On 09.09.09, we launched a website dedicated to the sacred Mayan Calendar.
It grew to become one of the largest community websites in the world dedicated to the Mayan Calendar. We published two books, developed several mobile apps, produced webinars and interviews with Maya scholars and personalities, and dedicated our team’s energies to setting the record straight about the Tzolk’in, the sacred personal ritual calendar system that a number of Western authors had altered to fit their own personal vision—against the wishes of the Maya themselves.
While the site has been taken down, the books and apps are still available, and we still run a large Facebook page where we post the daily energies.
Below is more information from the original website. To all who have followed us over the years, thank you for your dedication and support, and above all for respecting the culture and the wisdom of the Mesoamerican people.
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That which we call the Mayan Calendar might more accurately be termed “the Mesoamerican Calendar,” for it was common to almost all the peoples of ancient Mexico. The use of the Mesoamerican Calendar, along with pyramid temples, shared mythologies, and a reverence for jade, almost defines the entire region as a civilization. The calendar may well be as old as Mesoamerican civilization itself; many scholars have credited the invention of the Mesoamerican Calendar – often called the Sacred Calendar because of its powerful spiritual significance – to the Olmecs, the oldest of Mesoamerican cultures, which began about 1000 BCE.
At its most basic and fundamental level, the Mesoamerican, or Mayan, Calendar is made up of:
The Tzolk’in and the Haab interlock and intermesh with one another like cogs in a wheel. The same combination of numbered days in the Tzolk’in and the Haab (for example, 13 Akbal in the Tzolk’in and 10 Yaxkin in the Haab) will re-occur once every 52 years. This 52-year cycle is known as a Calendar Round.
The Tzolk’in and the solar calendar were common to almost all peoples of Mesoamerica. They are still in use today among traditional peoples, especially the Tzolk’in; the ancient solar calendar is much more rare, but both of these calendrical factors are still used by the Ki’che’ Maya of highland Guatemala. The Tzolk’in forms the basis of much Mayan magic and ritual; it is a system of astrology as well as divination. The daysigns of the Tzolk’in comprise the essential myths and archetypes of ancient Mexico and the Mayan lands.
People such as the Maya, the Toltecs, the Aztecs and the Hopi all shared a concept which we might call “cycles of emergence.” According to this shared cultural view, the world has been created and destroyed a number of times. Each world the gods have brought into being has been created with the hope that humankind will worship the divine powers properly; more often than not, of course, the gods are disappointed. Their continuing attempts to create a perfect being, one who will honor the sacred, is the foundation of evolution. The Hopi say that humankind has been successively “emerging” through four different worlds. The world is always in a state of emergence, never static. It is constantly developing, and hence unstable. It must therefore be maintained. It is only through the prayers of human beings and their spiritual behavior that the world’s equilibrium is made possible.
For the first time, “The Serpent and the Jaguar” brings you the Tzolk’in and all of its 260 days interpreted in the context of modern life and modern challenges. This book will help you redefine your relationship with sacred, cyclical time in the face of our demanding, stressful schedules operating on linear time.
Inside:
• The full set of the 260 Energies of the Day of the Tzolk’in
• Detailed descriptions of the 20 trecenas and their ruling day signs
• Detailed descriptions of the 13 numbers
• Introductory sections on the Mayan Calendar, the day signs, trecenas, and the numbers
• A guide to living with sacred time
• Illustrations of traditional Maya day sign and number glyphs
Confused about which Mayan astrology guide to follow? When it comes to the sacred Mayan calendar, no non-native or New Age interpretations come close to Maya scholar Ken Johnson’s seminal work Mayan Calendar Astrology.
This is the most comprehensive guide to Mayan astrology available today—and the quintessential handbook to the Tzolkin, a 260-day sacred personal calendar the Maya have used for millennia to guide their lives and spiritual paths. Whether you’re interested in personal spiritual growth or in diving deeper into Mayan astrology, this is the guide for you.
This book shows you how to:
– Figure out your nagual, or Maya birth sign, and learn its meaning
– Use the solar and lunar cycles to interpret the meaning of the time you were born
– Create and understand your Mayan Destiny Chart (also known as the “Tree of Life” or “Mayan Cross”)
– Integrate the meaning and context of the four Year Lords (or “Year Bearers”) into your personal astrological journey
– Create composite charts for your important life relationships
– Identify which naguals make your best-matched lovers, partners, friends and collaborators
– Determine the optimal days for finding or affirming love in your life, starting a business or profession, working on creative projects, and many other key areas of life
– Engage a powerful technique called the “Path of Feathered Serpent,” based on your own “personal lunar month” and designed to awaken the koyopa, or inner lightning, we all possess
It also gives you:
– The meanings and traits of the 20 day signs and the 13 numbers of the Mayan Tzolkin calendar
– Calendar diagrams
– Personal horoscope templates and instructions
– The personal compatibility matrices embedded within the Tzolk’in
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