What a difference one 260-day Tzolk’in cycle can make! One cycle ago (last October) the White House looked like a “haunted house”, with entire suites of offices vacant, with an infected fake president inside, “a victim of his own negligence” (as journalist Don Lemon put it). The “super- spreader-in-chief” was either denying that there was a problem, or making extremely Read the full article…

We anticipated that it could be intense and shocking, as the trecena that preceded this one has a way of getting peoples’ attention in dramatic ways. That was the trecena that completed the first half of the 260 day cycle, and set the stage for the “Creation” sequence that comes in at this time. What often happens during that period Read the full article…

Get ready for some fireworks, or some kind of razzle-dazzle, as this seems to be a specialty of the Etz’nab’ trecena. Another way of looking at it would be to “expect the unexpected”. And as we can see on the news, the first day (One Etz’nab) will not disappoint as the early hours are bringing in a Super Flower Blood Read the full article…

Justice, Freedom, Awakening – the Lifeforce-oriented Chikchan trecena has returned! Click here for the Podcast to accompany this trecena The last time this trecena made its appearance, it brought forth the fearsome Category 4 Hurricane Laura, the most powerful August hurricane in the Gulf since Katrina (15 years earlier), triggering the evacuation of more than half a million people near Read the full article…

Vaccinations, medicine, health care, healing – these are the things that are uppermost in people’s minds these days, pretty well everywhere on planet Earth, as the “storm” related trecena that we have just gone through brought a “tsunami” of new coronavirus cases worldwide, particularly in India. Click here for the Podcast to accompany this trecena. Enter the Aztec Goddess Mayahuel, Read the full article…

This trecena begins with a curious set of “coincidences” – “or not”, depending on how you look at it, as the Maya Calendar has a way of presenting curiosities that can have us thinking well beyond the idea of “coincidence”. Much of this ties in with the fact that the funeral for Prince Phillip, Queen Elizabeth’s long-serving prince consort, is Read the full article…

The timing was exquisite – timing fit for a King, or a Queen, or a Pharaoh, as fate and circumstance would have it. Just as this trecena was starting to come in late last night (April 3rd) Egypt staged a spectacular royal “Golden Parade” as the mummies of 18 kings and four queens – Egypt’s royal ancestors – were transported Read the full article…

“I’m on a mission” – that seems to be what Mother Nature is saying right now, as crocuses and fresh green shoots push through the earth, buds pop out on trees, and birds start returning to northern climes. The annual herring spawn in the ocean off eastern Vancouver Island is attracting hundreds of seals and sea lions, and tens of Read the full article…

Spring is on the horizon and after a long, bleak, winter of confinement, light is definitely shining through. And now we have the Ajaw (Sun) trecena to help this along. In the realm of the Classic Maya, this trecena was welcomed traditionally as a time for celebration. The very first day, One Ajaw, was observed as a celebrational “day of Read the full article…

Holding hands – it seems such a simple, common gesture, and yet – in these seemingly endless “social distancing” – days, when so many people are in need of assistance and support, even this simple act of comfort is too often denied or withheld due to the global pandemic. But hands can send signals, hands can write messages, hands can Read the full article…