The Nawals: Your Personality
What the nawals are
Your nominal nawal is the second of your two forces, formed across the nine months of gestation. It is your personality: what you are drawn toward, what gives you meaning, what you reach for. This page is about the nawals in general; the specific patterns of your own are explored in your report.
Twenty kinds of pregnancy
There are twenty nawals, and each tells the story of a different kind of pregnancy — twenty distinct experiences a mother can carry through those nine months, and so twenty distinct personalities. (On the Gestation page, these twenty are grouped into four broad patterns.) As with the numbers, none is better than another; each carries its own gifts and its own difficulties.
The fire that rises and falls
Where your number is constant like water, your nominal nawal moves like fire — and fire has two movements. When it ascends, it burns bright: your patterns at their warmest, most alive and capable. When it descends, it dims: the same patterns running low as their fuel — your energy, your conditions, your sense of purpose — runs thin.
Every nawal carries both a warm and a cold expression. These are not a good you and a bad you; they are two movements of the same fire, complementary opposites that both belong to you. Which one is showing depends on what you are living through — and on how your personality meets your constant impulse, the way your two forces work together. Learning to feel which movement is alive in you at a given moment is much of what this knowledge offers.
Character and strength
Like the numbers, each nawal carries a quality — masculine or feminine. This is not about gender, but about the nature of the drive: the direction it reaches, and the way it moves toward what it seeks. And the quality comes in finer shades. Some signs are gentler and more receptive, some more assertive, some more active — so the masculine and the feminine each cover a range rather than a single note.
The signs also differ in strength. Some carry a quieter force; others are stronger, expressing more visibly and even reaching beyond their own day in time. This is part of why two people can share a day sign and yet wear it quite differently — and why, near the edges of a day, it helps to feel which sign truly fits.
The twenty nawals at a glance
Like the numbers, each nawal carries its own character. The twenty, with the quality each one holds:
Kan — Masculine (aggressive)
Iq' — Masculine
Kej — Masculine
Toj — Masculine
B'atz' — Masculine
Tz'ikin — Masculine
No'j — Masculine
Aq'ab'al — Feminine (aggressive)
I'x B'alam — Feminine (aggressive)
Imox — Feminine
K'at — Feminine
Kame — Feminine
Q'anil — Feminine
Tz'i' — Feminine
E — Feminine
Aj — Feminine
Ajmaq — Feminine
Tijax — Feminine
Kawuq — Feminine
Junajpu — Feminine
The number and the nawal are two distinct forces, each working in its own way. This list shows what each nawal is. A small overview of your own nawal is free to see: enter your birth date in the calculator and get to know the day sign you carry. How it combines with your number — and what that particular pairing produces — is the work of your report.
Only the ones tied to your formation are yours
Of all the many forces in the calendar, only a few are truly yours — and the nawal of the day you were born is the one that shapes your personality most. It is a large part of why you thrive in some areas of life and struggle in others. Recognizing it — both its warm reach and its cold edge — is how you begin to understand patterns that may have run unseen your whole life.
How to think about your own nawal
Your nominal nawal is what moves you — and unlike your steady number, it changes temperature. The aim is not to stay warm and never go cold; both belong to you. The aim is to recognize which is present, and why. Your report gives the full picture: your nawal's warm expression, its cold expression, what tips it from one to the other, and how it works together with your constant impulse.
Where to go next
You now have both forces — the constant and the oscillating. To get the most from your own report, see Using Your Report.