HOW ARE YOU GOING TO ARTFULLY RESPOND TO THE CLOSING OF THIS TZOLKIN CYCLE? THE UNIVERSE IS GIVING US AN INCREDIBLY RARE AND BEAUTIFUL GIFT:

Because we are perpetually travelling through the same cycles of energies, that repeat themselves in an ascending evolutionary spiral, whenever we come to this point of the STAR wavespell, it signifies our transition from one Galactic Spin to the next -- travelling to a higher rung on the ascending evolutionary spiral!


Each time a new Tzolkin cycle begins, we are invited to build upon the previous cycle, integrating all that we have learned. Let us use these days during the Star wavespell to prepare for the upcoming Kin 1; Self Existing Moon 24; "11/10/03" the start of a brand new Tzolkin Galactic Spin - a time for complete rebirth and renewal!


During the final 2 days of this Spin, on Blue Crystal Storm Kin 259 (Nov 8/ Self-Existing 22) it will be a Full Moon, Total Lunar Eclipse, and a 6-pointed Star in the Sky. This alignment is so unique it has been talked about since 1998 as a very auspicious alignment offering us a huge energetic boost - officially named the "Harmonic Concordance."

People are urged to gather in power-spots and to set aside time and space to hold the highest possible intention for ourselves and the entire planet. On Self-Existing 19; Nov 5; Yellow Solar Warrior, the alignment begins as the planets start to move into place. The precise, culminating moment of the entire alignment is right when the eclipse occurs: between 5:06pm and 5:13pm pacific standard time.


The heavenly bodies creating this formation are: Saturn, Jupiter, Maldek (a former planet which is know in the form of the asteroid belt - one of its pieces named Chiron) Mars, the Sun and the Moon. A VERY interesting note is that according to the Dreamspell cosmology, these are 4 planets which embody energies known as "abusive and abused" which need to be redeemed for us to restore planetary wholeness.

These 4 planets and the energies which they are asking us to redeem are the following:
Saturn-Materialism (abusive),
Jupiter-False Spirituality (abusive),
Maldek-Sex Taboo (abused),
and Mars-Death Fear (abused).
The fact that all of these 4 energies are present in this upcoming alignment is very striking! May we all help restore balance in these 4 key areas, supporting healing for the whole.


It is said that during Lunar eclipses, intention is amplified 1000 x's !!!
It was also mentioned that SOUND is very important to focus on during this eclipse.  

Many, many, many kindred spirits will be gathered and focused for this synchronization. Thank you for joining this collective Art!!!

A fascinating synchronicity is that while there is a 6-pointed star in the sky on this Blue Crystal Storm day, exactly 260-days later on July 26 2004 it will be Blue Crystal Storm again and it will be the 13 Moon New Year - the day that Jose Arguelles has been calling the initiating point of "The Great Calendar Change of 2004."

Arguelles says that this 260-day period between these two events is a time of ABSOLUTE ACCELERATION!



WE ARE CURRENTLY TRAVELLING THROUGH THE 28-DAY CYCLE OF "THE
SELF-EXISTING MOON OF FORM." -- the fourth month of the White Spectral Wizard
year. Spanning from Gregorian Oct 18 - Nov 14, the Self Existing Moon energies correspond to Tone 4, and the code words: Define, Measure, and Form. The totem animal is the Owl.



VINALS

The current vinal meditation (since White Cosmic Wizard, Electric 25;
Oct 14) TZEC: "That reaches the foundation."

On White Resonant Wizard day; Self-Existing 17; Nov 3, we begin a new vinal mediation of XUL: "Where with great wisdom a seed is sown."

(Because this is a White Wizard Year, every 20 days on each White
Wizard day we begin a new vinal meditation. The vinals are passed
down through the Mayan lineage as a series of intriguing phrases
which we are invited to contemplate during each 20-day period.After 18 vinals
of 20 days,there is one 5-day Vayeb, totalling the 365 day year.)



THE YELLOW STAR WAVESPELL CYCLE IS THE FINAL WAVESPELL OF THE 52-DAY
"GREEN CENTRAL CASTLE OF ENCHANTMENT."


As the 20th wavespell of the Tzolkin, the Yellow Star wavespell is
always the fourth RIPENING wavespell of the 5th and final Castle of
Time of the Tzolkin: "The Green Central Castle of
Enchantment."


