Notes on the MAYAN 13 MOON CALENDAR
of NATURAL TIME
The
13 Moon Calendar is composed of a solar calendar of 365
days, called the Haab, combined with
a 260 day calendar called the Tzolkin.
This Tzolkin is based on Dr Jose Arguelles life’s work, and is distinct from
the traditional Tzolkinas taught and followed by the Quiche Maya of Guatemala.
The source is the ancient Mayan culture of Yucatan which was very advanced in
its knowledge of the time cycles; they knew things that modern technology has
only just discovered, seemingly being able to view the solar system from above.
The calendar they designed remains the most accurate in the world - not once
has it needed to be adjusted, unlike the present Gregorian Calendar which is
not only inaccurate, it is arbitrary and irregular, lacking any correspondence
to any cycles of nature. The 12 month calendar hides the reality of the 13
full moons in the solar year, and has distorted and disconnected people’s
consciousness and understanding of the natural world to such an extent that the
number 13 is now surrounded by superstition and taboo, permeated with cultural
antiquities like the social anxiety around ‘Friday the Thirteenth’. Humans once
had an entirely different relationship to the number 13, actually revering it
as the key to time itself. Thirteen is the Mayan galactic prime number, the
force of the universal movement of creation; together with the number 20 it is
the base of the Tzolkin Calendar. Following such calendars allows you to
re-synchronising yourself with natural time, as humans have done since before
we were human.
All
ancient peoples around the world observed the 13 times
that the moon orbits the Earth in the solar year, which in turn synchronised
with women’s menstruations, and most cultures logically began their year from
the shortest day, ie the winter solstice. As a marker for the commencement of
the New Year, the Mayans used the one day of the year that the Sun and Sirius
rises on the horizon at exactly the same time and exactly the same place – July
26; at that unique moment, the Earth, Sun and Sirius are aligned. Each month
consists of 28 days (four seven-day weeks) which amounts to 364 days in a year.
The day that remains, July 25th, was called by the Mayans the Day Out Of Time, the day between the
years that connects them. It is still celebrated as a holiday of connections;
the old is released and intentions for the New Year are set.
The
260-day calendar and the 365-day calendar exist
simultaneously like a wheel within a wheel, one with 260 teeth and one with 365
teeth. When the 260-wheel (the Tzolkin) has turned around once, the 365 wheel
still has 105 teeth to go. After 52 years, the first day of the Tzolkin
coincides again with the first day of the Annual Calendar. The Maya call a 52
year old person ‘an elder’ – they have completed the first cycle of their life,
and by then have become wise in their culture.
The
260 days Galactic Calendar consists of 13 Tones, marked as a
dot-bar notation, and 20 Solar Seals, each accorded a totem, giving the 13 x 20
combination of 260. Each combination is called a ‘kin’, the smallest possible
part of the entire calendar structure that still carries all the
characteristics of the creation. Every kin has its own unique energy and
function. There are several cultural overlays to the Mayan Calendar and many
cycles within cycles, the smallest being the cycle of four, determined by the
weeks of the month and the four directions, a fractal of the year cycle called
a Harmonic or a Time Cell. It begins in the East and each direction (week) has its
own colour, quality and power: East is red with the power of initiation, North
is white with the power of refinement, West is blue with the power of
transformation and South is yellow with the power of ripening. Another overlay
is the Galactic Activation ‘Portal’ days, 52 days where connection with the
source, the heart of the Milky Way, is most active and intense; they all form a
pattern in the schematic of the calendar called ‘The Loom of Maya’. The ‘Core Days’ form the central spine of the
Tzolkin, being 20 special days when energy is strongly focussed on the present
moment.
The
Mayans identified a 13-day week wave called a
‘Wavespell’. Practitioners learn to ‘surf’ this natural undulation by following
13 steps. In the beginning of a wave, it is pushed forward – it rises and gets
bigger and bigger until it collapses under its own weight, breaks and dissolves
back into the ocean. The first phase (1-4) establishes a basis of action -
energy is being organised (as water is collected beneath the surface). At 5 the
water rises and can been seen above the surface, and keeps rising (6-9)
reaching its highest point at 10, and disperses from 10-12 – the water spreads
out and the surface is smooth again at 13, a moment of silence. The corner
points of the Wavespell are the ‘Towers’ where a change of direction in the
process of creation takes place – it is a magical point, where the 4th
dimension intervenes – the pulsar of time.
