Category Archives: Ch’umil’al (20 Day Signs)

Meanings of the twenty Nawales (day signs) of Mayan Cholq’ij (Tzolkin) Calendar

TOJ

19._Toj_YamaniK_PabloSIGNIFICANCE OF GLYPH
The glyph represents a wheel with its axle. It also represents grandfather sun with his energy and the circle symbolizes the law of cause and effect.

THE DAY
Signifies Tojil; the payment; the offering or penalty; it is the fire of the spirit Ajaw (Creator); heart of the heaven, heart of the earth; it is the rain drop; It is the beginning of communication with higher life, nature and the cosmos; it is the balance of justice and love; it is the beginning of communication of the spiritual life; the reunion of people and the sign of the divine power. It is a good day to ask to shed light on occult things; to understand the law of cause and effect; we give payments to worship the sun; to ask for our lives; to calm the instability; to ask that light may reach all of us; so that the warriors may have the force; to do away with torment and suffering; so that we may not have droughts for our crops; to do away with violent accidents; to do away with bad death; to do away with anticipated death; so that we may have the force. It is a day indicated to offer blood to the Tojil; balance and justice, life and hope; day to give Xukulem (Mayan ceremony to be in peace with the Ajaw).

THIS DAY IS GOOD FOR
To pay for all that we have received in life – positive or negative; to pay for something that we need which we haven’t received; to do away with bad accumulations; to forgive and be forgiven; to ask for energy; to ask for changes in our destiny; to do away with any illness or problem that we may have.

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Q’ANIL

18._Q'anil_YamaniK_PabloSIGNIFICANCE OF GLYPH
The glyph represents a perforation upon the earth with the Tixjob, that is used to separate the earth to deposit the seeds and the four seeds that represents the four seeds that represents the four colors of corn and the four races of humanity: red, black, white, yellow.

THE DAY
Q’anil signifies germ; seed; life and creation. Creation of the universe, especially life and Mother Nature. It’s a day to ask for life; the germination of the sacred Maize and everything else that Mother Nature produces. In this sign, the four cardinal points are represented and procreation. Day of human realization and knowledge; symbolizes the four colors of maize existent in Meso-America (red, black, yellow, white). It is also a good day to ask for all things that are initiated so that they are good and strong like work, construction, travels, etc. We also ask to do away with shyness; so that our problems may come to light; so that we may have good children; to do away with arrogance and slander; to do away with plagues on our crops; to do away with talkers and liars; to uncover occult enemies; to clear up the skies; to do away with black magic; and to do away with impotence and frigidness. The day 8 Q’anil is good to plant the beginning of healing, for both and addict or an ill/ sick person, and to give thanks. The day of the pregnant women; to revive sterile earth; fertility of human beings, plants and animals. A good day to ask for what you want: business, crops, travels, love, etc.

THIS DAY IS GOOD FOR
To separate the good things from the bad; to plant a project; for a person that is having trouble having babies to get pregnant; so that there may be an abundance of everything; for the development of the children; to have a strong growth in life; to change professions; to initiate a relationship; to do away with shyness so that we may not take other people’s problems; to start any treatment; to do away with plagues on plants; to do away with occult enemies.

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KIEJ

17._Kiej_YamaniK_Pablo 001SIGNIFICANCE OF GLYPH
The glyph represents a closed hand with opposing fingers; closing off a circuit of energies that charges the four cardinal points which are represented by the four fingers on the right and charged by the opposing finger.

THE DAY
Signifies the deer and the horse; it is the four pillars that sustain the sky and the earth; the force and the powers that charge the destiny of humanity; realization of the physical existence; the food; the power of complementation; the wind that passes; the guardian of the forests. It is a good day to be thankful for life and the process of the gaining power for an Ajq’ij (spiritual guide); grateful for the elements: sun, earth, air, water, life. Signifies the four B’alaneb’ and their respective partners; the four cardinal directions and the four paths. It is a good day to ask for the force and the strength; to ask for positive things; so that we may be in balance with life; so that we may be liberated from talkers and enemies; to help us in our bidding; to dominate the enemy; so that our destiny may be protected; so that is may give us physical and mental agility; to do away with arrogance; to destroy the negative in life and to do away with liars on earth.

THIS DAY IS GOOD FOR
To ask for strength and power; so that we may have good relationship with the four elements; to ask for mother earth; to ask that we may not be traitors; to do away with lies; to ask for strength in a job; to give us clarity in life; to ask fro strength; to not be weak; to not be manipulated; so that it may give us equilibrium; to be more generous; to have more love; to free us from gossip; so that we may have good contracts; to have physical agility and to develop in the arts.

