With snow and ice everywhere, blustery weather, power outages, and severe wind chills in many regions, these are the kinds of conditions that often cut things right back to the basics, fitting right in with Kimi’s call to “pause and regroup”. And certainly when the snow is a foot or more deep outside and/or you are digging for lanterns and Read the full article…

While there may be some who may be nervously sky-watching as this trecena opens, due to the scare tactics about a potential asteroid hit on this day that would “destroy all life on Earth”, NASA scientists have been providing assurances for years that this will not happen. That asteroid, large as it is, is now safely sailing along many millions Read the full article…

As many of us put “holidays” behind us and “get back to business”, we now have the Manik’ trecena, the first full trecena of 2019, coming into place, with its emphasis on Sacrifice and Reconcilation. Symbolized by a Deer or Stag, a powerful but gentle and adaptable creature, this 13-day time frame often centers around interactions between two “forces” that Read the full article…

The year end holiday season, winter weather (and earth oriented) challenges, and major changes in power in Washington D.C. and elsewhere – these are some of the elements that will be in play during the Ix (Jaguar) trecena that is bringing an end to 2018 and taking us into 2019. Here on the Northwest Coast a great deal of effort Read the full article…

It is mid-December and 2018 is getting ready to pack its bags and retreat into the annals of history. For many this has been a year fraught with enormous challenges, many of which were directly linked to severe events associated with environment-related disasters. From the perspective of the Maya calendar, we have just come through one complete cycle of the Read the full article…

Mid November and the end of the year is looming, and we are now coming close to the end of current One Imix-to-Thirteen Ajaw cycle. This Men (Eagle) trecena tends to be a kind of “head’s-up”, “call-to-action” period, associated with valour and the push towards supremacy. This is a zone that has been oriented, traditionally, around power, military strength, and Read the full article…

It has been a long, tedious, wait but it is finally here – the trecena during which millions of people throughout the US will have an opportunity to change the trajectory of what has been going on in Washington during the last two unfathomable years. This is the trecena that holds the potential for HIGH magic, carried by “Wind/ Breath/Spirit”, Read the full article…

One word each – Yes or No – that’s all they had. Those who voted yes had made up their minds long before the Ford vs. Kavanaugh hearing, long before the sham, flash-in-a-pan FBI investigation. Those who had enough gumption and integrity to vote No had the support of millions of Americans, including over 2400 law professors who were represented Read the full article…

We are now officially into autumn, with days getting shorter and northern climes getting colder, and wetter, so the “darkness” aspect of the Ak’b’al trecena (the first full trecena of this fall) seems to fit right in with this shift. Many will be feeling this sense of “enclosing darkness” as this new season sets in. Some may feel discomfort or Read the full article…

At this peak of the Atlantic Hurricane season the winds of change are blowing fast and furiously, and many of those winds are fiery! Russia war games, the release of blistering cannon shots against Trump, intense hurricanes, Climate Change action, highly consequential political decisions, and so much more are in the works at this time. And all of this will Read the full article…