Dreamspell

Kin 68: Yellow Electric Star

Dreamspell

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Seal 8: Star yellow
Tone 3: Electric
Wavespell: 3 of 13; White World-Bridger wavespell, Kin 66 to 78

Seal 8, tone 3: one square out of 260

Getting a room ready for a party, helping a friend choose an outfit, showing off a colleague’s work to its best advantage: the Electric Star gets moving for others.

Your sense of harmony wakes up when it serves someone. Faced with your own home, you go around in circles; as soon as someone calls on you to make a file, a shop window or a family meal presentable, you find exactly what is needed right away. Your tone is activated by giving; your seal gives its most precious possession, an eye that sees how things fit together. But the Star’s taste is personal, precise, hardly negotiable. When you help, you risk imposing your harmony on the other person’s project, and the helping hand turns into a correction. The person leaves with a superb shop window that looks more like you than like them.

Thanks to the Yellow Human, your guide, this Electric Star learns to respect other people’s choices. Your eye becomes a suggestion, not an instruction: you show what you see, then let the person concerned decide. The Human knows, from having lived it, that useful help is help the other person can make their own; that is the knowledge it adds to your generosity. To whom, in the end, does the beautiful thing you have just helped bring into being belong?

The oracle of Kin 68

Five seals make up the oracle: the Kin’s own seal at the center, and four others around it. At tone 3, the guide is the Yellow Human, Kin 172.

The guide changes with the tone; the Analog, the Antipode and the Occult belong to the seal.

The guide, the Yellow Human: At tone 3, the guide is 4 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Yellow Human, Kin 172.
The Analog, the Blue Monkey: The Monkey gives the Star the lightness it lacks: it reminds the Star that beauty can also be played with, not only lived as a quest.
The Antipode, the White Mirror: The Mirror forces the Star to see its own ideal reflected without a filter: what the Star refuses to look at in itself is exactly what the Mirror sends back.
The Occult (hidden power), the Red Skywalker: The Skywalker reminds the Star that its vision of perfect beauty comes from another space and time, and that this is precisely why it never fully lands here.

The White World-Bridger wavespell

Kin 68 is day 3 of the White World-Bridger wavespell, a run of 13 days from Kin 66 to Kin 78. Each day of the wavespell carries the tone of its place: the third carries tone 3.

The Yellow Star and the Electric tone

Kin 68 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 68

What does the name Yellow Electric Star mean?

A Kin’s name reads color, tone, then seal. Yellow Electric Star is seal 8, the Star, in yellow, with tone 3, Electric. The number 68 gives its place in the 260-day cycle.

What is the guide of Kin 68?

At tone 3, the guide is 4 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Yellow Human, Kin 172.

Which wavespell is Kin 68 in?

In the White World-Bridger wavespell, from Kin 66 to Kin 78. Kin 68 is day 3.

Is Kin 68 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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