This is a day to cut through to the truth in life. Tijax can be seen to cut through to truth, perfection and purity. Today that energy pairs with the number representing life and the feminine.–Mark Elmy
Pronunciation: “Teehash” Direction: South Sacred Animal: Toucan, Swordfish, Wolf Energy Places: Lightning Storms, Cliffs, Waterfalls, Caves, Caverns Colors: Black, Purple Body Parts: Teeth, Nails, Tongue Yucatec: Etz’nab’ Mexica: Tecpatl
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:
Tijax—nawal of surgical cuts and the obsidian blade—makes its incisions today within the feminine, hidden planes of Power 9. Representing agility, purification, and thunder’s force, Tijax swiftly exposes and releases impurities from the mind, body, and spirit. Within 9’s emotive and imaginative landscapes, Tijax’s healing energy turns inward—working silently in crevices and unseen depths. 9 Tijax marks a day for revelation and restoration, chiseling and beautifying the inner self.
Within the truth-revealing current of the Tz’i Trecena, 9 Tijax sculpts and refines trust at the deepest levels of self. Guided by the feminine obsidian blade, today’s energies turn toward the emotional and spiritual realms, where subtle movements and heightened intuition prepare the spirit and heart for release and renewal. The sensitivity of both Tijax and 9 invites us to gently sense what we’re ready to detach from—clearing negativity, old wounds, and stagnant patterns—so that new cycles of harmony and justice may take root in our lives.
As truth-seeking energies, Tz’i and Tijax converge with the inward illumination of 9 for soulful reflection and heartfelt release. As 9 sensitizes our awareness, Tijax carves psychic paths and openings that help us nurture what needs to be felt, grieved, or expressed creatively. This day poetically reveals our heart’s duality upon the balancing scales of Tz’i, inviting us to experience the joy and lightness of our inner temple or the weight of darkness, sorrow, and pain. This discernment unearths truth within the equilibrium between what uplifts and what burdens the heart.
By gently tending both pressure and release, in body and spirit, we activate Tijax’s double-sided healing blade—not only severing negativity and limitation, but opening to the possibility to access new dimensions of inner purification. In the delicate dance between heaviness and lightness, each small cut becomes an act of clarity and compassion, shaping a truer vision of ourselves. Through this sacred equilibrium, we embody self-authority complete with the wisdom that wholeness is found not in avoidance of pain, but in our courageous willingness to transform it into beautiful renewal.
Practical Applications & Programming of the Day:
Auspicious for: Healing work; addressing maternal wounds; women’s circles and healing gatherings; art therapy and creative expression; acts of nurturance and compassion; receiving or offering support through female healers; fertility and womb-centered practices; beautifying altars or sacred spaces; releasing toxicity or stagnant influences; creative artistic projects; honest, courageous dialogue with women; discerning truth within conflict; rest and renewal
The Toucan, with its disproportionately large and vibrantly colored bill, was a bird of great visual and symbolic power across Central American cultures. Its striking colors led to a mythic association with the Rainbow and thus a role as a messenger of the gods, particularly deities associated with rain and agricultural fertility.
Toucans, prized for their beauty, were often linked to communication, self-expression, and the joy of the tropical forest, inspiring reverence in many tribes who viewed them as possessing a strong connection to the spirit world.
One can invoke the spirit of the Toucan to encourage bold self-expression and the confident sharing of personal gifts, to overcome self-doubt and emotional fears by embracing one’s truest self, and to access the creative energy and sense of purpose that leads to fulfilling personal dreams.
Observations by Mayan Spiritual Guides:
9 Tijax Tijax may be known for many things. It is seen as the crusader, championing the holy, using its fine edge of discernment to cut away that which is out of balance. It is seen as the healer, particularly the energy healer, who experiences the illness in order to heal others.
It is the knife, severing the attachments which no longer serve. It is the chisel, creating the divine art from the mundane block of stone or wood. These are all seen as being active, masculine traits, rather than the the passive, feminine side.
However, today pairs Tijax with the number of the divine feminine, the number 9. This is the day where all of those active “masculine” traits are balanced through their association with the more feminine qualities of compassion and nurture.
It is a day of the healing women, a day to celebrate in particular their ability to resolve duality through their discernment. This should also be a particularly empowering day for women in general, bringing out the strength and tenacity of their warrior aspect.–Mark Elmy
9 Tijax Today we are ruled by the energy of Tijax, which is the power that removes the negative and opens favorable paths, the energy that helps us to heal and harmonize in each of the planes of existence: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Its force works in our energetic body, reaching the subtlest levels where it cuts and clears away what limits us and harms us.
On this day, Tijax converges with the number B’elejeb’ which is a subtle energy that connects us with the spiritual power, with the feminine force, it is the vibration of love and intuition.–Denise Barrios
✍🏼 Journal Prompts of the Day:
Where am I being called to use discernment today to bring harmony to opposing forces within myself?
What heaviness or limitation am I ready to feel and gently sever, so I can experience greater beauty and renewal from within?
How can I honor my intuition and celebrate the feminine wisdom that transmutes pain or division into clarity, balance, and creative expression?
Love your interpretation Diana 👏🏼💖thank you for expressing the start of my 28 day feathered serpent journey so beautifully! Really touched my heart 🥹 maybe also because I read it right after watching this cute Raccoon story 😆 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO8luwNEwmE/?igsh=Z20yaWJtZnhjaTE0
Love how it fits both the Tz’i and 9 Tijax narrative! 😂🙏🏼💓
Love your interpretation Diana 👏🏼💖thank you for expressing the start of my 28 day feathered serpent journey so beautifully! Really touched my heart 🥹 maybe also because I read it right after watching this cute Raccoon story 😆 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO8luwNEwmE/?igsh=Z20yaWJtZnhjaTE0
Love how it fits both the Tz’i and 9 Tijax narrative! 😂🙏🏼💓