Category Archives: Daily Ch’umil

The Cholq’ij Calendar is a powerful tool for revealing natural cycles that relate to humans. By understanding the Nawal and number (energy) of each day, we are able to harmonize our lives and activities with the natural rhythm and order, advancing our personal and collective development. This tool requires more than an intellectual understanding; we realize it’s potential in our lives as we work with the energies on a daily basis.

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13 Aq’ab’al – Today’s Maya Day Sign (Ch’umil)

Nawal Aq'ab'alAq’ab’al represents the dusk and dawn; it is the first ray of light in the darkness, a renewing force. Number 13 symbolizes the magic of being able to change and create. The revitalizing strength of the energies of this day offer you the opportunity to break from your routine and breath new airs. This is the last day of the B’atz’ trecena (thirteen days), light a candle to thank B’atz’ for all the stories you have woven with its threads during this thirteen days.

During the Creation of the Universe 13 Aq’ab’al drank water, moistened the soil and modeled the body of the man.

12 Iq’ – Creation to Realization for Cholq’ij New Year

Nawal Iq'IQ’ is the wind; it is the power that this element brings. The wind is the element that nurtures, purifies, and gives strength to the mind and the thoughts. It is the one that increases our ability to direct the mental power. Within the chain of Creation of the twenty Ch’umilal, Iq’ allows us to transcend the limitations of the mind, to transmute our reality, which is a dimensional creation you can access. The work consist of selecting and focusing on your strength (the power consist in confidence, it is knowing that you can do something, not even thinking about it, just knowing it. When you rationalize or meditate on what you are able to do, you block yourself. It is simply to be determined, it’s saying, “I’m going to do something”, and then doing it.)  One can guide things, the problem is that we are too rational and we are led by the “cannots”. The work we have to do is to rebuild our reality. Enough with reason, materialism, the system, and the fear to be free. When we are immersed in the material and the mental we cannot perceive Creation, of which we are a part of and which we configure. The system is a coercion that keeps us hemmed, it is a plot that uses our energy and which doesn’t allow us to be free, and that is the struggle, to break the structures. If we become aware of this “miracle” it will reach a point in which we will be able to travel to higher tiers or levels outside of this we call reality, in the way we will connect to the Supra-World. Work with your breathing, with the search of the air and the wind; the wind of the East, West, North, and South, to purify yourself.

12 Iq’ – Today’s Maya Day Sign (Ch’umil)

Nawal Iq'Iq’ is the wind, the energy that governs ideas and change; it symbolizes renewal and purity, it is the purifier of the body, the mind, and the spirit. It is the divine breath that sustains existence and the energy of words and communication. Number 12 projects creativity and dreams; it represents the consciousness of being. The energies of this day bring creativity and life to your projects. During the Creation of the Universe 12 Iq’ created the wind. This is the reason why it is called spirit, because there is no death within it.

11 Imox – Creation to Realization for Cholq’ij New Year

Nawal ImoxIMOX The importance of this Ch’umil is that its energy brings the seed of the Ixim (maize). Imox is the anagram of Ixim. The Ixim was brought here from another dimension and from it the present humanity was shaped. This entails that in the concatenation of the energies of Creation, this Ch’umil becomes magical, it is the one that breaks the structures, the one that manifests the internal powers such as vision, intuition, dreams. Everything that Ch’umil Tz’ikin provides you, Imox develops. This energy is the one that connects our left side of the body. It is the energy of the left hand, which is the one that connects us to our magical side. This Ch’umil acquires much importance in these times of the Job Ajaw, the new cycle that brings the evolutionary changes and which is the key to the integration of all our powers. It is magic and knowledge fused. It is the new form of reality to which we entered in this new cycle. It is said that Imox is craziness, but this does not mean that one is mentally unbalanced. It is, rather, the strength that allows us to transgress reality and enter to the foundations of our inner knowledge, of our inner powers, of breaking the material structures to make everything become magical and energetic. The inner powers are the twenty senses: the five traditional senses plus intuition, vision, dreams, realization (in the sense of delineating reality), the power to move objects, and all the other senses we have, but which are dormant. It also gives us the power to transform ourselves into our animal of power, our correlative animal. this is called nawalism.

11 Imox – Today’s Maya Day Sign (Ch’umil)

Nawal ImoxImox is the subtle part of human beings; it is the unusual and the eccentric, the essence of our consciousness, the strength of our mind. It represents the Water element, thus, it is an auspicious day to ask for rain, for water, and for the fertility of nature. Number 11 symbolizes the act of dividing, sorting and sharing. During this day ask 11 Imox to help you focus on your positive thoughts and to develop your intuition.

