Do you even Understanding Monkey?
Greetings, dear Soul! Saturday the 14th sees the arrival K’een 51, Understanding Monkey, a day where the playful artistry of the Weaver of Time meets the crystalline clarity of Tone Twelve. Understanding is the Architect of consciousness, the one who gathers scattered threads and weaves them into a cohesive framework. It is Cartography of the soul, mapping the invisible pathways between experiences until comprehension blossoms into true Innerstanding.
This is a vision i received for how to teach Tone 12.
When the Monkey is modified by this Tone, creativity itself becomes the teacher. Music, comedy, performance, weaving, and curiosity become sacred tools through which the Akashic Records whisper their wisdom. The Trickster reminds us that life is not meant to be rigid or solemn; it is meant to be danced, laughed, improvised, and explored with the curiosity of the Inner Child. Today the council of Tone Twelve invites us to see how all the threads of our lives interconnect, p. The result is a Shape of the Cube kind of stability — complex, multidimensional, yet surprisingly elegant once the pattern is revealed. Here’s all the Codes:
Yet the Shadow Ego distorts this energy when the Monkey’s creativity becomes blocked or weaponized. Tone Twelve’s Ego Dramas can appear as incoherence, antisocial withdrawal, or the painful sense of having no creativity and no intimacy. When the Trickster falls into shadow, the playful artist becomes extremely moody, cruel, or unimaginative. Instead of weaving connection, the shadow version tangles threads and fractures the web of cooperation. The council that should foster cooperation becomes a kangaroo court of judgment, and curiosity collapses into cynicism. On days like this, the work is to remember that creativity is not a luxury — it is a fundamental function of the soul. When we play, create, and explore, we restore the flow of consciousness itself.
Shine a Light on the Shadow Ego
Where in my life have I convinced myself that I am “not creative,” and what experiences led me to that belief?
Do I withdraw from connection or intimacy when I feel misunderstood or emotionally overwhelmed?
When my moods shift strongly, how might they be signaling blocked creative energy seeking expression?
Do I use sarcastic humor to subtly wound others and display my dominance?
Where might I be over-analyzing life instead of engaging with curiosity and play?
What small act of creativity today could reconnect me with my Inner Child?
Now let’s examine our rather extraordinary quintet of Exemplars:
Val Kilmer expressed the Light of Understanding Monkey through his wide-ranging artistic creativity. Known for iconic performances in films such as Top Gun, The Doors, and Tombstone, Kilmer demonstrated remarkable versatility, moving fluidly between drama, action, and experimental artistic projects. Beyond acting, he explored poetry, painting, and theatrical performance, revealing the Monkey’s eclectic curiosity and love of creative play. His recent documentary “Val” further showcased his reflective ability to weave together decades of life experience into a meaningful narrative.
Kilmer’s Shadow Ego emerged earlier in his career through reports of volatile moods and difficult behavior on film sets. Directors and co-stars sometimes described him as temperamental or challenging to work with, reflecting the Monkey’s tendency toward emotional swings when creative intensity runs high. His long battle with throat cancer also forced a profound confrontation with identity and expression, revealing how fragile the performer’s voice can be when life dramatically reshapes one’s creative instrument.
Alyssa Nobriga expresses the Light of Understanding Monkey through her work as a spiritual teacher and founder of the Institute of Coaching Mastery. Her teachings integrate psychology, somatic awareness, and relational coaching into a cohesive framework designed to help people awaken their authentic selves. In this sense she lives the Architect energy of Tone Twelve, weaving together multiple traditions into a practical cartography of inner transformation. However, her creativity and penchant for performance displays the clever Monkey, and, she wears Blue more than any other color. (Not a joke.) Her work encourages curiosity, body wisdom, and creative engagement with life.
Like many spiritual teachers, however, Nobriga’s work has also drawn criticism from skeptics who question the commercialization of coaching and the blending of psychological and spiritual language. Such critiques illustrate the Shadow Ego energy that can be attracted in modern spiritual culture when inspiration becomes branding and creativity becomes packaged. Some would say that her guests on her podcast are evidence of attention seeking as some of them do not align with her Institute at all.
