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10 K'at
Citando a Julian Katari del 21/04/2025, 11:15 am
Web of needs
Once you settle into adulthood, set out on a vision, and have a regression, from it you get the understanding that there is a basic web of needs that hold you together, that if you were to take one of those things out, it may break you. Like a spider web, nature will break holes on this web, so it's not a strict concept, but overall there is a set of things you need, what gets you through the day. They may not be the best things in life, there might be a few very nasty poisons in those needs, or maybe not so nasty but not the healthiest; the point is we are not judging, rather, understanding that they keep you standing, that otherwise you would fall. They don't have to be physical needs, food, substances; it can be sleep, lack of sleep, stress, adrenaline, emotions, social media, what you know is not necessarily the best for you but it's part of what keeps you stable.
Today we give the time to honor that web, and say that we must protect it. If we are to come together, as would be mi vision, then we should clearly understand this so that everyone's needs are met. If we are able to respect this, then we will find the way to weave a web together where we delicately take out threads of things that are not great that can be replaced with better ones. One of the threads that would be necessary to take out to come together, would be the thread of judgment. The problem with a monotheistic institution dominated world is that it imposed the idea of holy-unholy, worthy-unworthy, good-evil; and with it the practice of segregation, condemnation, penalization and even racism. If we think we are better, then we better think better.
Web of needs
Once you settle into adulthood, set out on a vision, and have a regression, from it you get the understanding that there is a basic web of needs that hold you together, that if you were to take one of those things out, it may break you. Like a spider web, nature will break holes on this web, so it's not a strict concept, but overall there is a set of things you need, what gets you through the day. They may not be the best things in life, there might be a few very nasty poisons in those needs, or maybe not so nasty but not the healthiest; the point is we are not judging, rather, understanding that they keep you standing, that otherwise you would fall. They don't have to be physical needs, food, substances; it can be sleep, lack of sleep, stress, adrenaline, emotions, social media, what you know is not necessarily the best for you but it's part of what keeps you stable.
Today we give the time to honor that web, and say that we must protect it. If we are to come together, as would be mi vision, then we should clearly understand this so that everyone's needs are met. If we are able to respect this, then we will find the way to weave a web together where we delicately take out threads of things that are not great that can be replaced with better ones. One of the threads that would be necessary to take out to come together, would be the thread of judgment. The problem with a monotheistic institution dominated world is that it imposed the idea of holy-unholy, worthy-unworthy, good-evil; and with it the practice of segregation, condemnation, penalization and even racism. If we think we are better, then we better think better.
Citando a Julian Katari del 06/01/2026, 4:04 pmLearning from excess.
Persistent around these times must be some type of excess, of leaning into something, an apparent lack of balance. In ancestral medicine this is known to be what sets us right. When we stigmatize our crutches, then we are doomed by the stigma and they stop being medicine to us. The natural approach is to allow, and so if you are having too much coffee or too much of anything, you must allow that.
Prophylactically we do this with certain medicines where we push something that is a bit out of balance into an even greater state of imbalance so that we naturally correct ourselves. It's the principle behind homeopathic medicine.
Many times excess or imbalance is trying to show us something that must be corrected in the spiritual or emotional plane. Correcting this then is not as easy as changing a diet or a habit in life, it has to do with fixing what is wrong with our humanity, our way of living and our way of thinking and perceiving, which can take years.
Today's nawal blesses us with the abundance of energy necessary to take this lesson. Understand all the facets of life and of cycles and find blessing in whatever process we are going through.
Learning from excess.
Persistent around these times must be some type of excess, of leaning into something, an apparent lack of balance. In ancestral medicine this is known to be what sets us right. When we stigmatize our crutches, then we are doomed by the stigma and they stop being medicine to us. The natural approach is to allow, and so if you are having too much coffee or too much of anything, you must allow that.
Prophylactically we do this with certain medicines where we push something that is a bit out of balance into an even greater state of imbalance so that we naturally correct ourselves. It's the principle behind homeopathic medicine.
