Most jade sold as Mayan is not jade at all. Where real Mesoamerican jadeite comes from, how to spot fakes and treatments, and how to buy a piece worth wearing.

Every few weeks someone writes to me with the same question, usually late at night, usually after a video or a headline set something off. When is the world going to end? Behind that question there is almost always a second one, quieter and more honest. Am I safe? Is there still time for the … Read more

In the Mayan calendar there is one sign that people used to step back from. When someone was born on the Serpent, the old ones would notice it right away. The strong body, the way the person filled a room, and most of all those intense eyes. Some Maya even said they were a little … Read more

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