Mayan Daily Insights: Our Qualities, Virtues, and Values

Many people ask, “How do I live life feeling fulfilled?” Those who ask this question often feel as though something is missing, not realizing that they are already half way to having more than they had before. Today in the Mayan Tzolkin calendar we will explore the virtues behind the combination of tone and glyph [...]

Over the last several days we have talked of the light so much, how it is reflected in the raindrops, and permeates the world without even trying. One example of the ease in which the light touches our world came yesterday with the full moon, bringing together the yin and the yang as sun and [...]

This 13 day period, beginning two days ago with 1 Ahau, is certainly shaping up to be an insightful time, at least for this writer. Much of this cycle has been focused on the big and the little, and our acts to quantify and compare so that we can build our own perceptions.  This is [...]

There is certainly appeal to being able to hold something in our hand and have that tangible proof that it is real. Life is not all tangible though, even if we try to see it in that way.  There is a transparency to our world, much more than we would ever realize. Our moments flow [...]

It seems trivial, doesn’t it, that silly little smile. But without it how much of the day goes by unnoticed? How much of our life goes by without recognition of our heart-felt experience?

The wind, known in the Mayan calendar as Ik, is like a collective consciousness. The only time we ever acknowledge it is when we feel its force, and even then it is usually just that minute part of the wind that touches our skin.

It is our choice, our right, to bring forward what is of our choosing, despite the training given to us in our early years. We need only pay for our mistakes once, not with compounded interest.

Monday, March 29, 2010 is 7 Ik, the Wind in the Mayan Tzolkin Calendar. Today we have the Worm Moon, the full moon that comes about in this early spring.

I may have already said it all yesterday, talking of the journey in the waters of life.  We rise above and take that breath, or we are the breath and simply become more of ourselves. Tuesday, March 9, 2010 is 13 Ik the Wind in the Mayan Tzolkin Calendar.  Ik is the symbol of the [...]

The symbol of Ik is a sign of life, like the first breath, the presence of spirit in the worldly form. At this point we are not even talking about awakening, or any realizations, just being.