Many times excess or imbalance is trying to show us something that must be corrected in the spiritual or emotional plane. Correcting this then is not as easy as changing a diet or a habit in life, it has to do with fixing what is wrong with our humanity, our way of living and our way of thinking and perceiving, which can take years.
Today's nawal blesses us with the abundance of energy necessary to take this lesson. Understand all the facets of life and of cycles and find blessing in whatever process we are going through.
Citando a Julian Katari del 23/09/2026, 3:02 pmDrop coins.
Deep into the flight of the vision, we encounter this nawal—the force that reveals that not everything can be rendered visible, that there is such an intricate web of entanglement that we can never truly pause to trace where every single strand leads. At this junction, we are forced to rely on senses beyond mere physical sight, intellect, and rational comprehension to maintain our forward momentum. One of those critical senses is the sense of luck, trust, and reciprocity—where we recognize that we are inescapably bound to a collective community. We come to understand that donating energy to various, seemingly irrelevant entities—throwing coins into different lucky ponds, offering trust and material support to those who ask—is fundamentally connected to our own final outcome.
From the dictator-mind of cold rationality, especially in times of perceived scarcity, it may seem absurd or reckless to "waste" resources on those in need, to invest in the vision of others, or to place an offering at a sanctuary merely for blessings in return. Yet what goes around comes around is the exact law of this nawal, where all lines of cause and effect are bundled together into a massive, living knot. We have no intellectual blueprint for how this giving will return to us; we are simply asked to maintain unwavering faith and trust. This principle applies not only to currency, but to where our primary attention, love, and spiritual intention are placed. This is the exact altitude in the Eagle's flight where we enter the cloud, lose visual orientation, and must rely entirely on our internal compass.
As the path unfolds, you will discover that this "internal sense" is actually constructed from the external web of connections that rushes to your rescue when you need it most—precisely because you chose to give and trust when it seemed difficult, counter-intuitive, or irrelevant. If you attempt to march through life devoid of this active charity, you will quickly find yourself trapped at a dead end of your own making. When we disagree with other beings, we often tell ourselves it is not worth entangling our energy with theirs. This is a fatal strategic mistake. We remain deeply connected regardless of our ideological friction; keeping a strand of active love, trust, and assistance extended toward them may prove infinitely wiser than what your initial egoic defenses dictated.
That being said, we are also called to audit the very ponds into which we are dropping our coins. Which ones are overflowing with wealth, and which are bone-dry and neglected? Certain systemic ponds have become hyper-magnetic, drawing in the collective's coins through sheer momentum. Yet this artificial concentration mysteriously dilutes the true spiritual return of the pond. Just as we see unfolding in modern civilization, resources become locked in an unproductive, speculative bubble. When it pops, the net return is not merely zero—it is a monumental debt owed to life, to the earth, and to every living being starved of support by that hoarding. The hyper-wealthy of this age are desperately scrambling to evade this inevitable reckoning: ending up as the greatest debtors in cosmic history, attempting to patch over what they have already become—the most spiritually impoverished beings in the cosmos.
K'at (Net) represents the net, the bundle, the web of connectivity, the harvest, the traps, the entanglements of the mind, and the gathering of resources. K'at is the nawal of the burden that must be untangled, the fishing net cast into deep waters, and the communal storehouse where the harvest is collected and distributed. Paired with the heavy, manifestation-oriented, and dual-realms frequency of the Number 10—the energy of Laju'j, representing the ten fingers and ten toes, the complete physical footprint, the law of cause and effect, human authority, and the full realization of karma in the material world—this sign demands that we take total responsibility for what we have woven into our personal net.
To embody Laju'j K'at is to systematically examine your net and actively invest your energy into the web that sustains true life. Positioned as the tenth step of the Tz'ikin trecena, this energy takes the visionary flight of the Eagle, passes through the threshold of 9 Ak'ab'al, and lands directly in the dense matrix of physical manifestation and communal exchange. It demands that you break free from the illusion of isolated survival, untangle your greed, and throw your coins into the ponds that feed the authentic, living sanctuary rather than the dead machinery of the empire.
