The Mayan Tzolkin calendar

Number 1

(Ton, masculine principle, objective, intention)

Day 1 - Action

Inspiration / Ascend

Fire and Time, creation of all life, initiation, motivation

Define new objective, idea

The begining of all things. The first. The whole. The all of one.

Identification and definition of goals and objectives. Foundation, principle of attraction, generation of the idea in the mind, begining of a proposal.

Symbolizes: The indivisibe essence, one heart, the essential vibration, new rebirths.

Aq'ab'al, Akbal, the night

(Kin, feminine principle, character, sentiment)

Victory over darkness, fears, justice

Day of introspection

Element: Water
Color: Black or Blue
Direction: West
Animal: Bat
Body part: Stomach
Opposite elements: Light / Darkness

Aqabal represents the night, the obscure, the unknown, the fears we have and the magic in the world.
It is the kingdom of darkness, the place where appear our deep fears. The real understanding of the world allows oneself to overcome his fears and bring the light of the truth.

Aqabal is the root of the world, it is the one which gives the opportunity to pounce from the bottom to the surface. The light could not exist without the darkness.

The one who knows has no fear.

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).