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OF NATURAL TIME
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13-MOON DIARY
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A way to live the ancient Maya calendar
Yellow Self-Existing Seed Year July 26, 2009 - July 24, 2010
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Contents inside front cover: Calculate Galactic Signature Stick-a-pocket 9
PART 1 IT’S ABOUT TIME
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Time changes 13-Moon Diary: It’s about Time Indigenous counts 13 Moons, 13 Months Indian Moons Your Time Your Choice 13 Moon Calendar Time Synchronicity Maya horoscope The 13-Moon Calendar summarized Reflections of Time
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PART 2 DAYKEEPER
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Personal information Gregorian Calendar 2009 + 2010 Who is Who? Cycle Calendar When is When Calendar Moonplanner Happy new Yellow Self-Existing Seed Year How to use? Daily journal / planner Day out of Time
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PART 3 13-MOON CALENDAR
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How to get started? José Argüelles The 365 day Solar calendar New Years Day is July 26 13-Moon Calendar; 13 Moons 13 month Organization of months and weeks Days of the week The 260 day Galactic Calendar (Tzolkin) 260 and 365 days? 13 : 20 7
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The Present-Day Maya Hunab K’u What do we see? The cells Which day is it in the 13-Moon Calendar? Interpretation of the calendar Tones Wavespell - the cycle of 13 Solar Seals Galactic Activation Portals - GAP Core Days The cycles of the 260-day Galactic Calendar
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Calculate your Galactic Signature Galactic Signature: your personal ‘kin’ What does this mean? Born on a GAP day Born on a Core day Destination Wavespell Now what? Interpreting the 260 days The practical application of the 13-Moon Calendar
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Descriptions Tone 1 to 13 Solar Seal 1 to 20 Moon 1 to 13
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Credits Planet Art Network About the artist: Peter Eglington Who we are Credits, books & websites Frontier Bookshop & Publishing Banner of Peace Addresses
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Overview
inside back cover: Key words and focus for Solar Seals and Tones
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part 1
It’s about Time
Photo: Jeffrey van Rossum, Netherlands
theme 2009 – 2010
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It’s about time. This is a diary, so of course it’s about time, you may think. But it is not about the conventional Gregorian time, it’s about a calendar in sync with the natural cycles which bring peace, called the 13-Moon Calendar. But that’s not all; there is a lot more to be said about time. What is Time? Is Time equal to the clock? Does it exist when we are not here to measure or experience time? Is it possible Time ends? The magical date 21.12.2012 is approaching. What are the implications?
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uly 26, 2009 is the first day of the Year of the Yellow Self-Existing Seed and only 1243 days removed from the magical 21-12-2012: the date on which the Long Count Maya calender ends and a new era commences; only 1243 countable days to go to the beginning of the fifth world. According to spiritual author Aluna Joy Yax’kin, by December 21 2012 “we will understand new possibilities and expose new secrets of life; we will have the means to prevent our own extinction caused by human error; we will be able to release the grip of darkness that threatens our survival and be able to call upon the higher dimensions at will.”1 Before we get there, much needs to be done. IT’S ABOUT TIME. According to José Argüelles 2012 is “the call from the Source to remember our universal oneness... The point of the fulfillment of the prophecy of 2012 is that we have to do something; it is not a matter of passively waiting for it to occur. Those who cling to old concepts and values – even concepts of the self – will have a hard time of it. Nature adheres to neither opinions nor concepts, e.g. rain is not concerned with our opinion of it. We are headed on the path of becoming genuinely human. It is good for yourself and the universe to practice unconditional love and universal forgiveness.”
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A whale of a time Time is a visible result of space. If
nothing changes in the spatial world
surrounding you, you lose track of time. How does a rapidly fluttering butterfly experience time, compared to a colossal whale slowly traversing a vast ocean?
Photo: Catmando
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How to read ? current Moon in text, symbol and Gregorian date
focus of the current Moon
How can I best empower myself?