RESEARCH
The literal meaning of the K'iche' Maya word K'at (pronounced K'aht with a glottalized 't', and known as Kan in Yucatec Maya) translates directly to net, basket, or bundle.
Morphologically and symbolically in Maya linguistics and cosmovision, the root branches into three distinct semantic layers:
The Net / Mesh (K'at): A woven net made of agave fiber (ki') used for carrying firewood, harvesting corn, fishing, or storing food in the home.
The Knot / Entanglement (K'at / K'atonik): The action of tying, binding, or getting tangled. It refers both to a physical knot and to complex, tangled situations, debts, or mental traps.
The Harvest / Bundle (K'atol / Jach'): The gathering together of scattered items into a single container or net for transport and collective use.
Typical Uses of K'at in K'iche' Speech
In modern K'iche' and Highland Maya dialects, the root K'at appears across household, agricultural, and metaphorical domains:
1. Material Objects and Daily Tasks
Ri k'at: "The carrying net" (the physical mesh bag carried over the shoulder or using a tumpline / mecapal across the forehead).
K'at pa q'ab': "A hand-basket / mesh bag" (used for shopping at local markets).
U k'at-ik ri ixim: "Netting/bagging the corn" (the act of packing harvested maize into large woven sacks or nets for storage).
K'at kar: "Fishing net" (combining k'at [net] with kar [fish]).
2. Entanglement, Knots, and Traps
K'atanaq: "Entangled" or "tangled up" (e.g., describing tangled thread, overgrown vines, or a convoluted legal/financial situation).
K'atob'al: "A trap" or "a snare" (literally "the tool/place for entangling").
K'o pa k'at: "Trapped in a net" (used literally for an animal caught in a snare, or idiomatically for someone trapped in debt or an unavoidable obligation).
3. Metaphorical, Mind, and Social Phrases
K'at pa jolom: "Tangled in the head" (an idiom for being overwhelmed by overthinking, worry, or conflicting thoughts).
K'atol k'as: "Gatherer of debts" / "Being indebted" (linking the net to financial or karmic obligations that bind people together).
Sipaj ri k'at: "To offer/share the harvest net" (an expression used when contributing resources or food to a community gathering or ceremony).
Drop coins.
Deep into the flight of the vision, we encounter this nawal—the force that reveals that not everything can be rendered visible, that there is such an intricate web of entanglement that we can never truly pause to trace where every single strand leads. At this junction, we are forced to rely on senses beyond mere physical sight, intellect, and rational comprehension to maintain our forward momentum. One of those critical senses is the sense of luck, trust, and reciprocity—where we recognize that we are inescapably bound to a collective community. We come to understand that donating energy to various, seemingly irrelevant entities—throwing coins into different lucky ponds, offering trust and material support to those who ask—is fundamentally connected to our own final outcome.
From the dictator-mind of cold rationality, especially in times of perceived scarcity, it may seem absurd or reckless to "waste" resources on those in need, to invest in the vision of others, or to place an offering at a sanctuary merely for blessings in return. Yet what goes around comes around is the exact law of this nawal, where all lines of cause and effect are bundled together into a massive, living knot. We have no intellectual blueprint for how this giving will return to us; we are simply asked to maintain unwavering faith and trust. This principle applies not only to currency, but to where our primary attention, love, and spiritual intention are placed. This is the exact altitude in the Eagle's flight where we enter the cloud, lose visual orientation, and must rely entirely on our internal compass.
As the path unfolds, you will discover that this "internal sense" is actually constructed from the external web of connections that rushes to your rescue when you need it most—precisely because you chose to give and trust when it seemed difficult, counter-intuitive, or irrelevant. If you attempt to march through life devoid of this active charity, you will quickly find yourself trapped at a dead end of your own making. When we disagree with other beings, we often tell ourselves it is not worth entangling our energy with theirs. This is a fatal strategic mistake. We remain deeply connected regardless of our ideological friction; keeping a strand of active love, trust, and assistance extended toward them may prove infinitely wiser than what your initial egoic defenses dictated.
