Círculo de palabra
10 Ak'ab'al
Citando a Julian Katari del 30/05/2025, 3:20 am
Be a home.
From this encounter of the opposites, a third option must arise. It's too soon to be any further. For now that option is to stay open and in that role you're playing make sure that at least you are a home. There are two main stages in life. The first where you are little and to receive, and the second where you are big and it's time to give. Giving is so hard in this modern world, we are in a time where most struggle to survive. The apocalypse has become the new normal, we're attuned to the earth shaking away any day or world war three nuking our asses to oblivion. It's so there, so here, and so not here, being crazy makes more sense.
Even if we are "making it" we are unable to effectively help others make it, and so we're dragged together to a pretty shitty place. We couldn't be more disconnected to each other, we can only keep so few connections, we can afford so little love, being human is so expensive, humanity is more and more scarce. The more you allow your role to drag you into what is being programmed by the AI, the more we will be stolen from a real life, from being real, from being there, from being human. We must look at this and attempt to counteract it actively. The bells are whistling, we really aren't in a time of ease and let's settle in the calm state of the world. It's burning and it's coming.
Ak'ab'al's tenth advice for this time is be as warm as you can be, comprehensive, hospitable. As much as you can, even from the imposed scarcity, try to be hospitable to others, give them your love, food, your time. It's not a time to be judging or discriminating. We're all fucked as fuck so we better get a better attitude. All shit's forgiven, let's move on. But let's be up to the challenge, let's show that we can really be hospitable even to those who are mean. Let's be warm enough to communicate, let's be grown ups for once, there aren't any other ones, we are all we have.
Be a home.
From this encounter of the opposites, a third option must arise. It's too soon to be any further. For now that option is to stay open and in that role you're playing make sure that at least you are a home. There are two main stages in life. The first where you are little and to receive, and the second where you are big and it's time to give. Giving is so hard in this modern world, we are in a time where most struggle to survive. The apocalypse has become the new normal, we're attuned to the earth shaking away any day or world war three nuking our asses to oblivion. It's so there, so here, and so not here, being crazy makes more sense.
Even if we are "making it" we are unable to effectively help others make it, and so we're dragged together to a pretty shitty place. We couldn't be more disconnected to each other, we can only keep so few connections, we can afford so little love, being human is so expensive, humanity is more and more scarce. The more you allow your role to drag you into what is being programmed by the AI, the more we will be stolen from a real life, from being real, from being there, from being human. We must look at this and attempt to counteract it actively. The bells are whistling, we really aren't in a time of ease and let's settle in the calm state of the world. It's burning and it's coming.
Ak'ab'al's tenth advice for this time is be as warm as you can be, comprehensive, hospitable. As much as you can, even from the imposed scarcity, try to be hospitable to others, give them your love, food, your time. It's not a time to be judging or discriminating. We're all fucked as fuck so we better get a better attitude. All shit's forgiven, let's move on. But let's be up to the challenge, let's show that we can really be hospitable even to those who are mean. Let's be warm enough to communicate, let's be grown ups for once, there aren't any other ones, we are all we have.
Citando a Antoinette del 30/05/2025, 6:19 pmFor much of the day, before I read your post early evening (Australian time) all of these themes had been running through me.
I decided a few years back to make an effort to be the invitation and provide the invitation to others - to open my home and heart as much as possible. It doesn't matter who can or can't make it, as long as the door is open. For the past couple of years, myself and other friends - all of them artists in my neighbourhood - have been gathering together once every couple of months or so. Because we all wanted to be creative, and come together in person, share food, strengthen bonds of connection and friendship and just not be on the fucking internet. There's 2 or 3 of us among the entire group of 8-10 who consistently make it happen and who put in the effort. One in particular who is big of heart and generous who I would describe as the "glue" that connects us all. She's one of the ones who makes the effort.