This process of 13 steps or ‘Tones’ is a natural wave that can be found
everywhere in the macro and micro worlds. The Wavespell is a fractal: a series
of 13 days, a year of 13 moons, and a series of 13 years. It begins and
completes a process of creation – from Tone 13 you go to a new beginning at
Tone 1, which may be a higher level of the same process of creation.
Everything
in the universe, on some level, has the same rhythm of
unfolding and is therefore related by a form of synchronistic correspondence.
By living to this calendar, you become attuned to the very heart of the Milky
Way, called the Hunab K’u. Once
attuned to all these natural cycles, things begin to happen that you previously
thought coincidences - that’s when you know you’re on the right frequency!
What is the 13 Moon Calendar?
More than ten years ago, approaching the end of the Cold War, an event of unprecedented unity took place on this planet, on August 16 and 17, 1987. This was the famous Harmonic Convergence World Peace Meditation. The man known as Jose Arguelles, Ph.D., and his wife Lloydine, organized the event worldwide. Already an accomplished educator, artist, and author of various books on history and aesthetics, Jose Arguelles' The Mayan Factor, became an international best seller. Together with his wife, based on their discovery of the Law of Time (1989-1998), the Arguelles have called for the most radical of all revolutions to save our planet and the future of humanity: A Revolution of Time.
Harmonic Convergence was the revelation and fulfillment of the prophecy of Quetzalcoatl, known as the Prophecy of Thirteen Heavens and Nine Hells, after which humanity would know a new time of peace unlike anything before. The Hell Cycle culminated on August 16, 1987, while on August 17, 1987 marked the beginning of the 25-Year closeout of the 5,125-Year Great Cycle Of History and the 26,000-Year evolutionary cycle, ending in 2012-2013.
Correcting for the irregular standard of the Gregorian Twelve-Month Calendar, the Thirteen Moon 28-Day Perpetual Calendar is an even standard of measure based on the female biological cycle. Advocating a global conversion to the calendar has been the Arguelles' mission for the past decade. As Coordinators of the World Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement, they have circled the globe with their message of the return to natural time. To promote the cause of the Calendar Change, they have convened: the First Planetary Congress of Biospheric Rights (1996, Brasilia, Brazil); The First World Peace (Mexico City, 1996); the World Congress on the Law of Time (Tokyo, Japan, 1997); and, to be held this summer, the World Summit on Peace and Time (University for Peace, Costa Rica, 1999). Since both the Vatican (1961) and the United Nations (1956) have already proposed a need for calendar reform, the Arguelles' Calendar Change Peace Plan calls for planetary unification in the new time on July 26, 1999.
* Time is of the mind. Change your calendar, change your time. Change your time and change your mind.
* Time is the unifying field that holds things together. The Law of Time states that there is one timing frequency that unifies the whole galactic order from it's largest constituent to it's smallest. This frequency is the 13:20 ratio.
* The mathematics of the Mayan Calendar reveal the universal mathematics of the Fourth Dimension. The Maya mathematically knew the correct timing cycles of nature. The mathematics of the correct timing cycles of nature are not Mayan, but are universal laws of nature.
* The launching of the Industrial Age was a function of the 12:60 timing frequency (irregular twelve-month calendar and mechanical 60-minute hour). The Scientific Revolution began in 1618, when the belief that God was a clock maker and the universe, a giant clock. The scientist's mission was to figure out how the universe works and to create the Industrial Revolution. In this way, today's materialism was born.
* Peace is a spiritual problem, not a political one. If we change our time now, before the Millennium, we might make it, because we will soon enter a new path of spiritual and mental evolution in tune with the galactic universal cycles of nature, Heaven on Earth.
* The World 13 Moon Movement is a Revolution in Time. The only genuine revolution is a revolution in time. To know the nature of time is to know the time of nature. To know by the natural time that the time in which we live is incorrect is to know the correct time for action. The revolution of time is time itself.
