There are 20 Mayan signs, which change on a daily basis. Your Day Sign is determined by the date of your birth. It displays your most prominent qualities, as well as your normal characteristics.
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What are the signs of the Mayan zodiac?
Most of us are familiar with the 12 zodiac signs that originated in ancient cultures. In the first century B.C., Babylonia developed the first celestial coordinate system. Babylonian scientists divided the ecliptic, the plane of the earth’s orbit around the sun, into the 12 zodiac signs that we know today towards the end of the fifth century.
Our forefathers in Mesoamerica, on the other hand, had a different approach to life. You’ve almost certainly heard of the Mayan calendar (how do we feel about the world not ending in 2012?). Mayan astrology, unlike the zodiac system, is based on yearly calculations according to their calendar. It’s widely assumed that these ancient civilizations were foresighted and technologically advanced (don’t let post-colonization myths convince you differently). The Mayans were one of Mesoamerica’s most powerful civilizations.
As a result, their astrology system was equally advanced. To give this topic right, we’ll walk you through the Mayan Day signs, which are similar to the zodiac.
The calendar is made up of 20 day signs and 13 galactic numerals, totaling 260 days in a year. Each day was identified with a sign by the Mayans, and the system links days to different sections of the globe. The signs are based on a person’s birthdate, birth time, and birth location, and they represent who they are at their core. “Day signs,” for example, can “suggest our life purpose and enlighten us to our abilities as well as our flaws.”
Now that we’ve covered the basics of the history, here’s a quick rundown of the day signs (if you want a more detailed explanation, we’ve got you covered).
Do you want to know which ones belong to you? We utilized this calculator (and no, we didn’t spend the entire day doing it instead of working), but the results are so exact that you’ll almost certainly discover it matches your zodiac sign’s qualities.
What is the Mayan calendar method for calculating my birthday?
We’re all familiar with the days, months, years, decades, and centuries technique of keeping track of time. The Gregorian Calendar System is used to keep track of time in this system. The Maya, on the other hand, used a method known as the Long Count to measure time in kins, uinals, tuns, katuns, and baktuns. The total of the numbers in a Maya Long Count date is the number of days since the Maya Fourth Creation began on August 13, 3114 B.C.
The dates of the Maya Long Count are written as a series of integers separated by periods. For example, the date you’ll use as a starting point for your computations is 12. 18. 14. 11. 16 (December 31, 1987). Above its corresponding glyph, the same date is shown in its individual component parts.
The first step is to use the “Convert each place value in the date 12. 18. 14. 11. 16 into days using the Maya Long Count Conversion chart above. To determine the total number of days, add these five numbers together and remove two. To get you started, we’ve included a formula below. You’ll need to do your math on a separate sheet of paper.
Step 2: Write down your date of birth (in the Gregorian method). Calculate the number of days from your birth date to December 31, 1987 if you were born before January 1, 1988. (Answer A). Calculate the number of days from this day to the day you were born if you were born on or after January 1, 1988. (Answer B). It’s important to remember that leap years feature an extra day. The table below can assist you in determining the number of days in each month. Make a note of this number.
1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012 are leap years with 366 days (a 29th day in February): 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012.
There are 365 days in every year that isn’t a leap year.
Step three: Subtract this value from the Step One response if you calculated answer A. Add this number to the answer from Step One if you calculated response B. Make a note of this number.
Fourth step:
Use the Maya Long Count to convert the number of days since the Maya Fourth Creation to your birth date “Chart of Maya Long Count Conversions.
To figure out your birthday, use the following formula:
In C days, how many complete baktuns are there?
This number (let’s call it D) is placed in the baktun.
After subtracting the number of days in D baktuns, how many days are left over from C? Let’s call this E.
In E days, how many complete katuns are there? Put this number in the katun position and call it F.
After subtracting the amount of days in F katuns, how many days are left over from E? G is the phone number.
In G days, how many complete tuns are there?
Put this number in the tun slot and call it H.
After subtracting the number of days in H tuns, how many days are left over from G? This is the phone number I.
In I days, how many full uinals are there? Put this number in the uinal position and call it J.
After subtracting the number of days in J uinals, how many days are left? This is the amount of relatives you have on your birthdate.
Fill in the blanks with your calculations, then double-check your answer by entering it into the applet.
What is the meaning of the Mayan cross?
Cholq’ij (Tzolkin in Yucatan Mayan) is a sacred 20-day calendar derived from the human body, specifically from the ten fingers and ten toes. Those 20 days make up a law that governs a person’s life from conception to death. During those 20 days, a Divine and Sacred law was revealed, one that could not be changed and from which nothing could be taken away or added. The Mayan Habitual Right is the name given to this law.