But lately it's felt like a challenge to a couple of us when others are not making the effort. We've been feeling grumpy when people just don't show up, or make excuses that are basically social media driven brain-washing about "self-care" which means staying home, numbing out and scrolling on social media. And yes - I'm being judgemental - but "self-care" I feel is a bit of a lie many of us women are told - and tell ourselves - that's a brainwash from social media. A delusion that's weakened us. We embrace the all the labels we have for ourselves that make us feel "too sensitive" for living and less like genuinely connecting with one another and strengthening our nervous systems. Because it's also encouraged us to only think about how we feel, and not consider others at all, or recognise that we're interdependent and not isolated little bubbles. And yesterday I felt frustrated - and yes - a bit judgemental. But I thought, "fuck it, stop feeling sorry for yourself you chose this, Antoinette". I just have to keep doing it - keep offering the invitation, because I want to offer a lamp in the dark. A soft place to fall. It was burning through the negative feelings about it. You can lead a horse to water...And then I read today's post and it confirmed that. It was a check to me. Just be hospitable and let it go. Keep going.
Meanwhile, my daughter who is a professional musician released a piece of music - a song - out to the world. A flower for the cosmos, a beautiful, generous act without expectation of anything in return. Create, release, move on.
For much of the day, before I read your post early evening (Australian time) all of these themes had been running through me.
I decided a few years back to make an effort to be the invitation and provide the invitation to others - to open my home and heart as much as possible. It doesn't matter who can or can't make it, as long as the door is open. For the past couple of years, myself and other friends - all of them artists in my neighbourhood - have been gathering together once every couple of months or so. Because we all wanted to be creative, and come together in person, share food, strengthen bonds of connection and friendship and just not be on the fucking internet. There's 2 or 3 of us among the entire group of 8-10 who consistently make it happen and who put in the effort. One in particular who is big of heart and generous who I would describe as the "glue" that connects us all. She's one of the ones who makes the effort.
But lately it's felt like a challenge to a couple of us when others are not making the effort. We've been feeling grumpy when people just don't show up, or make excuses that are basically social media driven brain-washing about "self-care" which means staying home, numbing out and scrolling on social media. And yes - I'm being judgemental - but "self-care" I feel is a bit of a lie many of us women are told - and tell ourselves - that's a brainwash from social media. A delusion that's weakened us. We embrace the all the labels we have for ourselves that make us feel "too sensitive" for living and less like genuinely connecting with one another and strengthening our nervous systems. Because it's also encouraged us to only think about how we feel, and not consider others at all, or recognise that we're interdependent and not isolated little bubbles. And yesterday I felt frustrated - and yes - a bit judgemental. But I thought, "fuck it, stop feeling sorry for yourself you chose this, Antoinette". I just have to keep doing it - keep offering the invitation, because I want to offer a lamp in the dark. A soft place to fall. It was burning through the negative feelings about it. You can lead a horse to water...And then I read today's post and it confirmed that. It was a check to me. Just be hospitable and let it go. Keep going.
Meanwhile, my daughter who is a professional musician released a piece of music - a song - out to the world. A flower for the cosmos, a beautiful, generous act without expectation of anything in return. Create, release, move on.
Citando a Julian Katari del 31/05/2025, 2:08 amCan you share the song to listen?
Can you share the song to listen?
Citando a Antoinette del 31/05/2025, 2:29 amHey, sure thing...here's the link to my daughter's song : )
https://maggiealley.bandcamp.com/track/live-or-give-or-die
Hey, sure thing...here's the link to my daughter's song : )
Citando a Julian Katari del 14/02/2026, 1:23 pmAdvanced Sorcery (or bad one). Return home.
Cruising with sacred spirit takes us to the most exciting and blessed moments and places, and can sometimes leave us extenuated, but happy. The body is constantly being pushed to be stronger getting to the new heights demanded by soul. We are not getting older or weaker, we are going higher. Today I understand, each nawal is married to the preceding one, and to the coming one, the interrelation is such that one cannot be described without the other.