Sri Yukteswar Giri, the revered guru of Paramahansa Yogananda, exemplified the profound Light of Understanding Monkey through his remarkable synthesis of spiritual traditions. A master of both Vedantic philosophy and scientific reasoning, he wrote “The Holy Science” in 1894, to demonstrate the unity between Hindu scriptures and Christian teachings. The work itself is very concise—only a few chapters—but it attempts something quite ambitious: to present a unified spiritual framework linking Eastern yogic cosmology with Christian scripture, along with Yukteswar’s interpretation of the Yuga cycles of time. In doing so he embodied Tone Twelve’s gift of interconnecting wisdom traditions into a cohesive framework, weaving ancient knowledge into a unified spiritual cartography.
Yet accounts of Yukteswar also describe a teacher of fierce discipline whose sharp words could shock students. While the uninitated may consider this to be evidence of a Shadow Ego, this severity reflects the Trickster’s edge — the ability to cut through the students’ illusions created by THEIR Shadow Ego, a tool to help them towards Ascension.
Robert De Niro embodies Understanding Monkey through his extraordinary artistry as an actor, a true Weaver of Time who disappears into characters across genres ranging from intense drama to comedy. His performances in films like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Godfather Part II demonstrate the Monkey’s mastery of performance and craftsmanship, while his later comedic roles show the Trickster’s playful versatility. Over decades, De Niro has woven together a cohesive body of artistic work that reveals the complexity of the human psyche, reflecting Tone Twelve’s capacity for deep comprehension and crystallization of experience.
Yet De Niro’s Shadow Ego has surfaced publicly through his reputation for intense moodiness, volatile temper, and strained personal relationships. Reports from film sets have sometimes described him as extremely demanding and emotionally distant, reflecting the Monkey shadow of mood swings and withdrawal from intimacy. His highly public political tirades in recent years have also revealed how passion and performance can slip into harshness and cruelty when emotional intensity overrides discernment.
Rowan Atkinson shines brilliantly as an embodiment of the Understanding Monkey’s playful Trickster through his iconic creation of Mr. Bean and his work in British comedy. With minimal dialogue and masterful physical performance, Atkinson demonstrates how comedy can transcend language and culture. But if you watch only that, you have no idea of how brilliant he actually is. Prior to that he was Blackadder, a cunning and sarcastic anti-hero appearing in different historical periods, and Johnny English show his prowess. His ability to transform simple everyday situations into elaborate comedic artistry reflects the Monkey’s curiosity, playfulness, and gift for performance.
Yet his Shadow Ego has reared its head, too. Atkinson has occasionally faced controversy over outspoken comments about free speech and political correctness, provoking strong reactions from critics who felt his humor crossed sensitive boundaries. Such moments reveal the Trickster’s delicate edge — comedy can liberate truth, but it can also be perceived as cruel when the line between satire and offense becomes blurred.
Now let’s look at their Guides:
Stabilizing Dusk should immedately make you see that the Four Pillars are holding up the night sky of Lucid Dreams for these K’ een to build a strong foundation of Intuitively knowing the Rules of the Game in the Sanctuary.
Empowering Gaia is not the easiest Divine Feminine Guide to work with, and if you noticed, volcanic volatility was a theme for our three actor boys. My instinct is it originates in not knowing their Divine Feminine qualities at all.
Then again, it might be their tipsy Divine Masculine, there on the Rolla Bolla with that Serpent… Again, this is a slippery energy, vital and performative, which all five of our Exemplars have used with mastery, but it’s always the DF and DM combo that makes itself known.
Finally, Reflecting Rainstorm comes in for the Future Vision Guide, and it’s very easy to see thru the Embodiment perspective that the Future is Feminine, the left hand going to the Right Mind, and both the DF and Future are touched by her. And as you should also know by now, Rainstorm is THE MOST Divinely Feminine of all the Glyphs. Boys who aren’t ready to play will throw lightning bolts in anger while not being in the Eye of the Hurricane…
As for you and me today, Understanding Monkey invites us to take life a little less seriously and creativity a little more seriously. When we play, create, and explore with curiosity, we weave coherence into the fabric of our lives. The Trickster with balanced DF and DM reminds us that wisdom often arrives laughing, dancing, painting, singing, or improvising. Today, allow your Inner Child to pick up the threads of experience and weave them into something beautiful.
With Unconditional Love and Universal Truth,
Een Lak’esh, Ala K’ een,
crispy