What is the meaning of the Trecena sign?
The native Olmec, Toltec, Maya, Zapotec, and Aztec peoples evolved a magnificent sacred calendar unlike any other in the world long before Europeans arrived in Mexico and Central America. It was used to divine the answers to crucial problems and to determine the cycles and festivals of the entire civilization, and it was derived from centuries of studying natural cycles of development. It was also utilized to determine a person’s personality and destiny based on their birthdate.
Author Bruce Scofield was fascinated by this unique kind of New World astrology and spent decades rebuilding it using the greatest scholarly materials. He also sought advice from Central American practitioners of the living tradition. Then, using the symbolic logic of an astrologer, he considered how the old symbols might relate to modern lives. Finally, and most importantly, he put the results to the test by comparing them to hundreds of client and celebrity charts.
As a result, various books on Mesoamerican astrology have been published, as well as computer software that can take any date and position it in the most important Maya/Aztec cycles, as well as interpret the significance of that date. The new Mayan Life Path Astrology Report is now available for Windows users. You can use it to learn about your character and fate based on five significant Maya/Aztec cycles:
This displays your position in a 20-day sequence of zodiac-like animal and nature symbols that repeats indefinitely. Your Day-Sign characterizes your most prominent and visible personality qualities.
The Trecena, a 13-day cycle that reveals who you are under the surface, your deeper yearnings and subconscious drives, has been added to the Day-Signs. The Tzolkin, or 260-day Sacred Year, is created by combining the 20 Day-Signs with the 13 Trecena numerals. Each of the 260 days has its own particular trait, resulting in 260 different personality types.
Furthermore, the Mesoamerican cultures recognized a 52-year cycle. The traits you share with people born in your year are revealed by your position in the cycle.
Your birthday also falls under the Lords of the Night, a nine-day cycle of gods and goddesses. Your Night Lord god shows the dark and secret aspects of your nature that others may be unaware of or incapable of comprehending. The fundamental powers that drive your will to exist are symbolized by this old god or goddess archetype.
This is your Venus Phase.
The 584-day Venus-Sun cycle was revered by the Maya and Aztec societies, who connected it with the journey of the god Quetzalcoatl. Your Venus phase (Morning Star, Evening Star, Inferior Conjunction, or Superior Conjunction) indicates your fundamental pattern of interpersonal interaction.
When you combine these five cycles, you get an incredibly well-rounded picture of your personality and abilities. Your Maya Aztec chart will usually show a remarkable correlation with your Western chart, despite the fact that it uses a completely different astrological system. It also provides fascinating new insights into your character and motivations since it sees you through a different lens.
The Mayan Astrology Life Path Report also includes a list of your peak dates for the five-year timeframe you pick. These are pivotal times in your life when things begin to pick up speed and become more vivid, exciting, and even fateful. This essential turning point cycle begins at birth and continues for everyone at 65-day intervals. The nature and symbolism of each peak, on the other hand, is determined by when you were born in the 260-day sacred year. Your report includes your own peak dates, as well as the Day-Sign and Trecena number associated with each, as well as the accompanying compass direction and Moon phase, as well as a brief hint of the ideal attitude to take at each of these pivotal times in your life.
Your Mayan Life Path Astrology Report will also include a supplemental explanation of this unique and fascinating astrology system.
“Scofield’s delineation of the day-signs is like to x-rays that cut to the heart of the human personality’s problems. Once you’ve used these Native American strategies in your chart interpretations, you’ll want to keep coming back to this book. Anthony Louis, M.D., psychiatrist and author of Horary Astrology: The History and Practice of Astro-Divination, says, “Anyone who counsels people or seeks self-understanding will find great value here.”
For more than 36 years, Bruce Scofield has been a practicing astrologer. He is the author of three volumes on Maya/Aztec astrology, as well as an earlier Maya/Aztec computer report. Day-Signs: Native American Astrology from Ancient Mexico; Signs of Time: An Introduction to Mesoamerican Astrology; and How to Practice Mayan Astrology: The Tzolkin Calendar and Your Life Path, co-authored with Barry C. Orr and due out in January 2007.
Astrology: A User’s Guide, The Timing of Events: Electional Astrology, The Circuitry of the Self: Astrology and the Developmental Model, Astrological Chart Calculations, and the interpretations for the Astrolabe report program Professional Forecaster are among his many works on Western astrology.
From his residence in Amherst, Massachusetts, Bruce runs an international astrological practice while simultaneously teaching at Kepler College in Seattle. He has a master’s degree in history and is currently pursuing a doctorate in geosciences. He is an outstanding builder and rock guitarist, in addition to having an interest in archaeoastronomy and trekking (on which he has also published books).