Being the fifth cycle, this time corresponds to the power of the
"fifth force" which refers to the "center which is
everywhere at once." The color green represents Center, as the
four prime colors of red, white, blue, and yellow represent the four
directions which give form to our 3rd dimension. One could say this
green center symbolizes the unseen, sacred force which unifies the
dimensions.  


This Castle unites the 4 cycles of the Red Moon Wavespell, the
White Wind Wavespell, the Blue Eagle Wavespell, and the Yellow Star
Wavespell.

(A castle of time simply refers to a grouping of 4 wavespells, one
of each color which creates a 52-day period of time (13 x 4) in which
the powers of the 4 wavespells cumulatively work together to bring
specific lessons and initiations. Within each Tzolkin, there are 5
castles of
time, 52 X 5 = 260 days.)



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Foundation for the Law of Time
White Spectral Wizard Year
Calendar Change Tour of Duty, Phase I

1. From Temple of the Cosmic Serpent to the Call of the Condor - Peru

The year of the White Spectral Wizard (2003-04) is the fourth and last year of the Campaign for the New Time - and of the “Harrowing of Hell,” the prophetic period between the Seven Years of prophecy (1993-2000) and the Seven Years of the Mystery of the Stone (2004-2011).

The Foundation’s last official activity on the world stage, the seventh of its seven day Earth Wizard’s Seminars, took place in Mexico during the Galactic Moon of the Solar Seed Year. Now it was the Electric Moon of Service, more than a year and a half later, and the Foundation’s global presence was being called for once again. Review of the Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement and a renewed planetary activation for the culmination of the Campaign for the New Time provided the call. A further purpose of the journey was a survey of world culture in the era of globalization, but from the perspective of cosmic history.

On behalf of the Foundation, the President, accompanied by the Chief Research Assistant, departed for the South from the Foundation’s new headquarters in Ashland, Oregon. The first stop before heading to Peru was Los Angeles, California. There, on the evening of Electric Moon 2, Blue Electric Monkey (September 21), the Foundation participated in a benefit performance, “Temple of the Cosmic Serpent,” a spectacular event created by Jim Berenholtz and his dance troupe, including many live pythons. Staged at the famed Sowden House in Hollywood, constructed and designed in a neo-Mayan style by the son of the noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the epic and mythical evening netted the Foundation $1833. This primal and evocative performance was a most fitting initiation to the next four weeks of global activity

The next day the Foundation team was off to Peru for the Call of the Condor Vision Council, held in the sacred valley of the Inca outside of Cuzco, Peru. Successfully convened by Liora Adler and Alberto Ruz of the Rainbow Peace Caravan, the Vision Council was a gathering of representatives of the Bioregional Movement, the Ecovillage Sustainable Community Network, the Rainbow nation, the Indigenous peoples and the World Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement.

Held at Camp Veronica deep within the sacred valley of the Inca some 8,000 feet up along the banks of the Urubamba river and beneath perennially snowcapped Andean peaks, the gathering was not easy to reach. Flights to lima via Atlanta, an overnight at a place called the Manhattan Inn, then on to Cuzco the following day. While Lima is everything that epitomizes the worst of third world urbanization - poverty, industrial wastelands, and bad air - Cuzco is still filled with colonial era charm and a strong Inca presence everywhere.

A two to three hour cab ride out of Cuzco past majestic Ollantaytambo is hosted by an Incan cab driver named Franklin who gives you the Quechua (Inca language) word for everything along the road. The taxi tour is completed on the other side of the river from Camp Veronica. The road doesn’t go any farther, and from here you have to trek into the camp over a rickety footbridge high above the raging Urubamba river. Amazing to think that this is a tributary of the Amazon! The Foundation team’s bags are too big and heavy to trek so Franklin is trusted to hold them until they meet again either in Ollantaytambo or Cuzco.

The camp is a colorful spectacle. Hundreds of tents dot the high plain beneath craggy mountain sides. Over 800 people are bivouacked here in this week-long village. Makeshift latrines and showers are the peak of comfort. Often during the day intense winds blow down from the Andes, while the nights can be rather chilly. Over toward one side of the encampment the Thirteen Moon village sports its flags - Banners of Peace and the seal of the Galactic Federation. The entire scene is reminiscent of a rainbow gathering. Meals are served by the locals who provide a host of vegetarian indigenous dishes, many of them with quinoa, vegetables and a variety of potatoes. Despite the difficult conditions the mood is quite upbeat. Large gatherings occur in a circus tent. Smaller gatherings in a yurt style tent or in the large room of the only permanent building on the grounds. Alberto Ruz informs the team that the entire set up had to be brought across the Urubamba river on a cable, including all the parts of the two-ton circus tent.

