1 K'at
Yucatec: 1 K'an
South· Yellowgathering · abundance · harvest · releasing · connection
Key energies in the K'iche' highland tradition.
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K'at is the net that gathers and multiplies, an energy of abundance and harvest that also remembers what binds us.
In the K'iche' highland tradition, K'at is the net in which harvests are still carried through the western highlands of Guatemala to this day. This energy can invite you to draw things together, whether your harvest, your ideas, or people gathered for a shared occasion.
A full net speaks of abundance, yet a net too full can also grow heavy. K'at remembers that the same net which loves to gather can also entangle us, often in too strong an attachment to outer things.
You might sense today what you gather with gratitude and what you can gently let go of, so that you grow lighter again.
The gift of gathering abundance and bringing people and ideas together.
When the net grows heavy, K'at invites you to gently loosen what binds you more than it nourishes.
What are you carrying in your net right now, and what could become lighter again?
One is the seed, the first, quiet beginning that already holds everything within it.
In the K'iche' highland tradition the One is the start of the count, the first step up the pyramid. It carries little volume but a great deal of potential, like a seed that looks small and unremarkable yet can become something far larger. There may be an energy in you today that has no shape yet, and that openness is exactly its gift.
The Maya Cross
Four further energies surround your day to form the Maya Cross, childhood, the right and left hand, and the energy of the future.
The centre of the cross is your core, the energy you are most fully arriving in right now. In the K'iche' highland tradition it is the steady ground that everything else arranges itself around, and it stays with you for life even as other winds move through. This is the place to ask what, in this season, genuinely feels like you.
This arm holds your earliest root, the energy of childhood and of the world you were born into. In the K'iche' highland tradition it is strongest at the start and quietly ebbs over the years, yet it stays as the ground beneath everything that grows later. It can invite you to look with warmth on what shaped you from the very beginning.
The right hand is your outward, doing power, the part of you that takes hold of things and becomes visible in the world. In the K'iche' highland tradition it is the practical, physical side that sets things in motion and gives them shape. It can show you the kind of action through which you most naturally express yourself.
The left hand is your receptive, quiet side, your sensing, your imagination, the part you feel more than you do. In the K'iche' highland tradition it is the intuitive, creative power that listens inward. It can invite you to trust what stirs in you without needing many words.
This arm holds the energy of your elder years, the ripened strength you grow toward with time. In the K'iche' highland tradition it builds later in life and stands for the wisdom and calm that can come once much has already been lived. It can offer you a gentle sense of the maturity you may unfold into.