The Mayan Tzolkin calendar

Number 2

(Ton, masculine principle, objective, intention)

Night 1 - Reaction

Inspiration / Ascend

Earth, intelligence

Balance between the new idea and outer world, revelation of problems, conflicts

Recognition of the separation of self from all else. Walking a balance while making choices of all kinds, light / dark, male / female, good / bad, Yin / Yang.

The polarity reveals the conflicts, problems, and apparent separation created by the dual thoughts. The challenge is to balance the extremes. Observe what you like and what you dislike. Identify the obstacles. Observe and analyze the feminine and masculine part in yourself. Look to build stability, accomplish the balance of the two polar forces. Observe the gifts offered to you in your relationships.

Symbolizes: Duality, the sacred partnership, distinction, stabilization, sacred twins, cooperation, relationship.

Iq, Ik, Wind, the breath of life

(Kin, feminine principle, character, sentiment)

Blow, exhalation, power of life, liberation

Day to send messages, day of the sacred idols

Element: Air
Color: White
Direction: North
Animal: Hummingbird
Body part: Respiratory system
Opposite elements: Help / Destruction

Iq carries new creations.
It represents the movement of the change, the dissemination of the seeds. Iq gives the power to the life, it blows in new energy and blows out old thoughts, like the respiration of the body, the periodic tide of the sea.

Iq is the day of the Heart of the Earth which is the source of inspiration of ones heart and also the day of the Heart of the Sky which is the source of inspiration of ones spirit.

Iq is a very powerful energy that can be either a smooth breeze of creation or a violent storm of destruction.

Time and Consciousness

The understanding of the life: the quest of the Warrior

The Tzolkin Calendar describes a natural Life cycle 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 Ton and Kin 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, its body and has a wave part, its 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.

If "Present" is pure Consciousness Time is its development process..

Time has periods of physical and non physical consciousness each giving the living entity the basic knowledge to understand the world to realize it.
The repeating of the process acts like the sun on the plants making them grow.
To simplify imagine you have a spotlight in front of your eyes, it is on around 12 hours and it is off again around 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 development of the Universal Consciousness.

The use 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 to the materialistic part of the world and you will understand that there are seasons.
If you follow a spirit based calendar, you synchronize yourself to the spiritual part of the world and you will understand that universe has the same spirit as yours, All is One.

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 with no summer shift).