What the Maya say about the dreamspell
“Regarding the dreamspell and work of Argüelles: It has been made clear, I think everybody here understands the need to distinguish this system from any relation to the Mayan tradition. […] This is the wish of the elders, that the confusion and misrepresentation cease.”

“In my view, the central message of the Mayan calendar is that we are living in an exact divine time plan that has a higher purpose in store for humanity at the completion of linear time. If we are able to make this time plan conscious to broader groups of people the prospects of this intended divine time plan manifesting will directly increase. Yet, in many parts of the world broad groups of people are blocked from knowledge about the divine time plan because the Dreamspell/Thirteen Moon calendar falsely has been presented as the Mayan calendar and hence this calendar still needs to be discussed.”
-Dr. Carl Johan Calleman

The dreamspell/13 Moon Calendar

A calendar has a very vital role in the events that occur within a society. It points out what days to celebrate, use as traditions and the days to consider holidays. The calendar is the dead center of any civilization and has such a deep grasp that the people within that society are typically very unaware of the power their particular calendar has on their consciousness.

The Gregorian calendar is based on repetitive rotations of the Earth around the sun. The span of years never changes because this cycle never changes, which results in the consciousness that everything is dead matter for us to exploit and use for our needs, wants and desires.

The dreamspell calendar is directly connected to the Gregorian calendar and is a very mechanical calendar that is based on the astronomical year. The moon has a cycle of 29.5 days rather than 28 like the dreamspell claims, which is what this system is based on entirely

The dreamspell calendar claims that the end of the Mayan calendar is December 21st 2012 when in fact the true Mayan calendar ends on October 28th 2011. This is why it’s so important for people to understand the dangers of the dreamspell calendar.

3 Main differences

1) The dreamspell jumps a day on leap year (every four years). In other words February 29th is not considered a day on the dreamspell calendar. Because of this, one day every four years is removed from the calendar. They refer to this day as the “day out of time”. The Maya understand that each day has a sign and a number assigned to it without any exception. The key thing to understand with this specific difference is the fact that leap year is an event that happens within the Gregorian calendar and was not even put into place until 1582 by Pope Gregory. How could this be the true Mayan calendar when one of the primary parts wasn’t even established until the late 1500’s?

2) The Tzolkin has a connection to the 13 Baktun cycle within the prophetic Tun calendar, known as the Long Count. This same 13 step process is directly connected to the smaller cycles of Trecenas (13 day cycles). The smaller and larger examples of this 13 step process reproduce the same energies of time. Since the dreamspell makes a shift every four years on February 29th the flow will only stay consistent for 4 years until making a new shift. The True Mayan calendar remains in the same flow of creation because it doesn’t skip days and continues with the same flow and pattern it always has.

3) The prophetic Tun calendar is based entirely on non-physical cycles directly connected to the energies of time and evolution. The dreamspell however is connected to the solar year of our planet. The main difference to understand here is that the Mayan calendar relates not only to our planet but it also relates to every other planet within our solar system. It relates to every planet and every galaxy within the entire Universe. The Tun calendar began with the initial event known as the Big Bang, which itself is connected to the universe as a whole. With this being said the Mayan calendar is equally valid on Earth as it is on Mars or any other planet within the Universe. It makes no difference how long the year is on any of these planets because the true Mayan calendar isn’t calculating any astrological cycles.

The dreamspell has made a huge impact on the awareness of the true Mayan calendar and I do not support the dreamspell in any way. It’s very important for people to understand the differences between these calendars and to realize that the Maya people do not consider the dreamspell to be their calendar, nor have they ever. For more information about the dreamspell calendar I suggest reading Carl Calleman’s articles on his website located at calleman.com

Introducing other people to the Mayan calendar, learning more about it, and passing the word around are all ways to create a better understanding about the importance of the calendar. I believe the internet is one of the best ways for people to get this information out to large numbers of people within a short amount of time. This is exactly why I coupled my experience with web design and my passion for the Mayan calendar. Since the calendar is getting closer to its completion we have less time to share this information with the masses, which is something I believe is very important. Here are 5 ways you can help pass the word on and create a better understanding within yourself and your fellow human.

1) Follow it daily
The best way to expand the awareness about the Mayan calendar is to do so within yourself. By following the Tzolkin on a daily basis you become more familiar with it. You begin to pay attention to each day and start to see patterns you never noticed before. An understanding begins to emerge as you get a feel for the energies of each of the Mayan Tones and Glyphs within the Tzolkin. The longer I follow the calendar the more I feel I resonate with my own individual path. Doing this has changed my perspective and allowed me to see the bigger picture in a whole new light.

2) Educate yourself
Another great way to create more awareness within yourself is to simply research. By striving to learn more your understanding of the calendar will have an internal as well as an external explosion. To me the calendar isn’t just a calendar; it has become a way of life. This isn’t just a way to keep track of what day it is; it’s a tool to expand your consciousness. I recommend reading more books, researching information online but at the same time I suggest you remain cautious of the information available. I recommend any book written by Dr. Carl Johan Calleman, and the book Jaguar Wisdom by Kenneth Johnson (which is currently out of print). I also recommend visiting Mayan Majix

3) Teach others
The best way for you to expand that awareness outside yourself is to introduce others to the calendar. By teaching friends, family members or people you may have just met what you know you do your part in expanding the awareness. I support anyone who shares this information with people who may not know about it already. Even if you know very little you can share what you do know and that will at least get the basics out. I suggest when you do introduce people to the calendar that you provide them with reliable sources so they too can continue their education at their own pace. This includes any book or website I have recommended as well as this blog of course. You can even send out a quick email to people in your address book inviting them to discover what you have become so interested and passionate about.

