Cane

Ben (Yucatan) / Aj (Kiche)
Personality: Popular, knowledgeable, successful, and talented. A person who fights for principles. Responds to all challenges.

The Mayans define the Cane sign as the trunk of the Tree of Life. The Tree of Life is a central symbol in Mayan mythology and cosmology. Cane people stand firm and strong like a thousand years old trees. You have a strong character with unshakeable confidence. Which comes with the experience of knowing oneself. You own your personal power. Hardships of life make you stronger, and you grow thanks to them. All mistakes and defeats are simply lessons for you. While your outlook is tough, you have a healing, compassionate heart.

Your striking qualities are your strong principles, a desire for excellence, inner strength, logic, and leadership. Also, you are intelligent, brave, and productive. You are a pioneer who likes to take risks. You want to educate yourself in the best way possible, or you were blessed to have the means for it, thanks to your family.

You are the spiritual essence, protector, and guiding light of the home and family. Being courageous and selfless, you demonstrate a typical fatherly figure. With strong leadership qualities, you carry a mission to direct the community you live in in new directions. You may be an important figure in your community and a good parent. You wish to have many children. This role of being a parent also includes large families. Even if you may not have children, you tend to take on a parenthood role in your social circles.

As the trunk of a big tree is large and strong, it has a weak point. You most often lack flexibility with your views and attitudes towards people. Although you are armed with all these remarkable qualities, no fruits will be served if no one can reach your branches [...]

You can create problems at work and in marriage life. Your high expectations and wanting to be recognized all the time will usually be sources of conflict and disharmony. This attitude may break your relationships over time. You may not realize how you hurt other people by ignoring their fragilities when you go into a bossy mood. Remember, like an inflexible cane will break with the conflicting forces, you will. Maybe you do not feel so fragile [...]

Challenge: To overcome being stubborn, authoritarian, and bossy
Remedy: Learn about human nature.
Appropriate professions: artist, consultant, educator.

Signs you get along with: Cane, Knife, Night and Rabbit
Signs that contribute to your growth: Cane, Earth, Crocodile, Serpent, and Water

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 [...]

Dog

Oc (Yucatan) / Tz'i (Kiche)
Personality: Fair, intolerant of injustice. Detective, collaborative, consistent, loyal, and helpful.

You have many similarities with the animals that symbolize this sign, dogs. You are courageous, loyal, warm-hearted, intelligent, and brave. You are sensitive and know how to enjoy life. Being playful, just like the dogs, often helps you to have a good understanding of human nature. You are very creative with interest in music, drawing, and painting. You need much variety in life. Be aware of such aspects. Traveling is a favorite hobby of yours, and you make an excellent travel companion. When you lead a lifestyle that fulfills them, success and wealth will readily come to you.

One of the aspects of the Dog sign is discipline and justice. This aspect makes you somehow intolerant of unfairness in life. Just like a dog, you can smell and trace every action track. You have the desire to reveal the truth and bring justice in many situations. You are a natural detective! You are respected in your community because of your sense of justice and protective attitude. You can advance in society by becoming a lawyer, judge, or prosecutor [...]

Dog is also a sign of simple pleasures and unconditional love. Just as a dog chases its own tail, you know how to play and find joy. Like the dogs, you are always ready to give and receive love, primarily through touching. Early on in life, you discovered the healing power of touch. You can have a successful career as a massage therapist, bodyworker, somatic therapist, osteopath, or in any area directly connected with our physical bodies [...]

You like to live your relationships romantically and sensitively. Obviously, physical touch and sexuality are significant for you. You like the idea of having a family and kids [...]

On the negative side, a lack of emotional maturity might be your weakest point. This may lead you to indulge too much in the pleasures of life and be obsessed with luxury. If you develop an addiction to pleasures, take it as a warning. Ring the alarm bell and abort the mission until you find a balanced and healthy relationship with your treats. The best approach would be [...]

Challenge: Emotional maturity and authority issues related to father.
Remedy: Accepting leadership of self or others when needed.

Appropriate professions: mathematician, educator, doctor, lawyer, spiritual leader.

Signs you get along with: Dog, Eagle, Light and Serpent
Signs that contribute to your growth: Dog, Jaguar, Knife and Death