Spring 2023 Mayan Calendar, with Lunar & Cosmic Alignments

This season we focus on the element of Fire in the Mayan Medicine Wheel.
The Red Road.

The Spring Equinox in the Mayan Medicine Wheel is the element of Fire and the Red Road. It occurs in March, as the Fall Equinox blesses our Mother Earth and relatives in the Southern Hemisphere. The equinoxes keep the divine balance at this midpoint in our collective journey towards the solstice to come, when light and dark go into an extreme position. It's with this appreciation that we share from our tradition and point of observation on Earth, as Maya and as Earth Peoples United. We invite you to carry the Fire of your spirit with more awareness through this season. Light candles, burn smudge as offerings (sage, cedar, copal, other dried herbs whose smoke brings spiritual cleansing). Smoke your pipe if you have one, connect with tobacco in a sacred way and make a fire how you can where you are.
 Feel the warmth of the sun on your skin and give thanks for the fire of your hearth as you cook and nourish yourself. We forget to appreciate.. remember. Feel the warmth of life in your body, through your blood and your every sense. Our culture can be very fearful of fire, yet it was all of our ancestral centers. Today it is in news of raging wildfires that we are most aware of this sacred element, let us see and experience this as a guide to show us the wats we have been out balance, how that imbalance become normal. Notice and respond, tend to your inner fires by creating a safe space to witness the fire, talk with it, observe it. Like all the elements, it can be a sacred helper, teacher and doorway to your inner guidance. It can also devastate and destroy if not taken care of properly. We can also lose the “spark” of life and become depressed, depleted and disenchanted. 
From the raging consuming flames of consciousness to the extinguished sparks in life, we are shown when the fire of our life needs tending and this season we  do we give ourselves to the consideration of how to feed our inner fires? We can seek and ask where our fires have been out of control, taking the time to acknowledge the spaces we ended up burning ourselves or others.  We invite you to work with the fire in some form on the One vibration of each 13-day Mayan Calendar Week and make your prayer, set your intentions with the energies of that week. Each week starts at the 1 (beginning) energy of a certain aspect, and builds to the 13 (full empowerment) energy of another aspect - like a wave that we can ride and harness that energy to help and guide us in our lives, or seeds we can plant with our prayers and intentions to grow a certain energy in that timeframe. 
Then we add to that the overlay of the Springtime energy, in which the Earth is sprouting, budding, growing… Call forth the potential of what you want to plant, create, manifest in your life by bringing it to the Fire, like the sprout that emerges from the darkness to reach towards the sun… The Red Road is the road of service and unconditional love, with love in action. This is the season to bring the fire of ceremonial prayers across the Mother and to serve with actions of love- serve, support, and donate as the springtime begins. Light a spark, light your pipes, with the intention to witness the rebirthing of earth- watch the trees sprouting. Plant your intentions and declarations for what you want at this time of the Spring and allow the energy of the Earth to awaken and grow with you.   
May these tools and guidance support your path.

New Moon: This is a phase to invite new beginnings. Welcome new challenges, set yourself new goals or ask for your heart’s desire. During a New Moon, it is good to set intentions and focus on how you will manifest these intentions during the coming month. 

Full Moon: This is the time to let things go. Let go of things that no longer serve,  so that you can heal and move forward without these things holding you back. The Moon’s brightness offers hope, white celestial light to guide your forward.

Mayan Calendar 13-Day Week Cycle Energies

 

ABOUT THE MAYAN CALENDAR 13-DAY WEEK ENERGIES OFFERED BY TAT ERICK GONZALEZ:

Contrary to the hype at the end of the year 2012, the Mayan calendar did not come to an end. It is still alive and can serve as a powerful guiding tool for our lives. The sacred Mayan calendar that we follow, called the Cholq’ij, is made up of 260 days (approximately 9 months, which is the gestation period for a human being). Within this calendar there are cycles of 13 days that we call a week, where the vibrations of the days go from 1 to 13, and then start again in a 1 vibration. These vibrations are moving along side of the 20 Daylords, creating the completion of the Cholq’ij: the one cycle of the Mayan calendar in its 260 days (13 x 20).

The importance of these 13-day weeks is that they tell a story of an evolutionary process of humanity and all the beings with which we share this matrix. The matrix is what we call Kaj Uleu, the place between sky and earth, where all of life is manifested. In the same way that we have planetary influences (the basis for astrology), we have frequency, elemental, and cosmic influences, as individuals and a collective, that are reflected through the Mayan Calendar and that create a direct influence on our 7 divine bodies.