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Overtone Peacock Moon
NOV 15 - DEC 12, 2009 Sunday NOVEMBER
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Monday NOVEMBER
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Red week of initiation
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week name of the Moon
first day of the current Moon
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read p. xxx
read about the current Moon
Kin 117
Gregorian dates
19:14 GMT
2 color of the current Moon
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Wednesday NOVEMBER
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3 Kin 119
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New Moon
First Quarter
Solar Seal of the day
Kin 192 GAP
06:18 GMT
21st day of the current Moon
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Last Quarter
Tone of the day. Color of the Tone represents the color of the current wavespell
Guide of the day
Kin number of the Tzolkin
Full Moon
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Galactic Activation Portal (or Core day)
Full Moon For accurate Moon phases time check your local time zone: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/
1 of the 7 plasma seals
JULY 26 2009 - JULY 24, 2010
Yellow Self-Existing Seed Year
photo: Sanja Gjenero, Croatia
My purpose for this year is:
What is my purpose?
Magnetic Bat Moon
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JUL 26 - AUG 22, 2009 Sunday JULY
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Red Dragon Wavespell, kin 1 - 13 The inner Mother. Nurture, birth, being Dragon Wavespell is the first Wavespell of a new Tzolkin cycle. You can apply this new birth of energy to start something new. Man has a tendency to control, change or improve his environment. This Wavespell is about letting things be the way they are. Do not complain when it rains, but cherish the wet drops falling on your head. Do not get upset in traffic. It is the way it is. Be like a tree that watches the world around it, free of judgement and without wanting to change anything. Cherish life just the way it is. Be your own mother and give yourself what it is you truly need. Cherish your belly and your womb as the source of all life.
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Star Moon Dog Monkey Human Sky walker Wizard Eagle Warrior
Sun
The 260-day Galactic Calendar (Tzolkin)
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The Present-Day Maya The Galactic Calendar as presented in this diary, and from time to time referred to as Tzolkin, is quite different from the Tzolkin or Chol’qui Calendar used by the present-day Mayan shamans. The explanation and names of the Seals may be different. Furthermore, the Quiché Maya use a different count. The 13-Moon Calendar as presented in this diary is designed by José Argüelles, in order to be used worldwide. Once again, it gives everybody the opportunity to get synchronized with natural time and to remember (and integrate) ‘the cycle of 260’. Hunab K’u Hunab K’u is the heart of the Milky Way, the place the ancient Maya called the Cosmic Womb. Hunab K’u is the One Creator of Measure and Movement, the heart of the Milky Way where - according to the Maya - all measure and movement originates. Hunab K’u is the one and the other, but it is also neither the one, nor the other. It is masculine and feminine and yet it is neutral. In Guatemala they refer to it as: Heart of the Sky and Heart of the Earth. They give it the colors green and white, or green and pale blue. At December 21, 2012 the Earth and sun are in alignment with the center of the Milky Way, with Hunab K’u. This alignment of the southern solstice with the center of the Milky Way is rare, only occurring once every 13.000 years. Ah Yum Hunab K’u Evam Maya E Ma Ho! (May the peace of the nature of the cosmos be in each and everyone of us!)
What do we see? From top left-hand corner of the first column of the calendar on page 184, we see the 20 Solar Seals of the sun. The first Solar Seal is the Red Dragon, followed by White Wind etc., ending with Yellow Sun at the bottom of the column. The horizontal rows next to each Seal depict the days related to that particular Seal. To enhance readability, only the Seal’s color is applied in the cells. Each cell represents a day commencing at 00:00 hours midnight. The cells In each cell a number is visible, representing the number of the Kin, i.e. day. (In Maya ‘Tzol’ means count and ‘kin’ means day. Therefore, Tzolkin stands for ‘counting of the days’). • Kin number (from 1 to 260) • Dots and bars: these represent the Tone. • A Solar Seal at the left. This is a stylized drawing based on old Mayan glyphs. The Solar Seals carry names as Dragon, Wind, Night, Seed, etc. • A color (red, white, blue or yellow). The four directions of the wind determine the color. Every direction has its own color and quality or power. • 52 dark (or black) sections. These are the so-called Galactic Activation Portal days (GAPs). • 20 intensely colored sections in the central column (7th column). These are the Core Days. • A green dot in the centre. This represents the point of reflection closest to Hunab K’u. 185
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TONES
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Tone 4 – Self-Existing Tone
Tone 5 – Overtone Tone
Self-Existing Tone of Form Measure Energy - Define!
