What does Lamat Mayan Day Sign mean?

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Lamat is the eighth day sign of the Maya Tzolkin, the sign of the star, usually read as Venus, and in K'iche' it is called Q'anil, the seed. People born on a Lamat day are said to love beauty and to make things grow. The sign is linked to harvest and to anything that multiplies.

Lamat Mayan Day Sign: Meaning and Dates

What it means

The Lamat glyph is a four-pointed star, and Maya astronomers tracked Venus with great precision, so the sign is often read as the morning and evening star. The Aztec version of the day is the rabbit, another old symbol of plenty. K'iche' daykeepers call the day Q'anil, from the word for yellow and ripe, and link it to seed, planting and harvest. Lamat people are said to be warm and generous with a good eye for beauty, and what they work on tends to grow over time.

Strengths

An eye for beauty, generosity, cheerfulness, a knack for making things flourish, and a way of bringing harmony to a messy situation.

Challenges

Spreading themselves too thin, excess, and chasing what looks good over what is good.

Dates

Lamat comes around every 20 days, because the Tzolkin runs through its 20 day signs in a fixed order, with Manik before it and Muluc after it. Each time it returns it carries a new number from 1 to 13, so one exact pairing of number and sign comes back only every 260 days. The next four Lamat days on or after October 23, 2026 are November 6, 2026, November 26, 2026, December 16, 2026 and January 5, 2027. The Long Count completed its 13th b'ak'tun on December 21, 2012, which was 4 Ahau, and the first Lamat day after it fell on December 29, 2012. Someone born on December 26, 1986, for example, has Lamat as their day sign.

How Cosmic Array reads it

Cosmic Array counts your day sign in the traditional Tzolkin, using the standard GMT correlation (584283) between the Maya Long Count and our calendar, the count that lines up with the one highland daykeepers still keep. The Architect blueprint shows your day sign by its Yucatec name, Lamat, and reads it alongside your other ancient calendar signs and the rest of your chart. It shows the sign only, not the number from 1 to 13 that completes a full Tzolkin date. The colour name Yellow Star comes from the Dreamspell, a modern system created by Jose Arguelles. Dreamspell runs on a different day count, so a Dreamspell calculator may show a different sign for the same birthday.