A Time to Weep

Greetings Beloved Kin,

I’ve hesitated to share the sad news. Jackie and Shadow lost one of their eaglets during the recent winter storm at Big Bear Lake. Jacking was huddled over her chicks, buried in the snow, while the storm carried on more than 24 hours with temperatures of 20F. It broke my heart to learn that one was lost. It appears to have been #1 or #2, based on the difference in sizes between the remaining 2. The picture shows a happier day when the #3 chick pipped it’s shell and revealed its first visible signs of viability. After a barren season, they must have shared high hopes for a new family.

 

They have been very expressive of their Consciousness of Life, Love, and Concern for one another. So are they expressing their feelings of sadness at the loss on the day that Jackie carried its lifeless body away from the nest.

The Truth of Life is that Love is bittersweet. It dredges up the losses and deaths in my own family over the past two years and the pain of losses without the closer of any final words. I thought I’d reached the bottom of my grief, but it’s as fresh as new this morning.

There’s a Time to Weep. In God’s “Time for everything,” and weeping is on the list as part of the experience of life. This cycle of MULUC elevates our emotions. When we bear the feelings, we express the Truth of our Love. We are reunited in the remembering. It feels like more than my heart can bear.

We always have One we can turn to who understands and will never leave our side. Mourning is an offering of Love we can bear when we share it with the Compassionate Heart of the “Christ Spirit.”

Jackie and Shadow sat together in the nest with an offering of silent cries, watching over the ones who offer hope for the future. Eagles mourn.

We can bear to cry for the time that weeping can end and we can remember the beauty of life that’s ours to carry on. It only feels like the sorrow will never end. “God’s eye is on the sparrow.” We can remember God’s plan for every living thing and that the little one ascended to God’s realm of Spirit. Though, that’s not what we need to hear in a time of mourning.

Romans 12:15
“Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.”

God shares every moment. The Holy Spirit is always by our side.

Losing our friends in the animal kingdom is among our greatest sorrows. As it is with the loss of a child, it’s hard to find closer with the death of innocence. God knows our Love and he can bring Love to its final resolution in the Truth that no one is forgotten on Earth, as it is in Heaven. The pain is a worthy offering for the Beauty of Life. We deserve the Time to mourn.

It appears to be the Time for it by the innocence we’ve lost in facing the cold hard truth of evil in the world, and those who do harm without any regrets. Mourning is a healthy sign of Life. MULUC promises the healing of our emotions.

I love you.

Debra

Ecclesiastes 3 NIV – A Time for Everything

3 There is a time for everything,
    and a season for every activity under the heavens:

2     a time to be born and a time to die,
    a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3     a time to kill and a time to heal,
    a time to tear down and a time to build,
4     a time to weep and a time to laugh,
    a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5     a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6     a time to search and a time to give up,
    a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7     a time to tear and a time to mend,
    a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8     a time to love and a time to hate,
    a time for war and a time for peace.

9 What do workers gain from their toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[a] no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

15 Whatever is has already been,
    and what will be has been before;
    and God will call the past to account.[b]

16 And I saw something else under the sun:

In the place of judgment—wickedness was there,
    in the place of justice—wickedness was there.

17 I said to myself,

“God will bring into judgment
    both the righteous and the wicked,
for there will be a time for every activity,
    a time to judge every deed.”

18 I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. 19 Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath[c]; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. 20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. 21 Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”

22 So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?

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THE TRECENA OF OFFERING/MULUC: THE SACRED EXCHANGE
MAYAN CALENDAR DAYKEEPER’S JOURNAL
1 Offering/MULUC, (Cherokee, The River/YUN’WI GUNNAHI’TA), Destiny Kin 209,  Position 9
March 17, 2025, 03/17/2025; Last Rounds: 06/30/2024, 01/27/2023

THE TRECENA OF OFFERING/MULUC: March 17 to March 29, 2025

“God gave you a Life. What will you do with it?”

