Dreamspell

Kin 5: Red Overtone Serpent

Dreamspell

5of 260

Seal 5: Serpent red
Tone 5: Overtone
Wavespell: 5 of 13; Red Dragon wavespell, Kin 1 to 13

Seal 5, tone 5: one square out of 260

An Overtone Serpent takes charge of a situation through the body before taking charge of it through words, and others defer to it on that impression alone.

In a meeting that is getting bogged down, it is often the way you stand up that signals it is time to move on. Faced with the unexpected, people look to you, because you have already moved while the rest of the group was barely grasping what was happening. Your seal reacts quickly; your tone gives that reaction the weight of an instruction.

That is where the friction lies. A Serpent feels first and checks afterward. Yet the credit others give you leaves no time for checking: a tensing, a step back, a gesture of impatience are read as decisions and followed as such. What was for you only a signal from the body, still to be sorted, becomes a direction for them.

The Red Skywalker, your guide, does not inhabit the moment the way you do. It looks far away, beyond the room and the moment, and connects what is happening here to a wider horizon. To your Overtone Serpent, it brings the question the body never asks: where is this movement that everyone is following leading? It widens the ground of your instinct without taking away its speed, and gives the credit people grant you a destination rather than mere momentum. People fall into step behind you every time your body decides. Knowing where you are taking them, and not just that you are taking them fast: that is what this Kin demands.

The oracle of Kin 5

Five seals make up the oracle: the Kin’s own seal at the center, and four others around it. At tone 5, the guide is the Red Skywalker, Kin 213.

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

The guide, the Red Skywalker: At tone 5, the guide is 8 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Red Skywalker, Kin 213.
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 Red Dragon wavespell

Kin 5 is day 5 of the Red Dragon wavespell, a run of 13 days from Kin 1 to Kin 13. Each day of the wavespell carries the tone of its place: the fifth carries tone 5.

The Red Serpent and the Overtone tone

Kin 5 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 5

What does the name Red Overtone Serpent mean?

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

What is the guide of Kin 5?

At tone 5, the guide is 8 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Red Skywalker, Kin 213.

Which wavespell is Kin 5 in?

In the Red Dragon wavespell, from Kin 1 to Kin 13. Kin 5 is day 5.

Is Kin 5 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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