Dreamspell

Kin 171: Blue Lunar Monkey

Dreamspell

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Seal 11: Monkey blue
Tone 2: Lunar
Wavespell: 2 of 13; White Dog wavespell, Kin 170 to 182

Seal 11, tone 2: one square out of 260

A pointed objection wakes up the Lunar Monkey: facing someone who doubts its idea, it invents better than ever.

Tell you that something is impossible, and there you are, looking for the workaround that would make it doable. A skeptical listener, a restrictive set of specifications, an audience that does not laugh: these forms of resistance give your play something to push against. Without them, your ideas go off in every direction; with them, they find their angle.

To escape whatever contradicts it, though, the Monkey has a weapon all its own: the deft sidestep. Faced with a real challenge to your idea, the temptation is to answer with a joke, to shift the ground, to win the exchange without having actually engaged in it. The other person smiles, the contradiction subsides, and with it goes what your tone needed for your idea to take shape.

The Blue Night guides you, and it does not play to the gallery: it dreams inwardly. What it gives your Lunar Monkey is a depth to stand on when contradiction arrives. An idea that comes from your oldest dreams, from what you have long been imagining in silence, needs no sidestep to defend itself. With the Night, play has depth, and opposition can run up against it without making you want to flee.

What do you carry inside you that is tenacious enough to deserve being challenged, and to keep you standing there while it is?

The oracle of Kin 171

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 Blue Night, Kin 223.

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

The guide, the Blue Night: At tone 2, the guide is 12 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Blue Night, Kin 223.
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 White Dog wavespell

Kin 171 is day 2 of the White Dog wavespell, a run of 13 days from Kin 170 to Kin 182. Each day of the wavespell carries the tone of its place: the second carries tone 2.

The Blue Monkey and the Lunar tone

Kin 171 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 171

What does the name Blue Lunar Monkey mean?

A Kin’s name reads color, tone, then seal. Blue Lunar Monkey is seal 11, the Monkey, in blue, with tone 2, Lunar. The number 171 gives its place in the 260-day cycle.

What is the guide of Kin 171?

At tone 2, the guide is 12 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Blue Night, Kin 223.

Which wavespell is Kin 171 in?

In the White Dog wavespell, from Kin 170 to Kin 182. Kin 171 is day 2.

Is Kin 171 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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