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Citando a Julian Katari del 26/04/2025, 1:20 pm
Twin flames - or else
There are two paths you can be on, the keeping of what is as is, or the bringing of a new sun for humanity. My readings are directed to and suppose that you are on the second path. This second path is the path of coming back together from a paradigm that had separated and fragmented us. Everything in our unbecoming worldview supports this hyperindividualization, and healing becomes the task of overcoming it. This flame being lit brings us to lighting a second flame, that of someone else. Whoever decides to join this fire then and get involved with us intimately, becomes our twin flame; this is the concept that must replaced with what in the old worldview we thought was a soulmate or a life partner. Where in the old worldview a love relationship was supposed to be all that mattered and all that we desired, in this new sun, the twin flame comes from sharing this transformation, this path, this mission.
Today's unique combination is prone to showing in readings where a warning of separation or of conflict is given, but this reading only applies if you are following a first path where your destiny is by yourself, and you go through life alone. In this new path, this reading speaks about that one person that may be joining you or is there to light your flame for this new destiny we have chosen. The combination illustrates the dual nature of our souls, and how they can choose to compliment each other seeking unity, or contrast each other to create individuality. In both cases, the duality supports the two being two, and the two working together. It is only the "karma" that you have chosen, what will dictate how your path will part from today.
Twin flames - or else
There are two paths you can be on, the keeping of what is as is, or the bringing of a new sun for humanity. My readings are directed to and suppose that you are on the second path. This second path is the path of coming back together from a paradigm that had separated and fragmented us. Everything in our unbecoming worldview supports this hyperindividualization, and healing becomes the task of overcoming it. This flame being lit brings us to lighting a second flame, that of someone else. Whoever decides to join this fire then and get involved with us intimately, becomes our twin flame; this is the concept that must replaced with what in the old worldview we thought was a soulmate or a life partner. Where in the old worldview a love relationship was supposed to be all that mattered and all that we desired, in this new sun, the twin flame comes from sharing this transformation, this path, this mission.
Today's unique combination is prone to showing in readings where a warning of separation or of conflict is given, but this reading only applies if you are following a first path where your destiny is by yourself, and you go through life alone. In this new path, this reading speaks about that one person that may be joining you or is there to light your flame for this new destiny we have chosen. The combination illustrates the dual nature of our souls, and how they can choose to compliment each other seeking unity, or contrast each other to create individuality. In both cases, the duality supports the two being two, and the two working together. It is only the "karma" that you have chosen, what will dictate how your path will part from today.
Citando a Julian Katari del 11/01/2026, 3:24 pmCleansing others.
Wars are impossible if we don't go through an extensive construction of the concept of othering. Subscribed to this construct are most of the institutions we actively participate in, telling ourselves, it's the only way to run the world. Take it down to your personal scale and today's nawal will teach us how we should treat, heal and understand our relationships with others.
We might see how crucial this is at the time we are living in. Depending on if we learn this or not, will be the outcome of our lives and the lives of all, the future of humanity.
1. Accepting yourself.
There is no point in wanting to improve relationships with other people as long as we are not accepting ourselves as we are. This is difficult since everything that has been weaved in society and modern culture has to do with domesticating us into an entity that is quite foreign to our own natural personality, identity, soul and state of being. Accepting yourself means accepting that society is profoundly sick and that othering yourself from it is the only healthy way to go. The challenge to sustain this is monumental, yet it's the only path to returning to your full potential.
The first step then in walking the path of cleansing yourself and this world is taking the actions where you can effectively include your true being into your life, even if that means drawing the line, cutting ties and distancing yourself from others. In a time when we desperately need to overcome alienation and create community, this seems counterintuitive. But this is how we create community. First you need to accept yourself into it, and the community needs to be that: a community that accepts you. Start that community where you are accepted. Once in that process, we can continue onto the next step.
