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In the tonalpohualli, the sacred Aztec calendar, Tuesday November 18, 2025 is:

Tonalli:

day

Mahtlactli-omei Cuauhtli

13 - Cuauhtli (eagle)

Trecena:

13-day period

Ce Calli

Calli (house)

Xihuitl:

solar year

Ce Tochtli

1 - Tochtli (rabbit)


Yoaltecuhtli:

Lord of the Night

Chalchiuhtlicue

Xiuhpohualli:

365-day calendar

7 - Tlacaxipehualiztli (II)

Long Count:

Mayan calendar

13.0.13.1.15

(Correlation: Alfonso Caso - Nicholson's veintena alignment [adjust])

The significance of this day

Day Cuauhtli (Eagle, known as Men in Maya) is governed by Xipe Totec, God of Seedtime, as its provider of tonalli (Shadow Soul) life energy. Cuauhtli is a day of fighting for freedom and equality. It is a day of the Warriors of Huitzilopochtli, those who sacrifice their lives willingly to keep the present age, the Fifth Sol, moving. It is a good day for action, a bad day for reflection. A good day for invoking the gods, a bad day for ignoring them.

The thirteen day period (trecena) that starts with day 1-Calli (House) is ruled by Itzpapalotl. The 13 days of this trecena are governed by the conflict between culture and nature: the native desire of human beings to maintain a lineage of customs and beliefs is periodically disrupted by the evolutionary leaps of nature. In this sense, nature is represented as the house into which we are born and culture as the house into which we move. These are 13 days of struggling to decide which house is really home. With every step forward, the warrior still stands at the center of the crossroads: the heart must be trained if it is to be a reliable compass. These are good days to focus on the future; bad days to focus on the past.

Aztec facts

Aztecs named a newborn child after its day (tonalli) of birth. The elemental forces ruling over that day strongly characterize a person and its destiny.

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