From observations and conversations it is clear that the Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement has come of age here as a sociopolitical force. It is most telling that the context for this coming of age was a radical alternative community, indigenous and bioregional vision council. While most of the kin making a very strong presence were from South America, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Argentina, there were also kin from Europe, including PAN Spain, Avalon and Italy.

Everyone attending the Conference was decoded and had their Galactic Signature on their name badge It was very impressive to talk to kin from Argentina and Brazil and realize how much the Movement had mushroomed and taken off on its own in the past two years - a lot less to lose, so why not take a risk on the truly new? The kin from Brazil seem particularly committed to the calendar change. Infinito cable television is present conducting interviews, including one with the Foundation’s President. This time Erma, the hostess, seems well-informed.

A large public workshop on the Thirteen Moon calendar by Foundation Liaison for Latin American Affairs, Rodrigro Urrea (Chile) is well attended and clearly, precisely and logically presented. Rodrigro has emerged as a preeminent spokesperson for the new calendar. His talk is enlivened by visuals taken from Carmen Nunez Paz Infante’s graduate design study on the Law of Time. The President of the Foundation made three formal presentations at the Conference, one to present himself and the work of the Movement, and two to outline the meaning of the Calendar Change within the context of the prophecy of 2012. A fourth informal, intimate and impromptu gathering of kin was also held for over 20 alumni of Picarquin as well as an equal number of others expressing a high degree of commitment. Here the President empowered all present to be the leaders of the Calendar Change Movement.

The President of the Foundation also participated in the Leadership Sessions. The main outcome of these sessions was to pinpoint a time of activation and synchronization of the various movements present in order to demonstrate the size and global extent of the bioregional, new time, sustainable community and alternative life-style movement. It is agreed that beginning with the Oneness Celebration of the Venus Transit, Electric Monkey, June 8, 2004, through the Day Out of Time, July 25, 2004, Spectral Mirror, that there will be much activation, education and artistic demonstration, culminating in the massive worldwide New Time festivals on Green day. The purpose will be to alert the world to the existence of this now vast and widespread coalition of movements as the genuine alternative to the present technospheric state of affairs.

The second outcome was to target the next Vision Council - a thirteen day event near Alto Paraiso, Brazil to be entitled the Call of the Hummingbird. Set to occur around the Electric Moon Equinox (September 22, 2004). The first seven days will be a more focused leadership event, including plans for a Second Biospheric Congress, while the next six days will be more in the nature of a Time is Art festival and rainbow community gathering. The main organizers for this next Council are kin from Brazil, who also call for a World PAN Congress to be convened during the six day part of the Call of the Hummingbird.

Greetings Planetary Kin!

The intention of these emails is to serve your understanding of
these sacred time cycles - both the 13-day wavespells which constitute
the Tzolkin count and the 13-moon, 28-day cycles of the Year count.

A "Wavespell" refers to the entire cycle of the 13 Tones of
Creation,1-13. Because a Wavespell is any cycle of 13, there are both
13-DAY wavespells, as well as 13-MOON wavespells. In other words, the
Year cycle itself is also a giant wavespell spiral, where each 28-day
moon holds the energy of one of 13 Tones of Creation!

Simultaneous to the Wavespell of the Year, within the sacred Tzolkin
calendar, there are 20 (13-day) wavespells. Each 13 day period is
governed by one of the 20 Tribes.

Regarding the definition of "wavespell," a "wave" is a motion in
time, and a "spell" is that which can be cast, known, or
experienced during that time.

Another way it is defined is a "wave" refers to the power of movement, and "spell" to the power one can gain by being in harmony with reality.


Current 13-day cycle: WHITE WIZARD WAVESPELL

White Wizard's Code Words:

Action - "ENCHANTS"

Creative Power - "TIMELESSNESS"

Essence/Function - "RECEPTIVITY"

13 Moon Dates:  Overtone 9 - Overtone 21

Tzolkin Dates: Kin 14 - Kin 26

Gregorian Dates: Nov 23 - Dec 5



Not only are we currently in a Wizard Wavespell, we're also more than 4 months into a Wizard YEAR!!!