What is the accuracy of Mayan astrology?
The Maya calendar, in its complete form, dates from around the 1st century AD.
century B.C., and is said to have originated with the
Civilization of the Olmec.
It’s true.
highly precise, and Maya priests’ computations were extremely precise
says their calendar adjustment is 10,000th of a day more precise than the official calendar
The most widely used calendar in the world today is the Gregorian calendar.
The Maya calendar is the oldest of the ancient calendar systems.
and other Mesoamerican civilizations
are the most detailed and sophisticated.
They used 20-day months and had 20-day weeks.
two calendar years: the 260-day Sacred Round, or tzolkin, and the 260-day Sacred Year.
The Vague Year, or haab, is a 365-day period.
These two calendars happened to be on the same day.
once every 52 years
The 52-year era was referred to as a “bundle,” and
To the Maya, the century was the same as it is to us.
The 260-day Sacred Round is made up of two smaller cycles:
The digits 1 to 13 are accompanied by 20 different day names.
Every one of the
The god who conveys time over the sky is represented by day names.
The passage of time is marked by the passage of night and day.
Imix, Ik, and Akbal are the names of the days.
Kan, Chicchan, Cimi, Manik, Lamat, Muluc, Oc, Chuen, Eb, Ben, Ix, Men, Kan, Chicchan, Cimi, Manik, Lamat, Muluc, Oc, Chuen, Eb, Ben, Ix, Men, Kan, Chicchan, Cimi
Cib, Caban, Eiznab, Cauac, and Ahau are the names of the tribes Cib, Caban, Eiznab, Cauac, and Ahau.
Some of these are gods of animals, such as
as archaeologists and Chuen (the dog) and Ahau (the eagle) have pointed out
discovered that the Maya animal sequence may be matched in a similar order
Many East and Southeast Asian civilizations have lunar zodiacs.
Time does not run in a straight line in the 260-day tzolkin, but rather moves in circles.
in a spiral-like pattern of repeating circles
The 13th and 20th cycles
intermingle and are repeated indefinitely.
As a result, the calendar would
Start with 1 Imix, 2 Ik, 3 Akbal, and so on until you reach 13 Ben.
The cycle goes on with 1 Ix, 2 Men, and so forth.
Imix would be available at this time of day.
The first day of this 260-day cycle would be 8 Imix, and the last day would be 13 Ahau.
Nobody knows how such an unique calendar came into being.
The
The 260-day cycle may connect a number of cosmic occurrences, including the eclipse.
Mars’s configuration, Venus’s appearances, or eclipse seasons are all examples of this.
It’s possible.
Even the time between conception and birth of a human baby can be represented.
The 260-day calendar was utilized to establish key tasks linked to the project.
to both the gods and the mortals
It was used to identify people and make predictions.
Choose auspicious dates for fights, marriages, and other events in the future.
Each day had its own omens and connotations, and the unstoppable march continued.
The 20-day period was like a never-ending fortune-telling machine, directing the people.
The Maya’s destinies
The Vague Year, or haab, is a 365-day period.
similar to our present calendar, which has 18 months with 20 days each.
each, with a bad five-day stretch towards the end.
The Gregorian calendar is a type of calendar that
The seasons and agriculture were the main themes of the 365-day year, and
The solar cycle was used as a basis.
The order of the 18 Maya months is as follows:
Pop, Uo, Zip, Zotz, Tzec, Xuc, Yaxkin, Mol, Chen, Yax, Zac, Ceh, Pop, Uo, Zip, Zotz, Tzec, Xuc, Yaxkin, Mol, Chen, Yax, Zac, Ceh, Pop, Uo, Zip, Zotz,
Mac, Kankin, Maun, Pax, Kayab, and Cumku are all characters in the game Mac, Kankin, Maun, Pax, Kayab, and Cumku.
The ill-fated five-day span
was known as uayeb and was regarded as a foreboding period.
It has the potential to bring danger, death, and bad luck.
The Maya solar new year is said to have started around the time of our ancestors.
July is the current month, and Pop is the Maya month.
The Maya 20-day period
The month always starts with the month’s sitting, followed by the days.
numbered 1 to 19, then the next month’s seating, and so on.
This corresponds to the Maya belief that each month has an impact on the next.
As a result, the Maya new year would begin with 1 Pop, then 2 Pop, and so on.
route up to 19 Pop, then the seating of the month of Uo, which is written
as 0 Uo, 1 Uo, 2 Uo, and so on.
The tzolkin and the haab were linked, resulting in a
It has a longer cycle of 18,980 days, or 52 solar years.
