
Gates of Hell – Auguste Rodin, depiction of Dante’s Inferno
Portal of Human Understanding: 12:12:12:12
THE TRECENA OF CROCODILE/IMIX: DAWN OF A NEW AWAKENING
MAYAN CALENDAR DAYKEEPER’S JOURNAL
12 Road/EB (Human), Cherokee, Rattlesnake Tooth/KANU’GA, Destiny Kin 12, Position 12
December 16, 2023 (12/16/2023); Last Round and Last Haab New Year: March 31, 2023 (03/31/2023),

12 Road/EB (Human)
Greetings Beloved Kin,
Road/EB is Human’s Road to Destiny, also known as Human. The Journey through Time is Human’s Destiny. EB is also a symbol of the Sacred Road, the Human calendar. Saq’ Be‘ (pronounced sock bay) is a Mayan term referring to the white/sacred road, the Milky Way, and the spiritual path of one’s life.
Tone 12 raises the Intention of Understanding. When we comprehend the Truth, disassociated pieces and parts of experience are drawn together into a new and meaningful whole. On Tone 12 the Creator Illuminates the Truth we take to heart. When the “lights come on” we wonder why the Truth was so hard to see before, when we turn to the past and realize that we’ve seen it all before.
Divine Sign: 12:12:12:12
December is the 12th month. Tone 12 and EB’s Position 12 repeats the symbol two more times. The Haab Year is led by 12 Road/EB, doubling the symbol of the Destiny Kin. If we kept looking for more 12’s, we could add another 12:12 for the 2 Humans symbolized as 12 – the 12 tribes, the 12 disciples, and the 12 constellations of the zodiac.
Time is a Human construct manifested by the Movement of Mother Earth. In the Creator’s realm all Time is One. Time is the foundation for Right Relationship with the Creator, through the Sacred Right of Choice. Though, the Creator is the Highest Authority of a Divine Order.

Turning in a Divine Direction
The glyph illustrates the Road on Human’s head. Our end is defined by all the choices that are ours to make. If we follow the Sacred Road in Divine Trinity, our life will go on forever to the end of everlasting love. The rest is a Mystery. The Saq’ Be’ is our return path beyond the stars.
Milestones are shown on either side of the Road, representing Times when the Truth dawns on us as Our Reality. EB’s Truth leaves an impression. The Cherokee Day sign is the Rattlesnake Tooth, symbolized as the rainbow, a power of electromagnetic energy and the whole spectrum of Light that Human is capable to see. The Rattlesnake Tooth was an implement for Spiritual Medicine, used by the priest, healer, and shaman to break the skin where the medicine would be applied. It left a mark associated with the Truth of a new beginning, and a new perspective of our Divine Possibilities.
We’re rising to a Higher Occasion as the Seed of a New Generation of our Self. Our Mission is “the work” of Transformation that leads us from our darkness into the Light, like the wake-up call of every Sunrise. There are 12 hours of Light in the Maya lands that begin and end at 5 o’clock; the Jewish calendar begins and ends at 6 o’clock. The Tones relate to the Hours of Light as Human’s daily creation cycle. The 13th Hour and the 13th Tone represent the Hour we Ascend to the Creator’s realm in our Dreams for the Answer to our Prayer. We don’t remember the Answer when we wake up, but the Truth for Faith to stand was spoken in our Dreams. Our Work for every day is Choosing the Answer that was shared with our Heart.
I comprehended that the calendar was written within after my pilgrimage to Ek’ Balam. It “came to me” when I was conscious of the first thought of the day, after I returned. I looked to the window – yes, it’s “tomorrow” and another opportunity to change my life for the better. That’s Tone 1. Tone 2 was the 2nd thoughts that came, after I spent an hour deciding how to dress for the day. “Yesterday – what can I do better than I did before (after a replay of all my limitations).” That’s ONE CHOICE for Tone 2. Now, I know the choices I’ve already made for the future. The New Seed’s Tone 2 is “Gratitude, for my Faith in a Power Greater than myself, that will carry me to my highest end.” We’re all on the same clock, just different time zones on our own orbit.
