Dreamspell

Kin 228: Yellow Resonant Star

Dreamspell

228of 260

Seal 8: Star yellow
Tone 7: Resonant
Wavespell: 7 of 13; White Wind wavespell, Kin 222 to 234

Seal 8, tone 7: one square out of 260

A harmony sometimes passes through the Resonant Star without its having looked for it: a chord, a color, a sentence that lands just right.

A melody comes to you in the shower, a composition appears during a walk, the layout of a garden draws itself as you watch the light. Your tone attunes you to whatever is passing through; your seal receives this flow in the form of what it knows best, right forms. Your best creations often have something received about them.

But a Star judges. It assesses, compares, retouches. Yet your tone needs to let things through without interrupting. You correct what is coming to you before it has fully arrived, and the intervention of your taste cuts the reception off mid-flight. What remains is a form half received and already reworked, which no longer resembles either what was coming or what you would have wanted.

Letting a form reach you all the way before touching it: the Resonant Star learns this restraint, and it alone makes its gifts whole.

That extra time is what the Yellow Sun grants by guiding you: the time of completion. With it, what arrives has the right to reach its end before being judged. Its fire then brings the received work into the light to be shared, rather than reducing it to a draft to be corrected. Your taste keeps its place, but once the reception is over.

The oracle of Kin 228

Five seals make up the oracle: the Kin’s own seal at the center, and four others around it. At tone 7, the guide is the Yellow Sun, Kin 20.

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

The guide, the Yellow Sun: At tone 7, the guide is 12 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Yellow Sun, Kin 20.
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 Wind wavespell

Kin 228 is day 7 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 seventh, in the middle, carries tone 7.

The Yellow Star and the Resonant tone

Kin 228 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 228

What does the name Yellow Resonant Star mean?

A Kin’s name reads color, tone, then seal. Yellow Resonant Star is seal 8, the Star, in yellow, with tone 7, Resonant. The number 228 gives its place in the 260-day cycle.

What is the guide of Kin 228?

At tone 7, the guide is 12 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Yellow Sun, Kin 20.

Which wavespell is Kin 228 in?

In the White Wind wavespell, from Kin 222 to Kin 234. Kin 228 is day 7, in the middle of the wavespell.

Is Kin 228 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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