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10.14.25 - Day 9/13 of the Yellow Warrior Wavespell - Electric Moon 25 It's a Yellow Seed day in a Yellow Seed year. You can sometimes get a reminder of what the year is about when you come home to its tribe. Yellow Seed is focused, pinpointed, capable of waiting but driven toward initiating growth and finding the right place to best come to fruition. You might be eliminating things that are not healthy for your growth. And now we are almost to the end of the third moon of the year, things are both becoming clearer and leaving the arena of challenge. You are likely starting to see what you need to 'target,' your awareness is growing, you are in truth flowering, becoming something beautiful, even if it's the tightly compacted bud stage of such.

10.11.25 - Day6/13 of the Yellow Warrior Wavespell - Electric Moon 22 The Yellow Warrior wavespell makes us fight, but not explosively, not in a tantrum. The reference to a 'warrior' here is an indigenous one, where the munitions were undeveloped and maybe maximally there was a catapult here and there with a boulder hurled across enemy lines, but overall hand-to-hand combat, with homemade weapons, was the only way to win. It's more likely that a 'nuclear' version of combat happens in say a Blue Storm wavespell, with the power of the sky and its fire bolts creating mass destruction, than now. So by this midpoint you will see where you are engaged in a fight for your sense of justice, and to protect those who are vulnerable. Even if you are fighting with a selfish motivation - it seems that way to you, if you're honest - look deeper. There are those who cannot fight, or see the aggressor and their own wounding (maybe they are too wounded to protect themselves) that you are standing up for. It's just a weird tic of the Yellow Warrior time that you can trust what is aggravating to you as a just cause. And you have to address it, just for this time, then it will be released.

10.8.25 - Day 3/13 of the Yellow Warrior Wavespell - Electric Moon 19 The Spectral Moon of 2025 is here. It might have woken you up, or kept you sleepless, under the full moon that ushered it in. The Spectral tone, of a collapsing wave, is an intense one. But the buildup of the White Solar Mirror year, a relentless ascendance of the challenges and huge disappointments of loss and sacrifice, has been nothing but intense, and any relief from that might feel like astonishing liberation and release. The Yellow Warrior wavespell always makes you fearless. It's as if you've been given a shield and suddenly you'll go into situations that normally would feel too dangerous. You surprise yourself with either personal or societal justice causes. It's also a departure from your norms, an elevated and rarified moment. Just as if you were leaving the comfort of home for the journey to battle, the everyday recedes and you are focused on the specifics of what war is waiting for you, and maybe the one you must actively engage in.

10.5.25 - Day 13/13 of the White Dog Wavespell - Electric Moon 16 When the Blue Night wavespell ends, hopefully you feel: situated in a home/shelter that you have in some way attended to, made safer or sweeter; had a massive nocturnal dream life, with long, expansive stories playing out in your psyche over restful hours; better off materially, or at ease with your material existence - maybe there's been a windfall, but mostly you just have a secure sense of being provided for. I find this to be the summary gift of Blue Night, and it's why I think of it as one of the charmed tribes for us to roll through. It doesn't have aggravating triggers for the human ego, but instead soothes us where our ego wants us to have security. Being unhoused in this culture is a humiliation. Blue Night provides shelter, and so we are less ashamed. Lacking material ease - or money - also makes us 'less than,' so it is extraordinarily helpful to have time pass that supports our experience of 'havingness' or abundance. And now we say goodbye to this focused, honed security, until next time.

10.1.25 - Day 9/13 of the White Dog Wavespell - Electric Moon 12 Blue Night is so lovely for teaching us to be easy with money, in and out like the tide. You might have surprise expenses here and there this wavespell, but your reaction will be less panicked and resentful. You know you can afford it, you feel abundant. To that end you might indulge in a treat or two, being spendy, for the same reasons. And finally, there will be treats you don't have to seek out, little windfalls, surprise finds in the form of money right into your bank account, or getting something for free. The delight, if you're usually frugal or underfunded, is how easy money is, how unstressful.

9.28.25 - Day 6/13 of the White Dog Wavespell - Electric Moon 9 We are still held fast in the Planetary Moon of the Gregorian year 2025. I have been excited to track this fraught moment in lived history because it is a White Solar Mirror year and you can observe the demands of sacrifice every waking day, personally and societally. It's a lot to endure and we are at the summit of its dramatic demand. This means it's kind of at its worst, or reiterating the teaching, a massive emphasis that we are experiencing loss and disappointment and powerlessness. Somehow, we are also inflicting this on others, at times. And the sum total outcome would astrologically be described as using this opportunity of loss, of being gutted and broken, to rise to the heavenly realm. Not literally, but definitely allegorically. Definitely energetically. We are sacrificed out of this earth plane into the higher dimensions, and we are rewarded with the company of divine entities and inspiration. Almost there. Almost.

