TIJAX TRECENA
After walking through the powerful Kan trecena — a cycle that synchronized miracles, ignited passion, and reawakened our connection to joy — we now enter the trecena of Tijax: the obsidian knife, the surgeon, the healer.
Tijax Trecena begins today: The Obsidian Knife and the Healer
After walking through the powerful Kan trecena — a cycle that synchronized miracles, ignited passion, and reawakened our connection to joy — we now enter the trecena of Tijax: the obsidian knife, the surgeon, the healer.
Kan reminded us of the fuel of life: joy found in nature, in the lake, in the mountains, in delicious food, and in loving community. Now, Tijax arrives to remind us: we must cut away everything that no longer looks or feels like the life we want to live.
What habits are keeping you from moving forward?
Old habits, laziness, doubt, poor discipline — these are energies that take us in the opposite direction of our dreams. Tijax invites you to observe and cut them out intentionally.
Set your compass.
Getting somewhere isn’t about running — it’s about direction. Set your compass (your clear dream, your intention), and walk toward it — little steps or big ones, but every single day.
If your vision is for example health:
• Cook something healthy every day.
• Move your body daily — even a walk counts.
• If you skip a day out of laziness, that’s exactly what you’re being called to cut.
If your vision is for example health:
Ritual for Cutting
Take an actual knife (a kitchen knife works), light a candle, and cut laziness, stagnation, or fear from your energy field. Move the knife around your body with the clear intention of removing what no longer serves you.
Then, invite in:
• Action
• Movement
• Discipline
• Joy
Clean your space with palo santo or sage if you have it. Smudge your home and body. Then, bring in beauty and joy: spray Florida water, rose water, or any perfume you love. Light incense, turn on a diffuser, play music that uplifts your spirit.
If you invited movement, then dance. If you invited discipline, then show up to life by repeating your routines towards your aim daily. Do your part!
Never detox without re-beautifying the space. This is universal law: every clearing must be followed by recharging, polishing, sealing. Remember that.
A Message from the Knife
The obsidian knife also reminds you of everything you received during the last trecena. Spirit showed up for you, you are alive, there are opportunities, there is air to breath, there are the seasons pushing you forward, and countless more blessings around you and each of us. Now it’s your turn to show up for life.
Healing is not just about adding more — it’s often about cutting away what you are not. Cut away what is not love, not light, what is not you. Hold your vision clearly. Feel it. Live it in the now. Then cut anything that is not aligned with it.
What needs to go?
• Bad spending habits?
• Lack of faith?
• Low self-esteem?
• Procrastination?
Whatever it is — cut it.
These Next 13 Days: Sacred Surgery
During these 13 days of Tijax, surgery is available. The energies are aligned for healing on all levels — emotional, physical, spiritual, mental. And remember — you are not alone. Thousands around the world are doing their part. Together, we are weaving a strong web, holding space for one another.
Here at Juyu Ya’ (sacred Water mountain place close to Guatemala city from where I write these words), we hold those knots tight. The altars, the land, and the ancestors are connected to that web. So are you.
Don’t believe your physical eyes only. Close your eyes and see:
• Juyu Ya´ praying for you.
• Others around the world praying for you.
• You are accompanied. You are held.
• Tijax is radical — not soft. It corrects. It cuts. It heals with precision.
You Are a Seed that came to this world to do this sacred work, your ancestors did before you but you are doing before your future generations. You are opening paths for others. Rejoice in that. Know that you came here not only to receive, but also to help others heal. Let us multiply the joy and the medicine.
Aho!
Kikitemal pa ri kak´a q´ij (have a good trecena).
With love and respect
Nan Vivi Cruz de Baak