In this journey of spirit, yesterday, we were taken to the dimensional gate of novel magic. I learned that not entering into advanced stages of sorcery means staying in deprecated fields of understanding and language, and that is what drags us behind. Magic is not about imaginary lines and chants, but about knowing to live in this world knowing we are lines and chants. Magic is not about feeling powerful, because you know things, but about navigating the maze of not falling bewitched to the tricks spelled by your own mind.
This is a restless endeavor and wears us off to the bones. Many of us are so embarked in this journey, and have traveled so far, that we are still to arrive home. Home is then not a place, not a structure, but all those little things you have learned throughout your spirit travels. All those little things you have picked up, your altar, your sacred amulets, your knowing of how to do things, your rites, habits and ways; the sum of your culture. There is a treasure in you that gets perfected, enriched, cleansed and increased. Your loved ones, your experiences and memories, all of that is home, and today we get to go back to it, lay another brick, so that one day we may finally be where we have always wanted.
Advanced Sorcery (or bad one). Return home.
Cruising with sacred spirit takes us to the most exciting and blessed moments and places, and can sometimes leave us extenuated, but happy. The body is constantly being pushed to be stronger getting to the new heights demanded by soul. We are not getting older or weaker, we are going higher. Today I understand, each nawal is married to the preceding one, and to the coming one, the interrelation is such that one cannot be described without the other.
In this journey of spirit, yesterday, we were taken to the dimensional gate of novel magic. I learned that not entering into advanced stages of sorcery means staying in deprecated fields of understanding and language, and that is what drags us behind. Magic is not about imaginary lines and chants, but about knowing to live in this world knowing we are lines and chants. Magic is not about feeling powerful, because you know things, but about navigating the maze of not falling bewitched to the tricks spelled by your own mind.
This is a restless endeavor and wears us off to the bones. Many of us are so embarked in this journey, and have traveled so far, that we are still to arrive home. Home is then not a place, not a structure, but all those little things you have learned throughout your spirit travels. All those little things you have picked up, your altar, your sacred amulets, your knowing of how to do things, your rites, habits and ways; the sum of your culture. There is a treasure in you that gets perfected, enriched, cleansed and increased. Your loved ones, your experiences and memories, all of that is home, and today we get to go back to it, lay another brick, so that one day we may finally be where we have always wanted.
Citando a Julian Katari del 01/11/2026, 1:18 pmCook.
Bad winds can enter our mind even when we are amidst the greatest effort to keep negativity at bay. In any process, every step is an ingredient to a final plate, even dropping the plate is something we must accept and carry on. Anything we do leaves us with less, contrary to what this system tries to sell us, the idea that we come to this life to construct and gain; time is in fact a medium through which anything that is alive dies and anything constructed deteriorates. We are here to give, feed, and lose, and leave only with memories, with flowers.
In loss and scarcity, true cooking skills are born. We must do with what is left, make the best of it, make it the best tasting experience. Constructing a home is also leaving the home, like when you are a starting adult and must leave your parents and go out to the world, looking for your home. Or like a kitchen, where you spend countless hours making proper preparation, only for it to end up being a mess. Our destination is never order, not gain, yet we do construct a home, we do develop a skill, we do become the cook that feeds others tasteful words, sounds, and meals.
Today's nawal comes as a reminder that the true light is carried within and is invisible; it is our skill to turn any external darkness into an enriching lesson that can feed others. True warmth is produced not by the ingredients and abundance or scarcity we have, but in how we transform those things into a tasteful experience. Darkness and the caves are not something that will one day disappear. Rather, on the contrary, sunny days are the ones that are scarce and counted, and the warm darkness of the inner realms is what lies beyond this temporary experience.
The Dawn / Night / Darkness / The Sacred Hearth (Ak'ab'al) represents the threshold between night and day, twilight, deep internal realms, the mystery of the dark, the storage house of spiritual energy, and the quiet warmth of the hearth fire before sunrise. It is the nawal of inner transformation, keepers of the night, those who work in the shadows of the psyche, and masters of alchemy who extract wisdom and nourishment from difficulty. In its tenth position (Lajuj), it introduces the frequency of manifestation, completion of a cycle of testing, responsibility, the crystallization of inner power into form, and the foundational support that holds the entire structure together.
