Aztec and Maya Calendar
In the tonalpohualli, the sacred Aztec calendar, Tuesday July 31, 2012 is:
Xihuitl:
solar year
13 - Tecpatl (flint knife)
Xiuhpohualli:
365-day calendar
19 - Quecholli (XIV)
Long Count:
Mayan calendar
12.19.19.10.17
(Correlation: Alfonso Caso - Nicholson's veintena alignment [adjust])
The significance of this day
4-Ollin is the name of the fifth and present era, in which Tonatiuh is the sun.
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-Ocelotl (Jaguar) is ruled by Quetzalcoatl. This trecena represents brilliance and clarity during a profound eclipse of the light. The principal influence of this time is the divine Whirlwind: to stand in its path calls down destruction; to stand in its eye calls down creation. These are good days to withdraw into the solitude of contemplation and self-discipline; bad days to traffic with those on another path. In the center of it all, the warrior strives to be the mirror rather than the reflection.
Aztec facts
The conqueror Hernán Cortés arrived on the eastern shores of the Aztec empire in the year 1-Acatl (1519). It had been predicted that on such a year Quetzalcoatl would return from the east to retake his rightful share of the throne. This belief probably weakend the defense of the Aztecs.