Since the New Year, July 26th 2003, the White Spectral Wizard Year has been upon us -- a year of focusing on LIBERATING THE INNER WIZARD! The Spectral
Wizard Year energies are focused around the code words: Release,
Dissolve, Liberation, Enchants, Timelessness,Receptivity!

The White Wizard tribe is called "Ix" in the Mayan language, (pronounced Eesh'.) Traditional translations of Ix include "jaguar" or "shaman."  

As the 14th of the 20 tribes, IX is described in The Mayan Factor as signifying:  "The Sorceror, The Jaguar, Feline Energy, the Night-Seer, Attainment of Magical Powers."

Additional qualities of Ix are known to include: "heart-knowing" and "alignment with divine will."  

WHITE represents the power of the direction NORTH which offers the energy of "REFINES."

WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE JAGUAR?
The Jaguar is a focal point in the stone stelae messages of the ancient Maya. The form and essence of these regal creatures is prevalent in their art and serves as a revered symbol of Mayan culture. The Jaguar was top cat in the bioregion of the Maya. With no natural predators and impeccable night vision, jaguars roamed royally under the night's sky. With incredible skill and unmatched power, the masterful Jaguar warrants great respect.

The Dreamspell day count and 13 Moon year system that we are following, also known as The Wizard's Count, has its roots in the lineage of the Jaguar - based upon the reformulated count of the "Chilam Balam."

This is defined by Jose Arguelles in his book Time and The Technosphere:

"Chilam Balam: 'Jaguar priest,' name of Mayan Prophet (ah bobat) who lived just before the time of conquest, which he accurately predicted; name given to lineage of Mayan prophets extending from the end of tenth baktun (circa A.D. 830) up until the nineteenth century: name given to series of post-conquest texts in which the various categories of prophecies of this lineage are recorded."

This 13-Moon calendar functions according to a Year-Bearer system passed down by the Chilam Balam Jaguar Priests of the Lowland Yucatec Maya which assigns every new year (correlated to July 26th Gregorian) one of 4 solar seals - either Red Moon, White Wizard, Blue Storm, or Yellow Seed. These colors correspond to the 4 directions, East through South. Every year also receives one of 13 tones.

For example, July 26, 2002 began Red Planetary Moon Year (10 Moon), and July 26, 2003 began White Spectral Wizard year (11 Wizard.) July 26, 2004 will begin Blue Crystal Storm year (12 Storm.) This harmonic pattern of 4 solar seals cycling with the 13 tones ensures a perfect cycle of 52 years in which no two days repeat, until the completion of the 52 year round (a cycle of 18,980 days called Tunben K'ak, the Binding of the Years) forming an upward moving spiral of time.

"FROM DECEMBER 4- TO DECEMBER 7 OF 2003
Inside the charge of these cycles of changes, there are vortexes that
open up a space. After the red planet distances its charge, there is a
subtle convergence between the cosmic and telluric forces, a time that
lasts four days.  This openness gives us the opportunity to create the
force and balance. It is a sublime space that will allow us access to
Jun'ab'ku, heart of the heavens.  This is a good time to ask for the
internal strength, strength for the community for the consciousness
and to synthesis with balance.  This is the moment when the strength of
all those beings of light, are needed.  If possible it is asked to fast,
perhaps on fruit, to remain abstinence for at least four days prior
and to do ceremonies at sunrise and sunset.  

It is important to work from sunup to sunset on both the 4th and the 7th, because this is the opening and the closing.  The point or focus is to create the longing desire to awaken the south.  Beginning from the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, to the Amazons, to the mountain range of the eternal snows of the Andes and carry that energy to the most ancient mountains on this part of the
world in Cordova Argentina. The transcendence of this moment is of much importance for beloved mother, PACHAMAMA.  It is also the survival of this "fourth humanity".

The day of the 4th brings to us the energy of the Nawal Tzikin, the
great intermediary between the heaven and the earth.  It is the
messenger and the eagle-quetzal-condor that will create the unity
between the north and the south. This will permit us willingly if we
joined our forces together throughout the continent and around the
world to awaken the Saq' Be, the white path.  

