The Mayan Tzolkin calendar

Number 8

(Ton, masculine principle, objective, intention)

Night 4 - Reaction

Expiration / Descend

Rain and Water

Harmony

Harmony and balance are the intent of eight.
Eights carefully shows consideration for all evidence to reach a balance of justice. Eight is the power of organization demonstrated in the statement, "As above, so below". From simplicity to infinity, the energy of Eight organizes all levels of creation. It is the one that gives form and works on integrity.
All the different points of view and angles are visible and acceptable, since it is the only way to be in harmony. It is embracing our imperfections.

Symbolizes: Justice, receptivity, coherence, liberation from ego.

Kan, Chicchan, Snake, the plumed snake

(Kin, feminine principle, character, sentiment)

Intuition, link between the heart of the sky and the heart of the earth, capacity to change, to remember and invoke his creator

Day of the truth

Element: Fire
Color: Red
Direction: East
Animal: Snake
Body part: Nervous system
Opposite elements: Peace / Anger

Kan is the plumed snake, the one coming from the earth with the ability to go into the sky. He is the link between the earth and the sky.
The snake symbolizes the connection with the intelligence of the earth, the feminine part. The faders symbolize the sky, the masculine part, the spirit.
This energy gives solutions to problems trough intuition and instinct.

Kan is the one who is able to remember and invoke his creator, like the human should.
Kan can become very bad to the guilty, bringing illness, accident, hurricane.

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 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.

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 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, 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).