The Highest Truth of all is a Power Greater than Human that is the Divine Authority that enforces the Creator’s Design by the Laws of the Universe. In Unity, the Divine Truth stands on every scale Human can apply for discernment, including backwards as a mirror image, and including the first-hand look at our own face. The Truth can’t be changed, and the Creator’s Truth will always be revealed when it’s Time to Know.
12 Human/EB is Time to Know. The Signs indicate an Understanding on the scale of a Wake-up Call for Humanity. EB is the symbol of us ALL. This is a Day to Honor us ALL as One. As High Mayan Priest, Don Alejandro says, “We are fingers of the same Hand.” What we do unto one another, we are doing to our self. The One we were Designed to be is diminished with every choice guided by our Ego. That’s the Death we have to face to begin a New Life, like we’ve never seen before.
Our Choices reflect our own Best or Worst Karma, depending on what we “project on our Self.” It’s the same as if we asked for it. That’s not revenge. It’s the Universal Law of Cause and Effect that enforces the Balance of all things in the Truth of Equity that’s discerned from Human’s scale of perception.
EB resides in the South, the “down below” realm of physicality, and the Element of Earth. Our Right Relationship with the Creator can be seen through our Relationships with one another and with the Natural World. We Know the Truth in the Mirror’s Reflection. When it’s Time to See, the Truth in the Mirror will speak for itself. “Truth” is found in the roots of the words Alpha and Omega. Not one jot or tittle of the Truth can be changed from the beginning to the end.
This is a Day to Honor Humanity that shares the Journey on the same “hard road.” The Sacred Road is a path of blood, sweat, and tears. “Adam and Eve” set Humanity on its course to know good and evil. We have to be willing to know the Truth we didn’t want to see. The sad Truth takes Time to Heal. The Elders said to pay attention when you see your own blood. Think more than once about what’s going on. I wonder how long it will take to stop. A Power turned my thoughts to the Creation of Healing.
There is Divine Medicine ordered for today. EB days mark an experience that’s shared by the Collective Consciousness of the Whole. We can all be witness to a singular event as one. It doesn’t have to make the headline news. A personal Truth that we know SO WELL could dawn on us like a ton of bricks, or become the Holy Ground for our 1st Ascension of a New Life. That’s only 2 possibilities. We may not know what we witnessed, until we see the Truth from the future. One way or another, this is an important day to track your thoughts and experiences.
Timing is not a coincidence. Time is the Order of the Creator’s Divine Design. The Creator is speaking to us in a Real way through the Solar Winds. Bodies of electromagnetic energy are thrown off-balance. We’re defining our new equilibrium, the axis mundi and zero point.
Our physical bodies are changed by the Light of every Season. Take care of yourself. This is the perfect time to be “home alone.” On a cellular scale, the “work” of the Winter is survival. We may feel like we’re hardly surviving. Though, the 1st order of business to reach the end was to know the Truth of the Higher One that’s always by our side.
The next trecena of Jaguar/IX is the Vision Quest to manifest the Reality of the Higher One with us. The Jaguar leads us to the realm above that’s Real.
The Aztec Day Sign for EB is the Grass, Malinalli, a symbol of the perennial nature of Human’s Spirit. We can be stepped on, trampled down and left for dead in the Winter, but by Divine Design the Grass always rises again. Malinalli is defined as an auspicious day for the “oppressed,” and an inauspicious day for the “oppressor.”
This is a day to honor the differences that are all the same. We want to live our own life. We don’t want to be someone else we can’t be. That’s the reason we failed. It’s Time to imagine what our life could be. May we give thanks more than once or twice as we count the blessings of what we’ve been through to reach the other side of Truth. We know now what we wished we’d known before.
May we remember those who suffer and send the Light of our Compassionate Love to help share the burden of another human waiting for the Answer to a Prayer. There is something we can do right where we are to increase the Light and Love in the body of the whole.
love, in lak’ech, i am another you
Debra, 9 Eagle/MEN
THE JAGUAR’S “EARTH MAGIC” OF GRATITUDE
I’m grateful for the Creator’s Divine order for Time, and for the Times we’re meant to see.
