Dreamspell

Kin 28: Yellow Lunar Star

Dreamspell

28of 260

Seal 8: Star yellow
Tone 2: Lunar
Wavespell: 2 of 13; Blue Hand wavespell, Kin 27 to 39

Seal 8, tone 2: one square out of 260

Dissonance, oddly enough, does the Lunar Star a favor.

A critique of your drawing, a client who hates your palette, a detail that clashes in a room: it is in contact with what jars that your taste becomes sharper. You know better what you like after defending a choice against someone who found it ugly. Under a flood of compliments, on the other hand, your sense of form goes dull. Yet the Star flees whatever clashes. It seeks harmony, avoids false notes, smooths the edges. Your tone needs the friction your seal would like to push away, so you avoid the disagreement that would sharpen your eye and settle into a smooth comfort where your talent loses its edge.

Under the light of the Yellow Sun, your guide, a clash is no longer an accident that spoils the whole. This light is wide enough to include dissonance, and it turns it into a step toward a completed form, a tension that a work resolves by going all the way. With the Sun, disagreement stops being something to flee: it is part of the path that leads to the finished form. Seeking out the person who will contradict you and make you see more accurately, instead of the circle that reassures you: that is the only price at which the Lunar Star grows finer.

The oracle of Kin 28

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 Yellow Sun, Kin 80.

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

The guide, the Yellow Sun: At tone 2, the guide is 12 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Yellow Sun, Kin 80.
The Analog, the Blue Monkey: The Monkey gives the Star the lightness it lacks: it reminds the Star that beauty can also be played with, not only lived as a quest.
The Antipode, the White Mirror: The Mirror forces the Star to see its own ideal reflected without a filter: what the Star refuses to look at in itself is exactly what the Mirror sends back.
The Occult (hidden power), the Red Skywalker: The Skywalker reminds the Star that its vision of perfect beauty comes from another space and time, and that this is precisely why it never fully lands here.

The Blue Hand wavespell

Kin 28 is day 2 of the Blue Hand wavespell, a run of 13 days from Kin 27 to Kin 39. Each day of the wavespell carries the tone of its place: the second carries tone 2.

The Yellow Star and the Lunar tone

Kin 28 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 28

What does the name Yellow Lunar Star mean?

A Kin’s name reads color, tone, then seal. Yellow Lunar Star is seal 8, the Star, in yellow, with tone 2, Lunar. The number 28 gives its place in the 260-day cycle.

What is the guide of Kin 28?

At tone 2, the guide is 12 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Yellow Sun, Kin 80.

Which wavespell is Kin 28 in?

In the Blue Hand wavespell, from Kin 27 to Kin 39. Kin 28 is day 2.

Is Kin 28 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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