1 Monkey, 1st day in 13-day Monkey Week
1 M'ax (Chorti'): Monkey (Note: The Mayan Calendar was developed by the Chorti's.)
1 B'atz' (Quiche) / 1 Chuen (Yucatec)
1 Ozomatli (Aztec): Monkey
Direction: West
Note: All the glyphs and languages agree that this day sign is Monkey. In the Popol Vuh there were two brother leaders of the Third Age, the 5,200 years preceding the start of this age - 3114 BC. They had many skills, such as making nets and hammocks, but they deceived people and had no ethics or values. The hero twins, Hunahpu and Ixbaramque, lure the two leaders to a madre de cacao tree (Qante) where they trick them and turn them into two monkeys (one called One Monkey and the other One Artisan). Thus ending the Third Age. Artisan week is Maix or Manix, also known as Worker and one of the four original Mayans, 'Not Right Now'. It is symbolized by a grasping hand, making crafts.
The collective memory of the monkey as corrupt leader lives on in Central America, such as after the June 2009 coup d'etat in Honduras, where the coup leader Michiletti was called Goriletti, a play on words to associate him with One Monkey. Today is Michiletti's day, One Monkey, One Goriletti.
Monkey Week
This 13 day week will often have an eclipse every other tzolkin year. If it happens early in the week it may be a full or partial eclipse but if it happens late in the week it is penumbral (minimal), since we are nearing the end of the eclipse period. Monkey is also the only week of the tzolkin where Mars is always retrograde (for at least several hundred years), every third tzolkin (Mars has a 780 day cycle - three tzolkins). Mars is retrograde now. And will be again three Monkey weeks from now. On the next Monkey week (260 days), Mars will be an evening 'star' almost to disappear from the sky. On the Monkey week following that, Mars will be a morning 'star' having recently appeared in the eastern sky before dawn.
Acajutla High Tides: 3:53 AM and 4:25 PM
Semi-diurnal
Tide
range:
1.64 meters average and increasing to its highest tomorrow, as it does every 13 to 14 days. (Difference in High/Low Tides).
Note for the day: Life as theater. Great day for communicating and leadership. Distance in relationships.
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