* The Great Calendar change of 1999 is a turning point. It is truly in accord with time and the nature of time itself. The revolution in time is the mother of all revolutions. It is also the most thoroughly spiritual revolution in all of history, the revolution to end history. The revolution of time is already prepared in the great seasons of change which govern the order of life in the universe and on Earth. The World Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement has paced itself according to the great seasonal change that is now upon us.
"Truth is Love. Tolerance is Justice. Peace is Forever."
Valum Votan and Bolon lk
For More Information, Please Contact:
PAN Portland, P.O. Box 6413, Portland, OR 97228
Phone: (503) 219-9928; Fax: (503) 219-9927
e-mail: pan@thirteenmoon.org
The
Galactic Calendar is based on the Tzolkin, the sacred 260
day time count of the Maya, which is attuned to the natural cycles of the human
body and the cycles of the Earth, Moon and Sun, including the cycle of the
Earth as it relates to the constellation of Pleiades. The Maya knew that the
Earth had three orbits; around its own axis every 24 hours, around the sun
every year, and together with the Sun, a 26,000 year orbit around Alcyone, the
central sun of the Pleiades, called the Precessional Cycle. The Tzolkin is a
fractal of this cycle, a small part that contains all the characteristics of
the entire Precessional Cycle. For the ancient Maya, their relationship with
the Milky Way Galaxy of stars was part of their everyday reality. Uncannily, we
too are familiar with the 260-day cycle, as this is the length of the average
human pregnancy; we may have forgotten about this primal life-cycle, but we
carry this information in our bodies and consciousness. The 260 days also has
an agricultural correspondence to the time between the planting and harvesting
of corn at certain elevations in the highlands, and a religious correspondence
timing the shrine ceremonies in the hills around Mayan villages. Its astronomical uses include the tracking of
the phases of the moon, the prediction of eclipses (2 cycles of 260 days equal
520 days which equals 3 eclipses) as well as tracking Venus (its appearance as
a morning star to its appearance as an evening star is 260 days). Together, the
Haab and the Tzolkin create a framework of days like a loom on which the
movements of Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune can be tracked; it is a
sacred-secular solar-lunar synthesis.
In
the 13 Moon Calendar, each Moon has its own totem animal.
The sequence of the Moons corresponds to the sequence of the 13 Mayan
constellations. More can be discovered about the meaning and energy of each
Moon phase by studying the characteristics of the animals – this cultural
overlay, in which is embedded codes for living a good life, is reflected in
many other ancient cultures. More can be discovered about the meaning and
energies of the 13 Moons by studying the characteristics of each moon’s totem
animal.
The 13 Moon,
28-day calendar is a new standard of time for all people everywhere who desire
a genuinely new world. If the calendar and time we follow is irregular,
artificial and mechanized, so becomes our mind. As is our mind, so our world
becomes, as is our world today: Irregular, artificial and mechanized. But if
the calendar we follow is harmonic and in tune with natural cycles, so also
will our mind become, and so we may return to a way of life more spiritual and
in harmony with nature.
The 13 Moon
calendar synchronizes solar and galactic cycles on July 26 correlating with the star
Sirius. Each of the 13 moons has a power, action, and quality which
define an annual program to synchronize our consciousness with the galactic
cycles.
As a perfect
measure of cosmic time, this calendar is actually a synchronometer, an instrument for measuring
synchronicity. Followed daily, it gives us a new lens in which to perceive
events. In the New Time, synchronicity is the norm.
The 13 Moon
28-day synchronometer is a harmonic timespace matrix. It takes the moon 28 days
to orbit the Earth; it makes this orbit 13 times each year. The standard of
measure is the 28-day cycle, called a moon, because it is the median between
the 29.5-day synodic cycle of the moon (new moon to new moon) and the 27.1-day
sidereal cycle of the moon. Hence, it is a measure of Earth’s solar orbit using
the 28-day lunar standard. This creates a perfect orbital measure of 13 moons
of 28 days, totaling 364 days, or 52 perfect weeks of 7 days each. Because the
365th day is no day of the moon or week at all, it is known as the “day out of time” - a day to celebrate peace
through culture and time is art!
