A living relationship with your becoming

Remember your gifts.
Give them a life.

Explore who you are, what you carry, and what you are here to offer through Andean and Maya cosmology, ritual, and human development.

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Rooted in relationship. Practiced in everyday life.Walk with Mesa de Saq B'e

01 / The approach

We cultivate
the seed already
within you.

Your gifts begin as possibilities. With attention, relationship, and practice, those possibilities can take shape in how you live, create, and care for others.

Mesa de Saq B'e brings Santos Romero’s Andean and Maya training into conversation with modern human development. Together, we explore your life project: the meaningful direction your gifts can grow toward, and the everyday actions that help you live it.

A moment of insight becomes part of your life when you give it somewhere to grow.

02 / Walking with sacred time

The Cholq’ij.
A count of days.
A path of becoming.

Chol — to count or put in order.
Q’ij — day or sun.

The Cholq’ij is the sacred 260-day calendar of the Maya, carried forward by living communities and their daykeepers, the Ajq’ijab’. Its name is often translated as “the count of days.” At Mesa de Saq B'e, we approach this sacred count as a guide for human development: learning to recognize our gifts, cultivate our life project, and participate consciously in our becoming.

Each day brings together a Nahual and a number from 1 to 13. Nahuales are sacred powers present in nature and within us. The day’s number helps us explore how that power moves and works in our development.

A trecena is a cycle of 13 days. Twenty trecenas complete the 260-day count, offering a rhythm for returning to our lives with greater awareness, practice, and maturity.

The 260-day cycle is traditionally associated with the time a human being develops in the womb. This correspondence offers an image of gestation: potential taking form through time. Here, we carry that image into the continuing development of our gifts and life project.

The Cholq’ij day-glyph and dot-and-bar numeral wheels in forest green, framed by parchment and ochre and terracotta leaves — The 20 day signs and the 13-number count meet in the 260-day sacred cycle.

The purpose / Human development

Your gifts are seeds.
Your life is where
they take root.

The Cholq’ij offers a path for developing human potential. We arrive with possibilities that need to be recognized, cultivated, and brought into expression. Our growth can become a contribution to the growth of our community.

To walk with this count is to participate: observe the Nahuales in nature, listen for their presence within you, and give what you discover a place in daily life. Like a seed that needs soil and tending, a gift matures through practice. An insight can become a conversation, a creative act, a gesture of care, or a step toward your life project.

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The Andean connection

The Chakana.
A bridge between worlds.

In the Andes, the Chakana—the stepped cross—evokes a bridge or stairway: a way of understanding relationship, balance, and the meeting of different realms of life. Some interpretations connect its form with agricultural calendars, the turning of the seasons, and ceremonial cycles.

Some contemporary spiritual interpretations also find the numbers 13 and 20 in the Chakana’s geometry: 13 inner units and 20 vertices along its outline. We approach these as symbolic resonances between distinct traditions, each with its own history and teachings.

At Mesa de Saq B'e, the Chakana offers a companion image for human development. It invites us to cultivate balance, reciprocity, and a conscious relationship with the Earth and the cosmos. A bridge is something we cross through practice, carrying what we learn into how we live.

An inheritance carried with courage

Living wisdom.
Generations of care.

The Cholq’ij reaches us through the commitment of living Maya peoples. Families, elders, and Ajq’ijab’ have carried the count and its teachings across generations, through colonial religious persecution and profound loss.

During Spanish campaigns against Indigenous religions, people were punished and sacred books were destroyed. The continued practice of the sacred count bears witness to courage, sacrifice, and care.

We approach this inheritance with gratitude toward the communities who protected it and with responsibility toward the teachers who continue sharing it. To walk with the Cholq’ij is also to remember the people whose devotion made that encounter possible.

Discover your birth energy

Calendar background: Living Maya Time, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.

About the Chakana connection and preservation

The Chakana’s bridge symbolism and agricultural-calendar interpretations are discussed by the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino. The 13-and-20 comparison appears in contemporary spiritual writing, including Octavio F. Dávila Solari’s La Chakana Oracular. Its use for human development here expresses Mesa de Saq B'e’s approach.

For the history of religious persecution and Maya book burning, see the Library of Congress. The continued sacred count and the experiences of Maya daykeepers are documented in Science’s reporting with contemporary Maya communities.

Your place in the sacred count

Discover your
birth energy.

Your birthday opens a doorway into the Cholq’ij. Meet your Nahual, explore your Mayan Cross, and begin a conversation with the gifts you carry.

Your birth date is used only in this page. It is not saved or sent with your calculation.

