Here Comes the Sun: The Ajpu Trecena
Human life is a precious gift. Isn’t it a miracle just to be here on Earth, to breathe, to see, feel, heart, taste and touch? Isn’t it a wonder how our bodies function, how so many people live and interweave and are and love and hate and work together and fight and love again (or not)?
Travel is so spectacular, not only for the opportunity it brings to immerse in a new culture, a different language or dialect, exotic foods and customs, but also for how it makes us see and appreciate the comfort and coziness of home in a deeper way.
Yesterday after two semi-arduous days of travel from my husband’s home region in the south of Colombia back to our home at Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, I was on the boat, mere moments from arriving at my own doorstep and I felt the tears welling up.
Tears of gratitude, of worry, of bliss, of unknowing, of love for this place and time. And I am now alone with our pets. My partner and our now 11-year-old daughter stayed in Colombia as was the plan, and they will be back here in two weeks’ time. I am basking in solitude and quiet. Instead of cursing the inanity at the airport aloud to no one in particular, I am silent.
I am willing to write fresh. Look back at the archive but not copy/paste it. Write a new story.
It’s time to rewrite the old stories. No doubt. No shame. No fear. Yes to truth, yes to openness, yes to wander, yes to wonder.
Not everything needs to be published, but everything needs to be written.
Ajpu is the sun, the human being, the hero that each one of us is in our own lives, on our own journeys. We begin and end this life alone, but along the way, community, family and friendship is what sustains us. Our spiritual practice is what sustains us, in addition to air, water, food, shelter and love.
According to Mark Elmy of The Four Pillars, “Ajpu represents divinity and the highest possibilities. Therefore, we can understand that today is an opportunity to bring something new and meaningful into the world. The ‘child’ which emerges today was delivered by 13 Kawok, the spirit midwife. Ajpu is art, it is beauty, it is the re-emergence of the sun after the storm. It is the resurrection of the maize, the new life and light in the world.”
Here are the energies of the next 13 days in the sacred Mayan calendar:
1 Ajpu (January 13) – The seed of a new heroic journey, a new spiritual path. Reconnect with and remember the divinity within you. Ask questions with an open mind.
2 Imox (January 14) – Make choices that move you toward your dreams. Meditate on or near the water.
3 Iq (January 15) – Listen for communication from within.
4 Aq’ab’al (January 16) – Bring new concepts to the earth plane.
5 K’at (January 17) – What am I carrying forward? What am I now leaving behind?
6 Kan (January 18) – Grounding wisdom, making it practical, passing it on through sharing and teaching.
7 Kame (January 19) – The final battle. Overcoming by facing the skeletons in the closet and bringing light to the shadows.
8 Kej (January 20) – Give thanks through ritual or ceremony for what the wilderness and nature provide.
9 Q’anil (January 21) – Blossoming of life’s rewards. Meditate on the divine feminine.
10 Toj (January 22) – Give back to the community through service, donations and offerings.
11 Tz’i (January 23) – Instinct, intuition, distraction, vice, challenges, temptations.
12 B’atz (January 24) – Draw together the threads into a weaving of life’s lessons
13 E (January 25) – The journey toward Spirit and the ancestors. The literal spiritual path. Good day for divination and guidance from the other side of the veil.
