Thank you for reading, Susan – and I appreciate the feedback too. Wishing you a great rest of the day!

Greetings, Debra! I’m glad that you found answers in this piece. I was prompted to clarify my own thoughts on the subject when an opportunity came up recently to submit my thoughts to a project that deals with the nature of Truth.

I like how you describe the first impressions of the mind (through they eyes) as optical illusions – very well put – because the mind does not know the deeper truth or deeper reality or underlying context – or, indeed, the underlying archetype/s…

Here’s an example: we may have certain people in our lives (as friends or family member for example) not knowing – especially in the case of friends – why they are in our lives (if we don’t know their archetype) , so we consider it purely random coincidence:

Our lives crossed so we met and then became friends. Yet, very often our friends and family members and other people that feature prominently in our lives are (have the same) archetypes as some of the (other) archetype on our Mayan Cross. Coincidence? Well, it can’t be. There is an energetic pattern to our lives and that would include many of the people in our lives.

Fascinating stuff – but one would only get to know this if you study the Mayan Cross and get to know the archetypes of the people around you (and sometimes we have an a-ha moment when you get to know a person’s archetype).

Let’s say for example you have had a difficult person in your life in the past – chances are that that person energetically brought challenges to you in life for you to grow and overcome certain things – and that it was ordered by the universe…

How would one know? Does the person’s energy (archetype) feature in your Mayan Cross? This puts a whole different perspective on things, I would say. Because if it were just random there could be no real point to the challenges that some people can cause us.

Of course it can be difficult to accept that the universe itself would want anyone to be cruel to us (if that were ever the case), but if such a person appears on/in our Mayan Cross, well perhaps we have to consider that life is a divine, but very tough learning ground (at times).

Of course many people will also cross our paths who do not appear on our Mayan Cross, so there may well be some randomness involved too, but even that seems unlikely from the perspective that everything in the universe is ordered – which tends to grow as we spend time with the Mayan Cross. These are just a few thoughts I have and thought I’d share in terms of breaking through to new truths.

As you also said, every day we have the ability to look through ‘new eyes’ due to the changing energy on a daily basis (when we follow the Mayan Tzolkin calendar). So, we can also see through the ‘eyes’ – or experience the energy – our those we consider our adversaries… and friends – and we have ample time, because the energies of days come around very 13 and every 20 days and the combined energies every 260.

It’s very interesting how the Mayans bring their children up from a young age to know and feel the energies daily – which means they very likely know the energies and therefore characteristics of the people the interact with on a daily basis (from early on in their lives.)

There’s an interesting article here about how children are initiated into the calendar:
http://mayancross.com/personal-power

Thank you for commenting Debra! I have a post coming up soon
about what I did on 8 Chicchan 🙂

The archetypes we talked about so long ago, have finally found the understanding. Like the optical illusions human eyes see, because the mind first turns to the truth it expects in the first impression. So we are accessing a current truth of our self all the time. I see how the calendar offers a provision for this – breaking through old truth of identity by guiding us to look through a different perspective ever day. Changing our personal truth would be inevitable, through seeing things in different ways, and making conscious choices of new truth. Whatever we do consciously, seems to generate the greatest transformations of truth.

Thanks so much for so much to think about.
I was thinking about you on 8 Serpent/CHICCHAN – hope it was an awesome one.
Debra