Mayan Zodiac Sign Calculator
Your Day Sign
Light
Ahau (Yucatan) / Ajpu (Kiche)
Personality:Loving, devoted, artistic, imaginative, and romantic. Stubborn and uncompromising. Lack of social skills but well-intentioned.
You are gentle, well-intentioned, and generous. This Day Sign is also called Ancestors by the Mayans. Therefore your path to receiving guidance from your ancestors is open. You reflect the purity and brightness of the Light. You are imaginative and have solid inner ideals.
The Aztecs say this is the sign of poets, singers, dancers, and creative artists. These types of vocations show the inner connection with a higher power. You can be an athlete, a hero, or a wise visionary that leads people, an artist, or an artisan in one or more fields. If you are more of an intellectual type, you can find beauty in numbers, math, science, and philosophy [...]
Be stubborn in your efforts to manifest your dreams. One of the names of this sign is the Hunter. This is about overcoming all the challenges between you and your desired goal. You will often be tested in your quest about what you want to achieve in your life. There will be many challenges on your way but have confidence. You have the means to overcome these challenges. Just recognize them, and keep going, keep moving forward. You are bound to reach success and achieve your goals [...]
Relationships, in general, are pretty challenging for you. That’s mainly because your expectations are often unrealistic from the beginning. You may have ultra-high expectations from others and yourself as well. This unrealistic strive for "perfection" can lead to disappointment, and as a result, you may run away from your responsibilities. You tend not to forgive people's mistakes and be easily offended. To remedy such issues, simplify your life and accept the world as it is. Lower your expectations. You will rise with unconditional love and shine again [...]
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Challenge: Frustrations caused by unrealistic expectations.
Remedy: Lowering the expectations.
Appropriate professions: Author, actor, economist, lawyer, farmer, scientist, hunter, artist.
Signs you get along with: Light, Eagle, Serpent and Dog
Signs that contribute to your growth: Light, Road Owl, Seed and Rabbit
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Your Tone
4
Stability
* Healing
* Understanding
* Contemplation
* Stability
* Comfort
* Form
* The most stable one in all forms
* Calm energy
* Reflective energy
* Balancing
* Listening with tranquil energy before making a decision
* Thoroughly thinking
* Regrouping
* Allowing
Tone 4 represents stability, balance, and harmony. Think of the four sacred directions in Mesoamerican spirituality or the four elements in astrology or yoga. You bring stability and endurance to human life, like a table standing firmly on its four legs or a car going on its four wheels. There is healing found with stability. If someone is sick, the recovery will take much longer if they keep moving around.
You have the power to become a good healer and use your abilities to heal yourself and others [...]
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Your Trecana Sign
Earth
Caban (Yucatan) / No'j (Kiche)
Personality: Mentally active, rational, intelligent, and practical. Generally liberal and progressive. Argumentative and have strong convictions.
The Earth sign represents everything about the brain and its powers for the Mayans. Maybe you can see the convolutions of the brain on its symbol? It definitely does not resemble the earth element in classical astrology. Earth people have strong and active brains. The contents of the Earth sign are intellect, intelligence, strong analytical skills, mental powers, and bright new ideas. As a native of this sign, you like to be an eternal student. Your outlook on life is like a scientist, a philosopher, or both.
Another name for this sign is “Earthquake.” You tend to create earthquakes in the sense of the mental world, the world of ideas. These earthquakes become emotionally visible, especially when people around you do not understand you. But the meaning of the word is not limited to a superficial level. In fact, you are here to bring these new ideas for the collective consciousness to be ready and evolve towards a new level [...]
Deep down, you like to be a pioneer for a change! You bring the future thinking into today’s world through your “Earthquakes.” These movements of mental tectonic planes will not always be smooth, and you are prone to conflict in your relationships. Suppose your mental energy is not transmitted to other like-minded people over a long period. In that case, you might find yourself in loneliness and despair. So you must find such people who are in similar frequency with you and hold on to those friendships. At the end of the day, you will find that there are not so many of them [...]