On this day we focus on the divine messenger that carries our prayers, our feelings and the drumming of our hearts. Let it be that on this day there is only one heartbeat, one sound of drumming calling upon the four corners of the universe and at last finding Great Spirit.  

In the north it is the Eagle, in the center it is the Quetzal and in the north it is the Condor, (the ancestral messengers between the human and the divine).  So, lets have just one heartbeat, one fire, a simple ceremony but very majestic.
Let's travel to the sacred places and reclaim the harmony.

The day of the 5th brings to us the energy of the Nawal Ajmak, the
keeper of the sin and forgiveness.  This is a day to reflect upon our
lives, to be in silence and to go within, to look at the damage we may
have caused consciously or unconsciously, to forgive and be forgiven,
to forgive ourselves, but most of all to ask forgiveness for the damage
we have caused mother earth.  We also need to ask for forgiveness for
those that destroy without conscience but only for the madness or for
riches.

This is an internal ceremony we do. The elders will be having their
fires and ceremonies, but our connection will be channeled towards the
south to awaken the force and the return of the wisdom of the condor.
This is the moment of the return of the kingdom of TIHUANTISUYO, the
giant panther. As of now it is called the kingdom of INCARI.  As a day
of duality, the energy gives way to balance between the polarities, so
this is what we need to focus on.  

"Winter Solstice is the day of the year when the sun is farthest south. The winter solstice marks the first day of the season of winter. The declination of the sun on the (northern) winter solstice is known as the tropic of capricorn (-23° 27').

As the Earth travels around the Sun in its orbit, the north-south
position of the Sun changes over the course of the year due to the
changing orientation of the Earth's tilted rotation axes with respect
to the Sun. The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year,
respectively, in the sense that the length of time elapsed between
sunrise and sunset on this day is a minimum for the year. On this
shortest day of the year, the sun is at its lowest and weakest, a
pivot point from which the light will grow stronger and brighter.
Today is the turning point of the year.

Winter Solstice has been celebrated in cultures the world over for
thousands of years. One can speculate on the significance of the
winter solstice in prehistoric Europe. One example is in Maeshowe,
(Orkneys, Scotland) where there is a chambered cairn carbon dated at
2750 BCE. Inside the cairn is a stone structure with a long entry
tunnel whose structure is aligned so that sunlight can shine along
the entry passage into the interior of the megalith and illuminate
the whole of the structure. This happens at sunrise on the winter
solstice.

In old Europe, Winter Solstice was known as “Yule” and was
a celebration of Light and the rebirth of the Sun. The romans called
it “Dies Natalis Invicti Solis”, the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun.
In ancient Egypt, the god-man/savior Osiris died and was entombed on
December 21. The ancient Druids called their solstice celebration
Alban Arthuan, death of the old sun. The ancient Incas celebrated a
festival if Inti Raymi at the time of the Winter Solstice where the god of the Sun, Wiracocha, was honored.(Ceremonies were banned by the Roman Catholic conquistadores in the 16th century as part of their forced conversions of the Inca people to Christianity.) The Hopi tribe call their winter solstice ceremony Soyal which lasts for 20 days and includes prayerstick making,
purification, and rituals.

Today, many people in Western-based
cultures refer to this holiday as "Christmas." Yet a look
into its origins of Christmas reveals its Pagan roots. Emperor
Aurelian established December 25 as the birthday of the
"Invincible Sun" in the third century as part of the Roman
Winter Solstice celebrations. In 273, the Christian church selected
this day to represent the birthday of Jesus, and by 336, this Roman
solar feast day was Christianized. Most of the customs, lore,
symbols, and rituals associated with Christmas actually are linked to
Winter Solstice celebrations of ancient Pagan cultures. While
Christian mythology is inter-woven with contemporary observances of this holiday time, its Pagan nature is still strong and apparent."

Blessings to you,
Kindred Spirits!
All Love,
Red Self Existing Skywalker

WE ARE CURRENTLY TRAVELLING THROUGH THE 28-DAY CYCLE OF THE "RHYTHMIC MOON OF EQUALITY."


Spanning Gregorian Dec 13 - Jan 9, the Rhythmic Moon energies correspond to Tone 6, and the code words: Organize, Balance, and Equality. The totem animal is the Lizard.


PLEASE NOTE, the Gregorian correlate dates are fixed, which means that "Overtone Moon," "Rhythmic Moon," etc will ALWAYS span the same Gregorian time-frame. Christmas will always be Rhythmic Moon 13 and Gregorian New Years day will always be Rhythmic 20!