We are again sharing this creation story that comes from the spiritual, elemental and cosmic energies of the 13-day Mayan Calendar week. This creation story can be read in the sacred book of the Popul Vuh, as well the oral traditional stories that go with the ceremonies of the Maya. The Mayan Aj Q’ijab, shamans, the Daykeepers, they know this story. We want to share it in this way to expand this knowledge into the consciousness of humanity.

On the one vibration of each 13-day week we will be sharing a brief overview of the energies at play for that week, in which we can attune ourselves for a more cohesive and harmonized life.  Each week initiates with a 1 energy and moves through an evolutionary process to reach its full potential in the frequency of 13.  The frequencies move through the 20 Daylords.  The week describes not only part of a story of creation, but the story unfolding into a future that we can participate in. This smaller cycle of the 13-day weeks and the journey of the Daylords gives us an episode of an unfolding, everlasting story of which we are part (we are the actors in co-creating our future). In the same way that when we look at the stars we are looking at the past, there is also a future in which the gear of the 13-day week is part of an everlasting clock. This clock has some degree of predictability in which we can plan and participate with, and align ourselves with, to be in harmonious frequency. It is in essence a mini “forecast” using the Mayan Calendar.

We invite you to work with the water in some form on the One vibration of each 13-day Mayan Calendar Week and make your prayer, set your intentions with the energies of that week. Each week starts at the 1 (beginning) energy of a certain aspect, and builds to the 13 (full empowerment) energy of another aspect - like a wave that we can ride and harness that energy to help and guide us in our lives, or seeds we can plant with our prayers and intentions to grow a certain energy in that timeframe.  We offer reflections on the Water element within these cycles to connect to these energies.

If you would like to learn more about the Mayan Calendar or how to schedule a personal reading with Tat Erick to discover your Tree of Life, please contact us at info@earthpeoplesunited.org.

Spring 2023 13-Day Week Energy Descriptions:

Mayan Calendar 13-Day Week of 1 Imux – 13 Aj (Mon Mar 20th – Sat Apr 1st, 2023)

In the week of 1 Imux (Mon Mar 20th), we see a story that begins a process of creation that will end on 13 Aj (Sat Apr). Imux is the thought forms, the water lily, the element of water. Through our efforts and the evolutionary process, we look at what thought forms are floating in the water and put our intentions on what we want to start to crystallize. This week ends in 13 Aj- where you plant the full potential of the staff of your intention to manifest and to crystallize the thought forms that you want to create into the earth.  On 2 I’q is the New Moon – a time to deeply connect with our breath to set our intentions and focus on how we can breathe life into them during this moon cycle.

In the middle of this week we find 7 Kiej (Sun Mar 26th)- the thought forms need to be activated by some force, some entity, some energy. This energy in the human form is found in the shamans, the medicine people, who are chosen on this day. And they choose the seed bundles – the bundles for the future harvest.  The very next day, 8 Q’anil (Mon Mar 27th) is the day that the Maya will be celebrating big ceremonies to bless all their seeds - ceremonies in which they bring the bundles of the seeds that are going to be planted the next season. The energy of the fires and the prayers encodes the seeds so that they can have a good harvest. And then the very next day is 9 Toj (Tues Mar 28th), in which the gift is received, the petition is received, and we have made the proper payments to continue on our journey so that the harvest will be good.

The culmination of this week, the thought forms that we chose to start crystallizing on 1 Imux, ends up in 13 Aj (Sat Apr 1st)- the full empowerment of the Staff. It is time to pierce the earth and drop the seeds, the time that we decide that this is what we are going to do, and we ground that intention to fulfill it.  

 

Mayan Calendar 13-Day Week of 1 Ix – 13 Keme  (Sun Apr 2nd – Fri Apr 14th, 2023)

In the week beginning with 1 Ix (Sun Apr 2nd) we begin the story of the connection to what is sacred, to the altar, to the sacred site, to the medicines. The week of 1 Ix ends in the transformation of all things, which is 13 Keme (Fri Apr 14th). So in this part of the story the question is “what is sacred?” In this week we go through the process of finding what that is and then finishing with the transformation, the death process of everything that exists.

