Mayan Daily Insights: How We Learn About Ourselves, One Day At A Time

Today is Saturday February 27, 2010, and it is 3 Eb the Road in the Mayan Tzolkin calendar. People ask me why I focus on the Mayan calendar, not knowing what it signifies or how it fits in to our current lives.

When I focus on this particular instance on February 7, 2010, and 9 Eb the Road in the Mayan Tzolkin calendar, the image I see is the road having branched off in two directions, but eventually that road comes together again.

January 18, 2010 is 2 Eb, the Road in the Mayan Tzolkin calendar. As we travel along the road of life we carry with us markers: the flags, cones and road signs we use to assign value to the steps we take.

Today is December 29, 2009 8 Eb, the Road. Today is just another day, another step along the way, blah, blah, blah. How much of the value of our journey is decided by the road?

Today in the Mayan Daily Insight we’ll focus on the little slice of the pie called now. This is day one, and life is intended to fall into its own succession.

When we look at the Mayan Tzolkin calendar we see 20 glyphs, each with their own meaning. This is a relational calendar as well, bringing the 13 numbers into alignment with the glyph of each day.
Is there purpose behind the arrangement of the glyphs? After all, they continue to in turn, cycle [...]

Yesterday we focused on the master storyteller, and that whimsical creative spiritual self fills our lives with many great stories and experience if we allow ourselves to have it. Isn’t that what life is all about, embracing the richness of everything we are offered? We are not meant to float off in the [...]

The Mayan Daily Insights for today, Saturday, October 10, 2009 is 6 Eb, the Road. Today the road reminds us that we are always moving forward into a new day. “If we were meant to remain a child we would still be children”. Life goes on, and we move forward.
We [...]

In the Mayan Daily Insights, Sunday, September 20, 2009 is 12 Eb, the Road. We live in a world ruled by the laws of duality, and the road is no exception. Our power, and curse, is our ability to choose. Sometimes it can feel like the weight of the world rests upon [...]

In the Mayan Daily Insights, Monday, August 31, 2009 is 5 Eb, the Road. Yesterday seemed like a play break more than anything else. So what does that give us today? Is it time to get back to business, back on the road? Pound the pavement. Follow the straight and [...]