Dreamspell
Kin 117: Red Cosmic Earth
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Sometimes you have to reach the end of a journey to see its design, and the Cosmic Earth sees it better than anyone.
You look back on a period that has passed and the pieces fit together: the move that seemed forced on you led to an encounter, which led to a profession. Your tone carries your reading of events far back in time, until a whole path appears, where others saw only a series of coincidences. You often help someone reread their own journey in the same way.
This overall view does have its price, though. An Earth moves forward in the present, responding to what happens today; the Cosmic tone, for its part, closes and takes in what is finished. You can stay contemplating a completed journey instead of reading the new signs already appearing under your feet. The Red Dragon stands on the other side, that of what is being born, and this guide adds to your Earth an attentiveness the overall view does not give: one that turns to the very first sign of a new journey, still too fragile to be read as a path. Where you understand a story once it has closed, the Dragon watches over the one that is beginning and does not yet have a visible meaning.
Rereading a finished path with clarity, and at the same time protecting the small, seemingly unimportant fact that opens another: your Kin asks you to hold both of these gazes.
The oracle of Kin 117
Five seals make up the oracle: the Kin’s own seal at the center, and four others around it. At tone 13, the guide is the Red Dragon, Kin 221.
- GuideThe Red DragonKin 221
- AntipodeThe Blue Handseal 7
- AnalogThe White Windseal 2
- OccultThe Yellow Seedseal 4
- The Kin117Red Cosmic Earth
- The guide, the Red Dragon
- At tone 13, the guide is 4 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Red Dragon, Kin 221.
- The Analog, the White Wind
- The Wind carries the messages the Earth learns to read as directions.
- The Antipode, the Blue Hand
- The Hand acts with what it has at hand; the Earth first waits to understand where it is heading.
- The Occult (hidden power), the Yellow Seed
- The Seed reminds the Earth that the right direction first requires taking root somewhere.
The Red Serpent wavespell
Kin 117 is day 13 of the Red Serpent wavespell, a run of 13 days from Kin 105 to Kin 117. Each day of the wavespell carries the tone of its place: the thirteenth, the last, carries tone 13.
The Red Earth and the Cosmic tone
Kin 117 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 117
What does the name Red Cosmic Earth mean?
A Kin’s name reads color, tone, then seal. Red Cosmic Earth is seal 17, the Earth, in red, with tone 13, Cosmic. The number 117 gives its place in the 260-day cycle.
What is the guide of Kin 117?
At tone 13, the guide is 4 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Red Dragon, Kin 221.
Which wavespell is Kin 117 in?
In the Red Serpent wavespell, from Kin 105 to Kin 117. Kin 117 is day 13, the last of the wavespell.
Is Kin 117 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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