K'ib'

Personality

intelligent · sensitive · wise · forgiving · reflective · counselling

Among K'iche' Maya daykeepers, a person born on Ajmaq (Yucatec K'ib') is described as intelligent and sensitive, someone who may stumble and err but who learns from experience and can counsel others because of what they have been through. Ajmaq is the day of human fallibility, often translated 'sinner', and is used to ask forgiveness for wrongs, one's own and those of the ancestors, whose faults may weigh on the living.

Daykeepers credit Ajmaq people with wisdom gained through experience, compassion for the failings of others, sensitivity and a capacity for reflection and forgiveness; they are said to make good counsellors and peacemakers. The challenges traditionally named are setbacks, mistakes and periods of suffering, and a tendency to guilt or to repeating errors until their lessons are learned.

In love and friendship Ajmaq people are portrayed as understanding and forgiving, though their lives may have more turns than most. In work they are suited to counselling, mediation, healing and spiritual work, and any role that calls for patience with human weakness. The number of the birth day shapes the reading, as for every Maya day sign.