2. Accepting others.
In the path where you are finally defending your uniqueness, accepting others that are still in the "othering" mentality is a challenge. Communities are that, a gathering of diverse beings, not a replication of the same individuals. Accepting yourself, and accepting others, is also accepting reality and finding a peaceful and clean place amidst the noise and the mess. Inevitably this means cleansing other people's shit, that's the shit we must deal with. So deal with it.
Cleansing others.
Wars are impossible if we don't go through an extensive construction of the concept of othering. Subscribed to this construct are most of the institutions we actively participate in, telling ourselves, it's the only way to run the world. Take it down to your personal scale and today's nawal will teach us how we should treat, heal and understand our relationships with others.
We might see how crucial this is at the time we are living in. Depending on if we learn this or not, will be the outcome of our lives and the lives of all, the future of humanity.
1. Accepting yourself.
There is no point in wanting to improve relationships with other people as long as we are not accepting ourselves as we are. This is difficult since everything that has been weaved in society and modern culture has to do with domesticating us into an entity that is quite foreign to our own natural personality, identity, soul and state of being. Accepting yourself means accepting that society is profoundly sick and that othering yourself from it is the only healthy way to go. The challenge to sustain this is monumental, yet it's the only path to returning to your full potential.
The first step then in walking the path of cleansing yourself and this world is taking the actions where you can effectively include your true being into your life, even if that means drawing the line, cutting ties and distancing yourself from others. In a time when we desperately need to overcome alienation and create community, this seems counterintuitive. But this is how we create community. First you need to accept yourself into it, and the community needs to be that: a community that accepts you. Start that community where you are accepted. Once in that process, we can continue onto the next step.
2. Accepting others.
In the path where you are finally defending your uniqueness, accepting others that are still in the "othering" mentality is a challenge. Communities are that, a gathering of diverse beings, not a replication of the same individuals. Accepting yourself, and accepting others, is also accepting reality and finding a peaceful and clean place amidst the noise and the mess. Inevitably this means cleansing other people's shit, that's the shit we must deal with. So deal with it.
Citando a Julian Katari del 28/09/2026, 4:57 pmAssimilation.
If your seed is not dead—if you are here, flowing directly with these words—then water must inevitably touch you, and with that contact, you will grow. Water in this pass is like an undesired, toxic, negative substance that unavoidably wrecks, dissolves, and transforms everything around you and everything you claim to be, so that genuine growth can finally ignite. A violent downpour is rarely welcome, yet it remains absolute in its necessity: it carves the mountains, feeds the dry streams, and forces the dormant seed to rupture.
Immediately after the initial step of planting the seed comes the sudden arrival of the waters. The moment you make a true commitment, karma engulfs you and begins to move you—whether you consent or not. Unforeseen situations and volatile energies rise up all around you specifically to catalyze this disruption. You may feel thoroughly overwhelmed. These external nuisances feel toxic, intrusive, and hostile at first, triggering a primal urge to dodge them, retreat, and isolate yourself.
This exact mechanism will manifest across our entire civilization. The wars we are subjected to, the cascading crises ripping through this world—these forces can be temporarily side-stepped or delayed, but they will inevitably accumulate until they wash over us completely, releasing us forcibly from an unsustainable model of existence, regardless of how many lives it costs along the way.
What you must master today is the capacity to assimilate the negativity surrounding you—everything that surfaces to shatter your artificial peace. You are called to face and attend to every single thing that demands your presence, no matter how overwhelming the flood feels. This initiation forges and templates your capacity to make clean cuts, establish structural order, and move with lethal swiftness through chaos—discerning precisely what warrants your focus and shedding every useless distraction.
Through this process, true toxicity is sifted out. Certain elements that appear dirty or threatening will tempt you to throw them away or push them outside your perimeter, only for them to gather momentum and crash back down upon you with double the force. Today’s lesson strips away the delusion that order is achieved through separation, isolation, or exclusion. Real order is achieved solely through assimilation—the realization that all waters are ultimately one single ocean, and we are all submerged in the exact same current.
