About
I am Ix Chilam Vou. They call me Xi Lady.
I am the gatekeeper of the crossroads through the veil into the unseen realm.
My name, translated
Ix Chilam Vou
- Ix
- Also translates to "Lady." The essence of life and the nurturing aspects of femininity — vitality and feminine energy. Closely linked to the jaguar, embodying its fierce, protective strength, and to Mother Earth and her creative forces. In the Mayan calendar, Ix days hold spiritual potency — powerful for ritual, for building altars, for giving offerings to the Earth and manifesting desires.
- Chilam
- In Yucatec Maya, "Oracle" or "prophetess" — a priestly figure who conveys divine messages. Chilams were spiritual leaders who interpreted the will of the gods and delivered prophecies, guiding the community through sacred texts.
- Vou
- After my mother reflected to the K'iche' "Vuh," meaning "book" — as in the Popol Vuh, the "Book of the Council" or "Book of the People."
My story
The calling came the way the old teachings say it would — quietly, and then all at once.
I was raised among elders who prayed before sunrise, who spoke to the land as a relative and who taught that faith is something you live with your hands. Their words became my path.
CosMotherapy is how I carry those teachings forward — weaving the cosmos, the Mother and our ancestral lineage into healing for the people of today.
“Our faith is not only what we believe — it is how we walk.”See my offerings
Ourstory
The Tun 13 Ancestress Calendar Wheel
Long before the cards, our ancestors counted time in thirteens. The Tzolkin, the sacred count of 260 days, turns 13 numbers through 20 day signs. The Tun is the count of 360 days, and twenty Tuns make a Katun.
Each Katun was named for the Ahau, the crowned one, who ruled its closing day: Hun Ahau, Ka Ahau, Ox Ahau, Kan Ahau, and on to Oxlahun Ahau, the thirteenth. Set in a circle, the thirteen turn as one wheel and return again, a cycle of about 256 years. A copy of this wheel was written down in Yucatán in the 1500s, its center naming it in the Maya tongue as the count of the Katuns.
I honor these thirteen as our crowned Ancestresses, each held by a light in the sky: the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Mars, Pluto, and Sirius, who crowns the last three.
The same thirteen live in the cards: 13 numbers in 4 suits make 52, the 52 weeks of the year and the 52-year round of our ancestors' calendar. Add every card's number and you reach 364; the Joker makes 365. The deck is a calendar wheel in our hands.
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