You may be an inspiring philosopher and a visionary, a debater, or someone with a confused mind. Brand new ideas from your brilliant brain would benefit the world or become another false dream. You have the potential to go in either direction. What is decisive is how you are going to deal with yourself. Be mindful. You must learn how to calm down and balance your excessive mental activity to avoid self-harming earthquakes. In other words, you need to “ground” your mental energy. Maybe this is the real meaning behind the name of this sign. Come to Earth!
I highly recommend methods like journaling or note-taking. These will help you to empty your brain and unload your excessive ideas. Why not create something actually by writing? Write a blog or a first draft of a book. Worst case scenario; get a giant whiteboard in your house and write everything on it [...]
You prefer to be a calm Earth in your relationships. You tend to be loyal and compromising, and you have good manners in a marriage situation.
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Challenge: Carrying out your own life in accordance with a plan.
Remedy: Becoming more flexible and patient.
Appropriate professions: artist, doctor, spiritual guide, mathematician.
Signs you get along with: Earth, Road, Wind and Deer
Signs that contribute to your growth: Earth, Cane, Crocodile, Serpent and Water
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Mayan Zodiac Signs Explained
The Mayan zodiac is based on 20 day signs that rotate daily within the Tzolk’in calendar. Your birth date determines your Mayan zodiac sign, also known as your Day Sign, which reflects your core personality traits and dominant characteristics.
In Mayan astrology, your Day Sign is part of a larger system called the Mayan Tree of Life. It includes nine signs arranged in three columns, each representing a different area of your life.
The central column forms your core identity, guiding your path and personal development. The female column reflects your private life, emotional world, and relationships. The male column influences your career, social role, and how you interact with the outside world.
As you move through life stages like youth, adulthood, and maturity, different signs become more dominant. This creates a dynamic system where your Mayan calendar zodiac profile evolves over time.
In addition to your Day Sign, your Mayan astrology sign includes a Galactic Tone and a Trecena, which add deeper layers of meaning to your reading.
To understand your full Mayan astrology profile, you can get your detailed report covering all nine signs in your Mayan Tree of Life.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Mayan zodiac sign?
A Mayan zodiac sign, or Day Sign, is the primary energy present on the day you were born. The Maya call these signs Nawales, and there are twenty of them in the sacred Tzolk’in calendar. It is the resonance you came in with, so it points to your character and your life purpose.
How is a Mayan astrology sign calculated from birth date?
Your Mayan astrology sign is calculated using your birth date and the 260-day Tzolk’in calendar. It reveals your Day Sign, Galactic Tone, and Trecena instantly.
What is the Tzolk’in calendar?
The Tzolk’in is the 260-day sacred calendar of the Maya, and it never ends. It comes from 20 day signs combined with 13 tones, which makes 260 unique day-energies, and that combination defines your Mayan sign. It has no astronomical basis. The Maya revealed it through shamanic trance rather than by watching the sky, so it tracks spiritual time, not the movement of the planets.
What is the Mayan Tree of Life?
The Mayan Tree of Life is your personal chart, built on the principle as above and so below. Your Day Sign sits at the center, with a day sign in each of the four directions around it: your karmic past behind you, your future ahead, your masculine power on one side and your feminine power on the other. That center and its four directions make five signs, and the complete Tree of Life opens into nine. To understand your full Mayan astrology profile, you can get a detailed report covering all nine signs in your Mayan Tree of Life.
How accurate is the calculator?
It uses the traditional Tzolkin math that Maya day keepers follow, so the Day Sign and Tone are correct. The readings are an interpretation, meant for reflection rather than fortune telling.
Do I need my birth time?
No. Your Day Sign comes from the date alone, so month, day, and year are all you need.
Can I look up other people?
Yes, as many as you like, free and with no sign-up. It works for partners, family, and friends.
What is a Galactic Tone?
A Galactic Tone is a number from 1 to 13 that pairs with your Day Sign. The Maya saw these like musical tones, each with its own vibration, and they held 13 as the sacred number of the divine plan. If the Day Sign is the instrument, the Tone is how it is played, and a higher tone means a stronger charge, so 13 Jaguar is the most powerful Jaguar there is.