All Posts

Jaguar - Integrity & Impeccability Since the death of Sky God, the god-like being who had come from the stars and led the Maya to prosperity and a golden era of spiritual understanding, his teachings of love, integrity, impeccability, and the power of a compassionate heart had been perverted. The distortion of his Jaguar teachings had degenerated to where the priests were sacrificing human beings, foolishly cutting out the victims' hearts to reclaim the power of the golden da

Associated with powerful psychic forces, Imix, or Imox in K’iche’ Maya, represents what is often called the “left side of reality” - those other dimensions, worlds, levels of existence that are unusual, eccentric, or in general deemed outside of what is “normal”. Accordingly, Imix symbolizes not only the receptivity to communication with or messages from these other realities and the ability to see into other worlds, but also madness, insanity, mental disorder, nervousness, u

Mother of Nature talks with her kin, Stone Person, Wild Flower, and Wolf are her friend. Weaving the rhythms of the seasons, she rides the Winds of Change, opening her heart with gladness, a shelter from hunger and pain. Guardian of the needs of the Earth, making relatives great and small, Mother, I see you in the dewdrop, I hear you in the Eagle's call. Talks With Relations is the Clan Mother of the first moon cycle and is the Keeper of learning the truth . This Cycle of Tru

"Spiritual Guidance" what do these words mean to you? Would it surprise you if I said that "Spiritual Guidance" means many things and that what it means to me may not be what it means to you? Let me explain. Since about 2014 I started exploring what my life would look like if I followed the guidance of my higher self. Let me tell you, it's not at all what I thought. Like others I thought that if you are following the guidance of your higher self, or my spirit guides that noth

A lush and fertile sign, Lamat, or Q'anil in K'iche' Maya, brims with the energy of positive growth and abundance. Lamat carries the codes for all life, nourishes perpetual regeneration, and represents the seed, corn, pride, harvest, and food. A harmonious and cyclical day, it also symbolizes love, understanding, and realization, and embodies ancestral knowledge, universal memory and genetic wisdom. Lamat is the nagual of all kinds of animal and plant seeds, and the day sign

Rabbit - Fear A long time ago - no one really knows how long ago it was - Rabbit was a brave and fearless warrior. Rabbit was befriended by Eye Walker, a witch. The witch and Rabbit spent much time together sharing and talking. The two were very close. One day Eye Walker and Rabbit were walking along and they sat down on the trail to rest. Rabbit said, "I'm thirsty." Eye Walker picked up a leaf, blew on it, and then handed Rabbit a gourd of water. Rabbit drank the water but

Animism is the belief that all things contain a spark of divinity not just humans and that all things are connected by this spark. That means that what we do to our environment and the things in our environment we do to ourselves and in order to be the best versions of ourself we can be, we must honor all aspects of ourselves from the smallest creature, to the trees, the land and of course other human beings. In essence it is remembering how to be human. Our world has become

Men, or Tz’ikin in K’iche’ Maya, is the far-seeing Eagle, the great bird that soars far above the highest peaks of mountains and pyramids, high above the din of mankind, where only sacred silence and the breath of winds reign.Sweeping across vast stretches of sky on broad powerful wings, Men enters the dreams of men and women to impart important messages and revelations. Made of legend, his breadth and acuity of vision surpasses that of any other living thing, and that is why

The following is an excerpt from "The Serpent and the Jaguar by Birgitte Rasine." For those of us used to living with the no-nonsense, business-like Gregorian calendar, it can be a bit of a stretch to integrate not only a completely different timekeeping system (260 instead of 365 days, 13-day weeks, and no specific beginning or end), but also a vastly different conception of time. The ancient Maya lived - and their descendants continue to do so today - with both ordinary an