That being said, we are also called to audit the very ponds into which we are dropping our coins. Which ones are overflowing with wealth, and which are bone-dry and neglected? Certain systemic ponds have become hyper-magnetic, drawing in the collective's coins through sheer momentum. Yet this artificial concentration mysteriously dilutes the true spiritual return of the pond. Just as we see unfolding in modern civilization, resources become locked in an unproductive, speculative bubble. When it pops, the net return is not merely zero—it is a monumental debt owed to life, to the earth, and to every living being starved of support by that hoarding. The hyper-wealthy of this age are desperately scrambling to evade this inevitable reckoning: ending up as the greatest debtors in cosmic history, attempting to patch over what they have already become—the most spiritually impoverished beings in the cosmos.
K'at (Net) represents the net, the bundle, the web of connectivity, the harvest, the traps, the entanglements of the mind, and the gathering of resources. K'at is the nawal of the burden that must be untangled, the fishing net cast into deep waters, and the communal storehouse where the harvest is collected and distributed. Paired with the heavy, manifestation-oriented, and dual-realms frequency of the Number 10—the energy of Laju'j, representing the ten fingers and ten toes, the complete physical footprint, the law of cause and effect, human authority, and the full realization of karma in the material world—this sign demands that we take total responsibility for what we have woven into our personal net.
To embody Laju'j K'at is to systematically examine your net and actively invest your energy into the web that sustains true life. Positioned as the tenth step of the Tz'ikin trecena, this energy takes the visionary flight of the Eagle, passes through the threshold of 9 Ak'ab'al, and lands directly in the dense matrix of physical manifestation and communal exchange. It demands that you break free from the illusion of isolated survival, untangle your greed, and throw your coins into the ponds that feed the authentic, living sanctuary rather than the dead machinery of the empire.
RESEARCH
The literal meaning of the K'iche' Maya word K'at (pronounced K'aht with a glottalized 't', and known as Kan in Yucatec Maya) translates directly to net, basket, or bundle.
Morphologically and symbolically in Maya linguistics and cosmovision, the root branches into three distinct semantic layers:
-
The Net / Mesh (K'at): A woven net made of agave fiber (ki') used for carrying firewood, harvesting corn, fishing, or storing food in the home.
-
The Knot / Entanglement (K'at / K'atonik): The action of tying, binding, or getting tangled. It refers both to a physical knot and to complex, tangled situations, debts, or mental traps.
-
The Harvest / Bundle (K'atol / Jach'): The gathering together of scattered items into a single container or net for transport and collective use.
Typical Uses of K'at in K'iche' Speech
In modern K'iche' and Highland Maya dialects, the root K'at appears across household, agricultural, and metaphorical domains:
1. Material Objects and Daily Tasks
-
Ri k'at: "The carrying net" (the physical mesh bag carried over the shoulder or using a tumpline / mecapal across the forehead).
-
K'at pa q'ab': "A hand-basket / mesh bag" (used for shopping at local markets).
-
U k'at-ik ri ixim: "Netting/bagging the corn" (the act of packing harvested maize into large woven sacks or nets for storage).
-
K'at kar: "Fishing net" (combining k'at [net] with kar [fish]).
2. Entanglement, Knots, and Traps
-
K'atanaq: "Entangled" or "tangled up" (e.g., describing tangled thread, overgrown vines, or a convoluted legal/financial situation).
-
K'atob'al: "A trap" or "a snare" (literally "the tool/place for entangling").
-
K'o pa k'at: "Trapped in a net" (used literally for an animal caught in a snare, or idiomatically for someone trapped in debt or an unavoidable obligation).
3. Metaphorical, Mind, and Social Phrases
-
K'at pa jolom: "Tangled in the head" (an idiom for being overwhelmed by overthinking, worry, or conflicting thoughts).
-
K'atol k'as: "Gatherer of debts" / "Being indebted" (linking the net to financial or karmic obligations that bind people together).
-
Sipaj ri k'at: "To offer/share the harvest net" (an expression used when contributing resources or food to a community gathering or ceremony).