Aztec and Maya Calendar
In the tonalpohualli, the sacred Aztec calendar, Saturday December 22, 1962 is:
Xihuitl:
solar year
3 - Acatl (reed)
Xiuhpohualli:
365-day calendar
5 - Tozoztontli (III)
Long Count:
Mayan calendar
12.17.9.4.18
(Correlation: Alfonso Caso - Nicholson's veintena alignment [adjust])
The significance of this day
7-Tecpatl is a day for the feast of the Corn Goddess Chicomecoatl, Seven Snake.
Day Tecpatl (Stone Knife, known as Etznab in Maya) is governed by Chalchihuihtotolin, the Jewelled Fowl, as its provider of tonalli (Shadow Soul) life energy. Tecpatl is a day of grave ordeals, a day of trials and tribulations. It is a good day to test one's character, a bad day to rest on one's past accomplishments or reputation. Tecpatl warns that the mind, the spirit, must be sharpened like the glass blade which cuts to the marrow of truth
The thirteen day period (trecena) that starts with day 1-Malinalli (Grass) is ruled by Mayahuel, Goddess of the Maguey and Pulque. These are 13 days of intoxication, infatuation, excitement and passion: it is a time of excesses, when moderation is impossible, and so is often a time of disastrous consequences. This trecena signifies those times when we are incapable of protecting ourselves from high emotions. It is a time when affairs of war and affairs of the heart are born without thinking. These days are clouded in confusion: only the most self-disciplined warrior can suffer an excess of success without incuring sudden loss. These are good days to bind the community together; bad days to sow discord and discontent.
Ralph Fiennes was born on day 7-Tecpatl.
Aztec facts
The conqueror Hernán Cortés arrived on the eastern shores of the Aztec empire in the year 1-Acatl (1519). It had been predicted that on such a year Quetzalcoatl would return from the east to retake his rightful share of the throne. This belief probably weakend the defense of the Aztecs.