Let me start where everyone’s mind goes first. When you learn that you were born on the Death day, which the Maya call Cimi in Yucatan and Kame in K’iche’, it is normal to feel a small jolt. I know the name sounds a little bit scary. So let me ease you straight away. For … Read more

Hello everyone. Today I want to sit with one of the warmest signs in the whole Tzolkin, the Dog. In the Mayan calendar this sign is called Oc in Yucatec and Tz’i in K’iche’, and if you were born on a Dog day, you already know something the rest of us have to learn slowly. … Read more

Most people who find Mayan astrology stop at the first door. They calculate their day sign, read a paragraph, nod, and move on. I understand the habit. Western astrology trained all of us to think in single signs. But the Maya never read a person that way. In the authentic tradition, your day sign sits … Read more

Carl Sagan once tried to make time make sense. He took the whole history of the universe, all 13.8 billion years of it, and squeezed it into a single calendar year. On that Cosmic Calendar the Big Bang falls on January 1st, the dinosaurs arrive on Christmas Eve, and every human being who ever lived … Read more

When people picture the Maya, they picture pyramids. Towering stone steps rising out of the jungle, cut so precisely they still stand a thousand years later. Most visitors walk up and take a photo and walk back down, and that is a perfectly good way to spend an afternoon. But a pyramid like El Castillo … Read more

When most people hear the words “Mayan pictographs,” they picture something carved into stone. Beautiful, yes, but dead. A puzzle for archaeologists to decode with brushes and lamps. I understand why. For a long time that is exactly how the West treated these symbols. But the more time you spend with them, the more you … Read more

Whenever people talk about “the mysteries of the Mayan calendar,” their minds usually jump straight to one thing: the end of the world. A stone wheel, a countdown, December 2012, and a great deal of noise. I understand why. It made for a good story. But after living with this system for more than fifteen … Read more