4) Create curiosity
I find it very easy to bring up the Mayan calendar in conversation. The longer I follow it the more I can see connections in everyday events in my personal life as well as major events that affect millions of people. By simply making a comment about the Mayan calendar ending in 2011 rather than 2012 you are capable of creating curiosity in many people. Telling people the Calendar ends with humanity evolving rather than being destroyed you also create an opportunity to start a very enjoyable and rewarding conversation.

5) Share your passion
When you’re discussing the Mayan calendar with another person or group of people it helps to be passionate. I don’t suggest faking passion because people are smart enough to detect when someone is truly passionate about something. When I share information with people they can see how passionate I am about it by just listening to me share. I tend to be pretty quiet when I am around people I don’t know that well. But when the Mayan calendar comes up in a conversation I perk up and become a whole new person. People have developed an interest in the calendar by simply noticing my intense passion.

By following these 5 points you will expand your awareness as well as the awareness of those around you. You will have some really rewarding conversations by doing so and begin to develop a very new perspective about yourself, your surroundings, small and even large events.

I received a comment over the weekend about the entry Tzolkin #1 - The Mayan Numbering System. Apparently I didn’t clarify the information properly, which I will blame on being lazy. I did intend to cover more information from the beginning including some basic mathematics, but since I took the easy route I need to make sure I cover that information now. I will cover this quickly so I can get started on something new. I have to make up for a few days of downtime as a result of going camping.

The Maya counted a dot as 1 and a line, or bar as 5 as we covered in the already. When you count a 6 you use a bar with a dot stacked on top. When you count 11 you use 2 lines and a dot stacked upon those. If you would like to see what the numbers 0 through 19 look like refer to the link in the paragraph above.

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This morning I decided that today’s post in the Tzolkin series would only consist of small details for each Mayan Tone and Glyph. I will be starting two new series of posts to cover this information in the near future. I plan on writing an entry dedicated to each Tone and Glyph so I can cover the details with a more in depth and dedicated approach. By doing so I will give myself the opportunity to discuss this information in my own words, which will in the end give me an even deeper understanding of each specific day. For now, this is a collection of the basic details including the images to go along with the Mayan date calculator.

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The Tzolkin calendar (zol-keen) which means “Count of Days”. This calendar system is used to describe a personality, an event, or just about anything else you could possibly imagine. This calendar system has a very deep rooted connection to the evolution of consciousness. This is the personal and astrological calendar of the Maya, and is also known as the “Sacred Calendar”. From my personal experience, I feel that the longer I follow this particular calendar system, the more tuned into the natural rhythms of the cosmos that I become. After following the calendar for a short time I started noticing a connection between the days on the calendar, and events that would happen on each day. A pattern was starting to emerge all around me and becoming aware of this was enough to really ignite my interest. I started seeing a very new, and much larger perspective of the Tzolkin. This wasn’t just a calendar system, it was something much larger than that, and this was starting to become very clear to me now.

The Tzolkin is a 260-day cycle based on two parts, the 13-day cycle of Tones (known as a Trecena) and the 20-day cycle of Glyphs (known as a Uinal). The 13 Tones (which consist of the numbers 1 through 13) each represent something specific and unique, very much like an intention for the day or individual. The 20 Glyphs (or Day Signs) are hieroglyphics based on a particular aspect.

Each day is assigned a specific Tone or Glyph and these change on a daily basis (which changes at sunrise, not at midnight). The 13-day Trecena, and the 20-day Uinal work very much like two gears or cogwheels would work. Each rotating one position per day and working together to form the Tzolkin calendar. 13 x 20 = 260 therefore there are 260 combinations of Tones and Glyphs, which is why the Tzolkin is a 260-day calendar.

In the next part of this series I will cover each of the Tones and Glyphs with a lot more detail. I will cover the astrological parts to the Tzolkin and show you what the properties of each of these represent.

This is the beginning of a new series based entirely around the 260-day Tzolkin, or “Sacred Calendar” of the Maya. The first part of this series will focus on the numbering system of the Maya. In order to understand some of the basics behind the Tzolkin I will be covering this little bit of information first. Each dot was used to represent a 1, and each bar was used to represent a 5. They would stack the numbers as they counted higher, refer to the image below to see an example of this.

As you can see, once they reached a count of 5 they would stack the next set of dots on top of the new bar. Instead of using 4 bars to count for 20 they would simply place one dot in a new place (20’s) above. For every 20 that was counted a new dot, or bar was placed in the 20’s position above the 1’s position. The Maya used a position for the 1’s, the 20’s, the 400’s, the 8000’s, et cetera. Each position would have a number between 0 and 19, once it received a 20 a dot would be used to count once in the power above. By using this very powerful system this gave the Maya the ability to calculate very mathematical equations very quickly.

The Tzolkin uses the Mayan numbers 1 through 13, so understanding all of this wont be required in order to understand the functionality.

If you would like to read more about this information you can do so by reading the entry titled Number Clarity