Aztec and Maya Calendar
In the tonalpohualli, the sacred Aztec calendar, Saturday November 12, 1966 is:
Xihuitl:
solar year
7 - Acatl (reed)
Xiuhpohualli:
365-day calendar
6 - Cuauhuitlehua (I)
Long Count:
Mayan calendar
12.17.13.3.19
(Correlation: Alfonso Caso - Nicholson's veintena alignment [adjust])
The significance of this day
Day Quiahuitl (Rain, known as Cauac in Maya) is governed by Tonatiuh, the Sun God, as its provider of tonalli (Shadow Soul) life energy. Quiahuitl is a day of relying on the unpredictable fortunes of fate. It is a good day for traveling and learning, a bad day for business and planning.
The thirteen day period (trecena) that starts with day 1-Atl (Water) is ruled by Chalchihuihtotolin. These are 13 days of instability and unexpected events, of accidents and coincidences: these are good days to gamble a little on a long-shot; bad days to gamble a lot on a sure thing. Every day rollercoasters between all-good and all-bad, between rapture and terror. This trecena advises the priest-warrior to perfect the art of shapeshifting: only by mimicking the nature of water do we become an agent of change rather than a target of it. The purified heart casts no reflection in the smoking mirror.
Elizabeth Hurley was born on day 11-Quiahuitl.
Aztec facts
Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, often combines two terms to create a metaphoric expression (difrasismo). Examples are 'atl-tepetl' ('water, hill') for the concept of a settlement, or 'atl-tlachinolli' (water, fire) for the concept of war.