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KAME

14._KEME_YamaniK_PabloSIGNIFICANCE OF GLYPH
The glyph signifies death and it is represented by the closed eyes and the closed mouth with the teeth hanging out. The vertical line represents the cycles of re-incarnation.

THE DAY
This is a special day to have contact with the ancestors; to do away with mortal illnesses; accidents; to ask for protection for travels; to find access to the higher knowledge. On this day, there is communication with the higher beings and there is access to dimensional portals. It is also used to seek advice from the Nawales; so that no harm may come to the community, vision throughout the stones; to give us capacity and tranquility; so that the plants may sprout; so that our instincts may increase; so that we may have internal strength; so that we may be liberated from vices; to finish with bad businesses; to end suffering; to harmonize negative energies; to cut hate, grudges and lower passions. Symbolizes the death; the change in the spiritual state; the beginning the advice; the diviner; the fortune; the instinct; the visionaries; the end; the falling; the sprouting or rebirth.

THIS DAY IS GOOD FOR
So that life may support us; to transmute the cycles of life; to do away with bad death and big accidents; to ask for the ancestral wisdom; to ask for good signs; to ask for good advisors and spiritual guides; to end relationships that aren’t beneficial to us; so that we may have nocturnal vision; to ask for protection in the community; to not have sudden death so we can finish our purpose in life; to ask that there may be no wars; to liberate us from any vices; to finish bad businesses.

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KAN

14._KAN_YamaniK_PabloSIGNIFICANCE OF GLYPH
The glyph signifies the serpent; the drawing on the upper left is what is on the back of the serpent as well as the dots. This is represented in Kukul’Kaan or Qukumatz’.

THE DAY
This is a special day to increase the physical force; to build the internal fire and spiritual evolution; for the return of the lost and forgotten; for the return of a loved one; for the reconciliation of the couples; to ask for the couples; for the sexual balance; the justice; the truth; the intelligence and the peace. This day is also good to ask for the equilibrium in life; so that we may be free of anger; to be grateful of truth and justice; to heal illness of the nervous system; to do away with economic problems; to ask for the integrity of the community; to ask for the wisdom of all spiritual students; and to ask for the continuation of the tradition and the Mayan ceremony. It is the energy of the knowledge transmuted into wisdom; it is the strength; it is the serpent power; the space energy; the wisdom of the elders; it is the sexual magic. It is the DNA; the orbits of the planets; and it is the spiral of evolution.

THIS DAY IS GOOD FOR
To ask for the energy; to ask that the knowledge may transmute to wisdom; fortitude; for serenity; patience; so that the ancestral knowledge may return; to ask for the couples; so that we may have an equilibrium in life; to do away with anger; so that truth may come to light; to do away with illnesses of the nerves and of the vertebrae of the spinal column.

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K’AT

K'atSIGNIFICANCE OF GLYPH
They glyph signifies the energy of gravity; the force that acts over the earth. Represented by the sphere; trapped by the lower groove which divides the base of the two poles or energies of the two magnets. On the other hand; it represents the net that can serve for fishing or to carry the harvest.

THE DAY
This is a good day to ask that we may not fall into fanaticism; the best day to untie knots; to ask for the abundance; for the fecundity of the woman; to do away with bad energies or influences; to do away with knots that hold us to vices; to fix emotional and love problems. It is also a good day to ask for the development of the children; so that the crops may grow; so that we may be liberated of jails: spiritual or material; so that the investigators of the sacred science may grow; so that the sacred knowledge may not be lost; so that the community may grow; for the liberation of the imprisoned; so that we may be liberated of traps and shackles.

THIS DAY IS GOOD FOR
To do away with knots or entanglements; to finish problems; to not fall into fanaticism; to ask that the children may develop; to ask that our powers may develop; for the fecundity of the women; to ask that we may never lack what we need in life; so that we may never go to jail; to discover what it is that we need; to trap occult enemies; to solve family problems; so business may prosper; to capture the superior knowledge.

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AQ’AB’AL

Aq'ab'alSIGNIFICANCE OF GLYPH
The glyph represents the owl. It signifies the light and the obscurity that are simultaneously by the hooks. The obscure side represents the shadow, and the lines that come from the front towards the bottom represent the light unveiling the materialism over the earth.

THE DAY
This is a day to ask for clarity in our paths; new opportunities; to renew our lives; to have clarity; to bring to light the occult things; and to clear out the mysteries. This is a good day to ask for stability; to find a better job or business; to ask for clarity in our existence; to ask the creator to have days of peace and happiness for the community; so that we may have employment; so that light may be shone upon our path; to remove the obscurity in our minds; to give strength to the woman to procreate; so that there may be justice upon us; signifies the sunrise and the sunset; the light and the obscurity; the rising and the falling of the sun. To do away with people that have double intentions.

