7 Aq'ab'al
Yucatec: 7 Ak'b'al
West· Blackdawn · beginning · conception · renewal · hope
Key energies in the K'iche' highland tradition.
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Aq'ab'al is the dawn and conception, the tender threshold where a dream begins to become real.
In the K'iche' highland tradition, aq'ab means night, and Aq'ab'al is the moment between dark and light where the day begins to dawn. This energy holds things not yet fully formed, the first threads of a weaving that still wants to come into being.
Like a weaver who first sees her dream and then sets up the warp, Aq'ab'al can help you carry an idea out of the realm of dreams into its first tangible steps. You may glimpse the light at the end of the path even while the single steps still lie in half-dark.
Aq'ab'al is held to be a good day to begin new things, new connections as much as new ventures drawn from the world of ideas into the light.
The courage to begin something new and the trust that the light is on its way.
When every beginning still looks blurred, Aq'ab'al invites you to take the first step without yet knowing the whole way.
Which new beginning is dawning on your horizon right now?
Seven is the summit, the highest point, where the path begins to turn.
In the K'iche' highland tradition the Seven stands at the top of the pyramid, the turning place between ascent and return. From here a great deal comes into view, and it is the very abundance of possibilities that can be hard to hold. This energy can invite you to complete one stretch of the way with awareness before the next one begins.
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.