The full moon falls on 5 Tijax (Thurs Apr 6th), asking us to look into the smoking mirror and cut away the things we no longer need so we can reach our fullness. Tijax is the obsidian blade- a sacred tool to cut away sickness and the energetic ties to what we no longer need.

However, in the middle of this week sits the day of 7 Ajpu (Sat Apr 8th), the Lords of the Light and the hero twins. They are tested to see what is sacred- “are you sure you consider that sacred?” In this story, before it gets to the 7 Ajpu it must go through its purification, its cleansing, what we call the 6 Kawok (Fri Apr 6th)- the sweatlodge, the preparations that the Ajpus (the Lords of the Light) must go through. So that in the next day, in the 8 Imux (Sun Apr 9th) the mind, we are very clear: what are we going to go forward with? Then we can have a spiritual birth on 9 I’q (Mon Apr 10th). And so it takes us through this beautiful story to end in what is it that is going to die, what is it that is going to transform in 13 Keme? (Fri Apr 14th). And what is it that is going to lead us down one of two roads: the good transformation into the butterfly, or the total death of the soul…

Mayan Calendar 13-Day Week of 1 Kiej – 13 Kawok (Sat Apr 15th – Thurs Apr 27th, 2023)

In the week of 1 Kiej (Sat Apr 15th), here is where the spiritual initiation of the shamans, the medicine people, the bundle carriers begins on this day on this week. It takes us through the story in which the shaman begins his or her sacred work.

The New Moon falls on 6 E (Thurs Apr 20th), guiding us to reflect on our destiny and what goals we can set to walk the path towards our heart’s desire.

The middle of this week, 7 Aj (Fri Apr 21st) is asking us to decide what is the bundle, what are the sacred tools that this person, this being, is going to use to manifest their visions? And so it takes us to the next day to the 8 Ix (Sat Apr 22nd  and Earth Day in our culture) - now that you have your bundle, is this the sacred place? The shield of the shamans is the Jaguar, the goddess, the medicine (all representations of Ix), so with this bundle and this relationship to the Nahual, 9 Tz’ikin (Sun Aug 23rd) becomes alive. 9 Tz’ikin is to manifest your visions, we teach a lot about that. The shaman must go through initiations to go through the whole process of recoding its whole being so that the new visions, the spiritual visions are born.

The journey of this week takes us to 13 Kawok (Thurs Apr 27th) where we are now becoming one with the powers of the universe, the lightning and thunder, and then the bundle becomes a sacred place like the sweatlodge, like the sanctuary. It becomes the tipi of the road man and the fireplace that is given, so all that begins on the 1 Kiej goes through the story of what is it that this medicine person finds to hold, carry, and manifest through within the forces of nature…  

 

Mayan Calendar 13-Day Week of 1 Ajpu – 13 E (Fri Apr 28th – Wed May 10th, 2023)

In the week of 1 Ajpu (Fri Apr 28th), here is where some of the creation story of the Maya comes alive in the Popul Vuh, the sacred Mayan book of the Quiche. Here, Ajpu is the birth of the sun, the crystallization of the spiritual being. And it starts its journey through the calendar and it starts seeing what it is going to be challenged by, and what it has to manifest through. And so if you are looking straight at 1 Apju, its opponent is the 7 Keme (Thurs May 4th), the Lords of the Underworld. So 1 Ajpu, the enlightened being, must now take the journey, take the pilgrimage, and then face the opponent of its being, the 7 Keme.

Whatever the outcome is of the 7 Keme is that the true shaman has received its power in 8 Kiej (Fri May 5th). The energy of 8 Kiej creates the manifestation of the medicine person, or not- it just continues to be a regular human being. The full moon also falls on 8 Kiej – encouraging us to shine in the full power of our unique medicine gifts and release whatever is holding us back.

This shaman, this medicine person, this spiritual being on 8 Kiej now has the ability and the knowledge and the visions to manifest and birth the 9 Q’anil (Sat May 6th), the 9 seeds, that which will create this beautiful garden so that it will have a harvest. So now it carries that sacred gift all the way to the 13 E (Wed May 10th), to show the way, become the spiritual teacher, become the great leader holding the spiritual and what is sacred. But the challenges here are also very powerful, and one of the great stories is of the hero twins of the Maya in which they start their initiation, they begin to acknowledge their gift, and they take the journey when they are invited by the underworld. They do survive by outsmarting and outwitting the Lords of the Underworld, and calling upon being in nature as allies, and they show us the way to continue on.  

