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In the tonalpohualli, the sacred Aztec calendar, Wednesday May 20, 2020 is:

Tonalli: − +

day

Chicome Mazatl

7 - Mazatl (deer)

Trecena: − +

13-day period

Ce Cipactli

Cipactli (crocodile)

Xihuitl: − +

solar year

Chicuei Tecpatl

8 - Tecpatl (flint knife)


Yoaltecuhtli:

Lord of the Night

Tlazolteotl

Long Count:

Mayan calendar

13.0.7.9.7

Xiuhpohualli:

365-day calendar

9 - Ochpaniztli (XII)

(Correlation: Alfonso Caso [adjust])

The significance of this day

Aztec facts

In the years after the conquest of Mexico, the xiuhpohualli (solar calendar) became tied to the Julian calendar as used by the Spaniards. This effectively introduced a leap year to the Aztec calendar every four years (this site provides the pre-conquest calendar).

Day Mazatl (Deer) is governed by Tlaloc, God of Rain and Thunderstorms, as its provider of tonalli (Shadow Soul) life energy. Mazatl is the day of the hunt. It is a good day to stalk your quarry, a bad day to be stalked. Mazatl is a day for breaking old routines and to pay close attention to the routines of others. This is a day for doubling-back on your tracks.

The thirteen day period (trecena) that starts with day 1-Cipactli (Crocodile) is ruled by Tonacatecuhtli, Lord of Nurturance, the primordial god of creation and fertility. Cipactli is god of the land, the great earth monster, floating on the sea of stars. This is the first trecena of the sacred year. The 13 days of this trecena are governed by the primordial urge to create order out of chaos. The three means by which the Old Ones established order are still our most important treasures: speech, agriculture, and the family. The lineage of thought runs from seed to fruit to seed: these are good days to participate in the community; bad days for solitude.

Johnny Depp was born on day 7-Mazatl.

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