{"id":1030,"date":"2011-01-29T15:13:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T20:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2011-01-29T19:46:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T00:46:13","slug":"lamat-and-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"Lamat and Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tzolkin Date: 1 Lamat. Ruler is Yellow. Blocker is Turquoise. Gatekeeper is Golden Planet (Sun).<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Meaning: Rabbit, star, Venus<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Associated Qualities: Harmony, starseed, beneficial, fertility,\u00a0 combinations, way-shower, octave, expanded love, clear perspective.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Lamat, is the Mayan Star or Venus glyph. Many modrn Mayan commentaries say Lamat is all about Love. Curiously, in classic Western cultural myths, Venus is similarly linked with Love. Venus, after all, was the Roman goddess of Love.\u00a0 To be a spiritual archeologist means to recognize such universalities with humanity\u2019s spiritual traditions. So it\u2019s exciting to recognize this particular commonality.<\/span><\/p>\n

The entire Tzolk\u2019in calendar is based on astronomical relationships between the Earth, Venus and the Sun. This illustrates how significant the planet was for the Ancient Maya.\u00a0 Lamat\u2019s association with the rabbit speaks of fertility, multiplying abundance, growth, gentleness and harmony. It\u2019s a Southern sign so it has that southern ease, generosity and eagerness to please.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oprah Winfrey once said that “Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” Well, maybe a mother’s glpyh has a lot\u00a0 to do with it? I put my mother\u2019s birthday into a Mayan birthday calculator and found that she is a Lamat.\u00a0 How lucky can you get?\u00a0 And not surprisingly, when I read the various interpretations, they fit her well. (Of course, I\u2019ve put my sons and husband\u2019s birthdays into the calculator too.\u00a0 It\u2019s fun to use each to see how they \u201cfit\u201d with their glyphs. I\u2019ll file this info on my brain\u2019s back burner and let it brew.)<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a story from Homer\u2019s Odyssey that always comes to my mind when Venus is the topic. <\/span>It tells of Aphrodite, (the Roman\u2019s Venus) having a tryst with the God of War, Ares. Zeus arranged for Aphrodite\u2019s marriage to Hephaestus, God of Fire and the Forge. She was not so thrilled to be wed to a lame god.\u00a0 Hephaestus was angered by the tryst and ensnared the two in an unbreakable chain-link net so small as to be invisible and dragged them to Mount Olympus to shame them in front of the other gods. Although the Gods laugh, Mercury, Messenger of the Gods, states that he would gladly put up with such shame if it were to mean having Aphrodite\u2019s love. When I heard this story, it was explained that Venus and Mercury were in conjunction at the time of the death of Jesus Christ, thus linking humankind\u2019s salvation through love to the activity of communication.<\/span><\/p>\n

I understand that these myths and tales are not empirical evidence for anything…at least not until humankind can see more deeply into reality!\u00a0 But linking love and communication with the salvation of humankind?\u00a0 I\u2019ll go with that!<\/span><\/p>\n

And love, whether it be Lamat or any day of the year\u2026.I will sing its praises.
\nAs my Elder, Grandmother Pa\u2019Ris\u2019Ha asserts in regard to love, that it is the beginning and end of us all:\u00a0 Love is all I know.\u00a0 It works for me. I was created as love and will return when I have completed here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Hugs,<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabeth\/Du\u2019Tsu\/ Spring Frog<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tzolkin Date: 1 Lamat. Ruler is Yellow. Blocker is Turquoise. Gatekeeper is Golden Planet (Sun). Meaning: Rabbit, star, Venus Associated Qualities: Harmony, starseed, beneficial, fertility,\u00a0 combinations, way-shower, octave, expanded love, clear perspective. Lamat, is the Mayan Star or Venus glyph. Many modrn Mayan commentaries say Lamat is all about Love. Curiously, in classic Western cultural […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[57,112,26,42,105,140],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-wellness-and-spirituality","tag-dutsu","tag-lamat","tag-love","tag-parisha","tag-tzolkin","tag-wellness-and-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}