The living 260-day count of the K'iche' Maya — your nawal, your Mayan Cross, and a daily practice in its rhythm.
How it works
The same short walkthrough shown the first time you open the app:
Maya — The Calendar of Birth — The Cholq'ij: the 260-day sacred count still kept by K'iche' Maya day-keepers in Guatemala. Twenty nahuales, thirteen tones, computed with the authentic correlation. Today has a character; so do you.
Twenty Nahuales, Thirteen Tones — Each day pairs one of the twenty day signs with a tone from one to thirteen — a quality and an intensity. The wheel turns through all 260 combinations before a day repeats.
A Living Tradition, Not New Age — This app follows the K'iche' Maya calendar still kept by Aj K'ij day-keepers in Guatemala today — computed with the GMT correlation (the scholarly-accepted correspondence to our calendar). It is not the Dreamspell system, a 1980s New Age reinterpretation that Maya communities have rejected as inauthentic.
A Daily Practice, Hidden in a Story — Each day's nahual sets the quality, and brings one short, ordinary scenario: read today's nahual and tone, live the scenario and make three choices, and watch your four-directions star grow.
Ask Anything — Ask about today's nahual, your birth sign, a tone, or the tradition itself — the current count and your birth details are already in view. Plain language, any time.
Watch Your Light Grow — Your choices quietly gather into the four sacred directions — East's fire, North's wind, West's earth, South's corn. No scores to chase: a light that grows over a lifetime of practice.
Add Your Birth Date — The day-keeper's first question: when were you born? Your birth date finds your nahual and tone, and colours every reading with them. Optional — and everything stays on your device.
Getting started
Open the Today tab — see today's day-sign (nawal) and tone in the Cholq'ij, the 260-day sacred count still kept by K'iche' daykeepers.
Take the daily practice — a short scenario carrying today's nawal energy. There are no wrong answers.
Enter your birth date in Settings to reveal your own nawal — the sign you were born under — and your Mayan Cross: the signs of your conception, left hand, right hand, and destiny.
Watch your Growth profile take shape from your responses over the days.
The tradition behind it
The Cholq'ij (Yucatec: tzolk'in) interlocks 20 day-signs with 13 tones into a 260-day round — a count that has run unbroken in the Guatemalan highlands for over two thousand years. Each person belongs to the nawal of their birth day; the day you are living always has one too. The app computes both with the standard GMT correlation used by living daykeepers, entirely on your device.
What's inside
Today's nawal
The current day-sign and tone, with the quality it carries — the frame for each day's practice.
Your Mayan Cross
Five signs around your birth nawal — conception, destiny, and the two hands — the classic K'iche' reading of a life.
Calendar
Browse the full round: every sign, every tone, and where today sits in the great wheel.
Ask & Growth
Question the tradition, and let a behavioural profile grow from your daily choices.
Morning guidance
Optional morning notifications greet you with the day's nawal and tone — composed on your device, opt-in, off any time in Settings.
Subscription
Maya offers a free trial period, after which a low-cost subscription unlocks full personalised access. Exact pricing and any current offers are shown in the app at the point of purchase, and via your device's app store account settings.
Privacy
Your birth date stays on your device; only the prompt for your reading is sent to our server, with no account or identifier attached. Read the full privacy policy.
Common questions
Is this the "Maya calendar that ended in 2012"?
No — that story confused the Long Count with the Cholq'ij. The 260-day count never "ends"; it turns, like a week does. It is still kept daily by K'iche' communities in Guatemala.
What does my nawal mean?
A character, a set of strengths and cautions — closer to a temperament than a horoscope. The app presents each nawal's traditional associations and lets your daily practice explore how they show up in you.
Does it work offline?
The calendar, your nawal, and the Mayan Cross are computed on the device. The daily scenario and Ask need a connection to our generation service.