Mayan Solar New Year: Stability (1 Kiej) (2026)

The Solar New Year from the Ha’ab Calendar in the day-sign of 1 Kiej starts on 18th February 2026. This means that we not only have a trecena, a 13-day period in the lunar calendar (the Tzolk’in) in the sign of Kiej (the deer), but also the start of the new solar year in the same sign.

Meaning, a new round of 360+5 days of the solar calendar are now in the sign 1 Kiej, which will acompany us till 18th of Febuary next year. After a very expansive “blow out what no longer belongs” year with 13 Iq, we now enter a period of stability and laying new foundations.

Theme of the Year: Stability

Kiej, the deer, is the not only strongly connected to all four directions, bringing the power of the South, North, East, and West, as well as earth, water, fire, and wind together in the center. It’s also a sign for community building, bringing harmony into community matters, and guiding future generations.

People with Kiej in their chart are often highly respected, good at communication and mediating, helping to lay the foundation for the community in rules and morals, embody a soft and gentle type of leadership that convinces through presence and wise words, and are known to bring peace, where peace is needed.

It’s a highly favorable sign, also because it’s so strongly connected to the earth and to nature, therefore reactivating our true nature and reminding us what’s truly important to us to fulfill our role within the community.

Simplicity over complexity.

Ending a 13 Year Cycle

Since the Mayan Calendar is highly organized and everything works magically hand in hand, we just completed a 13 year long cycle, which started with 1 Iq in 2013 and ended with 13 Iq (the wind and leadership sign) just now 2026. Thirteen is the last number in the numerals that go along with the 20 nahuales, daily energies, and it has the highest potency.

In 2013, 1 Iq was the start of authentic leadership, which culminated in 2025/26 with 13 Iq, highly feminine leadership, powered up by three feminine trecenas (13-day cycles) before the closing of 13 Iq. We started the year on 10th of January with Q’anil, bringing in very fertile energy in the sign of the rabbit, which symbolizes abundance and planting new seeds, followed by the wild and crazy feminine energy of Imox, and concluded with Ix, the intuitive, gentle, yet fiercely protective and precise feminine.

So, we were lead into a new dawn that’s backed by a triplet of feminine energies returning us to the creative, emotional, empathetic, wise, magnetising earth-bound leadership, which now Kiej, with the power of the four directions is guiding us into.

Remembering the wisdom within and the wisdom of mother nature.

Allowing it to be easy, once and for all.