Tonalamatl reading
Your birth date, through the Nahua calendar tradition
The Tonalamatl is the book of days: the 260-day calendar the Nahua peoples used to read the primordial energies that accompany each person according to their day of birth. This session is that reading, made for you.
Twenty signs, thirteen numbers
The Mexica ritual calendar — the tonalpohualli, "the count of days" — combines twenty signs with thirteen numbers. Each combination occurs once in a 260-day cycle, and every person is born under one of them.
Your day sign — Cipaktli, Ehekatl, Kalli, Kuetzpalin, Koatl, Mikiztli, Mazatl, Tochtli, Atl, Itzkuintli, Ozomatli, Malinalli, Akatl, Ocelotl, Kuautli, Kozkakuautli, Ollin, Tekpatl, Kiauitl or Xochitl — and your trecena, the group of thirteen days it belongs to, each have their energies and their deities. The reading is a detailed consultation of all those that empower your personality and your work, according to your birth date, brought together with whatever you bring to the session.
An audio and an image
The audio of your reading
Your full reading, recorded, to listen to again whenever you want.
The image with your information
Your sign, your number and your trecena, on a card to keep.
The session
Between 45 minutes and an hour, online.
30 US dollars or 500 Mexican pesos
Paid by bank transfer. When you book I'll send you the details on WhatsApp — in dollars or pesos, whichever suits you — and the appointment is confirmed once your receipt arrives.
What a reading looks like
- Tlalpintin
- Tekpatl / Flint
- Year
- 12 Akatl / Reed
- Year companion
- Tepeyolohtli / Heart of the mountain
- Tonal
- 8 Ollin / Movement
- Veintena
- Etzakualitztli
- Trecena
- Ze-Itzkuintli / 1-Dog
- Trecena companion
- Xipe Totek
- Lord of the Night and companions
- 9 / Tlalok (the liquor that intoxicates the earth) and Petrazolkoatl (centipede)
- Novena
- Ze-Atl / 1-Water
- Novena companion
- Xiuhtekuhtli (the lord of the calendar, the one who centres)
- Lord of the day
- Tlalok (the liquor that intoxicates the earth)
- Companion of the lord of the day
- Kuautli (eagle) and Tlalok (the liquor that intoxicates the earth)
- Sign companion
- Xolotl (Venus)
- Minute and hour of birth
- Mikiztli (death) and Tlazohteotl (she who creates with tenderness)
It usually comes with images from the amoxtli (codices). My job is to help you understand it.
Before you book
What do I need for the reading?
Only your birth date. If you know the time of birth it helps, but it isn't required.
Is this the same as a horoscope?
No. The Tonalamatl doesn't read the stars: it counts days. It is a system of its own, from Mesoamerica, with its calendar, its signs and its way of understanding a person.
Do I need to know Nahuatl or the calendar?
No. The reading explains what's needed. The Nahuatl names are there because they are the names, not for you to memorise.
Is this spiritism?
No. Neither this reading nor healing through archetypes has anything to do with spiritism or similar practices. They are tools for connecting with other realities and other information.
Can I give a reading as a gift?
Yes. Write to me with the person's birth date and we'll arrange the session directly with them.
What if I need to cancel?
With two days' notice we move the session to another slot at no cost.