…eturning to Everett after a test flight. Photo Credit: Ken Fielding/http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenfielding [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons 7 Ak’b’al (July 16th) – a “self-generating” type of energy, often referred to as a “temple” or “house”, but also darkness. On its last appearance this energy coincided with the going into effect of U.S. Speaker John Boehner’s resignation. At the present ti… Read more

Fife moon rising over water. Photo Credit: Chris Combe from York, UK [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons End of the year, as the final full trecena for 2015 comes into play – the Muluk trecena, associated with the “generative vitality” of Water. Given the enormous amount of rainfall recently in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere, more water may not sound like welcome news. However, this trecena is not necessarily about rain, but rather about wate… Read more

…Provincial Park, BC). Photo credit: Trougnouf [CC-BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons]. As this Muluk (Water) trecena begins, this seems like a metaphor representative of the importance of Keeping Calm, Being still, and Being present at this time. Water, when disturbed and out of control, can be highly destructive. Water, when calm and tranquil, can be very beautiful, very healing, and very life-sustaining. It is water’s calmness that is needed these… Read more

…d Farewell, America, published two days after that election, “America died [on that day] not with a bang or whimper, but at its own hand via electoral suicide. We the people chose a man who has shredded our values, our morals, our compassion, our tolerance, our decency, our sense of common purpose, our very identity – all things that, however tenuously, made a nation out of a country”. Precisely four cycles after that, Guardian columnist Robert Re… Read more

…ss. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons]. This trecena brings a return of his Maya birth energy, a revisiting of his civil rights accomplishments in Alabama, and the return of the energy that was in place when his memorial was unveiled in Washington D.C. in 2011. In the past this energy sequence has brought a number of “hidden secrets” into the open, as in the exposing of the Watergate affair during the e… Read more

…) – “transformational high vision”; a high-energy type of force that can be world-shaping, as seen when Queen Elizabeth I acceded to the throne under this influence in 1558 ********************************** [Please note that the brief descriptions of the days provided above are only “thumbnail sketches”. Much greater detail can be found in Manual for the Soul: A Guide to the Energies of Life.]… Read more

…cy Pelosi called the dumpster “the most dangerous person in the history of [the US]” – and that was well before the coup attempt. 8 Ok (April 23rd) – a “double sun” type of force, symbolic of the “resurrection of love, guidance, and loyalty”, coinciding at this time with World Book Day, and the final day of Passover. 9 Chuwen (April 24th) “outwardly projecting creativity”, the energy that was in place in January of 2013 when then U.S. President Ba… Read more

…cy Pelosi called the dumpster “the most dangerous person in the history of [the US]” – and that was well before the coup attempt. 8 Ok (Jan. 8th) – a “double sun” type of force, symbolic of the “resurrection of love, guidance, and loyalty”. It was one cycle ago (last April) when 61-year old Igor Pedin left his home in the beseiged port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, with his dog Zhu-Zhu, to begin a treacherous 140-mile journey by foot, often through R… Read more

…orld Rivers Day event. Photo Credit: Daniel Catt (Photograph Digital file) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons 13 Ix (Sept. 25th) – “transformational Jaguar” – a double transformation type of energy associated with the Jaguar, earth mysteries, and high magic, this time in conjunction with World Rivers Day, in celebration of the world’s waterways. The UN Security Council meets on this day to discuss the military escalation against Aleppo in Syria… Read more

…csayhuaman, Cusco. Photo Credit: Cyntia Motta [CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikimedia Commons] And there are a number of important celebratory points within this time frame, such as Father’s Day, the Summer Solstice, the famed Glastonbury Music Festival in the UK, and the great week-long Inti Raymi (Festival of the Sun) in Peru. So there will be many opportunities for play, artistry, and “reckless abandon”, which many may welcome as a time for refreshment an… Read more