Energy Update Red Dragon Life Path August 27 - September 8, 2026: New Beginnings

Elvira van Rijn August 26 2026

How have you claimed your own place in the Yellow Star wave spell, the final wave spell of the Tzolkin cycle? Have you been able to nourish yourself and your surroundings with beauty, creativity, and lightness?

The Red Dragon life path that begins today invites you to return to your foundation. To the place from which you can confidently walk new paths, whatever life may bring.

Connecting with Your Origins

The energy of Red Dragon helps you attune to your foundation at the deepest level. It is the place from which you can meet life with confidence, whatever it may bring. Red Dragon is the first sun sign of a Tzolkin cycle for a reason. It is the sunsign that connects us with our origins: the Great Mother, the primordial source of creation. From a healthy connection with your origins, you can give your inner child all the space it needs to play, explore, and create.

These thirteen days are a wonderful time to explore how you are connected to the Great Mother through the long line of your female ancestors. What have you received from the women who came before you? Which life force, love, resilience, creativity, and wisdom continue to live through you? The Red Dragon wave spell can bring new awareness of your own place and of the powerful current of life to which you are deeply connected when you consciously live from a place of deep-rooted trust.

You can see your connection with the Great Mother as more than a concept. There is also a physical line of transmission: mitochondrial DNA is passed from mother to child through the maternal line. For me, this biological connection points to something larger: the living inheritance that is passed down through the female line from one generation to the next.

Finding Your Place in the Collective

The Red Dragon life path also helps you stay connected to yourself and recognize yourself within the larger whole. Through the energy of Red Dragon, you may find it easy to tune into what is happening in the collective.

That can be a strength, but it can also become a challenge. You may become overwhelmed by all the information, emotions, and expectations coming at you from the world around you. Perhaps you notice that your mood changes because of what you read online, that you take on other people's anxiety, or that you unconsciously begin to desire what seems important to everyone around you.

The more focused you are on the outside world, the easier it is to lose touch with yourself. That is why it is especially important during these days to stay connected to your own intuition, creativity, and inner foundation. Be extra mindful of the information you take in.

Does it bring you closer to yourself, or further away from yourself?

This simple question can help you claim your own place again and again.

If you have not joined one of the online sessions Developing Intuition with Maya Wisdom before, this life path is a wonderful opportunity to sign up for of the upcoming sessions. We explore how intuitive writing with the energy of the day as inspiration can bring you closer to yourself. By writing, you create space for what is alive within you. You don't need to know what you are going to write, and you don't need any writing talent. All you need is curiosity about what is alive within you.

The next session is on Thursday, September 17, from 8:45–9:00 AM CEST. Because I offer these sessions voluntarily as part of the European Network of Intuitive Trainers, participation is free.

Tips for Moving with the Energy

During these days, you may find yourself confronted more than usual with something within you that still needs attention. This can feel like a setback, either emotionally or physically. If this happens, ask yourself: What step have I recently taken that may have allowed this old emotional or physical energy to come to the surface?

When you can meet life as it comes, you give yourself the safety you need to allow what is old to let go. This creates space for something new: doors opening, growth, and new adventures. Here are three tips to help you move with what is happening within you.

TIP 1: Self-Care

Give your body movement, fresh air, and nourishing food rather than food that is heavy to digest. Take good care of yourself and create balance between DOING and BEING.

TIP 2: Letting Go

Let go of what is ready to leave you, even if you don't yet know what will take its place.

You don't have to know what is new in order to make space for it. Surrender to what is unfolding and trust that you don't need to have everything figured out today.

TIP 3: Allowing

Allow your emotions to BE without holding on to them.

You can become attached to emotions by repeatedly creating stories around them: explanations, theories, interpretations, and solutions. By telling these stories over and over again, you may keep patterns alive that you actually want to release. Feel what wants to be felt. Let it be there. And then notice what becomes possible when you don't immediately need to know why it is there or what you are supposed to do about it.

I wish you a path filled with trust. A path on which you can keep coming home to your own foundation, and from there, confidently take your next step.

Elvira van Rijn

DNA Affirmations of the Red Dragon Life Path

Each day has its own DNAffirmation—a powerful sentence aligned with the day sign. Speak them out loud one after another: each day only its own, or all thirteen every day. Do whatever feels right for you, as often as possible. It activates your original abilities and connects you with your creative power.

This is how I remember my true origin

Day 1. Red Dragon - I am my own mother. 

Day 2. White Wind - I am my own father.

Day 3. Blue Night - I am a unique child of creation.

Day 4. Yellow Seed - I am the full potential.

Day 5. Red Serpent - I am the instinctive renewer.

Day 6. White Worldbridger - I am the beginning and the end.

Day 7. Blue Hand - I am the healing hand.

This is how I unfold: back to my true self

Day 8. Yellow Star - I take my own place.

Day 9. Red Moon - I let my light shine.

Day 10. White Dog - I am true to myself.

Day 11. Blue Monkey - I am the uninhibited child.

Day 12. Yellow Human - I create.

Day 13. Red Skywalker - I am an explorer.

The DNA Affirmations are translated from: Maya wijsheid voor je levensreis, het Tzolkin levenspadenboek, Elvira van Rijn, A3 Boeken