By Carlos Cedillo
We are advancing rapidly to the end of another Tzolkin cycle. This week we began both a new uinal (20-day cycle) on Sunday, and a new trecena (13-day cycle) this past Tuesday.
There are 13 uinals and 20 trecenas. The uinals always begin with Imix/Crocodile days and end with Ahau/Sun days.
To understand the meaning of the uinal cycles, we look at the ending Ahau day. This is not as simple as 1-2-3, because the 20 glyphs and 13 numbers rotate together like two differently sized, interlocking gears — and this leaves a remainder of 7 days.
Thus the Ahau days run through the tzolkin starting with 7 Ahau, then 1 Ahau, and then 8 Ahau followed by 2, 9, 3, 10, 4, 11, 5, 12, 6 and finally 13 Ahau. The numbers take on qualifying functions rather than quantitative.
Each uinal has characteristic themes and feelings and events that grow and evolve through each round of the tzolkin. Once you start putting some attention on these cycles in your own life, patterns will emerge to help you evolve past negative habits and areas of your psyche that may be stuck.
So we are in the tenth uinal cycle, and it ends on the day 5 Ahau — which happens to be the 4th of July this year. At least this holiday will feel really like a day of rest and relaxation. The quality of this entire uinal is affected by the number 5. Five is usually a great energy for love and for seeing life from a higher-plane perspective.