Tz'i
Tz’i symbolizes the dog, representing loyalty, guidance, balance, and justice, reflecting both spiritual and material law. All living beings are governed by two laws: Divine Law and Natural Law, with Social Law as an extension of this natural order.
On an individual level, Tz’i embodies our conscience, instincts, and personal authority, guiding an equilibrium of integrity and self-guidance. It signifies our conduct– walking the road of life in right relationship and right action with ourselves, nature, and all living beings.
Representing the five human senses, Tz’i acts as a primal, sensual compass that, in its positive essence, helps us instinctually avoid or transcend the Wuqub’ Qak’ix (seven sins: ambition, pride, envy, lies, crime, ignorance, and ingratitude). In its darker aspect, it embodies vices, poverty, trouble with the law, and sexual indulgence.
Tz’i: Justice • Fidelity • Law • Adjustment • Reproduction
Pronunciation: “Tzee”
Totems: Dog, Coyote
Energy Places: Mountains, Beaches
Body Parts: Brain, Intuition
Yucatec: Oc
Mexica: Itzquintli
Human Connection:
Mind: just, ritual, exact, good memory
Heart: faithful, protective, sensitive to betrayal
Vitality: territorial and vigilant
Sacred: spirituality with method