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What is your Mayan sign?

Your birth date has a name in the sacred calendar of the Maya, your nawal — and it says a lot about you. Find out in seconds, free.

Date of birth

For example: 21 / 12 / 2012 — the day the Long Count completed 13 b'ak'tuns.

  • Traditional count (Tzolk'in)
  • 260 combinations
  • Free, in seconds

What the nawal is

The Tzolk'in is the 260-day count of the Maya calendar: 13 tones turning together with 20 nawales, until each combination comes back. Every day has a name, like 4 Ajpu or 9 Kej.

The day you were born is your nawal — what many call your Mayan zodiac sign. In the Guatemalan highlands this count never stopped: the spiritual guides, the ajq'ijab', keep it alive to this day.

What you find out for free

  • Your nawal

    The name of your day in K'iche' and in Yucatec, what it is and the strength it gives you.

  • Your tone

    The number from 1 to 13 that changes the way your nawal shows up in you.

  • Your Maya Cross

    The four days around your birth, which speak of other sides of your life.

  • Your Dreamspell Kin

    For those who know the other count, the match appears alongside.

Right away, no sign-up. If you like, the result goes to your email.

How it works

  1. Your dateDay, month and year of birth. The time of day does not count.
  2. Your resultYour nawal, your tone and your Cross, in seconds and for free.
  3. The Complete Chart, if you want itThe full reading of your date: who you are, your Maya Cross, the year bearer of your year, your calendar for the next twelve months and the Dreamspell.

An example

Someone born on 21 December 2012, the day the Long Count completed 13 b'ak'tuns, is 4 Ajpu. This is what the free result shows:

Free result · 21 Dec 2012

Glyph of Ajpu

4 Ajpu

Tone 4 · Kajib' — the four corners

the Sun · victory · the ancestors

You were born on the day of the Sun, the day of the twins who crossed the world of the dead and came back as light. You come out of trials bigger than you went in, and you are the one people look to when the room loses its way. Your challenge is to shine without taking up the space of those beside you. With tone 4, the one of the four corners, this nawal arrives whole in you, with resources and balance.

Your Maya Cross

  • Conception9 E
  • Right hand11 I'x
  • Left hand10 Kame
  • Destiny12 Q'anil

In the Dreamspell you would be Kin 207 — Blue Crystal Hand.

Meet Ajpu, the nawal in this example

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Where the reading comes from

The count is the traditional Tzolk'in count, the one of the Guatemalan highlands, with the K'iche' names in the spelling of the Academia de Lenguas Mayas and the GMT 584283 correlation.

The texts were written from books by ajq'ijab' and by scholars. Among them:

  • Time and the Highland Maya — Barbara Tedlock
  • Ch'umilal Wuj — El Libro del Destino — Carlos Barrios
  • El Tzolkin es más que un calendario — Walburga Rupflin-Alvarado
  • El Calendario Sagrado Maya: método para el cómputo del tiempo — Audelino Sac Coyoy
  • Usolik rokisaxik ri Cholq'ij, ri Ab' — Manual de los Calendarios Mayas — Maya' Wuj
  • Contemporary Maya Spirituality: The Ancient Ways Are Not Lost — Jean Molesky-Poz
  • Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya — Allen J. Christenson
  • Mayan Calendar Astrology: Mapping Your Inner Cosmos — Kenneth Johnson
The books and where to find them

Questions

What is my Mayan zodiac sign?

It is the nawal of the day you were born. Type your date of birth in the form on this page: in seconds you see your nawal, your tone and your Maya Cross, free.

Is it the Mayan horoscope?

It is what many people call the Mayan horoscope, but with no daily forecast and no sun sign: it is the name of the day you were born in the 260-day count, and what the tradition says about it.

Is it really free?

Your nawal, your tone and your Maya Cross are free and appear right away. The Complete Maya Chart, the full reading of your date, is paid, and only if you want it.

Do I need my time of birth?

No. The Tzolk'in counts days: only the date goes into the count.

What about the Dreamspell?

It is another count, created in 1990, which gives a different result. Mayanastro uses the traditional count and shows your Dreamspell Kin as a reference.

Where does the count come from?

From the sacred calendar of the Maya, which is still alive in the Guatemalan highlands. The count follows the GMT 584283 correlation, the same one as the living count.

What is your nawal?

Find out in seconds, for free.

Date of birth

For example: 21 / 12 / 2012 — the day the Long Count completed 13 b'ak'tuns.