Synchonicity, Serendipity, Resonance and Cycles
from How to Practice Mayan Astrology by Bruce Scofield and Barry C. Orr
Introduction
“In many ancient cosmological systems, the four directions typically for the cornerstones of the known universe, and they plan an important role in religious ritual as well. The link to astrology has to do with the fact that the sun’s daily and annual motion defines the four directions.”
“In Mesoamerican astrology, each of the twenty day signs is linked with one of the four directions in a consistent order: first day - east; second day - north; third day - west; fourth day - south.”
Ch 1 - The Sun and the Daysigns
“”…the Maya had the term kin as a reference to the sun, the day, and to time itself.”
Ch 2 - The Moon and the Trecena
[n.b. trecena = Spanish for the 13-day period]
“In one day the moon’s position relative to the background stars moves as far as the sun’s in thirteen days. It takes the moon twenty-seven to twenty-eight days to pass through the 360 degrees of the zodiac. At that rate, it covers about thirteen degrees of the zodiac in one day.”
“Ancient codices and inscriptions indicated that each of the twenty thirteen-day periods had a specific meaning that was generated by the named solar day (the day-sign) that began the period.”
Ch 3 - The Lords of Night
“A constantly repeating cycle of nine deities was recorded on many Mayan inscriptions and in nearly all the astrological codices. They are commonly called the Lords of Night, or in Mayan Bolon ti ku, which translates as “nine of them.” These ruling deities were gods of the underworld…”
[n.b. see The Nine Lords of Xibalba from Part 2, Chapter 1 of the Popol Vuh. The Nine Lords of Night are commonly designated as G-1 through G-9]
“August 11, 3114 BC, the first day of the Long Count.”
“…G-9 occurs on all tun endings, a tun being a 360-day period that is evenly divided by the number 9. The 260-day count is not evenly divided by 9; in fact, a full nine cycles of the tzolkin must run before the same Lord of Night comes up on the last day.”
9 x 260 = 2,340 Days
2,340 = 20 x 117 Days ~ synodic cycle of Mercury
117 = 9 x 13 Days
2,340 = 13 x 180 Days = 9 x 20
“…these mathematical correlations show how complex the inner workings of Mayan astro-numerology can be, and also how central the role of nine is…”
“The calendar round of fifty-two years or seventy-three tzolkin amounts to 18, 980 days.”
“This cycle of nine fifty-two-year rounds, or 468-years, is the basis of the nine ‘hells’ that supposedly began in 1519, the year Cortes arrived in Mexico…”
Ch 4 - The Years and the Year Bearers
“In ancient Mesoamerica, each solar year was given a name and was thought to have its own distinct qualities”
“Most Mayan calendars named each year for the day sign on which it began.”
“In one 365-day solar year, the twenty day-signs cycle eighteen times, with five days left over. This rotation mens that every year is named for a sign five places ahead of the previous year’s sign in the twenty-day count, and only four sings are utilized in this rotation. After four years, the first of the four signs again falls on the day that begins the new year (4 x 5 = 20). These four signs are called yearbearers…”
“Today’s Quiche Maya..use… - Caban (East), Ik (Noorth), Manik (West), and Eb (South).”
“…because the year was a quarter-day loner than 365 days, the first day of the new year gradually moved ahead of the seasons. One custom in ancient Mesoamerica was to establish the year’s beginning around a solstice or equinox and then make a full twenty day adjustment, like a leap year, every eighty-three years.”
“It appears that the Maya delineated a four-year cycle”
“…every four years, Earth, Venus, and the Sun align in similar ways on the same day of the year.”
Ch 5 - The Planet Venus
“next to the sun, Venus was the most important astronomical body to the mayan and other Mesoamerican cultures.”
“…Venus in this tradition is male.”
“[a link has been made between the deity associated with Venus, Kukulkan], and the notion of civilization itself, addressing both society’s creation as well s as destruction.”
“…Mesoamerican astrologers divided the synodic cycle of Venus into four primary parts: inferior conjunction, morning star, superior conjunction, and evening star. They began Venus’s 584-day cycle with a brief inferior conjunction, specifically with the first appearance of Venus after this invisible event”
“The inferior conjunction is quite brief… The Dresden Codex is labels this phase as North.”
“Astronomically, the approximate observalbe length of each phase is as follows: eight days for inferior conjunction…; 263 days as morning star…; 50 days for superior conjunction….; 263 as evening star.”
“The Maya…used periods that were more in phase with the lunar cycle.”
“the authors have chosen…: 8 days… 236 days… 90 days… and 250 days.”
Ch 6 Putting it Together: Individual Mayan Charts
Ch 7 The Burner Days
“The Ancient Maya kept track of a sixty-five-day rhythm.”
“The 260-day astrological calendar was traditionally divided into four sixty-five-day periods with four key day-signs standing at the boundaries of these periods.”
“The four burner dates in the 260-day astrological calendar are…. 4-Oc, 4-men, 4-Ahau, 4-Chicchan.”
“…compare this rhythm to the…semi-cardinal points in the solar calendar year… [as named by the Celts] Lammas, Beltane, Candlemas and Samhain.”
Ch 8 - The Cycle of the Thirteen Katuns
13 katuns = 260 tuns (short count)
1 tun = 360 days
“Any given katun in the cycle was always followed by a katun that was numbered two less.”
11-Ahau, 9-Ahau, 7-Ahau…2-Ahau, 13-Ahau
Ch 9 - Dispelling Myths about the Mayan Calendar
August 11 3114 BC to December 21 2012 = 5, 125.37 years = 1, 872, 000 days
“The interval of time between one of the sun’s intersections with the path of the moon adn its return to the same intersection = 346.62 days.”
346.62 x 3 = 260 x 4 (approximately)
“the synodic cycle of Mars is 780 days = 3 x 260.”
“Twenty synodic cycles of Mercury is equivalent to nine cycles of 260 days, or, 2,340 days.”
“Four synodic cycles of Venus equals nine cycles of 260-days.”
“[The] seven day week, a quarter of the lunar cycle, is actually an astrological remnant of the pre-Christian near East. In that tradition, the day itself and also the planetary hours (divisions of the day) were thought to have an astrological quality. Seven planetary rulerships were believed to cycle during each 24 hour period and the hour that began each day at dawn gave its planetary name to that day.”
Ch 10 - A Mayan Planetary Horoscope
“Using a listing of planetary conjunctions (including the moon’s) with the sun, one can determine the number of days that have elapsed since the previous conjunction of each planet with the sun. The figure can then be divided by the synodic period of each planet. next, the decimal can be multiplied by 260 to arrive at the position of the planet with in the 260-degree Mesoamerican Grid.”
“Example: the synodic cycle of sun and moon is 29.5 days. Suppose an event…occurred five days after the new moon. Dividing 5 by 29.5 gives us 0.169. When this figure is multiplied by 260, the result is 44, or the day-sign within the tzolkin that corresponds to that portion of the synodic cycle. This same process can be done for all the other planets [the synodic periods measured to one decimal place.]“
Appendix - Almanac 1920 - 2020.
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