Mayan day – 12 Chicchan (Snake)

KEYWORDS:
Body Wisdom – Powerful Will – Shedding Skin – Changing Habits – Transformation

QUALITIES:
Strong will and emotions. 
Intent on realizing your goals.
Capable of operating under very stressful conditions.
Inner conflicts.  Spiritual desires vs. material desires.
Body wisdom.  Listen to your body’s signals. 
Adaptations will need to be made to accommodate changes. 

CHALLENGES: 
Suppressing and ignoring your body’s messages.
Explosive temper.  Upheavals.
Living your life on “automatic pilot.”
Over-scheduling the day, cramming in too much experience.
Not taking the proper steps, rushing to completion.
Making choices based on familiarity and security rather than on intuitive wisdom.
Indulging in excesses in the areas of food, sex, or work.
Shed old ideas and belief systems that no longer serve you.

Mayan day – 2 Men (Eagle)

KEYWORDS:
Higher vision – Expanded perspective – Global consciousness – Compassionate service

QUALITIES:
Extremely high aspirations. 
Focused on achieving your most cherished goals.
Clarity, achievement.  Keen intelligence.
Very detail-oriented, striving for perfection.
Tendency to create challenging situations. 
Messages in dreams. 

CHALLENGES:
Feeling discouraged and overwhelmed by your current state of affairs.
Escapist.  Denying the reality of your situation.
Rash decisions and actions. 
Giving in to indulgences and obsessions.
Taking on too much.  Addiction to perfection.
Being obsessed with service to others. 
Hopelessness, loss of joy, futility, despair.

Mayan day – 3 Caban (Earth)

KEYWORDS:
Earth Force – Creativity surges – Overzealous – Need for grounding

QUALITIES:
Rapid transfer of information.
Synchronistic events.  Unusual coincidences.
Synergistic meetings of people. 
Intense mental activity.  Rationalizing.
Inability to accept your circumstances.
Wanting to make a radical change. 

CHALLENGES:
Overzealous.  Rationalizing.  Jumping to conclusions.   
Pushing the limits.  Violent reactions. 
Mind-body disconnection.  Denial.
Difficulty being in the present moment.
Making shopping lists, living in the past and the future.
Need to be more patient and flexible. 
Observe and digest the data without drawing conclusions.

Mayan day – 13 Ik (Wind)

QUALITIES:
Wind – Breath of Spirit – Inspiration – Divine Communication – Changeability

Communications are all important now.  
Send communications of all kinds, verbal and written.   
Be spontaneous and adaptable. 
Act on inspiration as it comes to you. 
Need to communicate accurately and effectively.

CHALLENGES:
Fickle, inconsistent, scattered.  
Moving from place to place, and from idea to idea, like the wind.
Being indecisive or non-committal.
Fears about responsibility and obligations.
Miscommunication, disagreements and a need for compromise.
Anger and defensiveness.   You or others may feel superior or condescending.

Mayan day – 4 Imix (Crocodile)

QUALITIES:
New beginnings – Energetic – Creative – Protective – Dominating – Sensitive

Enhanced creativity and inspiration.
An intense need to birth new projects and nurture them.
Starting new projects even when the current one is not yet finished.
Tendency to nurture others in a parental way, expecting the same treatment in return.  
Lying still for long periods of time, and then bursting into activity.
Biding your time.  Controlling a situation. 
Heightened reactivity to any changes taking place around you, frequently rushing in to “keep the dam from breaking.”

CHALLENGES:
Overprotective, dominating, territorial. 
Being overly attached to being a caretaker.
Making mountains out of molehills.
Feeling unsupported in life.  Struggle for security.  Lack of trust.
Oversupporting others, giving too much, abandoning your own needs for others.
Caught in the struggle created by expectations.
Critical and fussy.  Extremely touchy and sensitive. 
Difficulty taking criticism, reacting defensively when corrected.
Expecting others to intuitively know your feelings; you are responsible for communicating them.
Neediness and co-dependency.  Look at your own issues of basic security, self-worth, and the need for outside validation.

Mayan day – 2 Cauac (Storm)

QUALITIES:
Inner storm - Crisis point - Illness – Breakdown – Healing – Transformation

Intensity of concern about your health.
A crisis point.  Emotional storm.
Separation between mind and body is intensified.
Clearing old patterns that are not working anymore.
The need for healing and purification.
Your feelings are magnified so you will effect a transformation. 

CHALlENGES:
Feeling overwhelmed. 
Feeling the need to “hurry” to “get there.”
Denials and addictions.  Desire to escape.
Unconsciously trying to nurture yourself through food or drink.
Greed and selfishness, thinking that if “one is good, three must be better.”

Mayan day – 13 Caban (Earthquake)

QUALITIES:
Earth Force – Creativity surges – Overzealous – Need for grounding

Rapid transfer of information.
Synchronistic events.  Unusual coincidences.
Synergistic meetings of people. 
Intense mental activity.  Rationalizing.
Inability to accept your circumstances.
Wanting to make a radical change. 

CHALLENGES:
Overzealous.  Rationalizing.  Jumping to conclusions.   
Pushing the limits.  Violent reactions. 
Mind-body disconnection.  Denial.
Difficulty being in the present moment.
Making shopping lists, living in the past and the future.
Need to be more patient and flexible. 
Observe and digest the data without drawing conclusions.

Mayan day – 11 Men (Eagle)

QUALITIES:
Higher vision – Expanded perspective – Global consciousness – Compassionate service

Clarity, achievement.  Keen intelligence.
Extremely high aspirations. 
Focused on achieving your most cherished goals.
Very detail-oriented, striving for perfection.
Tendency to create challenging situations. 
Messages in dreams. 

CHALLENGES:
Feeling discouraged and overwhelmed by your current state of affairs.
Escapist.  Denying the reality of your situation.
Rash decisions and actions. 
Giving in to indulgences and obsessions.
Taking on too much.  Addiction to perfection.
Being obsessed with service to others. 
Hopelessness, loss of joy, futility, despair.

Mayan day – 10 Ix (Jaguar)

QUALITIES:
Ego - Integrity – Willfulness – Secrecy – Strategy -  Shadow self – Spiritual insights

Feelings of competition.  The desire for power and control.
Controlling information.
Communications may be aggressive, but indirect, and even passive-aggressive.
Need for approval, recognition or status.
Quick decisions are required testing our ability to stay in integrity.
Good day for introspection, planning, investigation, and strategy. 

CHALLENGES:
Ego, lack of integrity.
Willfullness.  Reckless and prideful behaviors.
Acting from fears and insecurities, perhaps from deep wounds of pain, anger or betrayal.
Giving your power away by looking for approval outside yourself.
Shirking responsibilities or taking on too many.
Learn to commit to a relationship or project, but don’t be taken over by it either.

Mayan day – 8 Eb (Road/Human)

QUALITIES:
False bravado – Self interest vs. Self-sacrifice -Issues of abundance – A Quickening

Sense of lack and insufficiency.
Busyness.  Ambitious and hard-working. 
Making compromises to please others.
Resentment.  Holding in of negative emotions.   
Using hard work to constructively ventilate those feelings.
Self-sacrificing in order to keep the peace.

CHALLENGES:
False bravado.  Others’ opinions matter too much. 
Taking out your suppressed anger in busywork.
Trying to figure it all out.  Difficulty expressing feelings.
Overusing the mind.  Over-intellectualizing.  Overvaluing the intellect.
Lack of self-nurturance. 
Belief code of lack, unworthinesss and ability to receive.
This holding in of negative emotions and unexpressed resentment can lead to chronic illness and self-inflicted wounds.