THE TRECENA OF OFFERING/MULUC: HEALING FOR OUR HUMAN EMOTIONS

Visit the 13-Day Trecena Guide Page for the “Tzolk’in Field Guide: A Daily Practice for Personal Discernment.” My gift for the Tzolk’in round offers an overview for each 13-day trecena and the aspects of each day of the Tzolk’in round. The page also offers a link to resources for your own practice of counting the days to conceive your own discernment of the Meaning of Time.

1 Offering/MULUC is the 2nd trecena of the 4th Season of the Tzolk’in – VOLUME 2: Tzolk’in Seasons 3 and 4 (PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 20, 2020)

NOTE: You can calculate your Mayan birthday on Ian Xel Lungold’s website at MayanMajix.com. He shares the Northern count of the Yucatec tradition that is observed by many as the count for the Northern Hemisphere. Additional tools are offered on the Daykeeper’s Resource Page.

1 Offering/MULUC (Cherokee, The River/YUN’WI GUNNAHI’TA) – Day 1 of 13 of the 1 Offering/MULUC trecena

Descriptions by Ian Xel Lungold (12 Sun/AHAU), wisdom and Tzolk’in calculator preserved on MayanMajix.com

Galactic Tone 1: Unity. One is the beginning of all things, the first, the whole and the all in one. One’s are assertive and self-guided and give a good push to whatever project they are associated with. One persons work best when meeting a challenge. Do not expect One-persons to be attentive to details or to put the finishing touches on things.

Offering/MULUC: Also known as the sign of water. Ceremonially, Maya use water as an offering in baptisms and purifications. These ceremonies are done to bring about a collective strength, adaptability and harmony. In sincere appreciation, Offering people gladly give more than they ask for themselves. Offering persons are dynamic communicators with great intelligence making them excellent employers. Like a shaken vessel of water, Offering people regain equilibrium quickly. Also like a body of water, there may be deep undercurrents of emotion and hidden dangers. Others perceive these as hidden agendas in offering people and so extend them little trust and may even slap blame on them.

A GOOD DAY TO: Offer appreciation for all of creation.

Cherokee, The River/YUN’WI GUNNAHI’TA BO EO IW:  The River is symbolized by The Milky Way, the Gihli’Utsun’stanun’yi “Where the Dog Ran” to gather the souls for Heaven.  The River is the minion for Grandfather Moon.  Long Man is the personification of the River stretching from the mountains to the lowlands, speaking to those who can understand.  People of this sign find “sermons in the stones” and good in everything.  These souls march to a different drummer, driven by inner volcanic forces.  The River is the “Fountain of Life” and represents the fluid of the cosmos to fluids in the body, with the energy to clear all karmic debts, personally and on a mass level with fluidity and grace.  The Moon controls our fluid cycle, to clear and understand emotional issues.  When you take this step to clear the emotional body, then you are ready for transformational energies at the next level.  As humans, our actions are ruled by our emotions, the key is to understand the connection and honor the emotions.

The Aztec Calendar:

Day Atl (Water, known as Muluc in Maya) is governed by Xiuhtecuhtli, God of Fire, as its provider of tonalli (Shadow Soul) life energy. Atl is a day for purification by subjecting oneself to the ordeal of conflict. It is a good day for battle, a bad day for rest. Water brings out the scorpion, who must sting its enemies or else sting itself. Atl is the day of the holy war, which is always a battle with one’s own enemies within.

The thirteen day period (trecena) that starts with day 1-Atl (Water) is ruled by Chalchihuihtotolin. These are 13 days of instability and unexpected events, of accidents and coincidences: these are good days to gamble a little on a long-shot; bad days to gamble a lot on a sure thing. Every day rollercoasters between all-good and all-bad, between rapture and terror. This trecena advises the priest-warrior to perfect the art of shapeshifting: only by mimicking the nature of water do we become an agent of change rather than a target of it. The purified heart casts no reflection in the smoking mirror.

[Text in italics was the primary source of inspiration for my journal. These are the sources that started my journey and they are the reference for interpretation each day. By providing the original text, I hope to offer a way to see what inspired my thoughts and by including all the aspects – allow for something more to inspire you. Mayan descriptions are those written by Ian Lungold. Cherokee descriptions came from multiple sources. Links to sources and other resources of study are offered on the Daykeeper Resources Page. ~Debra]