Make a Resolution, Sunrise
Greetings, dear Soul! Thank God-Sciousness it’s K’ een 141, Resolving Sunrise, a day when the Primordial Ocean asks us to refine the very first spark of Creation. Tone 11 brings Discernment, Problem Solving, the Wild Card, and the Eye of the Storm, while Sunrise rises from the Cosmic Womb with Beginnings, Initiations, Visionary invention, Earth Mother instinct, and Unconditional Trust. This is not a soft dawn; it is the dawn after a long night, when the Light must decide what it is actually here to become. Here’s all the Codes:
Friday the 12th is a day when the double-stacked Rolla Bolla must be used to negotiate new creations, beginning again with intention to refine, using neutrality when we acknowledge the reptilian roots of our ancient heritage. (And current Global Controllers – ahem).
Now what you need to know about today’s K’ een is it contains a natural juxtaposition. The energy of Tone 11 is to dismantle, to take apart what is not necessary or clunky that the previous 10 days have assembled. Especially yesterday, Tone 10, Manifesting. It is the very JOB of all Tone 11 K’ een to pick apart what already exists when they come into the scene.
And then there’s Sunrise, Imix, Imox. It is the first Glyph. It is birth. It is creation. Primal. Ideas from the depths of the collective unconscious are brought out and created in the physical.
Yes, dear Soul, I know full well that in many places in Guatemala they say that B’atz, Chuen, Monkey is the first Glyph, but did you know that even in Guatemala they argue about which one? Some people say Jun B’atz, Hoon Batz, Tone 1, Initiating Monkey is the first day, and others say 8 Monkey, Vaxaq’ B’atz, Harmonizing Monkey is the first day of the Chol Q’ij. But did you know in other areas of Guatemala they say that 1 Tzik’in is the first day? Initiating Eagle?
For about a decade I was more than a little frustrated with these discrepancies. I was actually sad for the Maya that they couldn’t even agree on what the first fucking day of their calendar was! And angry.
Then I transcended it. With the help of the phrase “Unity within Diversity”.
I realized that Tzolk’ een is beyond interpersonal opinion, and besides, where does a circle start? It is a spiral, as well as a rectangle, and even a triangular pyramid, however, when one looks at all the data, including the start and end date on the Tzolk’ een of the Long Count, ending on Ahau, the following day starting a new cosmic / galactic cycle on Imix, that should be your answer. So put THAT in your pipe and smoke it!
Now, the Shadow Ego arrives today through Indiscretion, Breaking Promises, and Unyieldingness, stirred together with Unpredictability, Self-Sabotage, and Rage. This is the crocodile thrashing in the primordial waters before the new world has taken form. The invitation is not to suppress the primal force, but to refine it. Rage can become Creative Fire. Unpredictability can become inspired originality. The broken promise can become a sacred recommitment. Tone 11 does not ask us to be flawless; it asks us to be honest enough to liberate the pattern, which can only be done by retaining balance.
Shine a Light on the Shadow Ego:
Where has Indiscretion leaked sacred energy before the vision was ready to be born?
What promise have I broken to myself, and what would it mean to return to it without shame?
Where has Unyieldingness disguised itself as strength, when life was actually asking me to soften?
How has Unpredictability created chaos where a clearer rhythm was needed?
What form of Self-Sabotage keeps pulling me back into the old waters just as I begin to emerge?
When Rage rises, can I hear the deeper creative force beneath it, asking to be purified and given a holy direction?
Now today, as it happens, we have four powerhouse women to show us the way that the Divine Mayan Tzolk’ een influences the lives of people without their even knowing it. Just imagine what it could do for you, now that you have access to this high level Spiritual Cartography!
Judy Smith embodies Resolving Sunrise through her life’s work as a crisis manager, lawyer, strategist, and real-world “fixer.” She walks into the Eye of the Storm when reputations, stories, and futures are in controlled chaos, and she uses Discernment, Detail, Neutrality, and Problem Solving to help people find the next clean step.
As the inspiration behind the TV series “Scandal”, she also carries that Sunrise signature of the Visionary and Inventor: someone who turns hidden crisis into visible narrative, and shows that even the messiest beginnings can be reorganized into a new dawn.
Her Shadow Ego teaching is built right into the terrain she walks. Crisis often begins with Indiscretion, broken promises, unyielding pride, unpredictable behavior, self-sabotage, or rage that has lost its sacred container.
Again, I’m not saying she did any of these things, but I am saying that those qualities are woven into her Spiritual Cartography, and are extremely important to her. Can’t not be. And she just happens to be powerful enough to shine a light on people exhibiting those Shadow Ego qualities.
Judy’s work reminds us that the actions of the Shadow Ego are never healed by pretending they never happened. It is healed by shining the light on them, taking responsibility, finding the precise point of repair, and allowing the old story to be refined into wisdom.
Queen Latifah rises as a mighty Resolving Sunrise archetype: creator, initiator, inventor, and Earth Mother presence. From hip-hop to jazz, comedy, drama, producing, and public leadership, she has repeatedly emerged from the primordial waters in a new form, refusing to be trapped in one category. Her very name carries regal self-definition, and her career has become a living promise of Creative Sovereignty: the wild card who becomes the center, the eccentric who becomes the standard, the artist who turns beginnings into legacy.