VINALS

The current vinal meditation (since White Galactic Wizard day; Rhythmic 1; Dec 13) is MOL: "Which unifies all of the pieces."


(Because this is a White Wizard Year, every 20 days on each White
Wizard day we begin a new vinal meditation. The vinals are passed
down through the Mayan lineage as a series of intriguing phrases
which we are invited to contemplate during each 20-day period.After 18 vinals
of 20 days,there is one 5-day Vayeb, totalling the 365 day year.)



THE YELLOW SUN WAVESPELL CYCLE IS THE 4TH AND FINAL WAVESPELL OF THE 52-DAY
"RED EASTERN CASTLE OF TURNING."

As the 4th wavespell of the Tzolkin, the Yellow Sun wavespell is
always the fourth RIPENING wavespell which closes the 1st Castle of
Time of the Tzolkin: "The Red Eastern Castle of Turning."


The 52-day Red Castle always brings extra RED INITIATING power into our lives. The Red Castle unites the 4 cycles of the Red Dragon Wavespell, the
White Wizard Wavespell, the Blue Hand Wavespell, and the Yellow Sun Wavespell.


(A castle of time simply refers to a grouping of 4 wavespells, one
of each color which creates a 52-day period of time (13 x 4) in which
the powers of the 4 wavespells cumulatively work together to bring
specific lessons and initiations. Within each Tzolkin, there are 5
castles of time, 52 X 5 = 260 days.)

Current 13-day cycle: YELLOW SUN WAVESPELL

Yellow Sun's Code Words:

Action - "ENLIGHTENS"

Creative Power - "UNIVERSAL FIRE"

Essence/Function - "LIFE"

13 Moon Dates: Rhythmic 7 - Rhythmic 19

Tzolkin Dates: Kin 40 - Kin 52

Gregorian Dates: Dec 19 - Dec 31

WINTER SOLSTICE: Dec 21 - 11:04 pm pst; Rhythmic 9; White Electric Wind
(for those in the northern hemisphere, of course!)


Since the New Year, July 26th 2003, the White Spectral Wizard Year has been upon us -- a year of focusing on LIBERATING THE INNER WIZARD! The Spectral
Wizard Year energies are focused around the code words: Release,
Dissolve, Liberation, Enchants, Timelessness,Receptivity!


Regarding the current wavespell cycle, the Yellow Sun tribe is called "Ahau" in the Mayan language, (pronounced A how'.)

Traditional translations of Ahau include "Flower" or "Lord."  

As Mayan Elder Hunbatz Men writes:

"From the Sun comes the essence of our consciousness. When we speak of the flower, we are also speaking of the Sun. This graphically illustrates the intimate relationship of that which is above with that which is below.

To say flower, we use the word lol. The etymological roots of this word are:
L= vibration ('L' is a contraction of lil,'vibration')
O=consciousness
L=vibration."


As the 20th of the 20 tribes, AHAU is described in The Mayan Factor as signifying:  "Solar Mind, Solar Lord, Mastery, Realization of Solar Body, Wisdom, Knowledge, Ability to focus Galactic Whole, Ability to Encompass and Generate the Entire Cycle (of the 20 tribes)."

Another clue provided for Ahau is: "Attainment to the Mind of Light."


According to the Mayan Oracle, additional qualities of Ahau are known to include: "Union, unconditional love, 'Christ Consciousness,' ascension,language of light, and crown."  


YELLOW represents the power of the direction SOUTH which offers the energy of "RIPENS."



As the 20th of the 20 solar tribes, Ahau is the culmination of the solar tribe circuit. While the 20 solar tribes can be viewed as a cycle of 1-20, they can, even more accurately, be understood as a cycle of 0-19 where Sun = Zero.

A fascinating note is that the ancient Maya actually pioneered the mathematical concept of zero!

As Hunbatz Men shares in his incredible book Mayan Science/Religion:
"The Maya ancestors were the first people on Earth whose reasoning assigned to the zero a real value in mathematics. It has been said that a 'zero on the left has no value.' Could it be that the culture which teaches this way of reasoning has no real value? For the Maya, wherever the symbol of zero is marked, its value is known, for it represents the essence of the beginning, the Logos. It is the form of the seed. Thus it is said that in order to understand the sacred Hunab K'u, the Only Giver of Movement and Measure, one must venerate the origin of the zero, the Milky Way, because it is there that the mold for the most ancient things was located.

