The Rule

The Rule of the Nagual is a peculiar law that extends to all, even the most far-flung corners of the "Toltec universe" so to speak. In other words it is extended to all the facets of the teachings for both right and left sides. Its meaning is deep, and the consequences are far-fetched. A man of knowledge spends his time pondering and applying the Rule to his daily conduct as well as to those parts of his life that can be classified as the "left side awareness".

First of all, let me clarify that I am not speaking about the Rule as the book would. I am talking about the ulterior structure so to speak, which stems from my own understanding of it. The Rule is essentially about seeing and understanding the flow of energy in the universe, which starts from accepting of the fact that energy falls into patterns. This structure could be likened to the Mayan pyramid, where the 4 corners give rise to infinite possibilities construction and content-wise. The higher the pyramid, the stronger the pull of the centrifugal force of its very pinnacle. Finally, all forces coming into one, a group or groups of seers reaches the unspeakable domains in the universe. These exquisite psychonaughts may travel far and wide under the guidance of the power of intent, the subtle force that permeates reality.

The base of the pyramid consists of a nagual man and a woman, surrounded by the 4 pairs of female warriors. It is best summarized in the book "The Eagle's Gift" in its last chapter "The Plumed Serpent"

When we got to the house, all of us congregated in the large room. Don Juan sat in the center of the room facing the southeast. The eight female warriors surrounded him. They sat in pairs
on the cardinal points, also facing the southeast. Then the three male warriors made a triangle
outside the circle with Silvio Manuel at the vertex that pointed to the southeast. The two
female couriers sat flanking him, and the two male couriers sat in front of him almost against
the wall.

The Nagual woman made the male apprentices sit against the east wall. She made the women
sit against the west wall. She then led me to a place directly behind don Juan. We sat there
together.

Although seemingly a simple passage, it tends to obscurity. For example we don't know where in comparison to Don Juan's central circular arrangement the triangle with Silvio Manuel "at the vertex" is located, I placed it in the avant-garde, as being that Silvio was the "man behind the scenes" I think it would be a good idea for the triangle with the couriers to serve as a sort of a façade to the Nagual. Everything else is more or less understandable. The Couriers are "flanking" and are at the very cusp in virtue of their very function which is that of diving there first. The apprentices are respectfully at the side walls - eastern for the males and western for the females. The directional pull is at the southeast, and not at the North or South which would seem more natural.
My working name for this configuration is "flying arrangement" as it allows for great mobility towards that obscure bird of freedom.

The Rule makes it clear that the female types start from the East, which is Order, they than circle in the counter-clockwise direction to the North, the strength, than the West, which is feeling, and finally the circle ends in the South, which is growth. These can and should be able to function separately as a single units, striving to achieve their own personal goals, but they are given the most power when they unite into planets, which is dreamers with dreamers, stalkers with stalkers, or when they fulfill their function, which is "sitting" on the four corners, thus surrounding the Nagual pair.
   Also let's keep it in mind that Carlos's beginning was not with the East, but from the South, which symbolized simplicity and growth, a different mood from the one prescribed by the Rule. He then met the Eastern warriors, then Western, and finally Northern - a zigzag with the vector pointing to the North, which somehow indirectly explains his 3-pronged energetic configuration.
   However Don Juan's own meeting with the Rule started from the West, which seems almost absurd in light of the characters of the Western women. Nevertheless, it worked as a sort of cleansing mechanism that has actually molded him from being unruly and unprincipled into a more workable material.