Trecena of Ajpu: Valor, Talent & Inner Radiance
Energy Theme for June 16th - June 28th, 2025
Day 1 of 13 in the Ajpu Trecena: Valor, Talent & Inner Radiance
1 (Jun): Beginning • Unity • Purity • Thought • Vision • Intent • Individual • Creation • Strength • Openings • Will • Resoluteness of Character • Action
Pronunciation: “Hoon”
Ajpu: Sun • Man • Warrior • Leader • Hero • Blowgun Hunter • Talent • Valor • Certainty • Transmutation • Brilliance • Magic • Paternal • Battle • Acuity • Precision • Aim • Victory
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. –Carlos Barrios
Ajpu embodies the sun, the warrior, leader, and hunter. Governing solar and lunar eclipses, its energy is rooted in the mythological legacy of the Hero Twins who die and resurrect in the underworld, ultimately defeating the lords of death. Ajpu embodies duality, talent, courage, triumph, and renewal—an allegory of transmutation and spiritual awakening.
Building upon the rebalancing and solidity achieved in the preceding Kej Trecena, Ajpu emanates through acts of courage and self-realization. Its solar brilliance illuminates paths in the facing and overcoming of internal and external battles. Ajpu cleverly breaks the spells that eclipse our radiance—fears, pride, weaknesses, and insecurities—transforming them into radiant certainty.
This force propels victory and spiritual awakening by inspiring the courage to embrace life’s struggles with an open heart and to aim toward higher aspirations with acuity and precision. Ajpu calls us to invigorate our inner light, harness our unique talents as armor, and walk boldly on the path of self-mastery. –Diana P.
1 Ajpu
Today is Jun (1) Ajpu, kicking off a new Trecena (13-Day cycle theme) .
1 is birth and beginnings.
This cycle activates a vision of divinity and holiness found in triumphing over all adversities. As both magician and spiritual warrior, Ajpu reminds us that we too can perform wonders and achieve our goals through focus, strategy, and talent. It encourages the development of regenerative power through disciplined practice.
By building courage and cultivating physical and mental sharpness, we confidently confront obstacles head-on. Ajpu emphasizes pursuing a vision of excellence through physical training, sports, arts, routines, and rituals aligned with self-mastery. It supports paternal healing, promoting lightness of being and refined agility by illuminating and releasing habitual emotional patterns and inherited limitations.
By nurturing physical, emotional, and spiritual resilience, Ajpu guides the enhancement of self-confidence, opening paths to victory and self-realization. Ajpu helps us obtain awareness of our inner sun and its connection to our Great Father, enacting spiritual evolution through the creative and courageous overcoming of life’s tests. –Diana P.
Ajpu Mesoamerican Mythos:
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Mesoamerican Mythos [Excerpts]:
"The glyph for this day represents Ahau [or Ajaw}, the divine perceived as the radiant sun. Ahau or Ajpu has the deepest mythical associations of any of the day signs, since almost the entire myth of the Hero Twins is to be found within its symbolism. Most especially, this is the sign of the Hero Twin who was transformed into the sun."
"Because this day is symbolically linked with the mythic Hero Twins, it may endow us with courage, valor, and heroism. Thus this is an excellent day upon which to express one's intention to cultivate wisdom, talent, and physical fortitude." —Kenneth Johnson
"Within the ancient Mayan society, the royals were not just political leaders of their particular city-states, they were priest-kings and priest-queens. They served as the conduit to the divine, deriving their wisdom for guiding their people through their connection with the Heart of the Earth and the Heart of the Sky.
This wisdom enriched both the ruling dynasty and their people, as they would be working in harmony with the gods. Thus the ruler of the city was also the physical embodiment of the divine, and it is to this that Ajpu is so closely related. Likewise it represents our potential, the state of divinity to which we may aspire."
—Mark Elmy
✍🏼 Journal Prompts of the Day:
What fears or limiting beliefs am I ready to transmute today?
How can I harness my talents as spiritual armor to face any challenge?
How can I embrace challenges more fully with an open heart?
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Spiritual armour. This reminds me of a fine silver chain mail dress and cloak spun by the spiders of a Sussex birch wood and given to me in a vision there on a short Utiseta (sitting out) ceremony a year ago. It allows light to shine out but prevents sharp arrows from piercing. As I return again to that magical wood a year on in the Solstice, I realise I learn to wear my armour when I need to .
This also stood out: they were priest-kings and priest-queens. They served as the conduit to the divine, deriving their wisdom for guiding their people through their connection with the Heart of the Earth and the Heart of the Sky.
There is something speaking here to me. When I work with my drum this is what I do connect the earth and the sky.