Your Place in the Community

Background | How You Fit In | Timing and Agreements

How you fit in

If you’ve calculated your life lessons, you can now see where you fit into the big picture.

While the circular depiction of the Tzolkin is easiest to use when tracking the days, for referring to ways of cooperating, we use a “tree” structure, where each vertical tree is a Clan. To find your clan, find your glyph in the “trees” to the right.

Partners are those in the same clan (vertical column) with you

The Clan or Tree you are in is the first insight about cooperation the Tzolkin points to. People who are in the same tree contribute to creating the same energy together. These people make good partners in cooperative efforts and are the people you will most frequently benefit from making agreements with (more later). The Clans, from left to right, and the energy they create, are:

Fire: Creates light, consciousness, intelligence, order, intelligent order
Blood: Creates life force, health, healing and personal power.
Truth: Creates truth
Sky: Creates vision

Each of the five levels of the tree represents a different role in the community. The

Those in the same row as you are your friends and speak the same language.

Gathering Roots bring in raw materials to the tree, the Anchoring Roots anchor the tree, the Trunk controls the flow of energy in the tree, the Branches bear the fruit, and the Leaves weave the activity of the tree into energy (described from the bottom up). The energy and materials flows up and down the tree of community, just as a real tree. People at the same level in the tree (ex. Gathering Roots), even if it is a different tree, speak the same language and make good friends. By talking to our friends, we relate our experience and acquire more experience for others, which in turn makes us aware of what we are willing to create energy for and helps us perform our job better.

Next, let’s find out what tools you use to do your job. The color of your glyph

If you have the same color tools as someone, you can play together to sharpen your tools.

indicates the kind of tools you use. You will notice that people who share the same tools with you are located diagonally from you in the tree. Others who have the same tools make good playmates. When we play with our playmates without anticipation of some product, we sharpen our tools to do our job of making agreements with our partners. The tools are:

Yellow tools are order, intelligent order
Red tools are feelings sensations, intuition, emotion.
White tools are words, facts, ideas, patterns.
Blue tools are collecting, gathering, bringing things together.

Next, let’s turn to the specific information about your tone and glyph, which the links above gave you. The individual glyphs fit together to create a whole also, and it takes the 20 glyphs (or talents) to make up the whole and meet our collective needs. To understand more about the talent a person with each glyph brings to the community, you can reference the list at the end of this document.

From the links where you got your reading, you also have a Tone (the number, usually written as bars and dots). The Tone refers to a role you play in manifesting a new reality. The Mayans identified 13 roles in creating a new reality, from identifying its purpose through various steps of enabling the community to create it (see the list at the end of this document).

Two additional aspects of the Tzolkin can be used to understand your profile. That includes the Castle. The Castle is an aura around you, and the color of this aura affects how you see the world (also called the “lens”). There are 5 different Castles: red, white, blue, yellow, and green. The color of the Castle indicates what we create when we are at rest (without talk, play, or work), and corresponds to the same products created by the tools of the same color (see above). Green Castle (no corresponding tools) generates creativity, spontaneity and synchronisity. For each Castle, there are 4 possible journeys, or Wavespells: red, white, blue and yellow. The wavespell represents what type of energy you eat. In forming community, be aware of where you will get this energy from in order to keep moving forward in your journey.Notes coming on determining your Castle and Wavespell.

Notes pending on determining your Wavespell and Castle.

Glyphs / Sun Signs / Talents Reference

Format: Mayan name (translation(s)): information about roles

Ahau (Sun): connects to ideas outside of time, ancestral memory; weaver of new light

Imix (Crocodile, Dragon): nurtures new life

Ik (Wind): ensures the flow is occurring appropriately

Akbal (Night): visionary, seeing over the horizon of time to collect more than enough energy for what lays ahead

Kan (Seed): bringing in focus

Chicchan (Serpent): weaver of life force, feeling personal power, power that is pure without thought

Cimi (Death or Transformer): brings death and transformation; words cause people to “die” out of their old belief systems

Manik (Deer): collects accomplishment

Lamat (Star): elegant order, balances order and disorder

Muluc (Offering): brings in spiritual flow

Oc (Dog): weaves truth with loving heart using facts, patterns, words and ideas

Chuen (Monkey): collector of magic and play; delivers truth with magic and play (to make it more digestible)

Eb (Human, Road): presents the agenda in free will form

Ben (Skywalker, Reed): the natural explorer, exploring space

Ix (Wizard, Jaguar): hearing the voice of spirit or truth about how everything wants to be treated

Men (Eagle): collects vision and weaves it, breaks people out of old belief systems

Cib (Warrior, Wisdom): delivers vision, collecting and gathering

Caban (Earth): Navigator, community has to provide with 2 pieces of information to be effective: a) where are we and b) where are we going.

Etznab (Mirror, Flint): reflecting endless possibilities, cutting to the heart of the question

Cauac (Storm): collecting tools to teach others how to do it for themselves.

Tones Reference

To look up below, first convert the Tone to a number. “|” is equivalent to 5 and a “.” is 1.

