Blue Cosmic Monkey

Seal 11

Monkey · Chuen

Whoever plays sees through appearances

Action playPower magicEssence illusion

The Blue Monkey is the seal of play. Its action is to play, its essence is illusion, its power is magic. In play, we take forms seriously and at the same time keep them light. The Monkey perceives that much of what seems rigid is only an agreement, and precisely there lies its freedom: whoever recognizes illusion can play with it instead of being led by it. Magic here means the wonder when something falls into place in a surprising way. Blue is the color of transformation, and humor is one of its lightest forms. The Monkey belongs to the process time cell, the Cardinal Earth family, and the Truth Clan. In the planet holon it corresponds to Venus, in the solar-prophetic flow. In Hunab Ku 21, it carries the archetype of the Magician, who knows how to tell appearance from essence. The Monkey invites you to take your inner child seriously and to open the day playfully.

Tone 13

Cosmic

Being whole, then moving on

Action endurePower presenceEssence transcending

Question How can I expand my joy and love?

The Cosmic tone is the thirteenth and last tone of the wavespell. Its action is to endure, its power is presence, its essence is transcending. To endure here means persistence: remaining until the path has been walked to the end. Then the whole is transcended, and the experience of the wavespell condenses into pure presence. Its question is: How can I expand my joy and love? In Maya numerals it appears as two bars and three dots. Thirteen is the number of the movement that keeps the circle of the twenty seals turning without end: after the thirteenth day a new wavespell begins, with a new Magnetic tone. As the last of tones 1, 5, 9, and 13, it brings back the color of the wavespell’s seal once more. The Cosmic tone invites you to look back, recognize what has been achieved, and move on with an open heart to the next stage.