To embody Ten Ak'ab'al is to step into the kitchen of the underworld and accept your role as the cook who must prepare a feast out of scarcity, loss, and the remnants of a broken plate. It demands that you stop fighting the natural law of decay and instead learn the sacred art of transformation—turning darkness into warmth, bitter ingredients into medicine, and isolation into a meal shared with others. At this tenth station of the trecena of I'x—moving through the fierce winds and shadows of the jaguar matrix—Ak'ab'al arrives to anchor the light within the invisible dark, reminding us that we are not here to hoard gains or conquer time, but to feed the living world with the wisdom born of our wounds.
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RESEARCH
1. The Day Sign: Calli (House / Temple)
Position: 3rd Day Sign of the 260-day Tonalpohualli (corresponding to Ak'ab'al in the Maya Cholq'ij).
Codex Borgia Location: Positioned within the foundational and early divinatory registers of the sacred 20-sign sequence (such as Plates 9, 17, and 18), immediately following Ehekatl.
Iconography: Rendered as a stylized Mesoamerican temple structure or domestic home (calli), featuring a thatched or masonry roof, structural walls, and an open doorway or entranceway that invites entry into the inner sanctuary.
Sign Dynamics & Mechanics:
The Inner Sanctuary and the Womb: Calli represents the home, the physical body, the domestic hearth, the temple, structural stability, containment, and the private inner chambers of the psyche and memory.
The Architecture of the Shadow: It governs domestic life, privacy, security, nocturnal stillness, the enclosure where transformation takes place, and the threshold between the public world and the hidden darkness within.
2. Patron Deity of the Sign: Tepeyollotl (Heart of the Mountain / Jaguar Lord of the Earth)
In the primary divinatory layers of the Codex Borgia (such as Plates 17 and 18), the governing patron deity presiding over Calli is Tepeyollotl ("Heart of the Mountain"), a fierce jaguar manifestation of Tezcatlipoca associated with caves, earthquakes, and subterranean echoes.
Iconography in the Borgia Group:
Depicted as a spotted jaguar or a jaguar-bodied deity adorned with solar disk markings, sacrificial knives, and divine regalia, frequently shown inhabiting dark caves, sacred mountains, or the deep interior of the earth.
Theological Role & Cosmic Domain:
Lord of the Echoes and the Subterranean Deep: Tepeyollotl is the divine force that animates the interior of mountains, caves, and deep stone chambers. He represents the primal roar that shakes the earth and the silent darkness that cradles the soul.
The Guardian of the Inner Temple: As the patron of Calli, Tepeyollotl reveals that the true "house" or "temple" is not merely physical mortar and stone, but the dark, untamed interior of the human heart and psyche. He teaches that true sanctuary requires confronting the fierce jaguar spirit that dwells in the shadows of our own internal caves, transforming enclosed darkness into a space of raw spiritual power and grounding.
Cook.
Bad winds can enter our mind even when we are amidst the greatest effort to keep negativity at bay. In any process, every step is an ingredient to a final plate, even dropping the plate is something we must accept and carry on. Anything we do leaves us with less, contrary to what this system tries to sell us, the idea that we come to this life to construct and gain; time is in fact a medium through which anything that is alive dies and anything constructed deteriorates. We are here to give, feed, and lose, and leave only with memories, with flowers.
In loss and scarcity, true cooking skills are born. We must do with what is left, make the best of it, make it the best tasting experience. Constructing a home is also leaving the home, like when you are a starting adult and must leave your parents and go out to the world, looking for your home. Or like a kitchen, where you spend countless hours making proper preparation, only for it to end up being a mess. Our destination is never order, not gain, yet we do construct a home, we do develop a skill, we do become the cook that feeds others tasteful words, sounds, and meals.
