Day Sign & Natal Cross Calculator
Mayan Calendar
Date Converter
Reveal Your Nawal & Full Mayan Natal Cross
Enter your date of birth below to discover your Mayan day sign — your Awach Q'ij "face of the sun" — and your full 9-point Mayan Natal Cross.
Your "Mayan astrology", "Mayan day sign", or "Mayan zodiac sign" — fully mapped, free. Foundations rooted in authentic K'iche' Maya tradition.
Mayan Cross
for the Gregorian date:
Input Year > Month > Day in this order*
KAB'LAJUJ' IMOX
12 Crocodile
JOB' KEJ
5 Deer
JULAJUJ AJ
11 Cane
WUQUB' TOJ
7 Offering
KEB' NO'J
2 Mind
OXLAJUJ TZ'IKIN
13 Eagle
WAJXAQIB' AQ'AB'AL
8 Night
WAQIB' IMOX
6 Crocodile
JUN TOJ
1 Offering
Ch'umil:
13 Tz'ikin
nawal:
Tz'ikin
Tz’ikin natives are cheerful, generous, and socially adept, radiating friendliness and intuitive charm. Blessed with luck—especially in matters of money—they often excel as merchants, artists, and natural visionaries. Their strategic minds and far-reaching insight allow them to inspire others and solve problems with remarkable ingenuity. Tz’ikin are sophisticated yet eccentric, thriving on freedom and novelty, and exuding the aura of those born to be loved.
With an innate ability to “see the big picture,” Tz’ikin serve as intermediaries between earth and sky, drawing spiritual wisdom from within and experiencing revelations through dreams. Their mental acuity and spiritual power make them natural oracles and advisers. They value passion, independence, and intense experiences, often finding life to be a vibrant celebration.
Their shadow can manifest as restlessness, extravagance, stubbornness, or irresponsibility, along with a tendency to be verbose, proud, or prone to exaggeration.
Tz’ikin natives thrive as poets, sculptors, painters, clairvoyants, scientists, diplomats, merchants, advisers, and spiritual guides.
Cross:
Conception: Kej
Feminine Side: Imox
Masculine Side: Toj
Destiny & Maturity: Aq'ab'al
Sacred Animal:
Condor, Eagle, Quetzal
power:
13 (Oxlajuj)
Connector • Energetic • Future-Oriented • Gifted • Imaginative • Integrative • Perceptive • Persistent • Synthesizer • Unifier
trecena:
Aq'ab'al
Clarity • Conception • Dark & Light • Dawn • Digestion • First Light • Hope • Maturity • Polarity • Renewal • Revelation • Transition • Twilight
mam:
Kej
4 Bodily Planes • 4 Cardinal Directions • 4 Elements • Determination • Discipline • Equilibrium • Firmness • Movement • Nature • Power • Solidity • Stability • Tenacity
understanding The
Mayan Cross
The Mayan Cross — Cruz Maya — maps the unique energetic signature of any day or any person born into it. It breaks into five positions:
1. Your central sign (Ch'umil): The spiritual force at the core of your being — capacitating the essential gifts needed to fulfill your Life Project.
2. Your conception (Top, Center): Your Life Project — what you are dedicated to, what your ancestors hold for you to fulfill. Everything else in the Cross serves this package.
3. Your maturity (Bottom, Center): What brings success, fulfillment, and fruition to your Life Project — a living circuit between what you offer and what you receive, when your life follows its true path.
4. Your feminine, materializing spirit (Right, Center): Your intuitive and emotional force — the energy that helps you develop, flower, and blossom your Life Project. Arises from the left side of consciousness.
5. Your masculine, generative spirit (Left, Center): Your practical, outward-facing force — what work, community, and society call forth from you in service of your Life Project. Arises from the right side of consciousness.
Together they reveal how the energies of a day interact — not as isolated traits, but as one living, coherent field.
Expanded to 9 points, the Cross deepens further — expanding the roots and outcomes of the spiritual and practical dimensions.
What emerges is a broad picture of your Life Path: the gifts you were born carrying, the direction they are meant to move in, and the motivations and challenges that shape your life journey.
A Mayan Cross reading is the most complete form of "Mayan astrology" available — and this calculator gives you its foundational map, free, in English.
Cross explanation drawn from the direct teachings of Ajq'ij, guide, and mentor, Tat Juan Carlos Romero.
A Note on Orientation: The Cross is read as a mirror. You are standing at the center, facing your maturity — what lies ahead. Your conception energy rises behind you, where your ancestry stands. Because you face forward, left and right are reversed: your feminine spirit appears on the right side of the diagram, arising from the left side of your consciousness — and your masculine spirit on the left, arising from the right.
trecena
The Trecena is a 13-day cycle within the Cholq'ij — the 260-day Mayan sacred calendar. Each cycle begins with a day 1 and its governing nawal, whose energy sets the tone for all 13 days that follow.
Think of it as the atmosphere a day lives inside. The number and nawal of each day are shaped not only by their own combination, but by the Trecena they move through — giving each day a character that is both its own and part of a 13-day theme.
Mam
The Mam is the nawal that governs your birth year — the point where the Cholq'ij meets the 365-day Solar calendar.
Where your Ch'umil shapes your outward nature, your Mam works beneath it: a hidden current that influences how you make decisions, what drives you instinctively, and how you are oriented toward your Life Project.
The Mam calculation on this site follows Haab' solar calendar mathematics. Some Ajq'ij work with the Macehual Q'ij — a 40-day reversed system — which will yield a different result. Both are living traditions. The Haab' is part of a broader Mesoamerican lineage this calculator is rooted in.
Go Deeper
The Mayan Natal Cross offered here is a living map — but every map has edges. The full depth of a Cross reading, the ancestral layers, the karmic threads, the initiatory path — these are the domain of the Aj Q'ij: the trained, initiated Mayan daykeeper.
If what you've found here calls you further, a full Mayan Cross reading is the next step. As a student not yet authorized to offer readings, I warmly point you toward my friend and mentor — Nana Denise Barrios, Ajq'ij. You'll find her at the bottom of my services page.
And the Substack is where the daily study of this calendar begins.