Mesoamerican Astrology API

{
  "date": "2012-12-21",
  "tzolkin": {
    "daySign": "ajaw",
    "daySignName": "Ajaw",
    "daySignClassic": "Ahau",
    "daySignKiche": "AJPUʼ",
    "number": 4,
    "trecena": {
      "number": 13,
      "dayOfTrecena": 4,
      "rulingSign": "kaban",
      "rulingSignName": "Kabʼan"
    },
    "reading": {
      "keynote": "The nawal Ajaw, called AJPUʼ in the highland daykeeping tradition, is the sun at its height, the completed day and the authority that comes with finishing. The sign itself is read as lord, ruler, sun.",
      "numberReading": "The coefficient 4 has no character recorded for it in the sources this API is built on, so no reading is offered for the number alone. The sign carries the day.",
      "strengths": [
        "Finishes what was started and lets the result be seen",
        "Warms a whole room rather than one corner of it"
      ],
      "challenges": [
        "Needs the light on it and dims when the light moves",
        "Treats a finished thing as final and stops asking about it"
      ],
      "guidance": "Give the credit away once today. A sun that shines only on itself lights nothing."
    }
  },
  "haab": {
    "month": "kankin",
    "monthName": "Kʼankʼin",
    "monthClassic": "Kankin",
    "day": 3,
    "dayOfYear": 263,
    "reading": "The Haab date is 3 Kʼankʼin, inside a period read this way: The yellow sun, ripening light, where the year turns toward its harvest."
  },
  "longCount": {
    "formatted": "13.0.0.0.0",
    "baktun": 13,
    "katun": 0,
    "tun": 0,
    "winal": 0,
    "kin": 0,
    "daysSinceEpoch": 1872000,
    "julianDayNumber": 2456283
  },
  "calendarRound": "4 Ajaw 3 Kʼankʼin",
  "lordOfNight": {
    "label": "G9",
    "reading": "The night belongs to G9 of the nine, a cycle that turns one step every day and closes every nine. The Maya names for the nine were never recorded, so the cycle is published by its glyph labels alone."
  },
  "yearBearer": {
    "daySign": "kaban",
    "daySignName": "Kabʼan",
    "number": 1,
    "reading": "The Haab year is carried by 1 Kabʼan, read at the seating of Pop. This is the Classic set, and it is the one highland daykeepers still run today."
  },
  "cross": [
    {
      "position": "center",
      "offsetDays": 0,
      "daySign": "ajaw",
      "daySignName": "Ajaw",
      "daySignKiche": "AJPUʼ",
      "number": 4,
      "reading": "The centre of the cross is the birth nawal itself, 4 Ajaw, and every arm is read against it."
    },
    {
      "position": "conception",
      "offsetDays": -8,
      "daySign": "eb",
      "daySignName": "Ebʼ",
      "daySignKiche": "E",
      "number": 9,
      "reading": "The conception arm, eight days before the birth day, is 9 Ebʼ. It is read as the root the life is drawn from."
    },
    {
      "position": "destiny",
      "offsetDays": 8,
      "daySign": "lamat",
      "daySignName": "Lamat",
      "daySignKiche": "QʼANIL",
      "number": 12,
      "reading": "The destiny arm, eight days after the birth day, is 12 Lamat. It is read as later life and as what is left behind."
    },
    {
      "position": "left",
      "offsetDays": 6,
      "daySign": "kimi",
      "daySignName": "Kimi",
      "daySignKiche": "KAME",
      "number": 10,
      "reading": "The left arm, six days after the birth day, is 10 Kimi. It is read as one of the two sides the life is balanced between."
    },
    {
      "position": "right",
      "offsetDays": -6,
      "daySign": "ix",
      "daySignName": "Ix",
      "daySignKiche": "IʼX",
      "number": 11,
      "reading": "The right arm, six days before the birth day, is 11 Ix. It is read as the other of the two sides."
    }
  ],
  "summary": "This day is 4 Ajaw 3 Kʼankʼin, Long Count 13.0.0.0.0. The nawal is Ajaw, the sun at its height, the completed day and the authority that comes with finishing, carried on the coefficient 4.",
  "conventions": {
    "correlation": "gmt-584283",
    "yearBearerSystem": "classic"
  }
}