Dreamspell

Kin 145: Red Lunar Serpent

Dreamspell

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Seal 5: Serpent red
Tone 2: Lunar
Wavespell: 2 of 13; Yellow Seed wavespell, Kin 144 to 156

Seal 5, tone 2: one square out of 260

Faced with resistance, the Lunar Serpent wakes up.

A tough negotiation, an opponent at tennis, someone contradicting you around the table: your body mobilizes and your reflexes sharpen. It is in a contest of strength that you discover what you really think. Conversely, a period that is too quiet makes you sluggish; sensations dull, and you no longer quite know where you stand.

The catch is that the Serpent’s instinct treats any opposition as an alarm. Your tone needs the other side to locate itself; your seal reads that same other side as a threat to neutralize. There you are, wanting the opponent and wanting to bring them down in the same movement. You sometimes win the confrontation and lose what it was supposed to teach you about your own position.

What would your next opponent teach you if your body stopped taking them for a danger?

Your guide, the Red Earth, moves forward through centering and synergy. With it, the Lunar Serpent can look at friction differently: as a shared movement in which two forces adjust to each other, not as a fight in which one must disappear. With a steady axis, you can stay in the tension long enough for it to inform you, without your body switching into defense. The Earth also shows you, through the sequence of events, when a face-off has given what it had to give.

The oracle of Kin 145

Five seals make up the oracle: the Kin’s own seal at the center, and four others around it. At tone 2, the guide is the Red Earth, Kin 197.

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

The guide, the Red Earth: At tone 2, the guide is 12 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Red Earth, Kin 197.
The Analog, the White Wizard: The Wizard brings the Serpent the ability to transform what it feels without being ruled by it: the alchemy raw force cannot achieve on its own.
The Antipode, the Blue Eagle: The Eagle makes the Serpent look up: where the Serpent reads the signals of the ground and the body, the Eagle sees the big picture that vigilance can hide.
The Occult (hidden power), the Yellow Warrior: The Warrior works quietly beneath the Serpent: the courage to stay in relationship even when the nervous system says to cut ties is its hardest strength to call on.

The Yellow Seed wavespell

Kin 145 is day 2 of the Yellow Seed wavespell, a run of 13 days from Kin 144 to Kin 156. Each day of the wavespell carries the tone of its place: the second carries tone 2.

The Red Serpent and the Lunar tone

Kin 145 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 145

What does the name Red Lunar Serpent mean?

A Kin’s name reads color, tone, then seal. Red Lunar Serpent is seal 5, the Serpent, in red, with tone 2, Lunar. The number 145 gives its place in the 260-day cycle.

What is the guide of Kin 145?

At tone 2, the guide is 12 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Red Earth, Kin 197.

Which wavespell is Kin 145 in?

In the Yellow Seed wavespell, from Kin 144 to Kin 156. Kin 145 is day 2.

Is Kin 145 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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