Xiuhpowalli · Tonalpowalli
A Mexican Count of Days
Enter a date below to see the equivalent Mexika date in the Xiuhpowalli and Tonalpowalli. The solar year (Xiuhpowalli) ends on the day the spring equinox is observed at Tenochtitlán's Templo Mayor, following Rubén Ochoa's correlation. All days begin at sunrise. To find your birth sign, please use the Free Personalized Tonalamatl option at the bottom of the page.
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Each day is counted from sunrise as observed in Mexico City, so the date shown by default only advances after sunrise there.
The Gregorian calendar began in Mexico on October 15, 1582; earlier Gregorian dates are proleptic.
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December 31, 1969 (Gregorian)
Historical calendar in Mexico: Gregorian · December 31, 1969 · Julian day number 2440587
Tonalpowalli date
7 Kwawhtli
chikome kwawhtli
Eagle
Day sign patronRed Tezkatlipoka, also called Xipe Totek, our flayed lord
Xiuhpowalli date
5th day of Atemoztli
ipan makuilli tonalli itech atemoztli
Descent
Mexika year
9 Kalli
chiknawi kalli
365-day year
Day of solar year285 of 365
Veintena15 of 18
Nemontemi days this year5
Reading the days
7 Kwawhtli · Eagle
Day 7 of the trecena 1 Atl (Water), which is carried by Chalchiwhtotolin.
The day sign Kwawhtli (Eagle)
Kwawhtli, the eagle: bold and rapacious. A day of warriors and of the ziwateteo, the women who were said to descend and afflict children.
The number 7
A middling number: the day sign kept the plain character of its trecena.
The thirteen days of a trecena take their character from the day sign that opens it, while their number gives the strength of that influence.
Significance of this trecena.
An evil day sign. Those born in it rejoiced only at the beginning of their lives and were said to end in misfortune.
Florentine Codex, Dibble & Anderson, Book 4, ch. 29, p. 99
The veintena Atemoztli (Descent)
Atemoztli, the descent of waters: the coming of the rains was awaited, dough images of the mountains were made, and offerings were laid before the Tlalokeh.
These readings summarize the day-sign auguries of the tonalpowalli as recorded in Book 4 of the Florentine Codex, Judicial Astrology or Divinatory Arts. They are given as historical testimony of how the day keepers read the count, not as prescription. Read the manuscript itself in the Digital Florentine Codex, Book 4 (Getty Research Institute, 2023).
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