The energy of 10 Kej brings a day where the assistance we provide through stretching out our hands to offer our strength to our community will be greatly enhanced. –Mark Elmy
Pronunciation: “Kehgh” Direction: East Sacred Animal: Deer, Stag, Horse Energy Places: Forests, Mountains Colors: Beige, Yellow, Red, Black, White Body Parts: Arms, Feet Yucatec:: Manik’ Mexica: Mazatl
Kej Glyph: The glyph represents a closed hand creating a circuit of energy that charges the four cardinal points, as represented by the four fingers, boosted by the thumb. –Carlos Barrios
Kej: Embodying stability and balance, Kej is the nawal of the four cardinal points of the Earth and represents the four primary elements of earth, water, fire, and air. It also carries the four states of the human experience and the four colors of humanity: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual, and the colors of yellow, white, red, and black.
On Kej days, the Maya pray for harmony throughout the natural world and among all human beings–these are propitious days to ask for strength to avoid betrayal and handle the difficulties in our lives. –Brigitte Rasine
Diana’s Observations:
Kej—nawal of the mighty stag—joins today with the contractual, cooperative force of Power 10, energizing leadership and collective frameworks. Kej’s authoritative resilience and inner drive inform how power manifests, whether guiding or enforcing aims. The energy of 10 intensifies its determination within group contexts, shaping agreements and rules that bind communities together. 10 Kej marks a day when the spiritual strength—and weight—of collective contracts, laws, and alliances come to the forefront.
Amid the Tijax Trecena’s purifying, truth-seeking energies, 10 Kej draws attention to the motivations and foundations beneath social agreements. This day reveals how gatherings of hearts and minds can bring hidden dynamics to light and shape concrete outcomes. Kej lends strength and stability to intentions and growth, while 10 channels its force into leadership and cooperative interaction. At its best, 10 Kej calls for impeccability and integrity in wielding power, encouraging social responsibility, clear communication, and mutual balance.
On the shadow side, Kej’s stubbornness and dominance can lead to misused authority, while its determined nature may provoke impulsive actions that distort intentions and ignite power struggles. Combined with the assertive influence of 10, there can be a tendency to cling to status or control, potentially undermining collective stability and a shared sense of purpose. The key today is to draw on the stag’s spiritual strength and stabilizing presence, establishing foundations of truth to cultivate clarity within cooperation.
Ultimately, this day invites the cultivation of peace, beauty, and stability within the pillars that uphold spirit and nurture love—across physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual realms. As Tijax’s healing blade cuts through distortion, 10 Kej encourages devotion to true companionship, communal coherence, and agreements anchored in authenticity and shared vision. In this, the leadership of Kej finds its highest expression: building foundations that not only endure, but uplift and unite.
Practical Applications & Programming of the Day:
Auspicious for: Connecting with nature; grounding and recharging outdoors; strength or movement practices; intentions for stability; honoring commitments; leadership and collaboration; mentorship; receiving and applying guidance; progressing with projects; honoring boundaries; developing physical agility; moving forward with contracts, agreements, or negotiations; seeking justice and balance in legal or work meetings; fostering fairness and integrity in decisions
The stag is a symbol of vitality, manliness, elegance, instinct, maturity regeneration, and spiritual enlightenment. Among the animals, the male deer is revered. They are wise and seasoned with huge antler crowns on their shoulders that they’ve conquered in life.
The male deer are reclusive in nature, and this makes them appear out of nowhere only when we need them the most. A stag can also be seen as a symbol of strength, power, and authority. The deer’s antlers emblems of male fertility. They are often considered to have wisdom beyond their years due to living longer than human beings.
Stags respect boundaries and laws set by humans so they remind us about our social obligations, duties, responsibilities, time, and schedules. We may feel the stag spirit animal is showing up in our lives to remind us about some of these things, so we need to pay attention to where boundaries are set and follow them without question.
Observations by Mayan Spiritual Guides:
10 Kej Today, the strength and determination afforded by the nawal Kej are combined with the number representing the joining of hands. It is a day to play an active role in strengthening your community.
Kej is known as the strongest of the nawales, this is part of what gives it the energy to lead. Whilst the energy of Kej can be quite domineering, leaders can only retain their position if people follow them, and people will only follow them if there are some benefits to it. So whilst Kej gives a very driven energy, it does tend to be moving in a beneficial direction.
The number 10 represents community and cooperation, two hands coming together. In true community this should give rise to both giving and receiving equally amongst members of the community. Sometimes we have excess and sometimes we are deficient, our abilities and actions depend on which state we are in. –Mark Elmy
10 Kej Today the energy brings us a healing that emerges when we reach the balance of our being, it reminds us of the importance of working integrally in ourselves, for it is by finding the harmony, development, and unification of each complementary manifestation that shapes us —physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual— that we reach our wholeness and fulfillment.
On this day, Lajuj (10) Kej allows us to find strength in the processes we are navigating, in the new being we are gestating in order to express our full potential.
Let us take some time today to be with the earth, to find in our connection with her our roots and strength, to connect with the security that the day brings and feel it in our physical body, in our mind, emotions, and spirit-energy.
Let us take a moment to sense ourselves in all our expression and perceive our connection to the whole.
Let us open ourselves to realize that we have the worth, power, and capacity that we need, that we are perfect and whole, but that in order to awaken our strength and express the beautiful being that we are, we are the ones who must learn to see, feel, and recognize the immense potential we are made of. –Denise Barrios
✍🏼 Journal Prompts of the Day:
How can I contribute to shared goals in ways that honor both truth and authentic connection?
Where might I be holding too tightly to control, and how could I redirect this energy toward balanced cooperation?
In what ways do my actions cultivate true stability, integrity, and harmony within my relationships and community?
