As you begin working with the Mayan calendar and familiarising
yourself with the solar glyphs, you may notice that you are attracted to
certain glyphs, some even more than your birthday glyph. This is
normal, and it will change as time goes by because your spiritual and
emotional needs are rapidly evolving. The glyphs you are most
attracted to will be the ones that are most beneficial at that moment, so
trust your intuition and meditate with the ones that appeal to you.

Be aware that the solar glyphs will communicate with you
telepathically- this is a two-way connection. You are encouraged to ask
questions and then relax and listen quietly for the telepathic answer.
The paintings allow you to access the energy of each solar glyph, and
you can invite this energy into your body for balance, healing and
activation.

The following information on the solar glyphs is provided as a simple
guide to get you started. Meditate with the one that feels most
appropriate at any given time. One caution: don't overdo it. These are
powerful energies. Ten minutes or less in one sitting is probably
enough.

form. You will feel a cosmic closeness to the feminine aspect of
God. You are interested in what that means and explore the
possibilities of being a gentle and nurturing person. You enjoy
making things. You might be dealing with issues around the value
of your feminine side. Meditating with this glyph can help restore
health lost through selfhatred. Self-acceptance is the first step to

2. IK (Wind) The symbol for God as Father, who blows life and
humor into the forms with his breath. God as Father is the thought,
the idea to create, the One who knows you. He represents
truth.You will have a cosmic closeness to the masculine aspect of
God, a knowing of what that means. You are very interested in
truth and have fun with humor. You might be dealing with issues
around the value of your masculine side. Meditating with this glyph
can help you bring your masculine and feminine sides into perfect
balance. This is necessary for becoming the fully enlightened being.

and become the temple, or dwelling place, of God. You will have a
cosmic understanding of what it means to be the expression of
divine energy in form. The symbol of home is important for you,

and you will explore the meanings and spiritual aspects of home.
You want to make it a place of peace. The concept of home
expands to include your environment and your planet. You have a
strong desire for balance and peace.

You have a cosmic interest in the mysteries of creation. How does
this miracle happen? This symbol portrays the dynamic and ongoing
nature of creation. It speaks about reproduction, growth and
change. You begin to see all creation as an expression of divine
love. This step is necessary for becoming the fully enlightened
being, because you need to feel the oneness running through all life
in order to love all things. Everything that has ever been created is
a child of God made from divine energy, and we are all loved
equally. This glyph can be used to heal issues of bigotry or racial
hatred. If God is present in all things, there is no point in making
comparisons.

aware of , your separateness as an individual. The mind becomes
your tool for separation. You are a separate consciousness, an
individual, one who can think. Only when you complete the
concept of yourself as being separate from God can you start the
exciting journey back to oneness. You might be dealing with issues
around loneliness and a strong desire to be loved. Meditating with
this symbol can be helpfu. in moving through feelings of despair
knowing that your feelings of separation and alienation are natural
but temporary. They were needed in order to gain the appreciation
for oneness, but you don't have to play with that energy any longer
than you choose. Meditate with this glyph for a few minutes, and
then move to glyph number 8 (Lamat the Mayan star). Lamat will
help heal the pain of loneliness.

6. CIMI. (World-Bridger) Awareness of the concept of time; the
realisation that a lifetime is finite and has more to do with cycles of
experience than endings. You know that you will eventually make
your souls journey back to divinity and then choose your next arena
of experience. You become aware of the preciousness of your life
here on Earth, and you want to make the most of it. You have a
strong desire to understand the things of this Earth and you have
great courage and daring, which move you into new experiences.

to understand how things work on this planet. You also learn about
how other people operate. You become successful. You learn how
to make changes in your life smoothly. You enjoy creative abilities.
Basically, you enjoy being alive. Meditating with this glyph can be
helpful if you are dealing with issues around control. Is someone
controlling you? Do you have a need to control others? This must
be brought into balance in order to become the fully enlightened
being who honors the self and allows all things.

learning to love. You develop a tolerance and a compassion for
yourself and others. The ability to love yourself is very important in
attaining wisdom, and it is perfected here. You begin to feel a
profound sense of your own value and a love for yourself exactly as

you are. You evolve this self-love into a deep love for humanity
and a love and caring for the planet Earth. Meditating with this
glyph will help you remember and hold the vibration for
unconditional love. The solar glyph painting Lamat portrays with
colors our coming forth into being from love when we awake,
creating our bodies out of light, then our return back to love, which
we all do each time we fall asleep. Lamat is the symbolic portrayal
that love is what we are.

opening to a more vivid realization of the existence of God. Here
we see ourselves as separate from our Creator in order to know that
such a thing as God even exists. We allow separation from the
oneness in order to have many experiences on Earth. We have a
great desire to under-stand our divine nature on a cosmic level. We
stand easily in the gateway between two worlds, seeing both
sides.Meditating with this glyph will create an opening to other
dimensions when we do it with the pure intention to grow in

10. OC. (Dog) Just as a dog is faithful companion to its master, we
are a faithful companion to God. This symbol helps us balance the
emotions. Our emotions are vivid and scattered, and the job here is
to make some sense of it all. We must keep the strong emotions, for
they are needed in telepathy, but we arrange them in a more
comfortable order. Sexuality is a big issue with this step of the soul.
The goal is integrating sexuality into our lives and recognizing it as
something of God, and as such something to be appreciated and
respected. Meditating with this glyph can help bring wild emotions
into balance. It can also help us come to a place of peace around

creates new things through us. This step of the soul portrays the
loving recognition that everything we are and all we do is of God.
We are living reflections of the spirit working through us as walking
sparks of creative energy. This is an important foundation for the
concept that the spirit of our Creator is truly in the creations.
Because we are living reflections of our Creator, we become more
powerful. Meditating with this glyph can help resolve the issues of
powerlessness that sometimes create unwanted addictions.

takes on a more spiritual orientation. There is a very close
connection with God, a deep love given and received. The
temptation here is to spend most of our time in meditation and
prayer, forgetting about our physical obligations. This needs to be
brought into balance in order to attain the wisdom of this step. Most
of the spiritual energy is concentrated from the heart to the crown,
so feelings of bliss are easy to attain. Another challenge of this step
is to avoid judgment and scorn for others who do not feel the close
connection to God the way we do. Meditating with this glyph can
help balance spiritual and physical needs. It can help us allow