The Mayan Tzolkin calendar

Number 10

(Ton, masculine principle, objective, intention)

Night 5 - Reaction

Expiration / Descend

Destruction

Manifestation of new idea

What were once intentions or ideas, hopes or fears become physically present with the energy of Ten.
This is the energy when what has had attention and intention focused upon it, becomes real. A powerful energy that carries a great reponsibility. Extreme perfection, everything must be perfect in order for things to manifest, to produce. Tends to perfect everything, shows, produces, faces challenges, and overcomes obstacles
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What does your heart want to manifest?
Begin with your true essence and follow with your intentions. Face your challenge. Transcend life's obstacles, giving it your best, with consciousness, in order to serve others best.

Symbolizes: Intention, motivation, creation, true identity, revelation, expression and discovery.

Aaj, Reed, Ben, Sky Walker, the resurrection of the maize

(Kin, feminine principle, character, sentiment)

Multiplication of all things, life, spiritual development, consciousness

Day to feel like a child

Element: Fire
Color: Red
Direction: East
Animal: Armadillo
Body part: Spine
Opposite elements: Development / Introversion

Aaj is the energy of multiplication.
The ability of everything to grow and replicate himself to create the diversity of life. An ocean of forms, shapes, colors that compose the nature. The experience of life throughout infinite manners and characters.

Aaj is an explorer, a researcher, trying all possibilities, all directions.
As universe is a living entity with an own personality, Aaj is his expansion and development principle.

Aaj is the protector of the childhood.

Time and Consciousness

The understanding of the life: the quest of the Warrior

The Tzolkin Calendar describes a natural cycle of life of 260 days.

It is composed of two under cycles of 13 Tons and 20 Kins. The Tons represent the energy of development, the objective of the day and the Kins the energy of creation, the character.

Each Tons and Kins has a different purpose, the combination of all Tons and Kins gives the whole cycle duration of 260 days (13x20=260).

Like other old and modern civilizations, the Mayan believe that every thing in the universe is dual. As the light and humans, the time also is dual. It has a physical part, the course of the earth around the sun, his body and has a wave part, his spirit.

The Tzolkin describes this wave. It is the formation process of the universal consciousness. The one present everywhere, and in fact with no defined location.

Time is seen as periods of consciousness and periods of unconsciousness, each giving the living entity the basic knowledge to understand the world.
The repeating of the process acts like the sun on the plants making it to grow.
To simplify, you can imagine you have a spotlight in front of your eyes, it is blowing around 12 hours and it is off during 12 hours. It is showing you a message each time it is on and you record this message in your unconsciousness during the night time. There are 260 messages to learn.
In fact time is nothing else than a learning process.

The using of the Tzolkin started some 5000 years ago, but of course the cycle existed from the beginning of all things, a long time before the existence of our solar system.

A calendar is the support you use to understand the suite of days you live.
If you follow a sun based calendar, you synchronize yourself on the materialistic part of the world, you will understand that there are seasons.
If you follow a spirit based calendar, you synchronize yourself on the spiritual part of the world, you will understand that universe has the same spirit as yours.

The Tzolkin count shown on this website is the same used by the traditional day keepers in south of America. In order to preserve the whole integrity of the Mayan observations about the Tzolkin cycle, the time is fixed on the time zone of Mexico (UTC -0600).