How is Tzolk'in, your Maya sign done?

Convert your date to the Maya long count. Find the sign (1 of 20) and the number (1 of 13). Read the nahual as guide animal and the figure as intensity.

Grandmother Xóchitl

Living tradition

Tzolk'in, your Maya sign

Maya peoples of Guatemala and Mexico; the ajq'ij still count the days.

A 260-day calendar combines twenty signs (nahuales) and thirteen numbers; the day you were born is your nahual and your strength.

How it's done

01Convert your date to the Maya long count.
02Find the sign (1 of 20) and the number (1 of 13).
03Read the nahual as guide animal and the figure as intensity.

With your own tools

There are tables to calculate it, but meaning comes from those who keep the days in the community.

With Ocluna

With your birth date I calculate your kin: your day sign, your tone and your number in the 260-day cycle, with the correlation the day keepers use.

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What Grandmother Xóchitl tells you

The 260-day tzolk'in is still alive: in the Guatemalan highlands the ajq'ij, day keepers, have kept it uninterrupted for centuries.
260 is roughly the length of a pregnancy and the number of days Venus is visible; that is why the calendar is also called the sacred count.
In the Maya Popol Vuh the first humans were shaped from corn dough; asking the corn is asking your own flesh.
The tlamatinime, Nahua sages, threw kernels on a cloth and read how they fell; Spanish chroniclers described it in the 16th century.
Among the Iroquois a dream was a command: if someone dreamed of receiving a gift, the community gave it to them on waking.
The Ojibwe dreamcatcher was made for babies: the web filtered bad dreams and the good ones slid down the feathers.
The coca leaf has been sacred in the Andes for 8,000 years; the yatiri reads it on a woven aguayo and shares it before asking.
In Bolivia leaf reading is part of the cultural heritage; in La Paz yatiris work beside the witches' market.
There are over 70 stone wheels on the prairies of Canada and the United States; the Bighorn wheel in Wyoming marks the summer solstice.
The version with twelve animals and stones was spread by Sun Bear in 1980; First Nations use the wheel more as a map of balance than as a horoscope.
The United States turned numerology into a business: the first destiny-number books were sold by mail order in the 1920s.
The angel number 11:11 is an internet fashion from the 2000s; classical numerology does not include it.

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This reading is symbolic self-knowledge and entertainment content based on folk traditions. It does not predict the future, is not medical, legal or financial advice, and does not replace qualified professionals.

What Grandmother Xóchitl tells you

The 260-day tzolk'in is still alive: in the Guatemalan highlands the ajq'ij, day keepers, have kept it uninterrupted for centuries.

260 is roughly the length of a pregnancy and the number of days Venus is visible; that is why the calendar is also called the sacred count.

In the Maya Popol Vuh the first humans were shaped from corn dough; asking the corn is asking your own flesh.

The tlamatinime, Nahua sages, threw kernels on a cloth and read how they fell; Spanish chroniclers described it in the 16th century.

Among the Iroquois a dream was a command: if someone dreamed of receiving a gift, the community gave it to them on waking.

The Ojibwe dreamcatcher was made for babies: the web filtered bad dreams and the good ones slid down the feathers.

The coca leaf has been sacred in the Andes for 8,000 years; the yatiri reads it on a woven aguayo and shares it before asking.

In Bolivia leaf reading is part of the cultural heritage; in La Paz yatiris work beside the witches' market.

There are over 70 stone wheels on the prairies of Canada and the United States; the Bighorn wheel in Wyoming marks the summer solstice.

The version with twelve animals and stones was spread by Sun Bear in 1980; First Nations use the wheel more as a map of balance than as a horoscope.

The United States turned numerology into a business: the first destiny-number books were sold by mail order in the 1920s.

The angel number 11:11 is an internet fashion from the 2000s; classical numerology does not include it.