The Lord Who Heals
Jehovah-Rapha (Yahweh-Rapha) means “The Lord Who Heals.” Jehovah-Rapha has the power to heal physically (2 Kings 5:10), emotionally (Psalm 34:18), mentally (Daniel 4:34), and spiritually (Psalm 103:2–3). Source: FireLifeMinistries.org
THE TRECENA OF CROCODILE/IMIX: DAWN OF A NEW AWAKENING

Visit the 13-Day Trecena Guide for daily aspects and events of the trecena.
“Tzolk’in Field Guide: A Daily Practice for Personal Discernment”
by Debra Malmos, 9 Eagle/MEN
“Tzolk’in Field Guide: Volume 1, Seasons 1 and 2” (Download PDF)
“Tzolk’in Field Guide: Volume 2, Seasons 3 and 4” (Download PDF)
Crocodile/IMIX is the first trecena in the first season of the Tzolk’in round, found in Volume 1. The guide includes the overview for each trecena and the aspects for every day, so you can discern the Meaning of Time as it applies to your own Time and Place. It’s interesting to calculate the major dates in your life. You might discover they happened on the same Tzolk’in date. The calendar is written within. The Order is what we are naturally inclined to do. When you keep a daily journal to track your thoughts, you’ll see history repeat itself when the same matters are on your mind on the same day of every Tzolk’in round, only on a higher scale. One time around I overcame a fear of driving through Seattle rush-hour traffic. The next time, I was overcoming my fear to make a solo pilgrimage to the Mayan ruins of Ek’ Balam.
Also see Daykeeper Resources for calculators and calendar links, and the Spiritual Tools page for ways to add to cause for a higher effect.
12 Road/EB (Cherokee, Rattlesnake Tooth/KANU’GA) – Day 12 of 13, 1 Crocodile/IMIX trecena
Descriptions by Ian Xel Lungold (12 Sun/AHAU), wisdom and Tzolk’in calculator preserved on MayanMajix.com
Galactic Tone 12: Understanding. This number’s energy is a gift of great capability, of retrospection. It is this ability that allows Twelve to connect disassociated parts into a (new) functioning whole. The energy of Twelve is that which presents a new piece of understood information or accumulated experience to be applied.
Road/EB: The bearer of time and conductor of destiny; also known as Human; these persons open the road and guide to the future groups, communities and individuals alike. Likable, obedient, dedicated hard workers and organizers, Road persons are fortunate in business and travel. Many become care takers of the poor, sick, or old people, where they may make personal sacrifices. Road is sometimes referred to as the sign of grass, which is the most bountiful of all life forms, but is also the most humble. Road persons are affectionate and emphatic; they are easily hurt but slow to anger. Holding in of negative emotions and unexpressed resentment can lead to illness, a poisoned opinion of others and a false bravado for this sun sign.
A GOOD DAY TO: Do some Community Service.
Cherokee, Rattlesnake Tooth/KANU’GA: Symbolized by a rainbow, the delicate display of electromagnetic rays of the SUN. Rattlesnake Tooth is the Natal day sign of Medicine, the Shaman, the Priest, the Healer, and the Sorcerer. Guardian of the Way, Keeper of the Keys of the secret Kingdom.
[Text in italics was the primary source of inspiration for my journal. These are the sources that started my journey and they are the reference for interpretation each day. By providing the original text, I hope to offer a way to see what inspired my thoughts and by including all the aspects – allow for something more to inspire you. Mayan descriptions are those written by Ian Lungold. Cherokee descriptions came from multiple sources. Links to sources and other resources of study are offered on the Daykeeper Resources Page. ~Debra]

That’s Great Synchronicity Debra – Milestones being a key-word. Higher Grounds Resonates Strongly.
Yes it is – I just finished your article. As always, your vigilant study offers facts of the matter. much love, in lak’ech, Debra