This day can bring powerful, decisive, practical aspects of healing. Use the day 4 Tijax to apply your powers of discernment in the physical world. –Mark Elmy
Tijax: Knife, Obsidian, Surgery, Cutting Negativity, Separation, Purification, Discernment, Refinement, Tenacious, Pain & Suffering, Protection from Accidents, Masculine Healing Energy Pronunciation: “Teehash” Sacred Animal: Toucan, Swordfish, Wolf Energy Places: Lightning Storms, Cliffs, Waterfalls, Caves, Caverns Colors: White, Red, Black Body Parts: Teeth, Nails, Tongue
4 (Kajib’): Stability • Solidity • Foundation • Structure • Material • Solar • Conscious • Security • Integrity • Durability • Balance • Natural • Elemental
Tijax Glyph: The glyph symbolizes the tip of a flint knife, seen from the front, and the pyramid is seen by the nawal energies from the sky. –Carlos Barrios
Tijax is the day sign of the Obsidian, an extremely sharp natural glass formed by volcanic activity that among the Maya is most prized by diviners and warriors.
Like obsidian, Tijax is sharp yet fragile, difficult to polish and manipulate, and cuts to the core of things with all the force of integrity. It cuts not only through deception, evil, and negative energies, but also physical illness.
For this reason it is an auspicious sign for healers (curanderas), surgeons and doctors, for all matters of health and wellness, medicine and curing of disease. –Brigitte Rasine
Diana’s Observations:
Today’s determined nawal, focused on truth and purification, grounds its energy in the physical and practical realms. Addressing bodily ailments or removing business obstructions may be key to restoring balance—eliminating barriers to material stability.
Within the expansive perspective of the Tz’ikin Trecena, this day’s surgical precision aids in cutting away what no longer serves our highest aspirations. Its steady-hand carving helps us accurately identify and remove falsehoods or stagnation blocking our path to prosperity.
While Tz’ikin guides vision, fortune, and constructive relationships, 4 Tijax calls for direct action—removing excess or distractions to ground us in reality and unlock new dimensions of growth. Be they outdated attachments, thought patterns, relationships, or toxic influences, today’s energy supports releasing what depletes vitality or freedom.
The sharp edge of the obsidian blade invites us to focus with precision and make a decisive cut into circumstances that hold us back from our true expression, dampening our magnetism to the freedom we seek. This process may first require radical honesty with the self.
Drawing on the wolf medicine of Tijax, clear and confident communication within our community may help initiate or stabilize this purifying work. The goal today is to carve away excess and blocks, sculpting circumstances to reveal beauty and embody a liberating truth.
Observations by Mayan Spiritual Guides:
4 Tijax: The combination with the number 4 brings a steadiness to the tenacity of Tijax.
The usual kind of Tijax quest involves searching out the truth in matters, cutting away at falsehoods and perceived injustice. It brings an essence of tenacity, cutting through anything that stands between you and your goal, sometimes almost literally.
Tijax can sometimes have a rather belligerent reputation, even if its desired achievement is noble. The energy of Tijax is precise and to the point. Today this energy is tempered by the stability afforded by the energy of the number 4. The energy of the 4 brings out the solid, grounded, physical aspects of what it is connected to.
It is a day on which forms of healing should have exactly the desired effect, with the recipient put firmly on the road to recovery. It can also be a good day to sever any unnecessary ties gently but with firmness and certainty. It will show you to understand where improvements, or cuts, may be made. –Mark Elmy
4 Tijax: There are many things in life that limit you, that stagnate you, people that deviate your purpose. There are also situations or people who make you depend on them and do not let you become fulfilled or prevent you from living with resources, both economic and of opportunities.
We have bad habits and we are unable to make decisions that allow us to change our destiny, this can happen to us in greater or lesser degree, many people do not even allow themselves to see that there is something that is affecting them.
The energy of today allows us to recognize everything that limits us, even those situations or feelings to which we do not give the importance they deserve, we minimize them, however they are there and affect us as well.
The important thing is to clearly determine and prioritize, it is about being impeccable when facing each of the things that affect us, especially with each person to whom we we have granted such power.
Today we can deeply review our actions and see what we want to change, everything is possible, it only requires our attention. The strategy is about our attitude. Remember that we are the architects of our reality.
Change comes from us, from really wanting it to happen. Ajaw Tijax opens spaces to new challenges, to a new way of perceiving reality. It opens spaces to other physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions. –Carlos Barrios
Wolf Spirt Animal: ”Strength”, “Duality”, “Instinct”, “Ferocity”, “Nurturing”, “Community” The wolf holds a significant place in Mayan culture, symbolizing strength, loyalty, and community. Revered as both a physical creature and a spiritual guide, the wolf embodies the duality of nature—representing both light and darkness.
The wolf is associated with the nawal Tijax (or Etznab) in Mayan culture due to its embodiment of duality and community. This reflects the Mayan understanding of balance in life. The wolf is seen as a teacher of intuition and instinct, essential for survival in both natural and social contexts.
Their howls symbolize a call to connect with one's inner self and communicate within the community. Additionally, wolves are invoked in rituals for protection and guidance, embodying both ferocity and nurturing qualities.
What practical matter requires decisive action for stability? What ties must be severed to unlock deeper understanding and freedom? Where am I tolerating stagnation, and what action will create movement?
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