During the Creation of the Universe the stones and the trees where created on a day 11 Imox, this was done within the Sun.

10 Ajpu – Creation to Realization for Cholq’ij New Year

Nawal AjpuAJPU is the Ch’umil that represents father Sun, the Heart of the Sky, the Creation energy which allows us to develop in every plane of existence. It causes cyclical changes. In the K’atun (a cycle of twenty years) it marks the energies by which humanity is governed, and it also affects the great cycles like the Baktun (5,200 years). Ajpu represents renovation, the new that comes with every dawn. It is also the old, the experiences we have lived, which are represented by the dusk, by the twilight.  It is the transition. The wise elders paid a lot of attention to the zero shadow or zenith sun (when the sun in located at the zenith and its light comes down vertically, producing no shadows). That is the mystery of the Ajpu, the secret is that zero point where nothing affects you, because nothing moves you. It is in Ajpu that we must connect, for it gives us clarity and strength, the energies that we need, mostly in these times in which the changes are demanding that certainty, clarity, and the determination of the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual energy that we need at this moment in which our purpose of life as integrated human beings is to access a new dimension. To remain trapped in the way of life that we currently have, is to be tied up to the limitation and lack of balance that we have caused. We have to take responsibility, remember that spirituality is a “conscious action”.

10 Ajpu – Today’s Maya Day Sign (Ch’umil)

Nawal AjpuAjpu represents the spiritual warrior and the hunter. It is the energy of Grandfather Sun. This day brings material and spiritual certainty; it helps us overcome the negative energies and gives us the certainty and acuity of the hunter. Number 10 represents creativity and flowing. Pay attention to the events that happen during this day, so you can recognize the right moment in which to make a move toward materializing your dreams.

During the Creation of the Universe on a day 10 Ajpu the bad men went to the Underworld.

9 Kawoq – Creation to Realization for Cholq’ij New Year

Nawal KawoqKAWOQ – In this sequence of the energies of Creation, this Ch’umil is the one that gives importance to coexistence. Since it represents the family, the community, humanity, we have to realize that the purpose of human beings is to fulfill their own experience, but this should be connected to the evolution of all, for we all are the manifestation of Mother Earth. By now, in this cycle that we are living, there should already be a human level expansion in relation to the cosmic. On December 21, 2012 we entered an era directed to ether, projected to the galactic relation. The glyph for Kawoq (the circles that look like some sort of grape cluster) represents a family, but it is a cosmic family, for everything comes from above to the last circle. Everything comes from the Cosmos to the Earth and from the Earth to the Cosmos. The obstacle we face as a humanity, which was foreseen by the elders, is the thoughtlessness and the influence of the media to which we are subject and which is inducing us to a confrontation that affects the family with a lack of respect, instability, and disorientation. If we extend this to humanity, we can see that nowadays we live in intolerance, racism, and classism. But let’s remember that this is part of the changes that come with this new cycle, and the old socio-economic systems bring this readjustment. Lets seek to join in.

9 Kawoq – Today’s Maya Day Sign (Ch’umil)

Nawal KawoqKawoq means the strength of unity; it represents the family, the community, the society, and the group. It is the energy of abundance, in both the material and the spiritual sense. Number 9 represents the emotional, the intuitive, and the creative. Light a candle to ask the Creator for His protection and blessings on your home, your family and your community. During the Creation of the Universe on a day 9 Kawoq the Underworld was tested for the first time.

8 Tijax – Creation to Realization for Cholq’ij New Year

Nawal TijaxTIJAX is the lightning; it is the obsidian knife. The wise grandfathers call it the double-edged blade. This Ch’umil has an important role, for it is the energy in this chain of evolution that breaks the shackles that trap us in each of the four planes of manifestation, beginning with our limitations. To break them we need to focus in our inner being to review and recognize who we are, what entraps us. We cannot lie to our own selves, for if we do, what level are we in? Tijax, then, has the purpose of breaking those structures, it helps us take away the fog that is blinding our vision; it tears the veil. Tijax is deeply related to the Rays of Creation in its physical-material manifestation. It is the one that breaks the bonds that tie us in the four planes. It is the one that takes away the illnesses, the one that heals us. In these times, Tijax frees us from the limitations of reason. This Ch’umil gives sense to freedom. It allows us to engage in a new dimension, where we can access the development of our dormant senses. Magic, which is the technique that allows us to use these energies, is under the auspices of Tijax. We are the ones that set the limits.