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Complete Maya Chart

Caio · born December 21, 2012 written September 18, 2026

This Chart uses the traditional Tzolk'in (Cholq'ij) count, with the GMT 584283 correlation and the K'iche' names of the Guatemalan highlands. The Dreamspell appears at the end, as a reference.

Your nawal

4 Ajpu (Ajaw) — the Sun, victory, the ancestors · tone 4, Kajib', the four corners

Your Maya Cross

conception 9 E · right hand 11 I'x · left hand 10 Kame · destiny 12 Q'anil

Your year bearer

13 No'j — the year of ideas (22 Feb 2012 → 20 Feb 2013)

Your calendar

18 Sep 2026 → 17 Sep 2027: exact return on 18 Mar 2027; your trecena starts on 15 Mar 2027; the year turns on 18 Feb 2027

Your Dreamspell count

Kin 207 — Blue Crystal Hand

1. Who you are — 4 Ajpu

You were born on the day of the hunter, and the glyph of this day is the face of the Sun. On Ajpu people remember the twins of the Popol Wuj, who went down to the world of the dead, came through every trial and rose into the sky, one as the Sun and the other as the Moon. In Momostenango, Ajpu is also the day of the ancestors. Both go together in you: the light everyone can see and the memory of those who came before.

Strength

Your strength is getting through. People born on Ajpu often come out of a trial bigger than they went in: the redundancy that turned into a business, the family illness you carried everyone through without faltering, the exam you resat and passed. In the tradition, it is the day of those who overcome difficulties, and those born on it are usually brave, kind and sound in judgement. You don't need to raise your voice to lead. When the room loses its way, people look at you, and you already have a plan.

The twins of the Popol Wuj didn't beat the lords of Xib'alb'a by strength of arm. As the elders tell it, they won with their heads, with their eyes open and with prayer. Your strength is of that kind. You watch first, measure your step and speak plainly, and you are often the one who clears the path others will walk.

There is also a warmth that holds the house together. People born on Ajpu are likely to become the axis of the family. Your light makes most sense when it brightens other people's road. When the night is long, you are the one they wait for.

Shadow

In the Popol Wuj, before the Sun is born, the twins bring down Wuqub' Kaqix, the macaw who claimed to be sun and moon while being neither. It is a good picture of your shadow. Whoever is born with light runs the risk of wanting to shine everywhere, and then the shine turns into vanity. The great test of Ajpu is not to be dazzled by your own light.

Day to day, this shows up when recognition is slow to come: you get irritated, you pull away, or you double down so as to be seen. When you feel threatened, you may think first of your own gain. And someone who lives by getting through trials sometimes creates trials where there were none, just to have something to overcome. All of this comes from the same force that makes you strong, turned inwards.

Ajpu has two faces, and hardly anyone mentions the second. In Momostenango, it is the day of the dead, and those born on it stay close to them, sometimes too close. This can show up as a grief that never closes, or as a loyalty to someone who has gone that gets in the way of choosing your own path. Honouring those who came before is part of your day. Living with them is not.

You and other people

Love. People born on Ajpu usually love romantically and with their feet on the ground at the same time. You take care of the details, turn a well-laid table into a caress, and have a few loves before settling down. You are demanding and look for someone at your level, mature enough to handle your intensity. The risk is realising too late that the great love has already passed: whoever lets the moment slip may end up alone, because Ajpu is self-sufficient and suffers little from solitude. Notice who is already nearby and never had to pass any trial at all.

Family. At home, you are likely to be the one who organises and protects, the person people ring when things get tight. That's no accident: in the highlands, Ajpu is one of the days chosen for the rites of a new house and for asking for happiness at home. For you, love and home are often the same conversation. Even the Sun comes home at the end of the afternoon.

Friendship and groups. You choose few friends and are wary of new ones, but whoever gets in stays. For a friend, you are capable of heroic gestures: standing up to anyone, dropping whatever you're doing, turning up in the small hours. In a group, you lead without asking permission, and people accept it because you clear the way. The thing to watch is asking for space and being slow to give it: the group also needs to see others shine.

Conflict. When you think you're right, you steer the conversation until the other person gives in, and being corrected costs you dearly. Hurt can stay stored longer than it should. When it's time to make peace, you usually fix something for the other person and forget to say the word they were waiting for. Apologising takes a hero's courage too.

Work and calling

You thrive wherever someone needs guiding. Guiding, and being a light in times of crisis, is what Ajpu often does best, and the trades that suit it run from words to the stage: writing, public speaking, acting, communications, law, management. Ajpu is also the day of flowers, music and sport, and of those who heal with plants.

Those born on Ajpu may be called to be ajq'ij. In Momostenango there is even an office tied to the day: that of the one who lends a voice to the ancestors during a reading. Even far from that path, this says something about your work. You feel whole when what you do connects people to a story larger than themselves.

With money, the tradition brings good news: Ajpu is likely to have possessions and to know how to gather them. You usually earn best when you're recognised for what you do well, and you spend on things that are beautiful and last: a good table, a work of art, an antique. The thing to watch is the usual one: the same impulse that gathers also scatters, and those born on Ajpu split into many paths when they respond to every stimulus. Choose one front at a time and see it through. The hunter hits the mark by aiming at a single target.

Who you get along with

The fullest unions for Ajpu are usually with Tz'ikin, Kan, Tz'i' and another Ajpu: people with whom you can build a life. With E, Ajmaq, K'at and Q'anil company is easy, even when it stops short of intimacy.

