As Colorful as the Mayan Calendar<\/a>, I usually wear two colors to work with the energetics of the day, but it happens that today both the “ruler” and the “blocker” are the same color, white.<\/p>\nThere is a ton of information on the internet regarding the Mayan Calendar.\u00a0Some sites that elaborate on the\u00a0 mathematics of the calendar are–for the non-rocket scientist–downright intimidating. I appreciate the level of sophistication poured into these websites but in terms of one’s practical application in day to day life, knowing the math is not as important as living the Principals encoded within the glyphs. In fact, I suggest that even if you were totally “off”\u00a0 in terms of wearing colors or\u00a0following the dates–\u00a0taking up a habit related to the Mayan days\u00a0could be very valuable.\u00a0If you were pursuing your habit\u00a0with a sincere ethical orientation–making an effort to learn about the glyphs\u00a0in order to improve your ethics and general spiritual evolution–any “error” would be offset by your\u00a0positive orientation.<\/p>\n
Grandmother Pa’Ris’Ha once suggested that we daily\u00a0draw the day’s glyph in order to acquaint ourselves with them.\u00a0Also, you can get a book about them or check out sites on the Internet to learn their traditional meanings. If you\u00a0work with them in a consistent manner,\u00a0as time goes by, you will have intuitive thoughts about them.<\/p>\n
Etznab is not the “beginning” of this calendrical “week” or cycle\u00a0of 20 days. But as I was inspired to begin with\u00a0today, so be it. In fact, it is the third to last glyph of the cycle.<\/p>\n
For some reason, Etznab has always been close to the top of my favorites. Perhaps it is the symmetry that appeals to me or the classic\u00a0pattern that so often appears in Native American designs. Or perhaps it is the warrior in me, for it represents spiritual warriorship.<\/p>\n
Etznab is traditionally\u00a0associated with the knife, the obsidian sacrificial blade. A list of qualities given in The Mayan Oracle<\/em><\/strong> by Ariel Spilsbury and Michael Bryner are “timelessness, discrimination, clarity, hall of mirrors, spiritual warriorship, sword of truth, facing the shadow, integration of paradox.”<\/p>\nThe symmetry of the Etznab’s design portrays the mirroring quality. Self-reflection is indicated and facing the shadowy aspects of your personality. This may require gerding yourself with the Sword of Truth as a Spiritual Warrior, in a manner of speaking, in order to achieve true clarity, to discriminate where you are in denial or self-deception.<\/p>\n
You see how this simple list can supply endless food for spiritual activity, and it would make no difference which day of your life you did it?\u00a0Yet again, to amplify the effect, it makes sense to take the focus indicated by the Mayan day. You can look at the day’s events, phenomena, challenges and such with an Etznab-ish\u00a0orientation. \u00a0Take indications from Etznab to meet both adversity and gifts…. conquer your “lower” self….cultivate the powers of your inner spiritual warrior, your powers of self-reflection, etc.<\/p>\n
Yes. The Mayan calendar offers the powerful gift of understanding and \u00a0enriching the unfolding of your reality. And you don’t need to be a rocket scientist. \u00a0We simply need to appreciate that we live in a wonderfully harmonic universe and join in the dance. The Mayan “days” can \u00a0assist us to be who we simply are. \u00a0As Grandmother Pa’Ris’Ha might say, “I am simple, like uncarved wood, running water, a butterfly in the wind.” \u00a0Kind of a paradox, eh?<\/p>\n
Simply a Spring Frog, spiritual warrior,<\/p>\n
Elizabeth\/ Du’Tsu\/Spring Frog<\/p>\n
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