Her Shadow Ego teaching is about refusing to let rage, grief, industry pressure, or limitation become self-sabotage. Queen Latifah’s work has often stood against disrespect, misogyny, and narrow expectations, but her power is not merely reactive. She refines the fire. She shows us that anger can become dignity, unpredictability can become range, and an unyielding refusal to be diminished can become liberation rather than hardness.
Sarah McLachlan carries Resolving Sunrise through the emotional ocean of song. Her music often feels like something rising from the Collective Unconscious: grief, longing, tenderness, memory, and hope surfacing from the deep waters of the soul. With the creation of Lilith Fair, she became an Initiator, challenging the old music-industry belief that women artists could not stand together in abundance. She created not only concerts, but a womb-space for voices, sisterhood, and new beginnings.
Her Shadow Ego teaching comes through the courage to transform hurt into creation. Lilith Fair was born in response to exclusion, sexism, and the unyielding structures of an industry that tried to define what was possible. Sarah did not let that become self-sabotage. She channeled her rage and unyielding will to resist and used it in the most positive way imaginable, refining and recreating them into a living platform. That is Tone 11 alchemy: the Minor Chord becomes medicine, and the wound becomes a doorway. And Sunrise power: The Source Recreates.
Joan Baez is a luminous Resolving Sunrise exemplar, a voice of beginnings in the movements for civil rights, peace, nonviolence, and human dignity. She did not merely sing songs; she helped sing new worlds into being. Her art emerged from the deep Collective Unconscious of a generation, carrying Source, Earth Mother conscience, and Unconditional Trust in the possibility of moral awakening. Again and again, she stood in the Eye of the Storm, not with weapons, but with presence, song, and disciplined courage.
Here’s a few of her sonic contributions to the Evolution of Consciousness:
“We Shall Overcome” — Civil Rights anthem; Baez sang it at the 1963 March on Washington (which would probably be illegal under the current administration…)
“Oh Freedom” — African-American freedom song strongly associated with civil-rights struggle.
“Saigon Bride” — Anti-Vietnam War song.
“Where Are You Now, My Son?” — Antiwar piece connected to Baez’s 1972 trip to North Vietnam.
“Gracias a la Vida” — Violeta Parra song of gratitude, often linked in Baez’s repertoire to Latin American solidarity.
Her Shadow Ego teaching is, just like Sarah, refinement of rage into creative expressions of nonviolence. Joan Baez witnessed injustice, war, racism, and cruelty, and she did not answer them with chaos for chaos’ sake. She chose moral clarity. She accepted consequences. She showed that being unyielding can be holy when it is rooted in conscience rather than ego. Rage, in her field, becomes a vow. Unpredictability becomes prophetic courage. The broken promise of society becomes the singer’s sacred promise to keep calling us home.
Together, Judy Smith, Queen Latifah, Sarah McLachlan, and Joan Baez show four different faces of Resolving Sunrise. Judy enters the crisis waters with Discernment, finding the precise repair point when Indiscretion, broken promises, or public chaos threaten to swallow the story. Queen Latifah rises as the Creative Sovereign, turning primal confidence, reinvention, and Earth Mother presence into a career that refuses confinement.
Sarah McLachlan transforms the Minor Chord into sanctuary, taking sorrow, exclusion, and industry imbalance and birthing Lilith Fair as a new communal dawn. Joan Baez carries the Sunrise flame into the public square, refining Rage into nonviolent witness and singing the broken promises of society back toward conscience.
Together, they remind us that the first Light is not always gentle; sometimes it arrives through crisis, courage, song, and the holy refusal to abandon the promise of a better world. Now here’s their Guides:
These four powerful women have the gender blending mix of Tone 3, busy, busy, busy providing sustenance in the kitchen, with the very masculine Corn, the spinal cord, the staff of authority, and, well, Corn.
On their Divine Feminine side they have yet another masculine Nagual, Deer, always depicted as the fully grown 12-point Buck, protecting the creatures of the forests and the plains. And then there’s Tone 4, also masculine, the foundation of any development, spreading out in all directions.
For their Divine Masculine side they have Empower Eagle.
Think of what they’ve all done in the public arena.
Srsly. I can’t make this shit up, folks. Booyakah!
And the Future Vision Guide of these four goddesses is Balancing Offering, keeping the prayers sacred, Karma in mind, and easing off the double-stacked Rolla Bolla into just the plain old easy-peasy one with a focus on the family.
As for you and me today, the message is to return to the first Light of creation, but to return with Discernment. Resolving Sunrise says: create, but do not leak your power; begin again, but do not abandon your promise; feel the primal fire, but do not let it burn down the temple. Somewhere inside the Cosmic Womb, a new version of us is already stirring. Tone 11 asks us to refine the waters, clear the old sabotage, and let the dawn emerge clean.
Just one more thing: What I do with a person’s Mayan birthday is very much like the energy of K’ een 141: I take was is already existing, what has been created by your whole life before we met, and I use my discernment to take out unneccesary or unhelpful things, and then I help you give birth to a new reality that could not quite have existed otherwise.
With Unconditonal Love and Universal Truth,
crispy