Overtone of Radiance Command Energy - Confirm!
Mayan name: Can Key words: measure, define, form
Mayan name: Ho Key words: command, empower, radiance
Power: Four is the number in which something is formed in the third dimension. Whereas three dots still form a plane, at least four dots are necessary to create a shape, something that can exist on its own. That’s why we call Tone 4 the Self-Existing Tone. In this third dimension, time is our fourth dimension. We need time in order to experience the third dimension. Imagine a building; by moving through its space, you experience that space. For example, you could estimate the size of the walls. You ‘measure’ by moving your body. By measuring, you create or define the scope.
Power: Tone 5 takes you back to the direction of the wind where you started in the cycle of four: red–white–blue– yellow. That is why Tone 5 is called the OverTone. When this cycle is added to the previous one, a direct intensification of energy takes place. You can use this to strengthen yourself. Confirm! Show who you really are!
Guidance: Form action plan; Define boundaries; Create blueprint of success. Personality: People with Tone 4 are practical, realistic and well grounded. Sometimes their anchoring is so steady, that they find it hard to change their mind once they have made it up, even when their fixed opinion no longer serves a purpose! It is wise to let go of that rigidity. People with Tone 4 are good at defining and determining limits. Furthermore they are skilled summarizers, translators and planners. Question: Do I respect my limitations? Do I want to exceed my capacities? Joint: right wrist Pulsar: 3rd dimension – Mind pulsar 200
Guidance: Gather internal and external resources to empower yourself and others. Personality: People with Tone 5 are inquisitive. They want to know everything. Sometimes even too much, some would say. However, you want insight in the total picture. How does he do this? Where can you buy that? Why do you do it this way? This may cause your head to be swimming from time to time. Remember yourself. People with Tone 5 make their presence felt while in the company of others. They wish to be seen. After all, they have a lot to share… Question: Do I let others see who I am? Do I ensure I get what I need? Joint: right elbow Pulsar: 4th dimension – Time pulsar
Tone 6 – Rhythmic Tone
Tone 7 – Resonant Tone
Rhythmic Tone of Equality Balance Energy - Flow!
Resonant Tone of Attunement Inspire Energy - Become one!
Mayan name: Uac Key words: balance, organize, equality
Mayan name: Uc Key words: inspire, channel, attunement
Power: When you visualize six dots on a sheet of paper or on a dice, a rhythm is born. Without probably even noticing it, you start forming groups: [1-2] [1-2] [1-2] or [1-2-3] [1-2-3]. That is the rhythm. Each rhythm has a certain time that is equal, that’s why we experience it as a rhythm. Thus, number 6 is the Tone of equality. Just do whatever the rhythm asks of you: rock in time and let it flow… Tone 6 represents the cycles of nature; all that ascends and descends, dies and is reborn. It is a continuous movement – the cosmic balance.
Power: In the process of 13, number 7 is right in the middle. It is the middle column of the Tzolkin Calendar. It is the centre of your body, your spine. There are no polarities in the middle. It is neither about left or right, nor about past or future. Number 7 is about the centre, about being in the Here and Now. Tune in and become one! Be in Spirit and receive inspiration.
Guidance: Organize resources and life, efficiently and effectively. Personality: People with Tone 6 are full of ideas to improve or refine all that is. They are good organizers. They want everything to be divided fairly, although they sometimes have their own ideas about fairness. It is wise to be more tolerant and less judgmental. How? Just let it flow: by movement, by new knowledge, by letting go! Question: Do I go with the flow? Is there something I cannot let go of? Joint: right shoulder Pulsar: 1st dimension – Life pulsar
Guidance: Attune and align with the Source; Inspire yourself, others and creative projects. Personality: people with Tone 7 are very empathic, since they are good resonators. They seem to know what goes on in someone else. They find it hard to focus on their selves, and on what they want. But once they do know, they are quite steadfast. They work hard and independent to reach their target, something that causes much admiration from other people. This, however, can cause loneliness from time to time. Question: Am I in the here and now? Do I stand open for others? Joint: neck, spine Pulsar: 2nd dimension – Sense pulsar
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Red Serpent – Chikchan
White Worldbridger – Kimi
Key words: survive, life force, instinct
Key words: equalize, death, opportunity
Affirmation: I am CHIKCHAN, SERPENT; I am your life force and bodily wisdom. I give to you passion and desire.
