Muluk (Water)The 20 Maya day signsMaya Calendar

Muluk, water, is ninth of the twenty, following Lamat the star: after gathering its fill, feeling rises and spills. Its glyph is a circle with a dot inside — a drop of water, a bead of jade. Muluk is offering-water and rain, and it's also jade, the most precious thing the Maya had; it speaks of feeling and of worth at once: what's deep is what's valuable.

So Muluk's mechanism is depth and overflow: you feel more deeply than others and earlier, like a cup filled to the rim that spills at a nudge. Its power is receptivity — you catch what others can't; its difficulty is receptivity too — when you're full, one sentence can wound, yourself included.

Where you'll recognise it: emotion arrives deep, sensitivity to shifts in atmosphere, often knowing something's wrong before others do, needing time to digest, gratitude and indebtedness both felt heavily. Running well, you're the person of greatest emotional depth: able to accompany, to understand, to turn feeling into something of worth — a work, a rite, a bond. Stuck, you spill or you dam — the smallest thing overflows, or to avoid overflowing you feel nothing at all. In the sequence Muluk is followed by Ok, the dog: after the overflow, loyalty and company. Your next step isn't feeling more. It's finding the person who can hold this cup.