So here we are again – back at a point of “new beginnings”, with the “initiation of birth” at the start of this new trecena. Representative of the “primordial realm”, Imix is a “world-making” type of energy that can open up (or give birth to) an infinite array of possibilities. For some reason, humans seem to want to literally “touch” Read the full article…

“Buona notte dallo spazio” (Good night from space) – those are the words that have been sent from space each night for the past few months from “La Donna delle stelle”, or “woman of the stars”, as astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is called by an Italian TV network. As she sends fresh photos of Earth each day, taken from the ISS Read the full article…

It has been a wild and rocky transition from the end of the last trecena to the start of the Men trecena, with severe weather (including tornadoes) reported in many areas, the devastating 7.8 earthquake in Nepal, and the eruption of Chile’s Calbuco volcano, for the first time in 42 years. It seems that the powerful earth-oriented forces at the Read the full article…

It seems that this “Wind, Breath, and Spirit” trecena is aptly named as Ik’ is the daysign energy associated with the wind deity, and this is the trecena during which a tremendous number of major wind-related events have occurred in recent years. In February of 2013 this trecena began with a major snowfall on the U.S. East Coast, which turned Read the full article…

As the Muluk (Water) trecena comes into play we are in the midst of the Wayeb’, the traditional “days of rest” at the end of the Classical Maya year. There seem to be mixed opinions about the nature of these five intermediary days (March 28th to April 1st this year), as some saw them as days requiring special vigilance and Read the full article…

As the Maritimes begin the dig out from yet another massive blizzard and the Melanesian Islands in the South Pacific struggle to assess the massive devastation caused by Cat. 5 Hurricane Pam, we come to the Kib’ trecena. Sometimes similarities can be seen between this trecena and the Kab’an trecena, in that both often involve significant “evolutionary” movement. During this Read the full article…

House, home, temple, introspection, dreaming . . . these are some of the many ideas associated with Ak’b’al and this trecena. For the thousands who are still locked into their homes by ice and snow, such things will continue to be the focus, as it will be for those who are starting the long clean-up from an interminably long winter. Read the full article…

Warmth, Fire, Guidance – these are notions that would be greatly welcomed by those still buried under the tons of snow and ice that have hammered the northeastern quadrant of North American in recent days and weeks. And indeed such qualities as Love, Justice, Loyality, Warmth, Fire, Guidance, and so much more, are key ideas associated with “Ok” (the Yucatec Read the full article…

Oh to be in Venice now that Carnevale is here. Those could be the thoughts of many of the hundreds of thousands of people blanketed under several feet of snow in North America’s northeast at this time, after being hit by wave upon wave of record-breaking blizzards during the past trecena. And now as the masked revelry gets underway in Read the full article…

As we approach the conclusion of the third Tzolk’in cycle since December 2012 (the start of this new Great Cycle of time), we return to the K’an trecena, aligned with the general idea of Germination. This tends to be a robust energy sequence associated with the inception of new ideas or the forging of new directions, suggestive of an “anything Read the full article…