Aztec and Maya Calendar
In the tonalpohualli, the sacred Aztec calendar, Wednesday January 24, 1968 is:
Xihuitl:
solar year
8 - Tecpatl (flint knife)
Xiuhpohualli:
365-day calendar
19 - Hueitozoztli (IV)
Long Count:
Mayan calendar
12.17.14.7.17
(Correlation: Alfonso Caso - Nicholson's veintena alignment [adjust])
The significance of this day
7-Ollin is the seventh day of eight days in a row specially associated with pulque, the alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of the maguey (agave) plant (octli).
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-Ozomahtli (Monkey) is ruled by Patecatl. The 13 days of this trecena are influenced by the quest for cures of all the various ills that befall us: the quest to obtain power that can overcome misfortune lies at the heart of the warrior's purpose. The transformation of poison into medicine, and evil into good, is an art whose expression must be tailored to the field of battle. These are good days to fashion a war shield and collect articles for your medicine bundle; bad days to allow infections to fester.
Will Smith was born on day 7-Ollin.
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.