"The
Thirteen Moon calendar is an evolutionary tool to assist humanity in the
unprecedented act of uniting itself on one issue central to its complete
well-being: time. The harmonic convergence of humanity on this one issue,
combined with the inescapable order, perfection and simplicity of following the
13 Moon calendar will lift the species as a simultaneous whole into the
galactic timing frequency of 13:20."
José Argüelles/Valum Votan, The Call of Pacal
Votan
The World 13 Moon Calendar Peace Movement
More than ten years ago, approaching the end of the Cold War, an event of unprecedented unity took place on this planet, on August 16 and 17, 1987. This was the famous Harmonic Convergence World Peace Meditation. The man known as Jose Arguelles, Ph.D., and his wife Lloydine, organized the event worldwide. Already an accomplished educator, artist, and author of various books on history and aesthetics, Jose Arguelles' The Mayan Factor, became an international best seller. Together with his wife, based on their discovery of the Law of Time (1989-1998), the Arguelles have called for the most radical of all revolutions to save our planet and the future of humanity: A Revolution of Time.
Harmonic Convergence was the revelation and fulfillment of the prophecy of Quetzalcoatl, known as the Prophecy of Thirteen Heavens and Nine Hells, after which humanity would know a new time of peace unlike anything before. The Hell Cycle culminated on August 16, 1987, while on August 17, 1987 marked the beginning of the 25-Year closeout of the 5,125-Year Great Cycle Of History and the 26,000-Year evolutionary cycle, ending in 2012-2013.
Correcting for the irregular standard of the Gregorian Twelve-Month Calendar, the Thirteen Moon 28-Day Perpetual Calendar is an even standard of measure based on the female biological cycle. Advocating a global conversion to the calendar has been the Arguelles' mission for the past decade. As Coordinators of the World Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement, they have circled the globe with their message of the return to natural time. To promote the cause of the Calendar Change, they have convened: the First Planetary Congress of Biospheric Rights (1996, Brasilia, Brazil); The First World Peace (Mexico City, 1996); the World Congress on the Law of Time (Tokyo, Japan, 1997); and, to be held this summer, the World Summit on Peace and Time (University for Peace, Costa Rica, 1999). Since both the Vatican (1961) and the United Nations (1956) have already proposed a need for calendar reform, the Arguelles' Calendar Change Peace Plan calls for planetary unification in the new time on July 26, 1999.
* Time is of the mind. Change your calendar, change your time. Change your time and change your mind.
* Time is the unifying field that holds things together. The Law of Time states that there is one timing frequency that unifies the whole galactic order from it's largest constituent to it's smallest. This frequency is the 13:20 ratio.
* The mathematics of the Mayan Calendar reveal the universal mathematics of the Fourth Dimension. The Maya mathematically knew the correct timing cycles of nature. The mathematics of the correct timing cycles of nature are not Mayan, but are universal laws of nature.
* The launching of the Industrial Age was a function of the 12:60 timing frequency (irregular twelve-month calendar and mechanical 60-minute hour). The Scientific Revolution began in 1618, when the belief that God was a clock maker and the universe, a giant clock. The scientist's mission was to figure out how the universe works and to create the Industrial Revolution. In this way, today's materialism was born.
* Peace is a spiritual problem, not a political one. If we change our time now, before the Millennium, we might make it, because we will soon enter a new path of spiritual and mental evolution in tune with the galactic universal cycles of nature, Heaven on Earth.
* The World 13 Moon Movement is a Revolution in Time. The only genuine revolution is a revolution in time. To know the nature of time is to know the time of nature. To know by the natural time that the time in which we live is incorrect is to know the correct time for action. The revolution of time is time itself.
* The Great Calendar change of 1999 is a turning point. It is truly in accord with time and the nature of time itself. The revolution in time is the mother of all revolutions. It is also the most thoroughly spiritual revolution in all of history, the revolution to end history. The revolution of time is already prepared in the great seasons of change which govern the order of life in the universe and on Earth. The World Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement has paced itself according to the great seasonal change that is now upon us.
"Truth is Love. Tolerance is Justice. Peace is Forever."
Valum Votan and Bolon lk
For More Information, Please Contact:
PAN Portland, P.O. Box 6413, Portland, OR 97228
Phone: (503) 219-9928; Fax: (503) 219-9927
e-mail: pan@thirteenmoon.org
