Dreamspell
Kin 231: Blue Planetary Monkey
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When it pours all its play into a single project, the Planetary Monkey makes that project real, sometimes far beyond what it imagined.
A show put on with friends that ends up touring, a game invented for one evening that becomes a product, a running joke that turns into a book. You have this ability: taking a fancy from the status of a clever find to that of an object others buy, read, use. On one condition: that your attention goes nowhere else.
Yet a Monkey juggles. Three ideas in the air, then five, each funnier than the last, and the pleasure lies precisely in keeping them all moving. For your tone, this is ruinous: split between five games, your creative drive brings nothing in to land, and you are left with the memory of an abundance of ideas and no work to show for it.
It is the Blue Storm that guides you, and it draws its power from within and does not run dry when the appeal of novelty fades. It gives your Planetary Monkey what it lacks at the critical moment: the energy to keep going when the game is no longer fun, in the long phase where a project demands work rather than invention. The Storm also steers the choice: among your ideas, the one that deserves all your strength is the one that shakes something up, not just the one that raises a smile.
Which fancy, among those you keep spinning, would you agree to carry all the way through, once the laughter has passed?
The oracle of Kin 231
Five seals make up the oracle: the Kin’s own seal at the center, and four others around it. At tone 10, the guide is the Blue Storm, Kin 179.
- GuideThe Blue StormKin 179
- AntipodeThe Red Dragonseal 1
- AnalogThe Yellow Starseal 8
- OccultThe White Dogseal 10
- The Kin231Blue Planetary Monkey
- The guide, the Blue Storm
- At tone 10, the guide is 8 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Blue Storm, Kin 179.
- The Analog, the Yellow Star
- The Star gives the Monkey a sense of beauty that goes beyond mere entertainment: when the Monkey leans on it, its creativity gains direction.
- The Antipode, the Red Dragon
- The Dragon holds the ground and the origins; it reminds the Monkey that all its jokes and inventions are born somewhere, and that acknowledging that source would cost it less than it thinks.
- The Occult (hidden power), the White Dog
- Beneath the Monkey’s acrobatics lies a deep loyalty: the Dog is what it protects by making everyone laugh.
The White Wind wavespell
Kin 231 is day 10 of the White Wind wavespell, a run of 13 days from Kin 222 to Kin 234. Each day of the wavespell carries the tone of its place: the tenth carries tone 10.
The Blue Monkey and the Planetary tone
Kin 231 combines a seal, shared with 12 other Kin, and a tone, shared with 19 others. Their pages describe each one in full.
Frequently asked questions about Kin 231
What does the name Blue Planetary Monkey mean?
A Kin’s name reads color, tone, then seal. Blue Planetary Monkey is seal 11, the Monkey, in blue, with tone 10, Planetary. The number 231 gives its place in the 260-day cycle.
What is the guide of Kin 231?
At tone 10, the guide is 8 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Blue Storm, Kin 179.
Which wavespell is Kin 231 in?
In the White Wind wavespell, from Kin 222 to Kin 234. Kin 231 is day 10.
Is Kin 231 the same in the traditional Maya calendar?
Usually not for the same date. Soulencia calculates the Kin with the Dreamspell of José Argüelles; the traditional Maya count uses another correlation and keeps February 29, so the same birth date most often falls on a different Kin.
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