The Living Pulse of the Maya Calendar
Read the Sacred Day
Every day carries a living energy — a nawal and a tone. Enter any date to reveal its place in the 260-day Chol Q'ij.
Supports any Gregorian date, past or future. Defaults to today. Type or pick a date.
The Twenty Nawales
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Twenty sacred energies turn with thirteen tones to weave the 260-day round. Touch any nawal to learn its medicine.
Understanding the Count
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Our Commitment
About This Temple
The Tzolk'in — known to the highland K'iche' Maya as the Chol Q'ij, "the count of days" — is a sacred 260-day calendar that has been kept unbroken for more than two thousand years. It is still living: counted each dawn by Ajq'ijab', the Maya daykeepers of Guatemala.
This project exists to honor that tradition with accuracy and respect. Our calculation is anchored to the GMT correlation (584283) — the value that matches the continuous count maintained by living daykeepers. Our interpretations draw primarily from Carlos Barrios' The Book of Destiny and the teachings of elders who carry this knowledge directly.
This is an offering, not an oracle of certainty. It is a doorway toward a profound living tradition — never a replacement for the guidance of a true daykeeper. We approach this knowledge as respectful students, with gratitude to the Maya peoples who have preserved it.
Plan with the Sacred Count
Calendar View
Every day, wearing the color of its trecena. Look back across any month of the past or ahead into any month of the future — tap a day for its guidance, or choose an intention to light up your favorable days. In the Maya count no day is simply good or bad: each has its favorable uses and its cautions.
Trecenas this month · tap one for its 13-day story
Each trecena wears the color of its first day's direction — the four colors of the Maya cross — and consecutive trecenas turn through them in order: East · red, North · white, West · black, South · yellow. Planning guidance here is a respectful simplification of traditional highland associations; for weighty matters, an Ajq'ij (daykeeper) is the true guide.