Zuvuya is Resonant Truth’s offering to the global world.

Come to Santa Barbara, California for ceremony and celebration of cyclical completions and renewal.

Zuvuya is an honoring of the Mayan Vayeb, a 5-day cycle that completes the solar year. The Mayan year begins each July 26 with the rise of Sirius at dawn. In the modern Natural Time celebration of Mayan cycles, the year is counted in 13 ‘moons’ – 28-day months (13 x 28 = 364), with one remaining day between years called ‘The Day Out of Time.’

The Maya actually divided their year into 20-day ‘vinals’, counting 18 evolutionary stages on a mystical journey into the heart of creation (18 x 20 = 360). The 5 remaining days at the end of the year were called the ‘vayeb’ and were ceremonialized in sacred festivity.

Zuvuya’s intention is to harmonize with this ancient tradition, according respect and reverence to the original Mayan cycle that does not have a place in our modern canon of time. We may not be Mayan – having that ancestral lineage to the Yucatan Peninsula – but we can give homage and thread our souls to the lasting presence of the eternal Maya, sometimes imagined as skyward in the stars.

Zuvuya is a Mayan phrase close to Jose Arguelles’ heart. Its translation is, ‘Everything that has been unconscious is becoming conscious.’ This evaporative rising of truth from deep within ourselves – to light, to awareness – is exactly what we need in these times of great catharsis and the anxieties that we must bear. Trusting the process of planetary wounding and healing, we can settle in Zuvuya’s reassurance that we will find our way through hardship by that which already lives inside us – from other lifetimes, or future lifetimes, from a shared world soul that we are increasingly asked to believe in.

The other key Mayan mantra is ‘In Lake’ch,’ I am another yourself. In that clarity – I am you and you are me – comes the seed of all Natural Time teaching: we are one and the same, and this undeniable inter-being – oneness – is our greatest blessing. When we convene in ceremony and celebration for the Vayeb of this year, we are realizing this power of communion.

Blue Self-Existing Monkey

A primal memory today of 9/11 which was also Blue Self-Existing Monkey and makes this energy an indelible quandary - how do monkey magic and play align with one of our Western world's largest televised traumas? It's helpful to pay homage and revisit what was stirred in you that morning, evening as you reconciled human suffering through screen images, through smoke.

The Blue Monkey essence is play, as in theatre, make believe and all the stage dressing that stirs our imagination. We fall out of seriousness into humor, out of darkness into delight. We can feel that life as a human on earth is primal in this way - more of a game, with roller coaster loop-de-loops and hide and seek with our most treasured beloveds. than a grown up venture.

When we can take Blue Monkey as a call to devolve back to simpler pleasures and both remove veils as well as try on different visages, costumes - hiding then bursting out of a hat, out of flames of fire - then we can feel the true magic of this moment. And 9/11 - within the horror - had this to teach us, that in most playground games, we all fall down. Grounded, splayed into each other, joy and laughter offset our bumps and bruises.