This day flows balanced. It is an excellent day to spend with the family or friends in the warmth of the home. Kawoq symbolizes the family, the group, the community; anything that can be grouped. Number 7 projects equilibrium and harmony.
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2 I’x – Today’s Maya Day Sign (Ch’umil)
The power of I’x mediates between the positive and the negative, the real and the unreal, the possible and the impossible. Number 2 stands for the choices you must make in life. Use the energies of this day to revert any negative situations and accomplish the impossible.
The Importance of Sacred Places
Throughout the history of human life on this planet, Sacred Places have been identified and revered for their spiritual, ecological and cultural importance. Our relationship to these places has nourished our evolution and been integral in shaping cosmological beliefs. As the movement into our modern civilization has brought us from the sacred to the profane, our relationship to these places has shifted from reverence of its living being towards commodification of its material resources. The world’s remaining Indigenous peoples have been bearing the weight for generations of resisting this endless tide of extractive impulses to both maintain the places and the sacred relationships to them that extend back through millenia.
Our efforts have brought us to this forefront many times, including the effort in Sarayaku, Ecuador to resist oil extraction and in Guatemala where access and protection to these sites are often under threat. The good news is, as Christopher McLeod points out in the article below, resistance to this exploitation is growing and we have an opportunity to turn back to those that have sustained the relationship to Sacred Places to re-shape the role that humans serve upon this earth, and in doing so, better realize our collective potential. This path forward requires supporting both the sacred places and the people that best protect and honor them, so that we may learn to reframe the way we “develop” with the earth, beginning with an honoring and recognition of our sacred relationships.
Why Sacred Places Should Matter, Even to Business Folks
8 Kej – Today’s Maya Day Sign (Ch’umil)
Kej is the energy that protects the natural world; it is the deer that stands firmly in its four legs, thus it represents balance. Number 8 is filled with physical energy and it is auspicious for men. Today stand firmly on the ground and allow its power to recharge you; raise your arms to the sky to absorb the cosmic energies.
4 Aq’ab’al – Today’s Maya Day Sign (Ch’umil)
Aq’ab’al symbolizes the dawn; it is the first rays of Sun that bring light, that bring a new day and a renewing energy. Number 4 represents balance and stability. Use the power of number 4 so that harmony and balance prevail in everything you do during this day. Aq’ab’al brings a renewing force that will regenerate you. Today great opportunities might come your way.
13 Aj – Today’s Maya Day Sign (Ch’umil)
Aj symbolizes the return to our home, to our place of origin, to the Tab’al or sacred Maya altar, to the place where higher energies converge and manifest. Number 13 contains strength and wisdom; it is a number that has gained the experience. This is a good day to nurture your body, to gather energy and regain you inner strength; a day to respect your body, which is the physical home and altar of your spirit, remember that your soul has chosen the perfect altar to fulfill its life purpose. This is the last day of the Imox trecena (thirteen days) thank this Ch’umil for the intuition it has granted you.
9 T’zi’ – Today’s Maya Day Sign (Ch’umil)
T’zi’ is the law, the sacred universal law, that can not be bought and can not be sold. Number 9 represents the emotional and the intuitive; it is love, compassion, and spirituality. Bring awareness today towards deepening your personal alignment to be in greater harmony with the spiritual law, that true justice may be realized in our communities and that those that write and enforce the laws of the land may be guided by the spiritual law. This is also a good day to ask for changes for those that are unjustly imprisoned and to conduct legal matters.
8 Toj – Today’s Maya Day Sign (Ch’umil)
Toj represents the law of cause and effect, it is the payments that are made for all that has been received. Number 8 represents the energies of the physical and material world. Light a red candle today for all that has been received into your life, for all that has and will support you in this material world. Give thanks and make payments for all that has been given from our mother earth, and balance may be restored for all that has been taken from her without being properly paid for.
7 Q’anil – Today’s Maya Day Sign (Ch’umil)
Q’anil represents the seed to be planted, the regeneration of life and creation. Number 7 signifies equilibrium and is a harmonizing force. Take advantage of today’s energy to cultivate an awareness within yourself of how to develop a harmonious energy that will radiate through your being. Listen for the signs that cross your path on this day that carry new ideas and teachings to help bring your life and your relationship with the world into greater balance.
1 Iq’ – Today’s Ch’umilal and Trecena Prayer
Iq’, the wind, is the element that governs ideas and change; it activates and renews our energy. Number 1 contains the strength and power of the beginning. Let the wind of 1 Iq’ remove the things that are holding you back, ask its energy to push you forward and to allow you to flow. This is the first day of the Iq’ trecena (thirteen days), during these days connect to the energy of Iq’ to dissipate through its fresh air all the negative energy that lies in your mind, ask it for its renewing energy that brings new ideas.
Prayer from Pedro Ixchop for Iq’
On this sacred Cholq’ij day of Iq’ I ask you Ajaw to grant me the breath of life, for you are the giver of the breath of life to all the creatures over the face of the Earth. You are the breath of the body and the soul, the breath of my hands and my ears, the breath of my wisdom, my senses and my calmness. You are the one who refreshens and calms the violence of my enemies, Ajaw Heart of the Sky and Heart of Mother Earth, I ask you that all the bad in me will be vanished by your divine power, that all the pain that lies inside me will be dispelled, calmed, removed, or cut off. I ask that I won’t drown in the problems I have, that you will grant me the power of your divine breathing, Ajaw B’itol Tz’aqol. Maltiox, maltiox, maltiox, and four times maltiox.
Ajaw Great Father or Supreme Being
Tz’aqol and B’itol Creator and Maker
Maltiox Thank you