Affirmation: I am CIMI: Worldbridger. I am your ability to surrender and let go. I am your forgiveness and your liberation.
Power: Serpent is the power of bodily wisdom which allows us to react without thinking, e.g. catching a falling cup or avoiding sudden danger. Serpent is the ancient energy that moves our body. Serpent energy or Kundalini spirals upwards, from the lowest chakra to the crown via the spine. Serpent awakens the treasures of the body through dance, movement and sensuality. Serpent teaches us to listen to our body and to enjoy it.
Power: Worldbridger is the power of death. He grants us understanding that death is merely a dividing line beyond which life continues. Death is part of life. If nothing dies, nothing can be born. Life is a cycle. Everything is life. Everything is a cycle. Death is but one of its faces. Worldbridger asks you to let go of your fear of death and loss. He asks you to forgive.
(tsjieek’tsjan) Chicchan • Kan • Coatl celestial dragon, serpent
Personality: Serpent-people have a strong will, they are charismatic, spontaneous, passionate and bold. The Serpent is a good leader, a night person and he likes to be alone. He is the embodiment of instinct and the satisfaction of the senses. He is a person of extremes. He can be closed and withdrawn, yet he can also be extremely emotional. Serpent hates anger and rage; he tends to deny his own feelings and project them onto his environment. Movement and dance are excellent outlets for this intensity. They transform that raw energy. Guidance: Focus on the intrinsic wisdom of your body. Honor the perfection of your physical temple. Express your passion, vitality, and sensuality fully. Wind direction: Red East of initiation Polar Earth family: Sun, Serpent, Dog, Eagle Chakra: crown - receive Finger/toe: right big toe
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(kiemie) Cimi • Keme • Miquiztli Death
Personality: Worldbridger-people have a great sense of responsibility and duty. They are ambitious and good at cooperating and adapting to group spirit. Worldbridger takes his duties so seriously, that an intense longing for freedom arises. Money and beautiful things are important to him. In personal relationships, Worldbridger doesn’t easily reveal himself. He tries to avoid this by wearing a mask. This behaviour could be caused by fear of losing control. To surrender your self is not the same as to give up! Keep the faith and relax. Guidance: Focus on allowing the necessary deaths to occur to create renewal and opportunities. Surrender your ego’s need to control and relax into the Grace of the Larger Plan. Wind direction: White North of refinement Cardinal Earth family: Dragon, Worldbridger, Monkey, Warrior Chakra: throat - transmit Finger/toe: right ‘index’ toe
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Blue Hand – Manik’
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Yellow Star – Lamat
(la mat’)
(manieek’) Manik • Kiej • Mazatl Hand, deer, grip
Lamat • Q’anil • Tochtli Venus, rabbit
Key words: know, accomplishment, healing
Key words: beautify, elegance, art
Affirmation: I am MANIK: Hand. I am your artistic and healing abilities. I give to you beauty and accomplishment.
Affirmation: I am LAMAT; STAR. I show you the way. I give you clarity and harmony.
Power: Hand represents the power of ‘having a grip’. Hand reaches out to the world to touch, integrate and understand everything. Those who have a grip, have understanding. Those who understand, have knowledge. Hand symbolizes everything we accomplish through our hands, including all material we transform into creation. It also means reaching out to other people. We carry the beauty of being human in our own hands.
Power: The power of Star is knowing when your creation is finished. No more, and no less. The power of Star is an inherent sense of harmony and the will to transform everything into beauty. Star is able to add just that little extra which gives his creation a surplus value, and only in a blink of an eye. Creation becomes art; it radiates beauty into the world.
