What it means
Men is the eagle in many readings, and the K'iche' name Tz'ikin simply means bird. Birds fly between the sky and the ground, so daykeepers treat the day as a go-between, good for prayers about prosperity, luck and love. Tz'ikin people are said to be visionary and independent, with a wide view that lets them see where things are heading before others do. The tradition also notes that they can be restless and hard to hold on to.
Strengths
Vision, independence, ambition, an early eye for patterns, and a sense of freedom that encourages other people to look up.
Challenges
Restlessness, aloofness, and big plans that lose touch with the ground.
Dates
Men comes around every 20 days, because the Tzolkin runs through its 20 day signs in a fixed order, with Ix before it and Cib 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 Men days on or after October 23, 2026 are October 24, 2026, November 13, 2026, December 3, 2026 and December 23, 2026. The Long Count completed its 13th b'ak'tun on December 21, 2012, which was 4 Ahau, and the first Men day after it fell on January 5, 2013. Someone born on November 29, 2000, for example, has Men 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, Men, 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 Blue Eagle 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.