Happy Renewal! The new 13 Moon year always arrives on July 26 of the Gregorian calendar, tracked by the Maya to coincide with the rise of Sirius, the Dogstar, with the sun at dawn.

The new year is named for its first day on the Tzolkin, and so we enter Red Overtone Moon. We can experience this Overtone year as the fifth in a cycle of 13, an integral stage of a 13 year wavespell. Red Overtone Moon invites us to command and empower radiance. After four years of careful and patient preparation - understanding our purpose, challenge and specific service for these 13 years - we are ready to rise and show our peacock iridescence, our vibrance.

The Red Moon aspect of the new year is to allow a water into our lives, as a flow to follow and a pool to purify in. We are water within as much as we find water without, and this year also invites us to notice tidal influence on our liquid - e-motional - nature.

You can read about the Red Moon wavespells in the archives to learn more. This year is a radiant moment, too, for diving into the waves of the Natural Time calendars, to feel the flow of reconnecting with the moon in the sky, the moon in the feminine body from which we all emerge.