As usual, the end of the last trecena brought a crescendo of activity, including much intense scrambling by U.S. lawmakers to pass a spending bill to prevent the government from shutting down, and a major push to repeal and replace Obamacare. While the House of Representatives passed a bill (with a razor-thin 217-213 vote) to do just that, the U.S. Read the full article…

As we move forward from the last 13-day period, which began with a “Day Without Immigrants” strike in the U.S., followed by a declaration of war against the media by the U.S. president, and then a series of large-scale protest demonstrations throughout the trecena, we arrive at the key mid-point within the overall 260-day cycle.   This is One Chuwen, Read the full article…

After the intensity of the last trecena with its severe ice storms, blizzards, rainstorms, earthquakes (Italy), and political storms that brought the conclusion of one era and the opening of another – an era in which the world at large has to deal with the issue of a “Divided States of America” – the question looms: What now? As it Read the full article…

It formed on a Tuesday afternoon in the late summer of 2005, a swirling mass of energy that was destined to change the lives of thousands of people. As it made its approach through the central days of this Kawak (storm) trecena the warnings that were issued became more and more dire. The message was to leave or face the Read the full article…

As we crawl our way forward after one of the most intense and terrifying shake-ups ever delivered by the Ix trecena, the world, indeed, is not as it was when that trecena began a mere 13 days ago. All has been turned upside down so severely that it seems that everyone everywhere is having to re-think the very nature of Read the full article…

The Jaguar is snarling, perhaps because so much is riding on this particular time frame and it is the task of the jaguar to oversee it. Once again this is a warrior type of energy generally associated with authority, rulership and things of the earth. It is aligned with high magic and even mastery over things of an unseen nature. During Read the full article…

True to form, the past 13 days have been HIGHLY eventful, with significant “movement” on many levels, from the sudden transfer of leadership in the U.K. on 4 Ajaw, to the attempted military coup in Turkey and the extraordinary firing of tens of thousands of people, to the stupefying nomination of Donald Trump at the Republication Convention in the U.S. Read the full article…

Attention-getting aerodynamics and combative engagement – these seem to be two of the major themes that recur during the Eagle-oriented trecena . . . . which may be why eagles have been seen historically as warriors in Mesoamerican mythology. Indeed, the very first day of the trecena is often marked by some significant event that ties in with these ideas, Read the full article…

llumination, transmutation, dualities, ingenuity, practicality . . . . these are some of the threads that tie this trecena together. This is a multifaceted time frame, that often places emphasis on the unexpected, often involving some form of duality, sometimes involving paired events or paired ideas struggling to maintain equilibrium. At this point, of course, this is an enormous challenge Read the full article…

It was a stunning victory to be sure – as just five days before the beginning of this Kab’an trecena Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party turned the tide in Canada and brought a resounding end to the long running Conservative stranglehold on this country’s leadership. More of the “unexpected” associated with the last trecena came just two days later with Joe Read the full article…