This trecena begins with an astrological event that seems to be echoing events on this planet. This is the third Jupiter-Pluto conjunction in 2020, the final such conjunction until 2033. In Western astrology this would be seen as a juxtaposition between the highly expansive energies associated with Jupiter, the great benefic, and the darker, destructive-but-regenerative forces attributed to Pluto. And Read the full article…

What are some of the key events that link this trecena specifically to the fate of the United States? And how do Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy factor into these events? The answer is that pivotal events associated with both of these US presidents, as well as “almost” president Hillary Clinton, have all taken place within this fire oriented, Read the full article…

Hurricane Katrina and the inundation of New Orleans in 2005, the monsoon rains that sparked flash flooding and landslides in New South Wales and Queensland in 2012 at the same time as “buckets of rain” and powerful winds were spawning tornadoes across Texas, the storms of “biblical proportion” that swept through Europe last November – these and many more such Read the full article…

It is truly head spinning to see how quickly massive change is taking place these days. And with this trecena beginning right after the Full Thunder Moon, a Lunar Eclipse, and the conjunction of bright Sirius (the Dog Star) with the Sun, with Sirius in a position where is it seen by some as sending “booster energy” to our sun, Read the full article…

One of the most intriguing features of Maya calendrics is the fact that the energies of the days work in cycles and it is often easy to see how events within earlier cycles point towards current or forthcoming events. The final trecena of the 260-day count-of-days, in particular, can often herald what is to come. And as we journeyed through Read the full article…

We have now entered the Twilight Zone – that surreal place where everything is so unfathomable and bizarre that it forces people to shift gears in often unprecedented ways. As this trecena begins many countries (including Australia and many European countries) have closed their borders to all visitors; many have issued stay-at-home orders and the closing of all but essential Read the full article…

As we embark on this new year we find that the first full trecena of 2020 is the “Creation” trecena introduced by the playful, inventive, agile, and capricious Monkey deity who sits at the centre of the Tree of Life and weaves together the threads of creation as he orchestrates the proliferation of life. This Chuwen trecena begins with the Read the full article…

The storms they are a-ragin’ . . . and at the present time this includes catastrophic firestorms in Australia, record-breaking low temperatures and snowstorms in several parts of the US, severe flooding in Venice, continuing large scale protests in many different countries, renewed fighting between Israel and Gaza, and monumental political firestorms at the highest levels of several governments. With Read the full article…

Canada’s federal election, a critical Brexit vote, a crisis of leadership in Spain, a state of emergency in Chile’s capital, anti-government protests in other countries, the ongoing impeachment probe in the US, the dreadful situation in northern Syria, and the official enthronement of an emperor – these and much more are in the works during this B’en oriented time frame, Read the full article…

Transformation – that seems to be the keyword as the second trecena in the Imix to Ajaw cycle comes into play. During the last appearance of this trecena (last December) hundreds of thousands of people were involved in clean-up efforts from the fierce windstorm that had battered Washington state and parts of British Columbia. On the other side of the Read the full article…