Everything is dynamic. Everything is fluid. There is no static solidity anywhere in this cosmos.
Toj (Payment) represents the sacred fire, payment, spiritual offering, karmic balance, emotional purification, the principle of cause and effect, debt resolution, and the cosmic waters that cleanse and re-align life. Toj is the primary altar where offerings are burned to restore balance with the ancestors and the Earth, while also embodying the rainstorms and heavy waters that wash away decay. Paired with the frequency of the Number 2—Kaib', representing duality, polarity, opposition, relationships, contrast, and the complementary forces of existence—this day brings the planted seed into direct contact with the external world of friction, opposition, and karmic pressure.
To embody Kaib' Toj is to stop fighting the storm and instead digest the friction of life as raw fuel for your evolution. Emerging directly from the initial planting of 1 Q'anil, this second step of the trecena demands that you pay your dues to reality. The seed has been sown into the dark earth; now, the heavy waters of Toj arrive to test its structural integrity, balance its debts, and force its shell to crack open through the power of assimilation.
RESEARCH
The word Toj (pronounced Toh-kh with a breathy or glottalized j, historically written as Toh, Toj, or Tohil, and known as Muluc in Yucatec Maya) is a foundational term in K'iche' and Highland Maya languages. It centers directly on the cosmic law of reciprocity, balance, payment, and cleansing.
Morphological Breakdown
The term derives from Proto-Mayan roots associated with settling accounts, making restitution, and offering tributive warmth:
Toj- (Root Verb / Noun): To pay, to compensate, to render an offering, or to settle a debt.
Tojoj / Tojij (Verb Form): To pay for something, to compensate, or to make a sacred offering.
Tojanik (Action Noun): The act of paying, liquidating a debt, or making a ceremonial sacrifice.
Toj (Literal Synthesis): Payment, Offering, Tribute, Penalty, or Restitution.
Core & Literal Meanings
In Highland Maya culture, ceremonial traditions, and everyday linguistics, Toj encompasses four core dimensions:
Sacred Fire & Offering (Xukulem / Toj): The material and spiritual offering burned at the Mayan altar (tab'al)—resin, copal, candles, and sweet wood—to pay gratitude, ask forgiveness, and balance human existence with the cosmos.
Karmic Payment / Settlement of Debt (Tojanik): The physical or energetic currency required to balance cause and effect. It is the understanding that nothing in life is free; every benefit demands a corresponding payment or discipline.
The Cleansing Water / Downpour (Jab' / Toj): Symbolically tied to heavy rains, storms, and tears that clean the earth, wash away stagnant energy, and restore environmental equilibrium.
Suffering & Purification (K'axk'ol): Pain, illness, or trial viewed not as random punishment, but as a dynamic process of energetic debt-clearing and purification.
Uses in Everyday Speech (Common Language)
In daily K'iche' conversation, regional Guatemalan Spanish, and transactional speech, Toj functions literally in financial, social, and practical contexts:
1. Commerce & Financial Transactions
Toj_ik: "To pay" or "the payment" (e.g., paying for goods at a market or settling a bill).
Nu-tojom: "I have paid it" or "it is settled."
K'o rajawaxik katoj: "You need to pay" / "There is an outstanding payment."
2. Social Obligations & Gratitude
Tojbal: "Recompense", "wage", "reward", or "price" (the tangible item or monetary amount used to clear a debt).
Maltyox che ri tojbal: "Thank you for the payment / compensation."
Uses in Ceremonial, Esoteric, and Idiomatic Discourse (Not So Common / Specialized Language)
In Mayajep (traditional timekeeping), Ajq'ijab' (daykeepers') discourse, high ceremonial K'iche', and esoteric philosophy, Toj expands into profound cosmological concepts:
1. Spiritual & Cosmic Terminology
Tojil: The ancient K'iche' patron deity of sacred fire, thunder, rain, and sacrifice—the deity who required tribute in exchange for fire and warmth.
