Tone 2, Keb'

Keb' means two. In the Momostenango bands, the 2 is among the gentle numbers, with 1 and 3: a young number, for something that is still getting started.

Being even, the 2 falls on the side of the balanced numbers. In the reading of one ajq'ij today, even numbers bring luck because they are stable, while odd numbers stir things up.

The 2 is the first number with company.

A woman born on 2 Tz'ikin learned from her grandparents that her sign is two birds: one looks back, the other looks ahead. The number does not change the bird; it gives it two ways of looking.

The same image of two that complete each other runs through the reading of the 2: the twins of the Popol Vuh, this world and the world below, birth and death, joy and pain. Each pair tends to be read as a single thing, seen from both sides.

Two birds: one remembers, the other searches.

People born on a 2 day tend to have doubled strength: they lean on both sides and see what each one has right. They also tend to be made for the pair, for partnership and for love.

The risk lives in the same place. Someone who sees both sides so clearly can get stuck in the middle and freeze when it is time to decide. In practice, this often looks like the person everyone seeks out to settle a fight, who takes a long time to choose their own path.

Like every tone, the 2 does not act alone: it measures the strength with which the nawal of the day arrives.

Seeing both sides is a gift; choosing one is a craft.

Each nawal falls on tone 2 once every 260 days. Open any of them to read its page.

• 2 Imox
• 2 Iq'
• 2 Aq'ab'al
• 2 K'at
• 2 Kan
• 2 Kame
• 2 Kej
• 2 Q'anil
• 2 Toj
• 2 Tz'i'
• 2 B'atz'
• 2 E
• 2 Aj
• 2 I'x
• 2 Tz'ikin
• 2 Ajmaq
• 2 No'j
• 2 Tijax
• 2 Kawoq
• 2 Ajpu