Maya Night

Interpretations and translations require clear self reflection and coordination.  You can start now with your internal compass; imagine the color black, still your physical body and feel consciousness envelop you materially and energetically.  The polarity of night allows the potential for the bright ideas and quite literal, the sunlight.

In Birgitte Rasine's The Serpent And The Jaguar the sacred Tzolkin calendar (260 days of thirteen tones and twenty day sign iterations) is translated and somewhat interpreted with a solid introduction that gives a good framework.  "Honor your sleep!" sums up the day of 'one night'.  Two night, or Ka Akabal, explains night in relation to duality. Additionally, all iterations help weave the wisdom of the trecena, the tone, and the days sign into a comprehensible whole.  Her readings are posted online and essentially match the book ver batum.  Facebook Mayan Portal Calendar or there is an app that offers more...have only briefly seen that.

Apparently, the two hundred and sixty day Tzolkin calendar combines agriculture and spiritual cycles; cosmic and material, voids and bulls eyes.  Another hundred days balance out the practice of planting and such with celebration and rituals.  Then five days every solar year, I believe, they think of as 'days off' for fine tuning and alignment or balancing.  The accuracy is astonishing.  There are counts of astronomy cycles and may be almost twenty calendars they used interlocking.  The idea that prayer is a way to balance the physical worlds spiraling future is almost overwhelming but there it is.
Thirteen day periods called trecenas, among other things, reflect the thirteen junctions of the body.  Symbolic and representative of ideas or energy.  For example one is unity, two - duality, three - action or receptivity, all the way to thirteen called ascension.  The Tzolkin weaves a torus shape, like a donut, between the representation of twenty day signs with thirteen tones.  Interpretations and translations are key to finding ones own way.

Carlos Barrios, Shaman and Member of the Mayan Elder Council, wrote The Book Of Destiny Unlocking the Secrets of the Ancient Mayans and the Prophecy of 2012 after finding a calling to study with the Maya people.  His book covers many different subjects and clarifies misinterpretations and misrepresentations.  Destiny, conception, complimentary, harmonious, right and left hemisphere signs help illustrate relations to other signs.  He explains the positive and negative aspect of each sign as well.  The sign night seems to be a very lucky sign and 'a sign of constant renewal and hope during difficult times, but those born under it will also have to struggle with a duel nature." 

Ariel Spilsbury's The Mayan Oracle: Return Path to the Stars combines Celtic, Wicca and other mythos into the Tzolkin.  She identifies the "shadow" like Jungian, specifically the night may be 'lost in self, being too inward'.  But encourages similar to other readings to go bravely into the void because that is where all potential exists.  Harmonic wisdom is described as "integration, the fusion of seemingly different aspects into a unified whole".  Chiuso meaning "a closed humming' in Italian or blending of three primary energies including 1. you, 2. the resonance in combination with the sound of creation in the Crocodile and 3. the spiritual essence of the wind"...the previous two signs, with the crocodile being what Spilsbury learned to be the first day sign.  "Cupo meaning dark deep or obscure and amabile meaning sweet tender or gentle are other musical adjectives to describe the energy of Akabal.  She states that by letting your minds eye visualize these qualities together in meditation the sign offers you peaceful sanctuary to just be.