Personality: Hand-people are peaceful and generous, artistic, inspiring, hospitable and reliable. They love nature, animals and plants, but also good food and drinks. Being outdoors does them good. Hand is very fond of his personal freedom; he is quite individualistic, but - at the same time - loves good company and safety of his family. Being able to deal with these contradictory needs is his great challenge. He has difficulty finishing things, fearing he will not be contented with the result. It would do him good to focus more on the process instead of the end result. Guidance: Focus on consciously evoking what you want to happen. Bring completion to the areas of your life that allow you to move to the next higher level of being. Enter the gateway of healing. Wind direction: Blue West of transformation Core Earth family: Wind, Hand, Human, Earth Chakra: heart - transducer Finger/toe: right middle toe
Personality: Star-people are energetic, busy, nervous, smart and playful. They love music, games, language and humor. They also love attention and are quite egocentric. Star is an intellectual and a complex person. Although harmony is his key word, Star just loves resistance and opposition. With his love for language and games, he is keen on purposefully taking an opposite position, rapping it up in sweet words, and then striking you down without mercy. At the same time, however, Star can be very insecure, worrying about other peoples’ opinions. The answer can be found in redirecting his/her inner energy and attention, no matter how scary this might seem to be… Guidance: Focus on co-creating and extending harmony. Free the self-judgment and view your life as a work of art. As it is viewed, so it appears. Acknowledge beauty and art. Wind direction: Yellow South of ripening Signal Earth family: Night, Star, Skywalker, Mirror Chakra: solar plexus - receive Finger/toe: right ‘ring’ toe 211
Moon 1
July 26 - August 22 Totem animal: Bat Mayan name: Tzotz Dominant tone: Tone 1 Key words: attract, unify, purpose The Bat The Bat symbolizes rebirth. Hanging upside down in a dark cave, it reflects the position of a baby in the womb before being born. The power of the Bat was highly respected by the Aztecs, the Toltecs and the Maya. Even today, a group of people called the Tzotziles (Bat People) live in Chiapas, Mexico. The Bat gives us strength for a shaman death: the power to let your old self die and abandon all your ideas about yourself which keep you separated from your soul path. Only then will you be able to focus on your purpose, like a newborn child. How to use your time; determine a purpose in four weeks This is the first Moon of the New Year, and the start of a new cycle of 13 Moons. During this first month, you may give the year a purpose. You have 28 days to do so, which is good, for determining a purpose is no small thing. The energy of the year functions like the blowing wind. It will be wise to let your personal purpose ride on the wings of this wind. The 13-Moon Calendar can be of service in yet another way. When you look at the weeks of the Moons, you will see that each week has its own color. You can use this every Moon. During this Moon you can let your purpose arise in four phases: four weeks of seven days. The first red week of initiation will show you your possible desires, for your purpose will be born from these desires. It is useless defining a purpose if it isn’t a reflection of your deepest desires. How could you continue for 13 Moons if you don’t really long 220
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for it? So how do you find out what it is you really desire? Perhaps you have hidden your desires under many layers of practical goals and social interests, or limitations such as finding a new job, paying more attention to your weight, quitting smoking. This doesn’t make your heart sing though, does it? You will find it easy to recognize your true heart’s desire: your heart will start beating faster while thinking about this desire. If that is the case, you know you’re on the right track! All you have to do then is to accept this desire instead of pushing it away as ‘impossible’. Acceptance of your desire unites your inside with your outside. The second white week of refinement is there to refine your purpose. Write down your desire every single day, until the words come from your soul. This is your corImage of the Bat as the rect description. ‘uinal’ Zoth, a month of 20 days in the original Beware of the Maya Calendar. influence of posZoth means BAT. sible negative thoughts and insecurities about yourself, such as ‘There’s no way I can do that!’ Use the power of the Bat: let go of old ideas about yourself and grant yourself a new chance! The third blue week of transformation is about collecting or attracting energy necessary to transform your desire into purpose. The fourth week is the yellow week of ripening. Your purpose becomes clear; you carry it as a true part of yourself. At the end of this month, you will no longer be able to picture yourself without this purpose.