That second group has a name in the highlands: some ajq'ijab' put Ajpu, K'at, Q'anil, E and Ajmaq on the same team, good friends, good partners and good couples. To find someone's nawal, all you need is their date of birth. It's worth checking the nawal of whoever is already at your side.

What you came to do

In the Popol Wuj, before rising into the sky, the twins return to the ballcourt where their father died and promise that his name will be remembered. That is the picture of your path. You came to overcome your own trials and, with what you learned from them, to light the road for those who come after.

In practice, this asks two things of you. The first is to use your shine to make room for others, without taking up theirs. The second is to look after memory: know where you come from, tell that story to those who come after you, and then move on. You are the Sun; learn to set as well.

Your days

Ajpu is the day to remember the ancestors: bring flowers to the grave, say the name of those who have gone.

It is also a day to ask for courage and certainty for what you have to face. Some ajq'ijab' say that what you ask for on Ajpu either arrives or falls apart quickly, which makes it a good day for getting out of a tight spot.

If you want to mark the day, do it the simple highland way: light a candle, burn a little copal or incense, and give thanks before you ask. The colours that usually go with Ajpu are red, yellow and the colour of earth, and its hour is sunrise or sunset.

On your Ajpu days, which come round every twenty days, do one thing only and do it completely: finish a task that has been dragging on, ring an older member of the family, or light a candle for someone who has passed. Your calendar, later in this Chart, marks each of these days.

Tone 4 — Kajib', the four corners

Your day carries the number 4, Kajib'. In Momostenango, the 4 is often read as the number of the whole. The Sun has four moments in each round, from dawn to noon, from sunset to midnight, and the world has four sides, four colours of corn and four pillars holding up the sky. The 4 also brings together forces that usually go their separate ways: the heart of the sky, of the earth, of the air and of the water.

With the 4, your nawal arrives with the house already built. People born on a 4 day are likely to have plenty of resources and to draw strength from their own wholeness. In practice, this is someone who juggles several fronts without losing their balance, who sees all four sides of a question before deciding, and who tidies away whatever was lying loose.

In the highlands, the numbers fall into three bands: the low ones are gentle, the middle ones measure their strength, the high ones are intense. The 4 stays outside all three, and that says something. It lives between the start and the outcome, at the point where things settle. It is also an even number, and even numbers are held to be easier to turn towards the good.

What the 4 has to watch is the other side of structure. Someone who has everything in its place can bristle at whatever comes from outside, and turn into a rule what needed a little give. When something falls out of square, ask whether it is a problem or just a fifth corner that had no place yet. A four-cornered house can weather the wind. It just shouldn't shut every window.

2. Your Maya Cross

The Cross is the four days the tradition reads together with yours. Eight days before your birth lies the day of conception; eight days after, the day of destiny. Six days before and six days after sit the two sides, and each brings a gift that stays with you.

Everyone born on Ajpu has the same Cross: E in the conception position, I'x and Kame on either side, Q'anil in the destiny position. Only the number of each day changes, and that sets the intensity. Read as a whole, it tells a story that suits the Sun at the centre: you come from the road, walk under the guard of two forces of the night, the jaguar and the death that renews, and head for the seed.

It makes sense. The light of Ajpu needs a road to travel along, courage to cross the dark and a place to plant what it has learnt. The four positions give exactly that.

Conception — 9 E (13 Dec 2012)where you come from

Eight days before you were born, the day was E, the road. In Momostenango, the words of that day speak of a road that is good, long, and runs through a whole life. In the conception position it tells where you come from: from people who moved, who changed lands, who gathered experience on foot.

Someone born on Ajpu and conceived on E often lives like a foreigner in their own land. You love the place you come from, but you travel a great deal, live abroad for spells and recognise yourself in places you have never been. If you feel you belong to more than one place, it is because you were born from a road. The day carries tone 9, B'elejeb': here that nawal speaks slowly, at the pace of a pregnancy.

Right hand — 11 I'x (15 Dec 2012)a gift at your side

On one side stands I'x, the jaguar, the strength of the earth. It is likely to give those born on Ajpu the gift of mediating: you can stand between two sides in a quarrel and find the way through that neither of them saw. It often brings a talent for the arts as well.

The jaguar hunts in the dark and knows the forest from the inside. Beside the Sun, it gives you your instinct: the knack of reading a room before you walk in and of acting quietly when light alone won't settle things. Not every battle is won by day. The day carries tone 11, Julajuj: here that nawal speaks with force, looking for a place to plant its feet.

Left hand — 10 Kame (27 Dec 2012)another gift at your side

On the other side stands Kame, the day of death and rebirth. Beside Ajpu, Kame usually protects life and brings alliances that renew and transform. It also brings curiosity and a taste for adventure: you need to see things with your own eyes, and second-hand accounts never satisfy you.

It is the same lesson as the twins of the Popol Wuj, who went down to the world of the dead and came back. With Kame at your side, the endings in your life are likely to become beginnings. When something ends, ask what it has opened. The day carries tone 10, Lajuj: here that nawal speaks in partnership, with both hands.

Destiny — 12 Q'anil (29 Dec 2012)where life is taking you

Eight days after your birth, the day was Q'anil, the seed. In the tradition, it is the day of life that sprouts and of the four colours of maize. In the destiny position it points to where your life is heading: towards sowing.

For Ajpu, a Q'anil destiny usually means showing the way and planting, even without seeing the fruit, and over a lifetime there is no shortage of children for you to help. The strong temper that helps you lead can weigh on your own children. Plant with patience: explain rather than impose, and let the seed grow in its own time. The Sun doesn't pull the plant up; it waits. The day carries tone 12, Kab'lajuj: here that nawal speaks in the voice of someone who has taken stock.