 

Mayan Calendar 13-Day Week of 1 Aj – 13 Kan (Thurs May 11th – Tues May 23rd, 2023)         

In the week of 1 Aj (Thurs May 11th), now that the spiritual being has been manifested and crystallized, on 1 Aj they declare themselves to be of a spiritual nature, and plants the staff of their intentions. Aj is also the bundle- what is sacred to us? This week will take us to the full manifestation of universal energy on 13 Kan (Tues May 23rd). In the middle of this week, what waits is the way to purify and cleanse ourselves on 7 Kawok (Wed May 17th).  Here is where the energy that we are going to use is given by Spirit, because on 13 Kan we learn how to use this full potential, how to use the elemental powers of the universe, how to use the spiritual powers that come from this connection to the cosmos. So 7 Kawok knows that the bundle needs to be cleansed and purified in certain ways, and it has chosen that. 

Then the next day on 8 Ajpu (Thurs May 18th), the spiritual being that had its initiation 20 days before on 1 Ajpu, now it is complete. Now the Lords of the Light become enlightened, and the clarity of the mind, the clarity of the intention becomes the source to continue giving the inspiration to this person, on 9 Imux (Fri May 19th). Here is the birthing of the ideas. The new moon falls on this day of 9 Imux, inviting us to birth the clear and creative thoughts and ideas to accomplish our goals.   

And then the next day on 10 I’q (Sat May 20th) the universe says, “I will give you breath and life”. This is the opportunity to understand how to use this cosmic energy, this spiritual energy, and this manifestation of the Original Instructions, for the end of this week is where the laws of nature and the laws of the cosmos lies, in 13 Kan (Tues May 23rd).

Mayan Calendar 13-Day Week of 1 Keme – 13 Tijax (Wed May 24th – Mon Jun 5th, 2023)         

In the week of 1 Keme (Wed May 24th), the initiation begins in the death/transformation process.  The Lords of the Underworld (or Xibalba), the Kemes, decide it is their turn now, their turn to initiate the cycle that will complete in 13 Tijax, the full potential of the obsidian blade (Mon Jun 5th). The potential of this in the dark, the negative, is to cut it all up, cut it all apart and destroy it.  But the 1 Keme asks what is it that is going to be transformed?

So the shaman now, or the spiritual being in this week, is going to experience in the Ballgame of Life that now the Lords of the Underworld have the opportunity to decide what is going to be the destiny. It is going to challenge us all in the middle of this week, 7 E (Tues May 30th), to ask what is the destiny that we want? What is it that we are playing this game of life and death for? This decides what goes on and what doesn’t for the future ancestors. So the completion of the bundle, on 8 Aj (Wed May 31st) becomes real now. This bundle is real, now it is complete. And it takes us through the birthing through what is sacred, 9 Ix (Thurs Jun 1st), to get to 13 Tijax (Mon Jun 5th).

The full moon falls on 11 Ajmak (Sat Jun 3rd), a day of releasing and letting go of our ancestral wounds and karmas- what do we want to leave behind so that our future self and generations do not to inherit it?

Now we can communicate.  We can communicate what we are letting go of, what is not serving us anymore, what is in the place of the underworld. Now we decide our destiny: do we want to continue the wars, do we want to continue the suffering, or do we want to communicate an alternative? So the Tijax, obsidian blade, becomes that power to cut it away, or protect that from continuing to happen. We declare that Keme cannot have this world, have our soul, cannot have our destiny. Are we going to allow Keme the opportunity to cut it all away, or are we to emerge with the complete bundle, the connection to the nahual, the ally, the decision of what is proper for us to continue to carry from our ancestors, and what are we going to share with the seventh generation that follows us? And so in this week this is the sacred initiation that is happening. 

 

Mayan Calendar 13-Day Week of 1 Kawok – 13 B’atz (Tues Jun 6th – Sun Jun 18th, 2023)

In this week of 1 Kawok, during the ball game we have had a taste of the Lords of the Underworld (Keme), and the Lords of the Light (Ajpu), what is going on there.  And so now we decide to go through our spiritual initiation on 1 Kawok (Tues Jun 6th), we go back to reflect and to reconnect through the Lords of the Light (2 Ajpu- Wed Jun 7th), to reach 13 B’atz (Sun Jun 18th). In 13 B’atz it asks us in this whole story: “what are we weaving”? In the weaving of our life, each strand is used in our weaving. Each action, each thought, each dedication to life, to spirit, to Mother Nature, it creates a strand across the matrix of our life.  So that when we look back we can say “wow, we wove a beautiful tapestry” or “we are weaving a beautiful tapestry in our life and these are the actions we are taking”.