Lunar Scorpion Moon
August 23 - September 19 Totem animal: Scorpion Mayan name: Dzec Dominant Tone: Tone 2 Key words: stabilize, polarize, challenge This Moon emanates a polarizing power. Polarity means opposite: North and South are the opposite poles of the Earth. They are two sides of the same, fully related to each other. One would not exist without the other. There is no light without shadow. Lunar comes from Luna (Moon). Mother Moon shows us her polarity: we can only see her from one side. If we look only superficially and we forget the other side, we would forget that she is a beautiful sphere. You can experience the polarizing energy of this Moon/month in various ways. You can consciously focus on the other side (the shadow side). We often, however, focus on the one side (the light), trying to get away from the other side (darkness). Yet it is those features of yourself you want to get away from, that took you to great heights. This is where you can find the motivation for your growth; this is what gives you energy. It is by facing your shadow side that your soul can grow! This is your stimulus and your challenge. Tone 2 asks you to look lovingly at your other side – your shadow side – since this is what moves you, what challenges you. Thus, embrace your shadow to stimulate growth for your soul! Tip: explore the shadow of the occult power: do you recognize your own shadow? Scorpion During this Moon, you can expect your shadow side to suddenly reveal itself. The polar-
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izing power of the Lunar Scorpion Moon is as unpredictable as a scorpion. You never know when they crawl across your path and sting. Unexpectedly and quite suddenly, the shadow side of you and of other people might be exposed. When that happens, it is your task to keep an eye on the whole picture. The action that accompanies this Moon is ‘to stabilize’. Do not be tempted to fight shadow with shadow. Send light and love. That is your challenge. Stabilize In the annual Wavespell – the process of 13 steps – you defined your purpose during the first Moon. During the second Moon, you take a look at what keeps you away from your purpose. What is my challenge? What obstacles lie on my path? Step two stabilizes the positive energy of the enthusiasm created by the start of a new project. Don’t take action just yet. Do not be tempted to get rid of the obstacles. You can do that later. First, collect the means.
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RED DRAGON (Imix) – Nurture, Birth, Being Dragon is the origin: it is the primal mother, who gives birth, and lovingly nurses and cherishes her child. Let the voice of your inner mother speak, to decide what is good for you.
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WHITE WIND (Ik’) – Communicate, Spirit, Breath Wind is the Great Spirit, whose breath fills you with life. Breathe in spirit, and inspiration will come your way: then you’ll speak your own truth. Let yourself fly on the breeze.
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BLUE NIGHT (Ak’b’al) – Dream, Abundance, Intuition Night is the power of darkness – the domain of the dream. When it is too dark to see, your other senses will bring you information that might surprise you! Don’t be afraid: be silent and receive the gifts that are awaiting you.
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YELLOW SEED (K’an) – Target, Flowering, Awareness Seed is your potency: your creative and sexual power. Seed carries within itself all the conditions necessary to grow. Don’t wait for anything; focus on your intentions, target your desires and let the flower grow out of the seed.
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RED SERPENT (Chikchan) – Survive, Life force, Instinct Serpent has the ability to listen to your body and follow your instincts. The body knows what to do and where to go; enjoy its power and sensuality in movement and in dance.
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WHITE WORLDBRIDGER (Kimi) – Equalize, Death, Oppurtunity Worldbridger asks you to let go, because only when there is room and space, something new can grow. So don’t be afraid to let go; death is nothing but a thin line, behind which a different reality exists.
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BLUE HAND (Manik’) – Know, Accomplishment, Healing Hand has the power of touch and all we can achieve by the work of hands. By touching an object, understanding is created about its shape and material. Use your hands to touch, create and heal.
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YELLOW STAR (Lamat) – Beautify, Elegance, Art Star has a natural and congenital tendency for harmony, and the will to sublimate everything into beauty. Give your life that small touch of Star, and creation becomes art, endowing the world with beauty.
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RED MOON (Muluk) – Purify, Universal water, Flow Moon has the power of purifying water – emotions are like water. Stagnant water gets polluted, just as suppressed emotions will pollute your body and soul; let it flow.
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WHITE DOG (Ok) – Love, Heart, Loyalty Dog provides the ability to connect intimately with the people around you; to be open for friendship, romance and to start a family. Be like Dog, and remember to give, as well as receive, love.