Today's nawal comes as a reminder that the true light is carried within and is invisible; it is our skill to turn any external darkness into an enriching lesson that can feed others. True warmth is produced not by the ingredients and abundance or scarcity we have, but in how we transform those things into a tasteful experience. Darkness and the caves are not something that will one day disappear. Rather, on the contrary, sunny days are the ones that are scarce and counted, and the warm darkness of the inner realms is what lies beyond this temporary experience.
The Dawn / Night / Darkness / The Sacred Hearth (Ak'ab'al) represents the threshold between night and day, twilight, deep internal realms, the mystery of the dark, the storage house of spiritual energy, and the quiet warmth of the hearth fire before sunrise. It is the nawal of inner transformation, keepers of the night, those who work in the shadows of the psyche, and masters of alchemy who extract wisdom and nourishment from difficulty. In its tenth position (Lajuj), it introduces the frequency of manifestation, completion of a cycle of testing, responsibility, the crystallization of inner power into form, and the foundational support that holds the entire structure together.
To embody Ten Ak'ab'al is to step into the kitchen of the underworld and accept your role as the cook who must prepare a feast out of scarcity, loss, and the remnants of a broken plate. It demands that you stop fighting the natural law of decay and instead learn the sacred art of transformation—turning darkness into warmth, bitter ingredients into medicine, and isolation into a meal shared with others. At this tenth station of the trecena of I'x—moving through the fierce winds and shadows of the jaguar matrix—Ak'ab'al arrives to anchor the light within the invisible dark, reminding us that we are not here to hoard gains or conquer time, but to feed the living world with the wisdom born of our wounds.
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RESEARCH
1. The Day Sign: Calli (House / Temple)
Position: 3rd Day Sign of the 260-day Tonalpohualli (corresponding to Ak'ab'al in the Maya Cholq'ij).
Codex Borgia Location: Positioned within the foundational and early divinatory registers of the sacred 20-sign sequence (such as Plates 9, 17, and 18), immediately following Ehekatl.
Iconography: Rendered as a stylized Mesoamerican temple structure or domestic home (calli), featuring a thatched or masonry roof, structural walls, and an open doorway or entranceway that invites entry into the inner sanctuary.
Sign Dynamics & Mechanics:
The Inner Sanctuary and the Womb: Calli represents the home, the physical body, the domestic hearth, the temple, structural stability, containment, and the private inner chambers of the psyche and memory.
The Architecture of the Shadow: It governs domestic life, privacy, security, nocturnal stillness, the enclosure where transformation takes place, and the threshold between the public world and the hidden darkness within.
2. Patron Deity of the Sign: Tepeyollotl (Heart of the Mountain / Jaguar Lord of the Earth)
In the primary divinatory layers of the Codex Borgia (such as Plates 17 and 18), the governing patron deity presiding over Calli is Tepeyollotl ("Heart of the Mountain"), a fierce jaguar manifestation of Tezcatlipoca associated with caves, earthquakes, and subterranean echoes.
Iconography in the Borgia Group:
Depicted as a spotted jaguar or a jaguar-bodied deity adorned with solar disk markings, sacrificial knives, and divine regalia, frequently shown inhabiting dark caves, sacred mountains, or the deep interior of the earth.
Theological Role & Cosmic Domain:
Lord of the Echoes and the Subterranean Deep: Tepeyollotl is the divine force that animates the interior of mountains, caves, and deep stone chambers. He represents the primal roar that shakes the earth and the silent darkness that cradles the soul.
The Guardian of the Inner Temple: As the patron of Calli, Tepeyollotl reveals that the true "house" or "temple" is not merely physical mortar and stone, but the dark, untamed interior of the human heart and psyche. He teaches that true sanctuary requires confronting the fierce jaguar spirit that dwells in the shadows of our own internal caves, transforming enclosed darkness into a space of raw spiritual power and grounding.