EP 122: The Maya Sacred Calendar - Understanding Time, Consciousness & Your Birth Path

**Have you ever wondered if your birth date carries a sacred blueprint that has been guiding your life since the moment you were born?** In this episode of **The Sacred Travel Podcast**, Julia sits down with **Mariel Witmond**, somatic coach, embodiment guide, and practitioner of the living **K'iche' Maya Sacred Calendar (Cholq'ij)**. Together they explore one of the world's oldest living wisdom traditions and reveal how the ancient Maya understood time as a living intelligence—offering profound insight into our purpose, consciousness, and relationship with nature and the cosmos. **What You'll Walk Away With:** ⭐ **Your Mayan Birth Blueprint**Discover the meaning of your **Chumilal (Star Energy)** and how your Mayan Birth Energy reveals the unique qualities, gifts, challenges, potential and lessons your soul carries into this lifetime. 🔢 **Sacred Numbers & The 20 Archetypes**Discover how the sacred number cycles **7, 13, 20, 52, and 260** weave together with the **20 Nahuales (Sacred Archetypes)** to form the living architecture of the Cholq'ij—guiding consciousness, spiritual evolution, and your relationship with nature. 🐆 **The Mayan Cross**Understand how the **Mayan Cross** reveals your conception energy, birth energy, destiny, material world, and spiritual path—creating a multidimensional map of your soul's journey. ⏳ **A New Relationship with Tim: The Living Calendar vs Prediction Tool**Discover why the authentic **K'iche' Maya Sacred Calendar** is far more than astrology or fortune-telling, revealing time as a cyclical, relational, and living force that can transform the way you understand yourself and move through life. 🌞 **The Truth About the "Day Out of Time" & Discernment In Ancient Wisdom** Learn why the popular **"Day Out of Time"** does **not** belong to the traditional K'iche' Maya Sacred Calendar, how it differs from the authentic **Wayeb'** period, and why honoring Indigenous teachings preserves the integrity of this living wisdom tradition. **ABOUT MARIEL:** Mariel Witmond is a somatic coach, breathwork facilitator and movement teacher who guides transformational experiences rooted in embodiment and nervous system awareness. Mariel's path to physical well-being was ignited by yoga, somatic movement, meditation, breathwork, and nutrition, leading her to become a 500RYT yoga and meditation teacher, breathwork facilitator and certified Health Coach. Aware of the direct correlation between soma and psyche, she delved into life coaching, mindfulness, CBT, EFT, and psychotherapy to understand her own struggles and help others navigate their own mental and emotional challenges. Her spiritual quest brought her back to her ancestral Mayan roots that reconnected her with the power of nature, plant medicines and ancient rituals. This mosaic of experiences inspired a mission to cultivate sanctuaries of healing for others, spaces where the heart could mend and the spirit could soar. With fervor, she pioneers alternative healing methods, guiding modern souls towards deeper self-connection and belonging, determined to help eradicate loneliness.   **👋 CONNECT WITH MARIEL:** Website: ⁠https://www.marielwitmond.com YouTube: ⁠@marielwitmond Instagram: ⁠⁠@marielwitmond Facebook: ⁠@marielwitmond   🏵️ Free Introduction to the Mayan Sacred Calendar Webinar 🏝️ IBIZA Sisterhood Rising Retreat with Mariel   **RESOURCES MENTIONED:** 🌎 Maya Tecum (Spanish)https://www.mayatecum.com 🌎 The Mayan Wisdom Projecthttps://themayanwisdomproject.org 🛕 Join the next 𝕄𝕒𝕘𝕕𝕒𝕝𝕖𝕟𝕖 ℝ𝕖𝕚𝕜𝕚 ℂ𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕚𝕗𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟  🌹  │ 7 Temple Gates Initiation into the Temple of the White Flame 08 Aug - 15 Sept ⚜️Enter the Temple⚜️ 👋 Connect with me on Instagram: @soul\_wisdom\_by\_julia 💌 Subscribe to my newsletter at www.soulwisdom.ch