SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 11/01/2025
A RARE GOLDEN COMET: Most comets are green, and sometimes blue. In June Lake, California, amateur astronomer Dan Bartlett is tracking a rare golden comet. Introducing, Comet ATLAS (C/2025 K1):
“This comet was not supposed to survive its Oct 8th perihelion (0.33 AU),” says Bartlett. “But it did survive, and now it is displaying a red/brown/golden color rarely seen in comets.”
What’s going on? The chemistry of this Oort Cloud comet is unusual. It is deficient in many of the carbon compounds normally found in comets, according to spectroscopy by David Schleicher of the Lowell Observatory. “All of the carbon-bearing species, including CN, are unusually low,” he wrote in Astronomer’s Telegram #17362.
In sunlight, cometary gases turn green because of diatomic carbon (C2), and blue because of ionized carbon monoxide (CO+). Subtracting these colors apparently leaves gold. We don’t know exactly why.
“The comet is still fairly impressive at 9th magnitude,” says Bartlett. That makes it a relatively easy target for backyard telescopes. Point your optics between Virgo and Leo in the eastern sky shortly before sunrise.
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FARSIDE SUNSPOTS ARE COMING: Helioseismic maps of the sun’s farside reveal three sunspots only days away from turning toward Earth. One of them has been busy hurling CMEs into space ( #1, #2, #3). If this activity continues apace, Earth could soon be in the line of fire.
MAYAN CALENDAR TIME AND SYNCHRONICITY
9 Flint/ETZNAB represents the Source of Truth delivered as Light from Above. What was hidden or covered up is brought to light, like a lightning flash out of the blue. The Intention is to bring things to a head to wipe the slate clean. Tone 9 is the Intention of Patience to see the Big Picture. God reveals the Truth it’s Time to know.
Symbol 99:
The power of the symbol is doubled by repetition. 9 Flint is the 9th Tone in the 9th Uinal. ETZNAB also holds Position 18 that resolves to 9, and is also 9 x 2. 9 represents conclusions as the fulfillment of Cause and Effect.
Flint is the Unexpected Truth we knew all along. There is often friction throughout the day, that leads to the REAL Truth brought to light. In the Trecena of Dog, Truth is the foundation for Unconditional Love.
THE TRECENA OF DOG/OC: THE DOG’S TREASURE OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
MAYAN CALENDAR DAYKEEPER’S JOURNAL
9 Flint/ETZNAB, Cherokee, Flint/DAWI’SGALA, Kin 178, Position 18
November 1, 2025, 11/01/2025; (11:1 Portal); Rounds Before: 02/14/2025, 05/30/2024, 09/13/2023
The Lord Beams the Stellar Ray of Truth to Earth as a crystal sword cast down along the path of a lightning flash. The transformer brings things to a head and wipes the slate clean.
THE TRECENA OF DOG/OC: THE CREATION OF LOVE
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.
The Dog/OC trecena is found in the 3rd Season of the Tzolk’in Guide:
VOLUME 2: Tzolk’in Seasons 3 and 4 (PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 20, 2020)
NOTE: If you haven’t kept a Journal of your Count of Days, you can look for the Synchronicity of Time in the major experiences of your life.
9 Flint/ETZNAB (Cherokee, Flint/DAWI’SGALA) – Day 9 of 13 of the 1 Dog/OC trecena
Descriptions by Ian Xel Lungold (12 Sun/AHAU), wisdom and Free Tzolk’in calculator preserved on MayanMajix.com
Galactic Tone 9: Patience. The energy of Nine is one of getting a better perspective of the bigger picture. With the energy of Nine, plans or patterns begin to come to completion. Nine requires patience and perseverance that is found in the bigger picture, otherwise there is great suffering from the lack of insight. A completion of cycles of action is all-important to Nine.
Flint/ETZNAB: Mirror of reality. As a struck flint, these persons are the divine sparks of intelligence. Flint’s innate abilities are utilized to discriminate emotions from fact. Flint persons stand tireless to protect, defend, or cure others by personal sacrifice. By courageously wielding the sword of truth, falsehoods are cut away. Flints, it was said, can receive information on inter-personal troubles or evil plots of others by reflecting in an obsidian mirror. Their valiant service as warriors of the truth must be impeccable or they will experience sufferings of accidents, misunderstandings and gossip.
A GOOD DAY TO: Spend time in reflection and introspection.
Cherokee, Flint/DAWI’SGALA: Flint’s symbol is Chawa’ or Castor of the Castor and Pollux Twins in Gemini. Castor appears in the evening personifying darkness. Pollux then appears in the east at dawn to end the night. Totem is a Flint Knife. Flint spirit shone a light like the sun and gave the people the Sacred Venus Calendar, fixed the days and promised to watch over the earthlings. A flint person endeavors to keep that covenant. Opener of the Way, a creator, innovator, stretches the mind to outside limits of capabilities. Changes the static to the dynamic. Brings about change, often through separation and destruction. Beams the Stellar Ray of Truth to Earth as a crystal sword cast down along the path of a lightning flash. The transformer brings things to a head and wipes the slate clean.
[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]
