feelings. The planets in the Solar System also transduce light into different frequencies. The Solar System is mostly made up of ‘space’ that is contained within the auric field of the Sun – the Sun’s influence – which extends out to the Oort cloud.

Heartfelt thanks to Karen Argyle

‘Space’ is actually filled with plasma, which is the fundamental state of matter, a kind of liquid-gas with very strange properties. Scientists have found that plasma exhibits signs of being a life form. In laboratory conditions, it has been found that two plasma fields can communicate and reproduce.

I consider plasma to be the conduit for consciousness.

The movements of the planets through the Sun’s plasmic ocean (the Solar System) change the symphony and the arrangement of frequencies. This is the basis for astrology.

Heartfelt thanks to
Kookie Birjukov

9 Storm

[Monday 13 January 2020]

The shaft of light then enters the drama, a window of awareness into the completion of the cycle and the new space being offered…

Photo by Carey

The Mayan Sacred Calendar measures a different but ever-present realm; it is the layer of the tapestry of reality that connects the Earth, Nature and the Human World with the greater Cosmos. This day, 9 Storm, is a wake-up day.

Uncredited view of Hong Kong
in a shaft of light,
found on Goggle
(if it is yours, please let me know!)

A day of realisation. Not a rational understanding, but a soul-felt liberating connection, a memory from the future. A reminder that you were meant to drop that ‘thing’ you had already planned to let go of, or to break out of ‘this’, or to wake up from ‘that’.

A sudden bolt of lightening acts to cleanse, purge, purify and catalyse you. This could include meeting some strange but familiar person.

Image from here

A good day to feel the Spirit of Freedom that lives within you.

9 Storm is a day to be alert to a peak experience, as a hole in time opens up in the most unexpected place and in the most unexpected moment.

Photo by Carey,
taken from Secret Rock

8 Obsidian (Mirror, Flint)

[Sunday 12 January 2020]

Energy moving towards manifestation.

Committing to the Game of Life requires accepting the totality that results from your desires – which includes living with the shadow of what you want. However, the price is never as high as it might seem. The shadow is a scary spectre that dissolves with the light of your courage as you open up to new dimensions.

Composite created by Carey,
using images found on Google

‘Mirror, mirror on the wall: Who am I?’

Today is a day where you can recognise how you are attracting what you ask for. You have the life that reflects the totality of your emanations – what you put out – and you are challenged to commit to accepting that, to seeing the shadow and the price of your desires. However, looking deeper into the smoky mirror of eternity, you will find that other worlds open up as you make the commitment.

A Sulawesi black monkey checking himself
out in the mirror (Image: Caters)
by photographer Ronny Buol
Image from here

Day 8 of each 13-day timewave is a day of balanced, controlled commitment; it is the energy of feeling prepared. Obsidian is a day of truth and surrender, of accepting the shadow and the universal reflection of one’s reality at the moment.

Image from here,
with a wonderful backstory!

However, as we are in the Monkey Timewave, there is a subtext of ‘Do not get too serious or rigid with your commitment.’

Surrender your emotional tightness so as to open the heart and be a divine mirror.

Detail from The Arnolfini Portrait,
by Jan van Eyck, 1434
Image originally from here

The Monkey knows that on each level of the game, he faces his shadow.

In so doing, he is able to create and to weave new fabric into reality.

Mariana in the South,
by John William Waterhouse, circa 1897
Image via Wikimedia Commons

7 Earthmover

[Saturday 11 January 2020. Full Moon in Hong Kong at exactly 03:21, and Penumbral Lunar Eclipse (visible in HK)]

A good day to feel a resonance or actually synchronise with the impulse of life to change towards the beneficial and the magnificent. 7 Earthmover is a high-energy day, full of magical potential.

Beautiful fractal art by Italian designer Silvia Cordedda
Image from here

Take time to remind yourself and to create some space, to experience the fact that all of Nature is alive, just like you. Feel the vital fizz of life; see it all around you.

Alternatively, a day to enjoy the magical surprise of a spontaneous element that comes into your life which takes you off track – meaning off the linear path of linear mind, so that you can integrate and synchronise with the force of evolution.

Shrooms, by John Shannon
Image from here

Life has an intelligence beyond our personal and immediate understanding.

What gift is here for you today?

Composite created by Carey

'Nature is alive and talking to us. 

This is not a metaphor.' 

Terrence McKenna
Quote from here, with some great images

6 Vulture (Warrior, Owl, Turkey)

[Friday 10 January 2010. Today or tomorrow, depending where you are in the world, is a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse; Full Moon 19:21 UTC/GMT (tomorrow morning in Hong Kong at exactly 03:21)]


Flowing strength, clear harmonics, relaxed and moving with the ebb and flow...

Composite created by Carey,
using images found on Google

To be a Daykeeper means to follow the rhythm of the 260-day calendar each and every day. Slowly, patiently, receive the pulse of the vast reality beyond the mundane realm of worldly matters.

The pulse resonates at the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere where our planet is looking out into the depths of the Cosmic Ocean. Simultaneously, this pulsation is immanent within all material concerns.

Cosmos, A Spacetime Odyssey by Neil Degrasse Tyson
 Free HD wallpaper from here

Today is a day of receptive, responsive action and surrender, with an easy strength of mind. Assume a relaxed stance and be ready to respond with nobility and creativity.

Wisdom unfurling...

Dame Margot Fonteyn,
assuming a relaxed stance at a window
in Granada, Spain. Image found on Pinterest
 (Photo by Baron/Getty Images)

[Extra message from Laurence to contemplate on 6 Vulture:]
As consciousness expands, so does our embrace of more time and more space. As we evolve, the complexity of time and space also increases, since we are able to hold a greater variety of time frames at once. This increasing embrace also includes connection to larger and more complex scales of community.

Image from here

5 Eagle

[Thursday 9 January 2020]

A great day to see yourself in the centre of your world. See the environment all around you, above you and below you.

The difference between being isolated and dislocated from all that circles you, and being connected and engaged with your world is whether the heart is open.

Open Heart by Carey

Keeping the heart open requires an enormous effort and diligence in the world today, for we also have to be discerning about what and who we open up to. Utilise the clarity, compassion and precision of Eagle to locate the most appropriate place in your world today and then apply your efforts there.

A day of empowerment. Speak from your vision, because the vision you have today is nicely centred and you are able to recognise the joy of material reality whilst holding the wisdom you have accrued.

Composite created by Carey,
using images found on Google

Empower yourself with Eagle energy today and you will attract more abundance into your life – if not today, then soon.

Image copyright Julia Watkins,
from here

The clarity you have today needs to be appreciated and recognised for its magnetic ability.

Laurence James Lucas, more than anyone else I have ever met, had an extraordinary ability to keep his heart always open.

Today, which happens to be my Mayan birthday, and every day, I call upon his Spirit to help me by imbuing me with some of his clarity, his compassion, his breathtaking depth of vision, his irrepressible joy in life, his refined discernment, his unique capacity to empower those around him, his wisdom, his humour and his contagious laughter.