Kawak

Personality

sociable · caring · energetic · community-minded · healing · stormy

Among K'iche' Maya daykeepers, a person born on Kawoq (Yucatec Kawak) is described as sociable, energetic and caring, often drawn to medicine or community leadership. Kawoq is the storm, which brings both destruction and the rain that makes maize grow, and the day is associated with community, with families and groups, and with women, midwives and healers.

Daykeepers credit Kawoq people with warmth, generosity, a strong sense of family and community, and a gift for healing and for bringing people together to solve shared problems. They are said to be lively and resourceful. The challenge traditionally named is that their own lives may be stormy, with turbulent emotions, family conflicts and sudden changes.

In love and friendship Kawoq people are portrayed as affectionate and family-centred, though sometimes caught up in the storms around them. In work they are suited to medicine and midwifery, healing, social work, community leadership and roles that unite groups. Prayers on Kawoq days ask for unity in families and communities; as with every Maya day sign, the number of the birth day shapes how the nawal is read.