A SHORT Descriptor of the Mayan Calandar

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The Tzolkin, or as I like to imagine it, the Sol-counter, or Day counter (this is probably an inaccurate translation, but IS an accurate descriptor), is the name of the 260 day Day-counter of the Mayans. There are 20 seals or "characteristics" described and 13 tones or descriptions of cosmic energies. 

Each day a new seal, set of characteristics, is "cycled through" and each seal used once in each 13-Tone cycle making a chart of 260 unique combinations that cycle through the years presenting an ever changing portrait of "things to think about."

Here is a very brief overview of how the Mayans kept their timekeeping system:

• 4-Day cycle: This is "the smallest fractal code" in this clockwork of time keeping and further help to differeintate the uniqueness of each day. They are represented by colors. As the 20 day cycle cycles through each of these colors they create five complete sets of the four colors used. These sets are called harmonics. There are 65 harmonics in a 260 day spin of the Mayan cycle of time.  Each harmonic is assigned a characteristic that further differentiates the uniqueness of each day as they cycle through the clockwork of this cycle of time.

• 5-Day cycle: These are call chromatics. Since there are only four colors utilized, these five day cycles start and end with the same color. In a 260 day spin there are 52 chromatics. Every 365 days there are 73 chromatics.

• 7-Day cycle: There are four 7-day cycles per Moon, or every 28 day period. Each of the seven days is coded with one of these seven radial plasmas roughly corresponding to the seven chakras. Each day of the seven day cycle has its own "day-name" starting at: 

the crown chakra, 

then the root, 

then the 3rd, eye, 

then the sacral, 

then the throat, 

then the solar plexus, 

then the heart.

• 13-Day cycles: Termed a wavespell, this term may be applied to any unit of measure, e.g. 13 days, or weeks, or moons or years, etc. There are 20 wavespells of 13 days per 260 day spin (20 x 13. 260). These wavespells can be diagramed easily into a kind of spiral-like diagram where each spiral is used to measure a year of months (28 -day cycles), a 1/4 year of weeks, etc. 20 wavespells of 13 days each diagram one 260 day galactic spin.
  
  
• 20-Day cycles: This represents a run of the 20 solar seals of characteristics that define a harmonic run.
  
  
• 28-day cycles: This is the usual standard in this most mathematical of timekeeping systems. A seven day cycle represents one week. Four week cycles represent one Moon, or as we call it, Month. There are 13 moons per year. 13 x 28 =364.
  
  
• 52-Day cycles: These are termed castles and this spiral-like diagram maps 52 units of what is desired – day, years, etc. In a 260-day spin there are five castles. The 365 days Solar cycle precisely matches with the Mayan cycle every 52 years to create the measure of the Solar Galactic Cycle.
  
  
• 65- Day cycles: The 260-day spin is divided into four equal 65-day cycles referred to a a galactic season. These are termed four polar earth families. Each 65-day cycle contains 13 5-day cycles, or chromatics.
  
  
• 260 Day cycles: This 260-day cycle uses the 13 tones paired with the 20 seals to generate one Tzolkin, or 260-day cycle reference of time.
  
  
• 365-Day cycles: known as a solar ring this unit that we are most familiar with is made up of 13 moons of 28 days, equaling 364 days, PLUS one day out of time that a extra day, the 365th day, the last day of the galactic year in the Mayan calendar.  On July 25th, Sirius (the dog star) rises with the sun. This day is observed as a day free of time in the 13 Moon Calendar. It is a day of reverence and cultural appreciation for the concept 'Time is Art.' This 'free day' is the closing of a 13x28=364 day year. The Day Out of Time re-aligns the 13 Moon calendar to the solar year and re-aligns humanity into renewed appreciation for our inherent divinity and connection to nature.

The 13 Moon calendar is comprised of elegantly simple cycles: the 7-day week, the 28-day Moon.  It takes the moon 28 days to orbit the Earth, and it makes these orbits 13 times every year totaling 364 days.  The 365th day of the year is called a day out of time between the yearly time in order to keep pace with the Solar calendar.  This day is called for to be a day to celebrate peace and forgiveness and to prepare for the upcoming 364 day cycle.

This short description describes what the Mayan Cycle of time describes. It is up to others to teach us how to make use of it in our lives.  You may learn more at this website: https://www.lawoftime.org/thirteenmoon/tutorial.html