Because One Kawok is this sacred initiation, it takes us to understand the proper use of energy at the balance point of the week, 7 Kan (Mon Jun 12th). The Kan, the manifestation of the Feathered Serpent allows the dualities of the negative aspect of Keme and the positive aspect of the Ajpu to becoming one being. Here is where the energies are balanced, they are harmonized, and then 8 Keme (Tues Jun 13th) comes in, and the death process is complete. Now the birth of the Shaman, the energy of 9 Kiej (Wed Jun 14th), can really happen now. We have been going through initiations, we have been going through challenges, we’ve been going through understandings, now it is the time of the birth of the medicine person, the spiritual person. 

This cycle comes to its fullness in 13 B’atz (Sun Jun 18th)- the 13 threads. These threads are woven by our thoughts, by our actions, by our emotions, by our service to life. We choose whether we will have a beautiful tapestry. Before we arrive at the 13 B’atz we must pass through 12 T’zi  (Sat Jun 17th) that deals with our relationships to life. If they become chaotic through envy, gossip, and all the negativity that we see between humans, the warlike aspects of us, in 13 B’atz instead of a beautiful tapestry, we have an incredible mess of entanglements that can bring resentments. This day of 13 B’atz is also the new moon – how are we weaving our intentions and actions to create the tapestry we desire, who are we weaving with, where do we need to untangle or cut away threads that do not belong?

This week takes us through this sacred initiation through the sweatlodge, through the relationship with the elementals, the opportunity to purify (1 Kawok), and we can be in full awareness and very conscious of every action, so that everything that we do, think, and receive is creating a beautiful tapestry of life.

 

Mayan Calendar 13-Day Week of 1 E – 13 Kat  (Mon Jun 19th – Sat Jul 1st, 2023)

In this week, now we take a step into our new destiny, our new path on 1 E (Mon Jun 19th). We initiate a new road where we are carrying a new bundle that is going to complete in the connection through the elementals to the Web of Life, in 13 Kat (Sat Jul 1st). 13 Kat is like the spider, connecting our intentions, all of our initiations, our mental wisdom, our emotional wellness, and our spiritual awareness, within the Web of Life.

 However, in this journey we first have to get through the 7 Tijax (Sun Jun 25th), the obsidian blade, the place where all the blades are facing in each direction, and we are traveling at a certain speed and need to be careful to not get cut. Tijax asks us to pay attention to the energies that can block us from getting to our purification place, the place of knowing how to handle the elementals (Kawok). So 7 Tijax becomes one of the final tests - we can not get caught, we can not lose our self, so that we make it through the 8 Kawok (Mon Jun 26th), through that lodge, through the completion of the process of purification. This is important because the very next moment, the next day on 9 Ajpu (Tues Jun 27th), an enlightened being is born. It doesn’t mean that we made it all the way through, but it means that the knowledge and wisdom (10 Imux – Wed Jun 28th), that spiritual state (11 I’q – Thurs Jun 29th) now has taken a birth.  It is going to take you through the crystallizing of your visions, the place of the unknown, into the light and understanding (12 Akabal – Fri Jun 30th), so that we can connect to the Web of Life on 13 Kat (Sat Jul 1st).

However, if we choose the wrong road on 1 E, if we get into drugs, alcohol, addictions through the partying, or whatever, and we become trapped, this is where the soul catcher is waiting, this is where we lose our vision, where we make the violations, and Tijax cuts our connection. 9 Ajpu, the Lord of the Light, goes into the black sun, and confusion comes in. 13 Kat then becomes the addiction, the imprisonment of the soul. It becomes a dark place of eternity. And so, as we see humanity and part of our world, that is where it is heading. It continues to get trapped in the spider web- now we are a mosquito and we are trapped by the Soul Catcher, the spider, and we will become its food. And so these are the 2 aspects of what happens when we take our step, and make decisions when we have knowledge and wisdom, on this path, on the initiation of the 1 E.  

This Mayan carving comes from the old urban complex of Yaxchilán, in Chiapas.