Free love.
To embroider life with experiences worthy of telling stories can make the toppings too much for the doughnut underneath. This is a cycle where extravagance is soon met with calamity as a natural way to maintain a lean body and not let accumulation sink the boat. The freedom to live life and make story-worthy mistakes meets the measuring rod that defines them as mistakes. This measure should always be love, and that is today's nawal. Love is not just allowing, eating if you're hungry, and sleeping if you're tired. It is also knowing when not to eat, to fast for health, for culture, and to veil spirits in a ceremony regardless of your body asking for sleep.
Love is giving and love is taking; it is not one direction, nor two or four. According to today's nawal, it is seven. Don't mind the numbers and stand with me as I try to channel the nawal's lesson. Channeling, yes—divine connection, the ability to see ahead, to see beyond. This is the sacred, the holy too: divine mind, divine law. As this message passes down, it can be taken as a restriction to freedom, as a negative forecast; surely it can look like that from down here. But from above it is never passed down with those intentions. On the contrary, sacred advice that restricts your possibilities is working from love, trying to warn you and prevent you from a suffering or an experience you do not want to later tell.
This is where the winding road meets the elevating stairs of the sacred temple. You have made it if you can summon and respect something skywardly holy in your life—a channel, a means through which to be told what path you must or must not follow. Humans have in sacrilege abused this institution degeneratively, to the extent of being doomed by the darkness that abuses this power and those under its spell. Minding this, it is natural to want to avoid temples and ways, but beware of not having temples and sacred ways and thinking you can just be free, because that will leave you without love.
The only measuring stick really is love, but this stick—love—can be long and extend into dimensions you are not ready to comprehend. Knowing this, then, you must allow the exploration and understand, feel, that it comes from love, and that love is the way, the only way. Love will push us to expand our horizons and climb above the plane of our past. If you want to, or are in the path of love, then you should be constantly gaining height, climbing the pyramid, and seeing further from a broader, more elevated perspective. This path, in its seven-dimensionality, becomes more restrictive, and yet at the same time it liberates and expands you to be something you were not.
The Cane / The Reed / The Staff / The Temple / The Axis Mundi (Aj) represents the sacred reed, the column of the temple, the spine that connects the underworld to the heavens, divine authority, spiritual channeling, and the vertical ascent of consciousness. It is the nawal of spiritual leaders, keepers of the sacred fire, those who bridge the earthly and the divine, and those who maintain the structural integrity of tradition and community. In its seventh position (Wukub'), it introduces the frequency of reflection, the mirror of the supernatural, the seven directions of the cosmos, the climax of the upward climb, and the test of divine law where freedom and restriction meet in unconditional love.
To embody Seven Aj is to stand as the central pillar of the temple, feeling the tension between earthly freedom and divine law. It demands that you recognize discipline not as a cage, but as the scaffolding of love that allows consciousness to climb higher. At this seventh station of the trecena of Keej—moving up from the traveler's road of E'—Aj arrives as the staff of authority and the opening of the upper skies, reminding us that true freedom is found only when we align our path with the vertical axis of the sacred.
Free love.
To embroider life with experiences worthy of telling stories can make the toppings too much for the doughnut underneath. This is a cycle where extravagance is soon met with calamity as a natural way to maintain a lean body and not let accumulation sink the boat. The freedom to live life and make story-worthy mistakes meets the measuring rod that defines them as mistakes. This measure should always be love, and that is today's nawal. Love is not just allowing, eating if you're hungry, and sleeping if you're tired. It is also knowing when not to eat, to fast for health, for culture, and to veil spirits in a ceremony regardless of your body asking for sleep.
Love is giving and love is taking; it is not one direction, nor two or four. According to today's nawal, it is seven. Don't mind the numbers and stand with me as I try to channel the nawal's lesson. Channeling, yes—divine connection, the ability to see ahead, to see beyond. This is the sacred, the holy too: divine mind, divine law. As this message passes down, it can be taken as a restriction to freedom, as a negative forecast; surely it can look like that from down here. But from above it is never passed down with those intentions. On the contrary, sacred advice that restricts your possibilities is working from love, trying to warn you and prevent you from a suffering or an experience you do not want to later tell.
This is where the winding road meets the elevating stairs of the sacred temple. You have made it if you can summon and respect something skywardly holy in your life—a channel, a means through which to be told what path you must or must not follow. Humans have in sacrilege abused this institution degeneratively, to the extent of being doomed by the darkness that abuses this power and those under its spell. Minding this, it is natural to want to avoid temples and ways, but beware of not having temples and sacred ways and thinking you can just be free, because that will leave you without love.
The only measuring stick really is love, but this stick—love—can be long and extend into dimensions you are not ready to comprehend. Knowing this, then, you must allow the exploration and understand, feel, that it comes from love, and that love is the way, the only way. Love will push us to expand our horizons and climb above the plane of our past. If you want to, or are in the path of love, then you should be constantly gaining height, climbing the pyramid, and seeing further from a broader, more elevated perspective. This path, in its seven-dimensionality, becomes more restrictive, and yet at the same time it liberates and expands you to be something you were not.
The Cane / The Reed / The Staff / The Temple / The Axis Mundi (Aj) represents the sacred reed, the column of the temple, the spine that connects the underworld to the heavens, divine authority, spiritual channeling, and the vertical ascent of consciousness. It is the nawal of spiritual leaders, keepers of the sacred fire, those who bridge the earthly and the divine, and those who maintain the structural integrity of tradition and community. In its seventh position (Wukub'), it introduces the frequency of reflection, the mirror of the supernatural, the seven directions of the cosmos, the climax of the upward climb, and the test of divine law where freedom and restriction meet in unconditional love.
To embody Seven Aj is to stand as the central pillar of the temple, feeling the tension between earthly freedom and divine law. It demands that you recognize discipline not as a cage, but as the scaffolding of love that allows consciousness to climb higher. At this seventh station of the trecena of Keej—moving up from the traveler's road of E'—Aj arrives as the staff of authority and the opening of the upper skies, reminding us that true freedom is found only when we align our path with the vertical axis of the sacred.
