10 Kawok
Yucatec: 10 Kawak
West· Blackrenewal · release · birth · cleansing · change
Key energies in the K'iche' highland tradition.
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Kawok is the energy of the rain that washes away what has outlived itself and makes room for the new.
In the K'iche' highland tradition, Kawok is held as rain and sometimes as storm, closely linked to the image of the midwife who tends the new into life. You might sense today how something you have carried for a long while is being washed away.
Kawok can feel turbulent, yet the movement serves what is coming. As the rain calls the seed to sprout, this energy can prepare the conditions in which fresh life is allowed to rise.
The gift of letting the old and worn go, so new growth can find its place.
When the storm feels rough, you might invite yourself to trust it as a clearing, rather than bracing against it.
What is ready to be washed away now, so something new in you can find room?
Ten is community, two hands coming together as one.
In the K'iche' highland tradition the ten fingers of two hands stand for togetherness, for cooperation and the order of living among others. This number can offer you groundedness while also carrying a quiet tenderness beneath the surface. This day may invite you to connect with others and to find your footing in what is shared.
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.