The conclusion of
This 52-year cycle was particularly feared since it was thought to be a sign of impending doom.
a moment when the world could end and the sky could fall, if the world came to an end and the sky fell, if the world came to an end and the sky fell, if the world came to an
The gods were dissatisfied with how humanity had carried out its mission.
obligations.
The 52-year cycle, on the other hand, was insufficient to track the ongoing changes.
Through the ages, time has passed.
As a result, a new calendar was created.
Known as the Long
Count.
The following units of measure were used in the Long Count:
A kin is a day; an uinal is a month of 20 kins; a kin is a kin is a kin is a kin is a kin is a kin is a kin is
a tun (a year with 360 kins or 18 uinals); a tun (a year with 360 kins or 18 uinals); a tun (a year with
a baktun (20 katuns, 20 katuns); a katun (20 katuns, 20 katuns, 20 katuns, 20 katun
or four hundred years).
The pictun, for example, was a larger unit.
The calabtun, the kinchiltun, and the analtun are three types of calabtun.
Each
64 million years was the equal of analtun.
The Long Count begins at the beginning of the current creation cycle, and continues until the end.
and is based on the current epoch.
This work’s creation date is set to
Our contemporary calendar dates it to either 3114 B.C. or 3113 B.C.
This is the situation.
starting date for all subsequent counts – this is similar to how we utilize the
As a beginning point for modern historical dates, the birth of Christ is used.
The Maya calendar utilized five figures in this order to represent a date:
baktun, katun, tun, uin, and kin are all terms for the same thing.
This would be formatted as, for example.
9.10.19.5.11 10 Chuen 4 Kumku, for example, which translates to 9
baktuns (1,296,000 days), 10 katuns (72,000 days), and 19 katuns (72,000 days)
11 kins (6,840 days), 6 tuns (6,840 days), 5 uinals (100 days)
(It took 11 days).
We now have a total of 1,374,951 days (about 3,764 hours).
At the Maya, it has been 365 years (solar years) since the beginning of the last Creation.
10 Chuen, 4 Kumku, 10 Chuen, 4 Kumku, 10 Chuen, 4 Kumku, 10 Chuen, 4 Ku
This would be the same as
A.D. 651 or 652, to a date in our year A.D. 651 or 652.
The calendar’s most significant function was not to fix dates.
however, not in terms of accuracy in time, but in terms of correlating the activities of Maya rulers
historical and mythical occurrences
The divine actions that took place in the
Maya monarchs reenacted mythical days, frequently on the anniversary of their death.
the actual event – a date that Maya meticulously determined
priests.
The calendar was also used to record past and upcoming events.
occurrences.
The dates of events are recorded on several Maya monuments, for example.
Others forecast events that will occur 90 million years ago, while others predict occurrences that will occur in the future.
The year is 3,000 years in the future.
The calendar, like our astrological zodiac, prophesied the future.
The Maya, for example, believed that a person’s birthday or day-sign was important.
Their fate was determined throughout their lives.
As a result, the newborn child was linked.
with a specific god and remained under that god’s control.
a few gods
were more fortunate than others, and a child born under the auspices of a well-wisher
God was thought to be fortunate.
A child born to a less benevolent god had to deal with a lot of hardships.
ensuring that the god was propitiated during his or her life –
especially during sensitive times such as the unlucky uayeb of the year
the year of the sun
Many academics have speculated as to why the Maya calendar was so complicated.
In
It was partly due to the fact that Maya priests were in charge of all calendar-related choices.
The agricultural cycle and sacred events
As a result, there was no need for
It is possible for the typical individual to grasp the calendar, and it may be as simple as that.
as ornate as the priests desired
In southern Mexico, the ancient Maya cycle still exists, as do the Maya people.
hills, under the supervision of calendar priests who continue to preserve the calendar.
For divination and other shamanistic acts, a 260-day count is used.
These
Priests juggled time cycles and determined when several of these cycles would intersect.
would be similar.
The Maya believed that the Sun was steered by the gods.
and the Moon in the sky
Even in the dead of night, the stars shine brightly.
The Maya believed that the Sun and Moon were one and the same.
continued on his journey through the Underworld, being pursued by demons along the way.
They were being pursued by evil gods who wanted to halt their progress.
As a result, the Mayas
believed that the celestial bodies required human assistance, which was given.
by means of sacred rituals such as
Self-mutilation, torture, and human sacrifice are all examples of human sacrifice.
To the Maya, offering
this help was simply the price to be paid for the continued survival of
the universe.
Death from such rituals was a privilege, and conferred
immortality on those who died, or who offered themselves as victims.
The repeating cycles of creation and destruction