Aztec and Maya Calendar

In the tonalpohualli, the sacred Aztec calendar, Thursday February 19, 2026 is:

(Correlation: Alfonso Caso - Nicholson's veintena alignment [adjust])

The significance of this day

2-Tochtli is the name day of Ometochtli, a pulque god. Pulque is the alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of the maguey (agave) plant (octli). It stands for drunkenness. People born on this day should be careful with alcoholic drinks. 2-Tochtli is an unlucky day.

Day Tochtli (Rabbit, known as Lamat in Maya) is governed by Mayahuel, Goddess of the Maguey and of Fertility, as its provider of tonalli (Shadow Soul) life energy. Tochtli is a day of self-sacrifice and service to something greater than oneself. It signifies the religious attitude which holds everything sacred and results in experiences of self-transcendence. It is a mystical day, associated by the passages of the moon. It is a good day for communing with nature and spirit, a bad day for acting against others.

The thirteen day period (trecena) that starts with day 1-Mazatl (Deer) is ruled by Tepeyollotl, the Heart of the Mountain, the Jaguar of Night, lord of the animals and darkened caves. Tepeyollotl is Tezcatlipoca disguised in a jaguar hide, whose voice is the echo in the wilderness and whose word is the darkness itself, calls to the heart in the voice of the conch. These are 13 days associated with the hunt: whether one is the hunter or the game, this trecena reminds us that our lives are determined by the act of stalking. The arts of tracking and back-tracking, of spotting and camouflaging, of following tracks and covering tracks, rule our lives to the degree that we master them. These are good days to study the routines of others; bad days to keep to your routines.