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THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ABILITIES

Fundamental psychological archetypes of ancient Maya

The ancient Maya believed that the date of birth plants a mark on a person and his or her destiny. Mayans used several calendars for different purposes, however, the most popular was the Tzolkin calendar that consisted of 13 months, each of which contained 20 days. This calendar defined a galactic sign of each day and, therefore, a galactic sign of a person born on that day. The galactic sign was determined by a combination of 20 galactic seals and 13 solar galactic tones. The Maya believed that if a person is aligned with a corresponding galactic sign, then this human becomes the universe’s gift to others.


The 20 solar seals of the ancient Maya are divided into four groups corresponding to the four psychological archetypes. Maya depicted these archetypes as a sector of the circle, painted with different colors: red, white, blue and yellow.


How does everything start? Everything starts with an idea. The idea is always the beginning of any creation. The idea belongs to the red zone in the circle of the Maya. In order to materialize the idea in the real world, the idea must pass through three additional steps. The idea, followed by action, is much more powerful than an idea that exists only as an idea.


The next step of the idea materialization is a white sector. This is the stage when the formless idea begins to take shape, time when priorities emerge. We begin to describe main units that make up the idea. For example, if you decide to start a new business - it is a pure idea, for the next step, you will decide how to legally formalize this business, where to rent an office, who will be your clients, who you will hire to work in your business, etc.


Then you work out the details, this stage corresponds to a blue sector. In the course of progression in a circle from red to white and then from white to blue, your idea takes the form in the physical world, it starts to become a subject. More and more details will appear around the idea. At this point, you start to work out the concrete steps to implement the idea, a list of what you need to buy or get, with whom you need to talk. You create a list of all things that you need to do.


After that, there comes a last stage, a yellow sector. This is the sector where the idea comes into being. At this point, you've done all the right moves, made all the right purchase and your idea has passed the full circle of creation, from pure idea to a world of physical reality.


These four sectors also represent four archetypes or four roles that we can play in our lives. For example, do you know someone in your surroundings who is always full of interesting and attractive ideas, who can easily see connections and relationships between people, objects or events, but who is very poorly organized, who does not know where to begin, or who never follows up on their ideas? This is a man who belongs to the archetype of the red sector. You may know the people, who may easily explain anything from a global perspective? These people belong to the white sector. People of the blue sector perfectly see all the details, they can sort through everything, they can analyze any cogs in the mechanism. People that belong to the yellow sector can do pretty much everything. They just need instructions or a protocol they can follow.


Each of us can play any of these roles, if necessary. We all can have a wonderful idea, we all can put the idea into practice, if we are working hard, we all can carry our message across all four sectors. However, our strengths and our natural talents will inevitably belong to one of the sectors. And if you know, what your strength is, you know what you need to do, then you also know with whom you need to cooperate and how to interact with them to manifest your idea. We all have a natural role for us, and this role relates to only one of the Maya sectors.


© Anastasia Kariagina, 2014


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