Uk'u'x Toj: "Heart of the Offering" / "Soul of the Fire" (referring to the underlying intention and sincerity behind a sacrifice or spiritual payment).
Toj k'aslemal: "Payment of life" or "Life tribute" (referring to the unavoidable emotional, physical, or spiritual dues one pays through work, hardship, or service to sustain existence).
2. Metaphorical & Idiomatic Expressions
Tojbal k'ax: "Payment for suffering / Restitution" (a traditional phrase used when offering prayers to resolve family conflict, physical illness, or ancestral debts).
Tojil ja': "The rain of retribution / Cleansing waters" (a poetic description of a sudden storm or life crisis that breaks through stagnancy to clear overdue karmic accounts).
Toj k'as: "To pay an unpaid debt" (idiomatically used when a person undergoes unexpected hardship that cleanses a past mistake or imbalance).
Assimilation.
If your seed is not dead—if you are here, flowing directly with these words—then water must inevitably touch you, and with that contact, you will grow. Water in this pass is like an undesired, toxic, negative substance that unavoidably wrecks, dissolves, and transforms everything around you and everything you claim to be, so that genuine growth can finally ignite. A violent downpour is rarely welcome, yet it remains absolute in its necessity: it carves the mountains, feeds the dry streams, and forces the dormant seed to rupture.
Immediately after the initial step of planting the seed comes the sudden arrival of the waters. The moment you make a true commitment, karma engulfs you and begins to move you—whether you consent or not. Unforeseen situations and volatile energies rise up all around you specifically to catalyze this disruption. You may feel thoroughly overwhelmed. These external nuisances feel toxic, intrusive, and hostile at first, triggering a primal urge to dodge them, retreat, and isolate yourself.
This exact mechanism will manifest across our entire civilization. The wars we are subjected to, the cascading crises ripping through this world—these forces can be temporarily side-stepped or delayed, but they will inevitably accumulate until they wash over us completely, releasing us forcibly from an unsustainable model of existence, regardless of how many lives it costs along the way.
What you must master today is the capacity to assimilate the negativity surrounding you—everything that surfaces to shatter your artificial peace. You are called to face and attend to every single thing that demands your presence, no matter how overwhelming the flood feels. This initiation forges and templates your capacity to make clean cuts, establish structural order, and move with lethal swiftness through chaos—discerning precisely what warrants your focus and shedding every useless distraction.
Through this process, true toxicity is sifted out. Certain elements that appear dirty or threatening will tempt you to throw them away or push them outside your perimeter, only for them to gather momentum and crash back down upon you with double the force. Today’s lesson strips away the delusion that order is achieved through separation, isolation, or exclusion. Real order is achieved solely through assimilation—the realization that all waters are ultimately one single ocean, and we are all submerged in the exact same current.
Everything is dynamic. Everything is fluid. There is no static solidity anywhere in this cosmos.
Toj (Payment) represents the sacred fire, payment, spiritual offering, karmic balance, emotional purification, the principle of cause and effect, debt resolution, and the cosmic waters that cleanse and re-align life. Toj is the primary altar where offerings are burned to restore balance with the ancestors and the Earth, while also embodying the rainstorms and heavy waters that wash away decay. Paired with the frequency of the Number 2—Kaib', representing duality, polarity, opposition, relationships, contrast, and the complementary forces of existence—this day brings the planted seed into direct contact with the external world of friction, opposition, and karmic pressure.
To embody Kaib' Toj is to stop fighting the storm and instead digest the friction of life as raw fuel for your evolution. Emerging directly from the initial planting of 1 Q'anil, this second step of the trecena demands that you pay your dues to reality. The seed has been sown into the dark earth; now, the heavy waters of Toj arrive to test its structural integrity, balance its debts, and force its shell to crack open through the power of assimilation.