THIS DAY IS GOOD FOR
To ask for opportunities in life; of employment; change of residence; of country; to change our look if things aren’t going well for us; for a new dawn upon humanity; to ask for our existence; for the renovation; to calm the instability; to do away with obsessions; to do away with people that have bad intentions; so that we may have good thoughts; so that there may be justice.

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IQ’

Iq'SIGNIFICANCE OF GLYPH
The glyph signifies a window which was used in the times of the classic Maya, by our ancestors, in which wind came through.

THE DAY
This is a good day renovation; to ask for the good winds to come and nourish our minds and to purify us; that the winds may take all suffering and illnesses of our loved ones. It is also a good day to cure people that have psychological problems; to do away with passion; with hate and depression. This day is good to reinforce our prayers to the Great Spirit and also to develop the power of our mind. It is also utilized to ask for the purity of our soul; to cure the illnesses of our lungs so that we may maintain our breath and courage. To ask the Nawales of the air that the people may not contaminate anymore; to ask that the prayers in our ceremonies may rise to the heavens; to ask the thunder to communicate humans with divination so that the souls may obtain peace; to ask that the illness may be taken away; and to do away with suffering. This sign is the encourager of energy; it is the representation of the subtle; it is the purity, the crystalline; it gives visions; it brings beauty and harmony. It is the element that governs the ideas; the space that exists between the sky and the earth; it also represents the interior space.

THIS DAY IS GOOD FOR
To ask for the spiritual force; to increase in the spiritual universe; to ask for the purity of the soul; to augment the intellect, the memory; to cure illnesses of the lungs; so that we may keep our decisions; to purify the ambience; to ask for no contamination; so that more trees may grow; that our thoughts may rise to the heavens; so that the winds may purify us, the body the mind and that it may nourish our spirit.

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IMOX

ImoxSIGNIFICANCE OF GLYPH
The glyph signifies a glass of water. The top part is the mouth; the vertical lines represent the roundness. It also represents the maternal breasts, ready to provide milk to the child. It also represents a hand stretched downward.

THE DAY
This day is good to increase the internal powers. It is a good day to fortify the spirit. It is a good day to ask for rain; for the purification of the rivers, lakes and oceans. This day is utilized to capture the messages of the divine and of nature; to ask for the return of the couple; to be able to receive the messages through the dreams; to ask for the good crops; to help return somebody that is far away from their land. This is a day to eliminate mental problems; to ask for what nourishes us; to ask for humanity; and to help cure the craziness in the family. It also represents “craziness”, the one that breaks stability. It is an energy that brings strange things and it is bound with the comets which are the seeds that germinate life in space. It also governs the cohabitants with the beings that live in the water and has communication with these beings, especially dolphins, whales and crocodiles.

THIS DAY IS GOOD FOR
To calm the mind; the bad thoughts; to control the arrogance; to do away with desperation; to calm the instability; to ask to do away with the craziness in people; so that the couple may return to the home that they abandoned; to develop the intuition, the vision, the messages in the dream, so that the mind may be more receptive; to ask for the return of those that are far from their home; to do away with any mental problems; to ask that we may never lack nourishment and so that the confrontations in the family may cease.

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AJPU

AjpuSIGNIFICANCE OF GLYPH
The glyph signifies the face of the hunter, with the beard and with the mouth rounded to indicate the shooting of the blowgun. The other side represents the blowgun itself.

THE DAY
This is a good day to obtain certainty, the security, to plan and to reach our goals. This is a day of renovation and to ask for the fecundity of the woman; to have emotional stability; and to increase the intellect. It is a day that gives the force, the valor and the energy to overcome all obstacles. It is the day to revive the very sick ones; for the protection of the agricultures; to be able to live in this world; to have the force to overcome all bad and all enemies; to not be ambushed by sadness; to decipher the future and the past and to ask that the fire of the Mayan ceremony may never go out. They are the great hunters, possessors of a great magic and fathers of the fine art. They are delicate and educators of this civilization.

THIS DAY IS GOOD FOR
To ask for the knowledge and the wisdom; a good day to focus and analyze life; to ask for health to the very sick ones; a day of their renovation; to ask security for the woman; ask for the certainty in our decisions; to ask for the strength to overcome the challenges that destiny holds for us. To be good planners; to ask for the strength to overcome the bad; to have the astuteness of the hunter; to overcome enemies that are presented to us; to overcome adversity; to have good eye sight and to fix illnesses of the eyes.

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