9.25.25 - Day 3/13 of the White Dog Wavespell - Electric Moon 6

9.22.25 - Day 13/13 of the White Dog Wavespell - Electric Moon 3 The current dominant theme for why 'life is not a dream' is the Planetary Moon of the Gregorian year, called White Solar Mirror. I have talked and talked about this because it is the key that unlocks not ease, but clarity, about the challenges that we are seemingly submerged by. Yes, it's a new Mayan year, and yes, the White Dog and Blue Night wave spells we are traveling through are delightful compared to so many we have endured. But the Gregorian astrology is at an acrid, malevolent peak, and it's costing us our stability and our serenity. So I am here to say we have a ways to go. Not that much longer, but it's not going to be immediate either. We have to get through this Planetary Moon, and we are only approaching the midpoint. Pace yourself, streamline your life, and keep it simple and present moment as you function through all the static and also the malignant fever pitch.

9.19.25 - Day 10/13 of the White Dog Wavespell - Lunar Moon 28 It's a Planetary day in the Planetary moon of the year 2025. And I just mention that because it's not fun or easy. The moon of Manifestation of the year we share throughout most of the global populace is already just so painful. So limited. So pushy and brash with the force of egotism. More to come for 18 days. And today's intensity, a giant overwhelm, speaks to how hard it's already been, how it can maintain this level of discomfort throughout, until the wave breaks. Listen to the episode for the clearer examples of such, and hang in there.

9.18.25 - Day 9/13 of the White Dog Wavespell - Lunar Moon 27 If you are a regular listener, you know why this day matters. It's epic. It's sort of terrifying. What we have endured so far in the Gregorian year 2025 - aka 'White Solar Mirror' - can still accelerate and add to its victims. Please listen for the cautionary 'prophesy' about how to move through this extremely intense energy field, and for the reward (of a sort) I'm offering at the podcast's very end.

9.16.25 - Day 7/13 of the White Dog Wavespell - Lunar Moon 25 Today is the guiding day of the current Mayan year, Yellow Resonant Seed. July 26, 2o25 was Yellow Resonant Seed and the start of the new year. That day is guided by Yellow Resonant Warrior, so here we are. Anything that happens today should be pretty attuned to what is pulling you, leading you for this entire year. The Resonant tone is about being open, hollow and receptive to the divine energy that come from some off-planet cosmic realm and touch down through us. It's helpful to be infused with spiritual influence. This year is guided by the cause of justice, fighting to protect those who are vulnerable and against the invading marauders. It's hard in a Lunar, polarized moon to see who is just starting fires from a sadistic impulse, and who is defending the weak and weary. But over the course of this 13 Moon year, we will come to understand it more clearly.

9.14.25 - Day 5/13 of the White Dog Wavespell - Lunar Moon 23 What is White Dog? I think it is about our hearts. Sometimes it's heart connection, the love between two or several. But it can as easily be about the condition of our heart, and lately it's more likely there are aches there, and limited function, and weakness. I am not personally noticing heart fire and throbbing love verve. I am aware that my heart is shielded and scarred from breakages over my lifetime. I do love, and I have a bunch of dogs to show me how, but I am not in an arc of heart expansion. I'm in survival when it comes to love and radiating it outwards or receiving it in turn. I operate at minimum capacity. That is here toward the beginning of the wavespell, with time for restoration, and empowerment, to take hold. The purpose of the wavespell is to take stock, then to grow.

9.10.25 - Day 1/13 of the White Dog Wavespell - Lunar Moon 19 It's a new wavespell - and a new moon in the Gregorian year 2026. What? Natural Time isn't about the Gregorian calendar, which is arrhythmic and artificial, originally retooled by the Vatican, Pope Gregory. But I have decided to decode the Gregorian year astrology, and the year 2025, starting January 1, is White Solar Mirror. Instead of dividing it into the 12 months of varying lengths, I just overlaid the 13 moons of 28 days each, and in the order we describe any cycle of 13. And we just today began the 10th 'moon', even though it's early in the 9th month (Did you notice that Sept-ember denotes the number 7 in Latin? Again with the chaos of a calendar unmoored to natural rhythms!). We begin the Moon of Manifestation in a White Solar Mirror year of - human sacrifice. And today a political figure was assassinated. The manifestation of sacrifice was so literal. White Dog makes us universally pity the family he left behind, and perhaps love our own cause as much as ever, polarized and tribal in our dog packs. But we can wait to see how things evolve.

9.8.25 - Day 12/13 of the Red Earth Wavespell - Lunar Moon 17 We are winding down the Red Earth wavespell and it should be conscious in you how it's helped you evolve. Usually at the front end of the wavespell there is karma that presents itself. Some part of our lives shows up to be especially important and topical. Then we spend the wavespell watching it grow, shift, move down the road so that it's neither stuck in place or doing lightning strikes of dramatic change. We have cruised to a new vantage point or relationship with the karma. I like it! We are in the part of the Tzolkin - the second half - that has some easier tribes for the human psyche. We can do seeds and earth and dogs and abundance much more willingly and smoothly than addiction and snakes and death. So enjoy this part of the Tzolkin while you are in the hard spot of the annual wavespell, its earliest moons. Soon we will be Electric, alleviated by the entrance and assistance of the divine realm.