As mathematics helped define their religion and philosphy, the zero assumed value. It was represented in different forms, sometimes as a sea shell or conch. It is depicted in vegetal forms on the terrestrial plane. In other instances, because of its oval shape, it takes the form of animal eggs, or the male testicles or the female ovaries. Ultimately, those persons who have the capacity to discern human auras have indicated that they see the whole-body aura in the form of an auric egg. Could this possibly imply that we are the aura of the Milky Way?"


Tuning in to Yellow Sun as Zero, it seems to imply a union of formless potential and formed wholeness; nothingness and totality!



"ENLIGHTENS:"

Quite a clue into the energy of Ahau is that it serves as the final tribe as well as the pre-birth origin of all the tribes. It is as though "enlighten-ment" is our destination and our origin! Our arrival and our launch-pad into this life.

Spiritual wisdom traditions of many cultures indeed declare that our original, true, natural state is already enlightened, and that rather than something to achieve, enlightenment is actually inherent to our Being. It seems that what we experience as ignorance of our inherent enlightened nature is due to layers and layers of conditioning, programming, and disconnection from our true, core Essential Being.

This point can be realized, or "woken up to" in this moment, and we are being invited by The Yellow Sun tribe to continually, moment upon moment, awaken and honor this Divine truth. While this can require what is called "right effort," -  willingness, intention, mindfulness, heartfulness, discipline, practice... - to surrender to this cosmic reality, this in no way contradicts its elegant, primordial, beyond-words simplicity.  

As 13th century Zen Master Dogen said: "To let the Self be awakened by all things is enlightenment."

Many spiritual teachers advise that to experience and operate from our original condition it can be beneficial/necessary to disassociate/disidentify from all that we are not, so that our true nature can shine unobstructed.

That, to me, is the Zero aspect of Ahau. If this sounds confusing it is because this is quite a deep, ancient, multi-dimensional teaching, to say the least, that deserves investigation and inquiry!

"Who are you?"
"Who am I?"
"What is the true nature of reality?"
"What is the Self?"...

To counter-balance the zero aspect of Ahau with the 20 aspect of Ahau, here's another perspective: There are certain aspects of ourselves we don't like and we push away. These parts of ourselves we've rejected are a part of our Wholeness. Because we've denied them, they become "shadow energies." They are parts of our being that exist to help us in our spiritual evolution. Denying those aspects, we're keeping those lessons from ourselves.

We can actually embrace all the many parts of self without "solidifying" ourselves as any of these qualities. Wholeness is the light and the shadow.

The shadow is not separate from the light. As we embrace the shadow, we understand the bittersweet truth that the shadow is created by the light.

Deepening our compassion for the shadow qualities can help us transform these layers of programming, conditioning, limited and false identity, for as we embrace the denied parts of ourselves, we come to greater terms with the true vastness of our own Wholeness.

It's as though these shadow parts of ourselves just want to be acknowledged and welcomed back to wholeness, for that is why they perpetually manifest their destructive patterns until they are integrated into the light.

This, as well, is quite a multi-dimensional teaching which holds great liberation and healing for all humanity, especially in these times when so much acting-out of shadow energies is occurring on a planetary scale.



"UNIVERSAL FIRE:"

The power of Universal Fire is reflected in the Supreme, Solar Life-force which sustains our planet's lifeforms; our bodies' digestive fire; the fire of passion and brilliance and divine illumination; the fire of transformation; and the universal, timeless, ecstatic, mystical fire of sacred reverence, humility, gratitude, and grace which transcends even these words.

Perhaps universal fire also corresponds to the polarized expression of the fire of guns, bombs, explosions, the fire of arrogant, egotistical blindness; anger, rage, wrath, destruction...

Let us know the power of the universe's gift of fire and its properties, capacities, and role in Nature that we may honor it and wield it will full consciousness of its majesty.


"LIFE:"

Life. Here we are. Alive. Alert. Let all parts of ourselves and All beings everywhere AWAKEN to the precious reality of who we truly are, sparks of the same great fire of Life which illuminates eternity.


"What is Life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night...
it is the little shadow which runs across the grass
and loses itself in the Sunset."
-Crowfoot