4 (Kajib’): Stability • Solidity • Foundation • Structure • Material • Solar • Conscious • Security • Integrity • Durability • Balance • Natural • Elemental Pronunciation: “Kaheeb”
B’atz: Thread of Time • Arts • Performance • Beginnings • Development • Couple • Marriage • Family • Bonds • Love • Spirituality • Healing • Joy
Pronunciation: “Bahts” Direction: East Sacred Animal: Monkey Energy Places: Forests, Lakes, Clear Night Sky Colors: Red, Orange Body Parts: Blood Vessels Yucatec: Chuen Mexica: Ozomatli
B’atz Glyph: The top part of the glyph is a cone that has time rolled up in it. The cone descends to a triangle, which represents our dimension, and then to the sphere of the Earth, passing through the angles, which are the two polarities; masculine and feminine. –Carlos Barrios
B’atz symbolizes evolution, movement, motion, and development; initiation, affirmation, and favorable divination readings; intelligence and wisdom; and especially marriage and pregnancy.
B’atz is the nawal of the arts, artists, and the art of weaving, and as such, represents all concepts and elements of life related to art and weaving, from time itself–called by the Maya “the thread of life” to the life-connecting umbilical cord. –Brigitte Rasine
Diana’s Observations:
Today’s nawal of arts and bonds materializes on the physical plane, weaving symmetrical patterns of integrity and stability. While B’atz inspires joy, connection, and innovation, Power 4 secures its creative essence with concentration and durability. 4 B’atz brings our hands and focus into the fertile soils of the Q’anil Trecena, helping our seeds of ideas and intentions sprout into physical form.
B’atz offers gifts of performance, unity of ideas, and problem-solving, supporting the fulfillment of our mission and destiny. Paired with 4, this day invites practicality–putting things in order to eliminate distractions and focus our energy on the goals we’ve set. It also calls us to weave joy and patience into all undertakings.
Whether a creative project is taking shape or we’re witnessing the first stages of a solution, organization is needed to bring coherence and stability to our strategies for growth. Under the gestative influence of Q’anil, teaching us to let projects and intentions unfold organically, this day also guides us to practice patience and mindfulness as we manifest our ideas.
Today’s teachings encourage us to keep knitting our ideas, plans, and projects together, maintaining the momentum, as 4’s stability can also become stagnant and rigid, so it’s important to keep weaving. Monkey medicine helps us problem-solve and strengthens community, so if we need support or feedback to ground our ideas, today is the day to reach out and get the figurative yarn ball rolling.
Practical Applications & Programming of the Day:
Auspicious for: Creative work; beginning material aspects of a plan or project; implementing creative ideas; weaving; beautifying the home; arts and crafts; creative self-expression; performances; physical therapy; art therapy; family therapy; creative and fun activities; family reunions; culinary arts; cooking and nourishing others; communal celebrations; problem-solving; refining and editing; spending time with children
Monkey teaches you how to find joy in exploration, all while keeping things fun! Like humans, Monkeys are communal Animals, enjoying the company of others while navigating through life.
On a more serious note, Monkeys develop profound bonds and have great compassion for their fellows. They communicate and interact with one another.
One of Monkey’s lessons is that your time on earth touches many other people. There is no reason to be a figurative island. Monkey says, “Reach out to your troop and hold them dear.” In a tight situation, Monkeys symbolize creative problem-solving. –Bernadette King
Observations by Mayan Spiritual Guides:
4 B’atz A day that brings stability to your creations and your art forms. If there is an idea that you have been sitting on for a little while, waiting for the right time to bring it out in the open, today is the day to bring it into physical reality.
This is the day to decorate the world, to weave your beauty into your physical surroundings.
It can be a light-hearted fun day, a day to embrace the creative joy in life and ground it into the world around you. –Mark Elmy
4 B’atz B’atz’ speaks to us of the interconnectedness of all things, it tells us that we are merely a thread in the tapestry of life, and every stitch we make through the energy we emit and what we do is woven in the fabric of all existence.
Let us take advantage of the opportunity this day offers us to plant seeds of harmony, love, and joy in ourselves and in each being; seeds that help us stay united, even in our differences. –Denise Barrios
✍🏼 Journal Prompts of the Day:
What intentions are beginning to take shape, and how can I nurture their growth with more love and beauty?
Which ideas, plans, or projects are bringing me closer to others through the shared energy of beauty, innovation, and love?
