“A day to find the joy in everyday life and allowing that enthusiasm to radiate from you, engaging your highest state and inspiring others to do the same.” –Mark Elmy
Pronunciation: “Aghpoo” Direction: West Sacred Animal: Human Being Energy Places: Beaches, Jungles, Sunlight, Sunrise, Sunset Colors: Yellow, Red, Terracota Body Parts: Thorax, Chest, Eyes, Lungs Yucatec: Ajaw Mexica: Xochitl
Ajpu Glyph: This glyph signifies the face of the hunter who uses a blowgun. He has a beard, and his mouth is rounded, about to shoot.
Ajpu is overcoming negative energy. It is the victor, the male, the man, the boss, the spiritual warrior, the hunter, Jun Ajpu, and Ixb’alamke. It is the day of Ajaw, the Great Father, and his solar representation, a day of greatness and the strength of life.
Ajpu governs lunar and solar eclipses and represents the [mythological] ball game. It brings material and spiritual certainty. It is the realization of the solar body. It is transformation, mutation, and acuity. It is the warrior, the companion, the traveler, the dancer, and the artist, maker of wonders.
It is the soothsayer – the diviner and vanquisher of spells – the lord of flowers, master and heir to the power of light. –Carlos Barrios
Diana’s Observations:
Today, Ajpu, nawal of the sun warrior, valor and triumph, joins with the feminine, subtle essence of Power 9. Ajpu embodies brilliance and confidence, radiating spiritual vision and divinity in talent. 9 enacts creative, life-giving forces inherent in women and reveals hidden, emotional landscapes. Together, 9 Ajpu marks a day for transformative arts and the courageous emergence of creative expression.
Colored by the self‑discovery influence of the E’ Trecena, 9 Ajpu infuses profound feeling and sensibility into the pathways opening in this cycle. Emotive, bold, and sensual, this day holds the power to energize life‑affirming visions, commitments, and projects. Ajpu’s artistic essence is amplified by the creative pulse of 9, weaving love and heart into both our communications and our endeavors. This energy also invites agility, meeting obstacles and challenges with cleverness and creativity.
In its highest aspect, 9 Ajpu uncovers hidden talents born of love and an innate desire to connect, support, and nurture. Yet, as Ajpu also governs eclipses—and with 9’s gift for revealing what lies beneath—this day may expose the masks we wear: the subtle inauthenticities we adopt to preserve connection or to serve only ourselves, even at the cost of our personal truth. However it is met, the influence of this day continues to guide the self‑discovery process of the E’ Trecena.
Traditionally, Ajpu days are a time to seek spiritual wisdom, gathering divine and natural insights that align us with our inner sun—a higher intelligence within. As we walk the path of self‑realization, this day supports the release of perceived limitations, illusions, and beliefs that obscure our vision of both excellence and divine love.
Practical Applications & Programming of the Day:
Auspicious for: Overcoming emotional or mental obstacles; empowering women or feminine energies; honoring female role models; completing creative projects; healing and transformation through art; channeling inspiration into new creations; confronting issues with compassion; practicing intuitive or emotional expression; focusing on artistic or competitive goals; aiming for clarity through challenge; seeking divinity in challenges or the arts
9 Ajpu: While all Ajpu days carry the energy to inspire us to seek out divinity, the energy of 9 Ajpu particularly highlights the holiness of life, and the divinity of women, the givers of life. In this trecena of E’, we are on the new path, still newly born from the preceding trecena of Kawoq.
The energy of 9 Ajpu creates a day when we see the wonders that life’s journey can bring to us.It is the excitement of seeing all that is good about a new place, or your journey, or seeing the old place with new eyes.
No one is perfect, we are human after all, but we all carry elements of perfection within us, elements of the divine. This could be seen as the progression from the work we did on ourselves on 5 Ajmaq, relaxing and releasing in order to step into our true nature.–Mark Elmy
9 Ajpu Ajpu is the spiritual warrior, the force of our inner light, and the regenerative power that helps us overcome adverse energies.
Today this Ch’umil converges with the numberB’elejeb’ [9] which reflects wisdom and spirituality, connecting us to our divinity. The path opened by this day invites us to make a journey within to see the beauty of which we are composed, to discover the light and divinity that is our being.
The wisdom contained in B’elejeb’ Ajpu helps us to overcome those mental and emotional obstacles that prevent us from connecting with our true path,it helps us to drop the masks we have put on ourselves so that we can once again recognize our authentic being.
Let us remember that if we follow the light of our inner Sun we will not get lost along the way. –Denise Barrios
✍🏼 Journal Prompts of the Day:
What creative gifts — hidden or long‑forgotten — are ready to emerge if I allow myself to act from love and courage today?
Where might I still wear a “mask” to maintain connection or to protect myself, and what truth within me is asking to be revealed?
How can I bring more agility and heart into meeting the challenges before me?
