8 No'j: Honoring the Sacred Rhythms of Knowledge & Action
Energy of the Day for February 13, 2025 + Tz’apin Q’ij (Closing Day 1)
Feb 13, 2025
This is the day to understand the true scale of problems in our lives and how to overcome them. It is a day on which whole solutions may arrive, complete from inception to execution, a whole package to make the world a better place for all.–Mark Elmy
No’j: Wisdom,Knowledge, Nobility, Thought, Ideas, Intellect, Rhythm, Education, Nature, Study, Solutions, Memory, Science, Earthquake Pronunciation: “Nogh” Sacred Animal: Woodpecker Energy Places: Tropical Forests, Woodlands, Lakes, Mountains, Clouds Colors: Dark Blue, Light Blue Body Parts: Brain, Skull, Pineal Gland
8 (Wajxaqib’): Wholeness • Spirit & Matter • Infinity • Time • Man • Solar • Executive Force of Action • Ceremony, Arts, Rituals • Masculine Potency & Expression • Joy • Honor • Will • Vigor • Morality
No’j Glyph: The glyph symbolizes learning. The drawing in the middle represents the brain, and the circles are degrees of increasing human spiritual betterment. –Carlos Barrios
No’j turns knowledge and experience into wisdom. It is the connection between the Universal Cosmic Mind and the human mind–intellect, knowledge, wisdom, and spiritual learning.
No’j is the guide to life as long as all experience and knowledge are imparted in wisdom. People have good ideas but aren’t wise and therefore need to meet as council in order to share them, develop theories, and ask Ajaw for wisdom. The Elders meet as a council under the protection of No’j. –Carlos Barrios
Diana’s Observations:
No'j and 8 are masculine forces, expressive, driven and directional. Combined, today's 8 No'j unifies the world of spirit and matter, bringing ideas, memories, solutions, and wisdom into executive action and structure. 8 days are conducive for ceremonies, arts, and rituals, and with No'j, this day strongly supports the rhythms of the heart and mind working together in harmony. It can be seen as a day of knowledge and action in divine equilibrium.
Like a sudden earthquake, unexpected thoughts, intuitive insights, dreams, and memories may shake us today, revealing missing puzzle pieces to short or long-term problems. Within the Trecena of Tz'i, this can signify an emotional element needed to bring an aspect of our self or life into alignment with truth and authenticity.
While yesterday's 7 Ajmaq helped us bring discord to light and inspired decisive action to let go, today's invitation, amplified by Power 8, is to act upon it with honor, moving from thought into action. 8 No’j symbolizes the knowledge culminated through the previous days of this Trecena, helping us work with the feelings, instincts, and insights received through Tz'i intelligently as a whole.
Today’s 8 No'j structures and balances our impulses and plans with a higher potential. Rather than being driven by emotions or temptations, this day helps us evaluate our spiritual authority and practical progress with integrity.
The overarching guide of Tz'i, also known as the Sacred Scribe, encourages us to engage with the written word, journaling to reflect and organize our thoughts and ideas, gaining a clearer perspective on improvements to make, honoring our inner wisdom and to sustain faith in ourselves.
No'j days favor quieting the mind, studying, and refining our life plans with scientific precision. Today's energy is auspicious for analyzing the bigger picture – the wholeness of our spiritual, physical, emotional, and mental pursuits interwoven efficiently.
It's a day to contemplate our personal authority in problem-solving from a higher perspective; tapping into both our guiding essence and the cosmic mind of No’j – Supreme Being. May we quietly reflect upon the improved reality we're crafting with our entire being, bolstered by patience, conscientiousness and alignment with divine law.
Observations by Mayan Spiritual Guides:
8 No’j The nawal No’j representing the brain and logical thought combines with the number of wholeness giving a day to think about all options.
This is a day to celebrate our ability to plan and solve problems. It suggests that we are able to use all aspects of our intellect, to resolve what we need to. We are able to use our minds to gain the new inspiration, coming as unexpectedly as an earthquake, combined with understanding of how to bring the idea which forms to completion.
It is a day to make ceremony to give thanks for our ability to think clearly and develop solutions, and to ask for pardon for the times when we act without fully thinking through the consequences of our actions. –Mark Elmy
8 No’j We are now walking the trecena of Tz’i’, which, through each of the energies it converges with, invites us to reconnect with our power and autonomy and to recognize the incredible potential within us, that incredible being we are. Today, this energy comes together with Wajxaqib’ No’j, opening us to a deep connection with the physical and mental realms, inviting us to keep our curiosity awake and take action from a place of consciousness. –Denise Barrios
Tz’apiq’ij – The First Closing Day:
Tz'api Q'ij (Closing day 1): As Mam 12 No'j wraps up its 360-day tenure, we transition into the closing period, readying ourselves for the incoming Mam (Year Bearer), 13 Iq'. This initial closing day encourages contemplation on the visions and concepts introduced by the departing Mam, setting the stage for the impending wave of new energy.
“Tz’apin Q’ij is seen as a time of introspection.
[The Cholq’ij, 260-day Sacred Calendar] is not the only calendar used by the Maya people. One of the other calendars is known as the Macewal Q’ij. This has been called a civil or agricultural calendar, it is the solar calendar [also known as Haab].
However, the new year is not here just yet. We first pass through the Tz’apin Q’ij, the [5] closing days (sometimes also known as Wayeb).
These are the five days at the end of the 365-day count.
The First Day of Tz’apin Q’ij
The introspection of the first day of Tz’apin Q’ij is used to review the previous year.
Its combination here with the day 8 No’j suggests a review of the knowledge and information you acquired during the previous 360 days. This is during the period of the current year, 12 No’j, which began on 19th February 2024.
8 No’j can be seen as a wholeness of thought. This is an interesting nawal for the first day of Tz’apin Q’ij. New information may have come to light which helps to inform what you already knew.
New issues may have come up which will require rethinking our position and coming up with alternative solutions. That wholeness of thought can come from the use of both the creative and logical areas of our minds. Perhaps the review process to be considered today might be one which stimulates exactly this." –Mark Elmy
“We also begin the five days of Tz’apiq’ij today, a time that calls us to reflect on what we have lived, to forgive the things we need to let go, and to chart the path we wish to walk in this new cycle, connecting with the understanding of who we truly are by taking the time to see ourselves as we are, raw, without filters, without pretensions, authentic.
Let us use these days to enter that inner stillness where we can meet our purest essence. May this conscious action guide us toward transformation—the transformation that connects us with our deepest selves and the power that already resides within us.” –Denise Barrios
”The Review” The first day is for reviewing life, for recognizing who we are, and for evaluating whether we are content with it. We can write the events that have occurred to us. If we outlined the previous year, we assess what we achieved and what we did not, and what factors influenced this. What of it is useful to us, and what is no longer useful. -Carlos Barrios
The knocking of woodpecker echoes throughout the forest as she searches for the right material to build her nest. The woodpecker’s thrum is a signal of prospect. The spirit of opportunity sojourns by and with it the opening of doors. Devotion to a cause and fortuity dance together, each perpetuating the other. –Bryjna Magnusson
How can I bring my intuitive and intellectual insights into tangible, purposeful action today? In which aspects of my life can I apply thoughtful writing and analysis to cultivate greater clarity, order, and integrity?
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