9.5.25 - Day 9/13 of the Red Earth Wavespell - Lunar Moon 14 It's esoteric and atypical for most aficionados of the Natural Time calendar movement, but I teach about the astrology of the Gregorian year as well as the Mayan one. Natural Time is careful to reintroduce a Mayan year count that begins every July 26. We know that the Gregorian new year's is polar opposite, practically, so to move to the Mayan tradition is a departure. And all but a tiny fraction of the earth's population is fixed on the Gregorian calendar count. So after 25 years of my own practice and teaching, I decided to 'decode' through astrology the meaning of each Gregorian year. This one is extremely challenging. 2025 is considered the most fiery, fierce and fast moving version of the human sacrifice ritual that was a ceremonial bedrock (literally, stone benches at the top of pile of stone blocks to form their pyramid) of teaching the advantage of rising from this planetary toil to the celestial paradise with the ascended gods. We are all experiencing sacrifice: loss, upset, disappointment, gut punches and heart break. And on the other side of it we are receiving our own ticket to heaven. The way we are forced to let go rewards us by opening up the divine world to our consciousness. It's the high peak of this fiery, forceful sacrificial arc.

9.2.25 - Day 6/13 of the Red Earth Wavespell - Lunar Moon 11 Red Earth can make us want to travel, to get on the open road and be unencumbered by immovable objects. It can also incline us toward time in nature, on the earth, particularly hiking our way over its geology, the layered terraces and locked lava flow. So if you vacation time is over with the start of a school year or inclinations toward fall's seasonal change, then you can just commit to walking the land around you, into the awe of canyons and mountain sides that remind you how much larger the eons of time are for the rock world than our human one.

8.31.25 - Day 4/13 of the Red Earth Wavespell - Lunar Moon 8 The Red Earth wavespell has its various levels. It lets the planet itself show off its supremacy over the human population scavenging off it - so a late summer heat wave or vacation into nature where one is astonished by the OG terrain and prehistoric geology might be a teaching that the earth is eternal by comparison to anything our species endeavors. It also lets you feel like the planet, and the yen to move through space, on the road or in flight, is strong: to cruise, to go the distance, to dislodge stasis and be in motion. Then it also imitates the planet's volatility - the heiroglyph is of an earthquake's tremor - and you might want to dance or ceremonialize in 'ancient' ways that condition your body to act seismic and tectonically shift.

8.26.25 - Day 12/13 of the Yellow Seed Wavespell - Lunar Moon 4 Thus ends the Yellow Seed portal days. I am not sure if they especially registered. It's as if we are so far into the vortex of high speed chaos, how can we know what is a wall, and what is a door opening through it? The house is swirling tornadoesque anyway. I think a lot about Yellow Seed representing a dumbing down or simplifying of brain activity and an expansion of other, visceral sensitivity. To light, to dark, to cold and heat. A time for finding a safe place to grow. Pulling back from industry and artificiality. The world is opposite that, mostly, these days, at a fever pitch of productivity and fakery. So we have an opportunity this wavespell, and this long year, to get closer to the experience of plant life, to cry out for simplicity and safe harbor.

8.24.25 - Day 10/13 of the Yellow Seed Wavespell - Lunar Moon 2 The Lunar Moon instantly sets us up to feel that there are problems in our lives that did not have the same intensity or focus in the Magnetic Moon. In the earliest part of the Lunar Moon, it's like an assault on our senses to go from complacency or curiosity to wanting to register complaints. Something new that formed in our lives this Mayan year suddenly has a downside. The hints at complication or discomfort pulsing through the Magnetic Moon are now here in bold, underscored. And my advice is to lay low, breathe, weigh what you don't like - and recognize that you can't eliminate it. It's a part of your yearlong karma. It's a challenge, yes, but one you're going to have deal with and grow through, rather than try to dodge or diminish. We can also expect that others who do not follow Mayan spirituality are still going to have this edge. And I do recommend slowing down, stepping back, calming your own central nerve system as you adjust to your own challenges, rather than being immersed in others' as well.

8.20.25 - Day 6/13 of the Yellow Seed Wavespell - Magnetic Moon 26 Pretty much come to the end of the Magnetic Moon, so please pay attention to what you can deduce your purpose is for this year. It's what came your way the last few weeks. It's perhaps the release of some element of your life that formerly consumed it, or it's a continuation of what you have been cultivating for a handful of years. Your purpose can be something active, or it can be the deactivation of what was occupying your mind and heart. It's obviously likely to be the fluctuation between these extremes. Some endings, some brand new beginnings. We shift to the Lunar Moon imminently, and it has a way of being challenging while identifying challenge. Take a note before we encounter that kind of intensity. Right now the question is What is my purpose? Consider writing it down.