RESEARCH
The word Toj (pronounced Toh-kh with a breathy or glottalized j, historically written as Toh, Toj, or Tohil, and known as Muluc in Yucatec Maya) is a foundational term in K'iche' and Highland Maya languages. It centers directly on the cosmic law of reciprocity, balance, payment, and cleansing.
Morphological Breakdown
The term derives from Proto-Mayan roots associated with settling accounts, making restitution, and offering tributive warmth:
-
Toj- (Root Verb / Noun): To pay, to compensate, to render an offering, or to settle a debt.
-
Tojoj / Tojij (Verb Form): To pay for something, to compensate, or to make a sacred offering.
-
Tojanik (Action Noun): The act of paying, liquidating a debt, or making a ceremonial sacrifice.
-
Toj (Literal Synthesis): Payment, Offering, Tribute, Penalty, or Restitution.
Core & Literal Meanings
In Highland Maya culture, ceremonial traditions, and everyday linguistics, Toj encompasses four core dimensions:
-
Sacred Fire & Offering (Xukulem / Toj): The material and spiritual offering burned at the Mayan altar (tab'al)—resin, copal, candles, and sweet wood—to pay gratitude, ask forgiveness, and balance human existence with the cosmos.
-
Karmic Payment / Settlement of Debt (Tojanik): The physical or energetic currency required to balance cause and effect. It is the understanding that nothing in life is free; every benefit demands a corresponding payment or discipline.
-
The Cleansing Water / Downpour (Jab' / Toj): Symbolically tied to heavy rains, storms, and tears that clean the earth, wash away stagnant energy, and restore environmental equilibrium.
-
Suffering & Purification (K'axk'ol): Pain, illness, or trial viewed not as random punishment, but as a dynamic process of energetic debt-clearing and purification.
Uses in Everyday Speech (Common Language)
In daily K'iche' conversation, regional Guatemalan Spanish, and transactional speech, Toj functions literally in financial, social, and practical contexts:
1. Commerce & Financial Transactions
-
Toj_ik: "To pay" or "the payment" (e.g., paying for goods at a market or settling a bill).
-
Nu-tojom: "I have paid it" or "it is settled."
-
K'o rajawaxik katoj: "You need to pay" / "There is an outstanding payment."
2. Social Obligations & Gratitude
-
Tojbal: "Recompense", "wage", "reward", or "price" (the tangible item or monetary amount used to clear a debt).
-
Maltyox che ri tojbal: "Thank you for the payment / compensation."
Uses in Ceremonial, Esoteric, and Idiomatic Discourse (Not So Common / Specialized Language)
In Mayajep (traditional timekeeping), Ajq'ijab' (daykeepers') discourse, high ceremonial K'iche', and esoteric philosophy, Toj expands into profound cosmological concepts:
1. Spiritual & Cosmic Terminology
-
Tojil: The ancient K'iche' patron deity of sacred fire, thunder, rain, and sacrifice—the deity who required tribute in exchange for fire and warmth.
-
Uk'u'x Toj: "Heart of the Offering" / "Soul of the Fire" (referring to the underlying intention and sincerity behind a sacrifice or spiritual payment).
-
Toj k'aslemal: "Payment of life" or "Life tribute" (referring to the unavoidable emotional, physical, or spiritual dues one pays through work, hardship, or service to sustain existence).
2. Metaphorical & Idiomatic Expressions
-
Tojbal k'ax: "Payment for suffering / Restitution" (a traditional phrase used when offering prayers to resolve family conflict, physical illness, or ancestral debts).
-
Tojil ja': "The rain of retribution / Cleansing waters" (a poetic description of a sudden storm or life crisis that breaks through stagnancy to clear overdue karmic accounts).
-
Toj k'as: "To pay an unpaid debt" (idiomatically used when a person undergoes unexpected hardship that cleanses a past mistake or imbalance).