Dreamspell
Kin 169: Red Cosmic Moon
Dreamspell
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Two ways of looking at the same water: the Cosmic Moon feels with its whole being and, in the same instant, sees what it feels from above.
At a funeral, you weep and at the same time perceive the whole life of the person who has died, what they were from the first day to the last, with a kind of peace. An argument affects you, and something in you is already measuring what it weighs on the scale of a lifetime. Emotions lose none of their force; they gain a horizon.
This double vision can slip, though. The Moon lives in movement, the tone looks at the whole, and you can end up contemplating your emotions instead of passing through them, with a serenity that from a distance looks like coldness. People close to you then feel they are talking to you through a pane of glass. But the Red Skywalker, your guide, is a traveler, and a traveler comes back. It brings your Cosmic Moon what height alone does not give: the way home, the walk that brings you back from the high vantage point to the kitchen, the hospital bed, the bench where someone is waiting. With the Skywalker, the big picture is no longer a balcony you settle onto, but a place you climb up to in order to come back down with a wider view.
Seeing life from above without ever taking your feet out of the water: that is the double demand your Kin keeps open.
The oracle of Kin 169
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 Skywalker, Kin 13.
- GuideThe Red SkywalkerKin 13
- AntipodeThe Blue Stormseal 19
- AnalogThe White Dogseal 10
- OccultThe Yellow Humanseal 12
- The Kin169Red Cosmic Moon
- The guide, the Red Skywalker
- At tone 13, the guide is 4 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Red Skywalker, Kin 13.
- The Analog, the White Dog
- The Dog grounds the Moon in personal connection: it reminds the Moon that feeling the collective must not come at the cost of its real attachments.
- The Antipode, the Blue Storm
- The Storm intensifies the Moon’s emotional flow until being overwhelmed becomes inevitable, or it teaches that chaos is not something to manage but something to purify.
- The Occult (hidden power), the Yellow Human
- The Human reveals to the Moon that wisdom gathered through experience is what allows it to tell what belongs to it from what belongs to others.
The Red Earth wavespell
Kin 169 is day 13 of the Red Earth wavespell, a run of 13 days from Kin 157 to Kin 169. Each day of the wavespell carries the tone of its place: the thirteenth, the last, carries tone 13.
The Red Moon and the Cosmic tone
Kin 169 combines a seal, shared with 12 other Kin, and a tone, shared with 19 others. Their pages describe each one in full.
- Seal 9The Red Moon Universal water. The Moon purifies emotions and follows the flow of feeling. Read the page for the Red Moon →
- Tone 13Cosmic You carry the whole cycle. Presence and transcendence live in you at the same time, and you know that endings are also beginnings. Read the page for tone 13 →
Frequently asked questions about Kin 169
What does the name Red Cosmic Moon mean?
A Kin’s name reads color, tone, then seal. Red Cosmic Moon is seal 9, the Moon, in red, with tone 13, Cosmic. The number 169 gives its place in the 260-day cycle.
What is the guide of Kin 169?
At tone 13, the guide is 4 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Red Skywalker, Kin 13.
Which wavespell is Kin 169 in?
In the Red Earth wavespell, from Kin 157 to Kin 169. Kin 169 is day 13, the last of the wavespell.
Is Kin 169 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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