Calli

Personality

homely · protective · introspective · secretive · steady · hospitable

In the Aztec tonalpohualli, a person whose tonalli, or birth sign, is Calli is described as home-loving, protective and inward-looking, attached to family and to the shelter of the house. Calli means 'house', and the sign stands for rest, enclosure and the household, but also for the darkness of interiors; its patron is Tepeyollotl, the 'heart of the mountain', a jaguar deity of caves and echoes.

Modern readings of the sign credit Calli people with loyalty, hospitality, steadiness and the ability to create a secure place for others; they are said to be reflective and to understand what is hidden within themselves and others. Their challenges are said to be secretiveness, withdrawal, an excessive need for security and a tendency to shut themselves away when troubled.

In love Calli people are portrayed as faithful and devoted to the family home; in work, as builders, hosts, guardians and careful managers of households and institutions. The tonalpouhque, the Aztec day-count diviners, read the sign together with the number of the day and the trecena, so the same sign could carry quite different fortunes for different births.