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In the tonalpohualli, the sacred Aztec calendar, Sunday March 10, 2024 is:

Tonalli:

day

Chicuacen Ollin

6 - Ollin (movement)

Trecena:

13-day period

Ce Malinalli

Malinalli (grass)

Xihuitl:

solar year

Mahtlactli-omome Tecpatl

12 - Tecpatl (flint knife)


Yoaltecuhtli:

Lord of the Night

Tlazolteotl

Xiuhpohualli:

365-day calendar

19 - Tecuilhuitontli (VII)

Long Count:

Mayan calendar

13.0.11.6.17

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

The significance of this day

Day Ollin (Movement, known as Caban in Maya) is governed by Xolotl as its provider of tonalli (Shadow Soul) life energy. This is an auspicious day for the active principle, a bad day for the passive principle. Ollin is a day of the purified heart, signifying those moments where human beings may perceive what they are becoming. A good day for transmutation, which arrives like an earthquake that leaves in its wake the ruins of rationality, order and the preconceived.

The thirteen day period (trecena) that starts with day 1-Malinalli (Grass) is ruled by Mayahuel, Goddess of the Maguey and Pulque. These are 13 days of intoxication, infatuation, excitement and passion: it is a time of excesses, when moderation is impossible, and so is often a time of disastrous consequences. This trecena signifies those times when we are incapable of protecting ourselves from high emotions. It is a time when affairs of war and affairs of the heart are born without thinking. These days are clouded in confusion: only the most self-disciplined warrior can suffer an excess of success without incuring sudden loss. These are good days to bind the community together; bad days to sow discord and discontent.

Aztec facts

The Aztecs did not use a leap year correction but they knew the length of a solar year is neither 365 nor 365.25 days. Presumably they kept some count of days to register astronomical events but no evidence of an Aztec Long Count exists.

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