Dreamspell

Kin 81: Red Electric Dragon

Dreamspell

81of 260

Seal 1: Dragon red
Tone 3: Electric
Wavespell: 3 of 13; Blue Storm wavespell, Kin 79 to 91

Seal 1, tone 3: one square out of 260

For the Electric Dragon, watching over someone is not enough to spark anything; it is when this care serves a shared project that the current flows.

You notice it in the moments when your drive comes back: the first meeting of an association, a community garden that needs getting off the ground, a class that is just starting. Watching over a beginning that belongs to many recharges you, whereas the same effort devoted to a single relationship ends up weighing on you.

The difficulty lies in the way the Dragon becomes attached. It keeps close what it has seen being born and hesitates to let it go and serve elsewhere. Yet your tone only works as a loop open to the outside: care that stays shut in between you and what you are nurturing stops feeding you, and you keep giving without anything coming back.

The Electric Dragon cannot sort, on its own, the kinds of care that recharge it from the ones that drain it. The Red Serpent, its guide, does it in a few moments, because it reacts before it reasons: it senses whether a situation gives it strength or takes some away. Among all the causes that call on your care, it tells apart those that make life circulate in you and those that hold it back. The Serpent does not feel obliged. It feels, and that is a different compass from duty.

What, among the things you are protecting right now, is ready to serve something wider than you? And what are you still holding on to out of attachment rather than necessity?

The oracle of Kin 81

Five seals make up the oracle: the Kin’s own seal at the center, and four others around it. At tone 3, the guide is the Red Serpent, Kin 185.

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

The guide, the Red Serpent: At tone 3, the guide is 4 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Red Serpent, Kin 185.
The Analog, the White Mirror: The Mirror reflects back to the Dragon the image of what it nurtures: it reveals the hidden structure beneath every act of care, every protection, every surge of life.
The Antipode, the Blue Monkey: The Monkey pushes the Dragon to play for no good reason. It is precisely what you refuse to take lightly that you need to look at.
The Occult (hidden power), the Yellow Sun: The Sun works quietly beneath the Dragon. The source of life the Dragon offers to others, it receives too, even when it no longer believes it.

The Blue Storm wavespell

Kin 81 is day 3 of the Blue Storm wavespell, a run of 13 days from Kin 79 to Kin 91. Each day of the wavespell carries the tone of its place: the third carries tone 3.

The Red Dragon and the Electric tone

Kin 81 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 81

What does the name Red Electric Dragon mean?

A Kin’s name reads color, tone, then seal. Red Electric Dragon is seal 1, the Dragon, in red, with tone 3, Electric. The number 81 gives its place in the 260-day cycle.

What is the guide of Kin 81?

At tone 3, the guide is 4 seals ahead, in the same color, and keeps the same tone: it is the Red Serpent, Kin 185.

Which wavespell is Kin 81 in?

In the Blue Storm wavespell, from Kin 79 to Kin 91. Kin 81 is day 3.

Is Kin 81 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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