Format: #: Role in creating new reality

1: Identify the purpose of the new thing
2: Identify what is missing, and where to find it
3: Tells what the new creation does for us
4: Identify form of new creation
5: Gives the command to bring the new creation into existance
6: Makes sure all get an equal share in the challenge
7: Harmonizer, puts things in their spot to do job
8: Tells us if the new creation has integrity (if not, we stop)
9: Creates ritual
10: Stores energy for community
11: Releases energy
12: Harold, calls people together
13: Manifester of new reality

How you fit in

Congratulations! You can now see where you fit into the big picture! So where do you fit in?

While the circular depiction of the Tzolkin is easiest to use when tracking the days, for referring to ways of cooperating, we use a “tree” structure, where each vertical tree (see graphic to right) is a Clan. To find your clan, find your glyph in the “trees” to the right.

Fire: Creates light, consciousness, intelligence, order, intelligent order
Blood: Creates life force, health, healing and personal power.
Truth: Creates truth
Sky: Creates vision

Each of the five levels of the tree represents a different role in the community. The Gathering Roots bring in raw materials to the tree, the Anchoring Roots anchor the tree, the Trunk controls the flow of energy in the tree, the Branches bear the fruit, and the Leaves weave the activity of the tree into energy (described from the bottom up). The energy and materials flows up and down the tree of community, just as a real tree. People at the same level in the tree (ex. Gathering Roots), even if it is a different tree, speak the same language and make good friends. By talking to our friends, we relate our experience and acquire more experience for others, which in turn makes us aware of what we are willing to create energy for and helps us perform our job better.

Next, let’s find out what tools you use to do your job. The color of your glyph indicates the kind of tools you use. You will notice that people who share the same tools with you are located diagonally from you in the tree. Others who have the same tools make good playmates. When we play with our playmates without anticipation of some product, we sharpen our tools to do our job of making agreements with our partners. The tools are:

Yellow tools are order, intelligent order
Red tools are feelings sensations, intuition, emotion.
White tools are words, facts, ideas, patterns.
Blue tools are collecting, gathering, bringing things together.

From the links above, you also have a Tone (the number, usually written as bars and dots). The Tone refers to a role you play in manifesting a new reality. The Mayans identified 13 roles in creating a new reality, from identifying its purpose through various steps of enabling the community to create it (see the list at the end of this document).

Two aspects of the Tzolkin not discussed here are the “lens” through which you see the world and the “food” you need (both represented by colors).

The Timing of Cooperation

The Tzolkin is a count of days, and to realize its full value, we need to be aware of the count on a regular basis. The count is a cycle, looping through each of the 20 signs continuously. As there are 5 signs in each clan, there are 5 days in each clan every 20 days. The ideal time to cooperate with your partners (those in same clan) is during the 5 days in your clan.

To figure out the glyph for a particular day, you can use the links:

N-S daily: http://dailytzolkin.airstreamradio.com/cgi-bin/schlabo/potd.pl

E-W daily: http://www.mayanmajix.com/TZOLKIN/DT/DT.html

Each day the glyph changes (in the tree form, down the tree and then over to the next tree to the right; in the circle form, it moves to the left). You can find calendars that give one of the counts, but we have not found any calendars available for purchase which provide both counts.

Even the flow of each day has a cycle through the different glyphs. As the sun moves across the sky, it spends 4 minutes in each glyph. At sunrise, the sun is in the glyph of that given day, and then proceeds to the next glyph in the cycle each 4 minutes. Thus on the first day of a clan’s five days (ex Ahau/Sun), there are twenty minutes for the most effective cooperation (while the sun passes through each of the 5 glyphs), then sixty minutes while the sun passes through the other signs. Each 80 minutes will bring the sun back to the same glyph (and repeated times for collaboration). On the second day of the clan (Imix/Dragon), there is 16 minutes for the Fire clan starting at sunrise, and so on for subsequent days. Sunrise is the most powerful time to be working together, and the next most powerful times for collaboration are the successive cycles in the day.

Making Agreements

Basic math behind what this leads to: In small groups (5 or fewer people), we create surplus energy. With seven or more people, we take into account the greater cycle indicated by the Tones. Each of the thirteen Tones corresponds to a role in collaborating to bring about new reality. In each of these contexts, we focus on the agreements we make with others and holding those agreements.

For up to five people,we make agreements with those in our Clan during our times of the cycle of days. For example, when it is Ahau (Sun) in the North-South, those in the Fire Clan have 5 days to focus on making agreements (see above for more information on timing). By gathering the people in the Fire Clan, facing in the direction (ie North-South), and focusing on the agreements made between the people there, the impact of the agreement is magnified. This can be done for each day that is in the Clan (five in a row each 20 days).

The process of producing surplus energy requires the focus and intent of free, independent, self-directed beings, or as free, independent and self-directed as we can be given we see the value of working together. Focusing with intent for 20 minutes at a time several times a day for those five days that flow through our clan can be challenging. For that reason, it is important to first include in our agreements the most important being in the universe – I, in my case, you in your case – to ensure we have surplus energy to do our jobs. In other words, we start by making sure we have enough energy to do our job. By having the surplus energy to do our jobs, we can focus and hold intent and move more in the direction of free, independent, and self-directed.

We should talk with our friends to find out what else we are willing to agree to after taking care of ourselves. Agreements could be for anything the participants can all agree to, for example, to produce energy to help others discover how to do this for themselves, preserving the health of the planet, nourishing all children, and all the other agreements we can make to weave a new world where we humans can stand honorably with each other, with the planet, with spirit, and with the rest of creation.