Dreamspell

Kin 111: Blue Resonant Monkey

Dreamspell

111of 260

Seal 11: Monkey blue
Tone 7: Resonant
Wavespell: 7 of 13; Red Serpent wavespell, Kin 105 to 117

Seal 11, tone 7: one square out of 260

The Resonant Monkey’s inventiveness tunes itself to the moment: you find the idea or the witty line that suits precisely this person, in this situation.

Faced with a grumpy child, you find the game that amuses that child, not some other one. At a tense dinner, the joke that comes out is the one this particular table could hear. Your best ideas do not seem to come from you: they arrive on contact with an atmosphere, as if the place were feeding you your lines.

But the Monkey also excels at imitation. By tuning yourself to every audience, you can end up playing what each person wants to see, taking on their tastes, their quirks, their humor, until you no longer know which part of your finds belongs to you. The tone perceives, the Monkey reproduces, and your own voice gets lost in the resemblance.

The Blue Night guides you. Its realm is that of dreams, of what takes shape in silence, far from any audience. It gives your Resonant Monkey a source the room cannot provide: the images that come at night, the ideas born when no one is there to react to them. With the Night, you no longer attune only to what is outside, but also to an inner ground, and it is this ground that lets you recognize your inventions among the echoes.

What would you invent if no one were ever to see it? The answer tells you what is truly your own in your play, beneath everything it knows how to reflect.

The oracle of Kin 111

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 Blue Night, Kin 163.

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

The guide, the Blue Night: At tone 7, the guide is 12 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Blue Night, Kin 163.
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 Red Serpent wavespell

Kin 111 is day 7 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 seventh, in the middle, carries tone 7.

The Blue Monkey and the Resonant tone

Kin 111 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 111

What does the name Blue Resonant Monkey mean?

A Kin’s name reads color, tone, then seal. Blue Resonant Monkey is seal 11, the Monkey, in blue, with tone 7, Resonant. The number 111 gives its place in the 260-day cycle.

What is the guide of Kin 111?

At tone 7, the guide is 12 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Blue Night, Kin 163.

Which wavespell is Kin 111 in?

In the Red Serpent wavespell, from Kin 105 to Kin 117. Kin 111 is day 7, in the middle of the wavespell.

Is Kin 111 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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