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BLUE MONKEY (Chuwen) – Play, Magic, Illusion Monkey has the power of play and humor; if you can’t laugh about your own actions now and then, you will be unhappy. Let go of the illusion of ego: dare to play and to enjoy! Life is magically beautiful!
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YELLOW HUMAN (Eb’) – Influence, Free will, Wisdom Human tells us about our free will and free choice: make your choice wisely! Allow freedom and space for every living creature to be itself on this beautiful earth, including yourself. Let it be!
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RED SKYWALKER (B’en) – Explore, Space, Wakefulness Skywalker is the channel to receive messages: make sure the channel is pure and empty. Skywalker brings courage to reach beyond the limits of known and safe places: explore the great outdoors!
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WHITE WIZARD (Ix) – Enchant, Timelessness, Receptivity The Wizard is your inner shaman who can travel without actual moving; it is this actual moment, that contains the key to the realization of your dreams: receive all that is present at this very moment.
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BLUE EAGLE (Men) – Create, Vision, Mind Eagle has the power to rise above an earthly level, to look down with wisdom and to act the way you would want the world to be: act with vision and a higher consciousness.
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YELLOW WARRIOR (Kib’) – Question, Intelligence, Fearlessness Warrior is fearless. By asking questions, he collects wisdom because he is not afraid to hear the answers. Be like warrior: step forward in difficult situations, and defend your own truth.
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RED EARTH (Kab’an) – Evolve, Navigation, Synchronicity Caban is ‘the one that moves’, like the Earth itself ; like the cycles of nature that are always in motion. Earth asks you to keep moving, to let go and to have faith in the outcome of your journey.
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WHITE MIRROR (Etz’nab’) – Reflect, Endlessness, Order Mirror mercilessly reflects the truth; it will get rid of decay and will reveal everything to the light. Illusions can no longer be held onto and are put aside to reflect the cosmic order upon the Earth.
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BLUE STORM (Kawak) – Catalyze, Self-generation, Energy Storm generates power within yourself: it is an endless source of energy, giving you the ability to transform and to heal yourself. Make use of this powerful force with love, tenderness and vision.
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YELLOW SUN (Ajaw) – Enlighten, Universal fire, Life Sun is the Christ or Buddha of consciousness: it is unconditional love embracing all that is alive. Feel the unity with all the life that surrounds you and radiate a smile from deep within your heart.
(Solar Seals and keywords © José Argüelles, Text © Nicole E. Zonderhuis)
(read from p. 198)
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MAGNETIC (Hun) – Attract, Unify, Purpose
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LUNAR (Ca) – Stabilize, Polarize, Challenge
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Tone, key words and focus
Initiate new creation in tune with Higher Purpose/Divine Will.
Honestly recognize limitations in order to-embrace and overcome them. ELECTRIC (Ox) – Bond, Activate, Service Serve; Be open to all possibilities; Be part of the solution. SELF-EXISTING (Can) – Measure, Define, Form Form action plan; Define boundaries; Create blueprint of success. OVERTONE (Ho) – Command, Empower, Radiance Gather internal and external resources to empower yourself and others. RHYTHMIC (Uac) – Balance, Organize, Equality Organize resources and life, efficiently and effectively. RESONANT (Uc) – Inspire, Channel, Attunement Attune and align with the Source; Inspire yourself, others and creative projects. GALACTIC (Vaxac) – Model, Harmonize, Integrity Ensure integrity, integration and harmony at, and between, all levels. SOLAR (Bolon) – Realize, Pulse, Intention Move into action with passion, enthusiasm and urgency. PLANETARY (Lahun) – Produce, Perfect, Manifestation Complete and manifest in excellence with truth and gratitude. SPECTRAL (Hun Lahun) – Release, Dissolve, Liberation Release, let go, surrender and honor, with humility and acceptance. CRYSTAL (Ca Lahun) – Universalize, Dedicate, Cooperation Discover, share and express learning/wisdom openly and with love. COSMIC (Ox Lahun) – Transcend, Endure, Presence Celebrate; Connection with the Source; Celebrate success; celebrate life!
(Tones and keywords © José Argüelles, Text © Lightime, Anton Kornblum, PAN England)