Once again the Maya Calendar’s timing is extraordinary, as the One Lamat start of this trecena, the day before the funeral of Pope Francis, is marking 17 Tzolk’in cycles exactly since his inauguration. Moreover, his One Lamat inauguration in 2013 was 88 days after Dec. 21, 2012, that highly significant “great cycle” completion date in the Maya Calendar Long Count. Read the full article…

Easter is just around the corner, and as this trecena begins many in the U.S. will be wondering whether or not they can afford to buy Easter eggs this year, as the economic turmoil, triggered by gross ineptitude in the White House and roller-coaster stock market fluctuations, and the tearing down of government agencies, has millions of people thinking twice Read the full article…

As has happened many times before, this trecena is being blown in by strong winds that brought freezing rain and an ice storm to Ontario just as this trecena was coming in, as well as bringing thunderstorms, heavy rains, and the possibility of tornadoes to many regions in the U.S., which could impact more than 100 million Americans. While there Read the full article…

The Maya 260-day Tzolk’in cycle consists of five 52-day segments, one of which just ended, with a new one (the final one in the current cyle) just beginning. That last 52-day segment began just four days after the presidential inauguration in the U.S., in January, with an energy associated with “Earthquake” or “Evolutionary Movement” – signalling that there could be Read the full article…

In the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, on the first day of this trecena, residents of San Francisco felt a rumble, a forewarning of what was to happen 20-25 seconds later, when one of Planet Earth’s most catastrophic earthquakes ruptured the San Andreas fault for almost 300 miles. It was a shakeup that killed thousands, left 80% of Read the full article…

We are in a time of great darkness, a time of extreme chaos and crisis, as hundreds of thousands of experienced, highly skilled, career professionals are being fired from federal positions all across the US, from agencies ranging from public health services, to financial services, to aviation regulation, to food regulation, to law enforcement, to national parks and environmental protection, Read the full article…

The day after the November elections in the U.S., the highly respected Canadian journalist Andrew Coyne wrote:  “Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled campaign, or the ludicrously unworkable anti-policies. The candidate out on bail in four jurisdictions, the convicted fraud artist, the adjudicated rapist and serial Read the full article…

One of the most recognizable Mesoamerican treasures is the 25 ton Aztec Calendar Stone, located in Mexico City’s National Anthropology Museum. In the centre of that huge disc is a hieroglyph, embedded with a rather fierce-looking face, representing “Movement”. Through this complex image the Aztecs depicting their idea of the cyclical nature of time, illustrating the idea of “eras” and Read the full article…

With this trecena opening on the 5th straight day of catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles, with states of emergency having been declared for several southern states due to a massive winter storm, and with a hotly divisive presidential transition about to begin, there is no way to sugar-coat this one – this will be a wild ride. But this is Read the full article…

The end of the old year and the beginning of the new, as the world braces itself for . . . who knows what? At this highly unstable point in time, with people still trying to recover from the shock of the 2024 election in the US, whereby a slippery convicted felon managed to evade justice (on multiple counts) and Read the full article…