Muluk

Personality

generous · dutiful · grateful · responsible · giving · sensitive

Among K'iche' Maya daykeepers, a person born on Toj (Yucatec Muluk) is described as generous and dutiful, someone whose life is bound up with giving what is owed. Toj means 'payment' or 'offering': in highland tradition people owe a debt to the earth, the sky and the ancestors for life, health and harvests, and pay it with offerings of candles, incense and prayer.

Daykeepers credit Toj people with responsibility, gratitude, devotion and a strong sense of reciprocity; they are said to be good at keeping communities in balance and to have a natural affinity with ceremony. The challenge traditionally named is that they may be prone to hardship, illness or misfortune until they learn to give what is owed, to the sacred world and to the people around them; misfortune may be read as an unpaid debt.

In love and friendship Toj people are portrayed as loyal and giving, sometimes to the point of self-sacrifice. In work they are suited to religious and ceremonial roles, finance and fair exchange, service and care. The Classic Yucatec day is associated with water and jade, both precious and green; as always, the number of the birth day shapes the reading.