Learning Lab/Mesoamerican Astrology: The Fourth Great Tradition

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Mesoamerican Astrology: The Fourth Great Tradition

A ten-week, self-paced journey through the Maya and Aztec sacred calendar — from the twenty day-signs to casting a complete Mayan pyramid chart.

Start learning30 lessons · ~10 hours · self-paced

What you'll learn

Long before European astrology reached the Americas, the Maya, Aztec, and their neighbors built a complete astrological tradition of their own — founded not on the positions of planets in space, but on the character of time itself. This course is your guided path through it. Built on Bruce Scofield's two core texts — *Signs of Time* and *How to Practice Mayan Astrology* (with Barry Orr) — it moves week by week from the historical foundations, through the twenty day-signs and the interlocking cycles that layer onto them, all the way to casting and interpreting a full Mayan pyramid chart. No prior astrology experience is required: only curiosity, and ideally both books in hand. Each lesson ends with one concrete action, so you finish not just knowing the system but able to read a chart for yourself and others.

Curriculum

Module 1 — Origins and Orientation

Module 2 — The 260-Day Calendar

Module 3 — The Twenty Day-Signs, Part 1

Module 5 — The Trecena, the Night Lords, and the Tonalamatl

Module 6 — Cosmology and Mythology

Module 7 — Venus and the Planets

Module 8 — The Years, the Yearbearers, and the Long Count

Module 9 — Building a Mayan Pyramid Chart

Module 10 — Synthesis and Future Possibilities

Your instructor

Zen Lara

A Chicana astrologer bringing an accessible introduction to Mesoamerican astrological practice to Western practitioners.