The 20 Maya Day Signs

The tzolkin is the Maya sacred count — twenty named day energies (the nawales) cycling alongside thirteen numbered tones, together weaving the 260-day calendar that has been kept, uninterrupted, for millennia. Each nawal is a distinct quality of attention: a way of feeling, a way of starting, a way of finishing.

Below are all twenty. Tap any card to open an interactive 3D rendering of the glyph alongside a longer reading of how that energy tends to show up — as a birth-sign, as a day-energy, and as the doorway into its trecena.