A first encounter

This date-based chart is a starting point. A personal reading offers space to explore its meaning in your life.

Schedule your Mayan chart reading

60 minutes · Online · 70 USD

20 Nahuales · 13 numbers · 260 days

A day.
A sacred energy.
A possibility to grow.

Enter your birthday to reveal your number and Nahual, then explore the five, nine, or thirteen points of your Mayan Cross.

You can select any point in your chart to see its original glyph and numeral in detail.

Continue walking with the count. Read the daily Cholq’ij energy guides

03 / Ways to walk together

Where is life
calling your attention?

Begin with what feels present. Your gifts, relationships, home, work, and sense of belonging are all places where development can unfold.

01 / YOUR BECOMING

Human
Development

Get to know your gifts and life project through Mayan Cross readings, candle ritual, journeying, and a 5-day candle ceremony journey.

02 / YOUR CONNECTIONS

Relationships
& Ancestry

Explore what you inherit, how you relate, and what becomes possible when your gifts meet those of others.

03 / YOUR OFFERING

Fire
& Ceremony

Make space for gratitude, guidance, clearing, and a heartfelt intention through Andean and Maya ceremonial practices.

04 / YOUR PLACES

Home, Business
& Projects

Tend the places and projects that hold your life with readings, ceremony, and local cleansing offerings.

05 / YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE

Integration
& Embodied Living

Bring insight into daily life through transformational coaching, psychedelic preparation and integration, and practices of care for your body.

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04 / A map for your becoming

Five hearts.
One unfolding life.

Your Human Development Mayan Cross invites you to explore the relationship between your natural gifts, your roots, your growth, your contribution, and the form your potential can take.

In The 5 Hearts of Becoming, we bring that exploration into personal ritual and everyday practice. The invitation is to recognize what is present and participate in its development.

Center / Birth & natural gifts

Discover the gifts you carry.

Recognize the qualities and possibilities present in you, and explore how attention and practice can help them mature.

05 / The offerings

Choose a place to begin.

Explore each area of practice. If several speak to you, the starting-point guide can help you find a first conversation.

Know yourself. Cultivate your gifts.

Readings, ritual, and reflective practices for a closer relationship with your essential self and your life project.

Local cleansing and Huaca offerings depend on location and availability. Session format, timing, and exchange are arranged before a commitment is made.

Online sessions available

Mayan Cross
Online Session

One hour live via Zoom or Google Meet, with space to explore your questions and the gifts, purpose, and possibilities revealed through your Mayan Cross. The session is recorded so you can return to it and reflect at your own pace.

To prepare your Mayan Cross, we need your place, date, and approximate time of birth.

Duration: 60 minutes
Format: Online · Zoom or Google Meet
Recording: Recorded session
Contribution: 70 USD

Special pricing is available for Mexico, Central America, and South America. Schedule a free one-on-one consultation through Calendly to learn more or arrange your reading.

Schedule your Mayan chart reading

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Attention · Intention · Reciprocity

An offering begins
with relationship.

Bring a question, a transition, an expression of gratitude, or a wish to begin again. Through ceremony, we give that intention attention, form, and a place in our lives.

Andean despacho and Kutsi offerings, Maya Kotzij, and local Huaca work each have their own context. We begin by listening to what you are bringing and discussing the appropriate practice.

Engraved Andean mountain peaks, terraced paths, waterfalls, and a soaring condor in forest green, ochre, and terracotta

Rooted in learning.
Growing through service.

Mesa de Saq B'e · Santos Romero

06 / Meet your guide

I’m Santos Romero.

I am a modern-day paco and a transformational coach. My work is grounded in Andean and Maya cosmology, human development, and the relationship between our inner lives and the gifts we bring into the world.

I created Mesa de Saq B'e as a place to explore those gifts with care, curiosity, and practice. We work with what you are carrying and connect the insights that emerge to the life you are actually living.

Andean training & initiation

Initiated in the Q’ero lineage through the Inca School with Don Santos and through training at The Four Winds Academy.

Ongoing Maya apprenticeship

Studying and working under Tata Juan Carlos in preparation for initiation as an Ajq’ij.

Co-founder, La Escuela de Ajq’ijab

Participating in the building of a learning community dedicated to this path.

Being True to You certified

Psychedelic Transformational Coach and Sitter.

You can arrive with questions, uncertainty, and a life still taking shape.

07 / Stay in relationship

A daily rhythm.
A place to belong.

Carry the practice into your days, gather with community, and make time for the questions and intentions you are holding.

Daily guides / Substack

Walking with
the Sacred Cholq’ij

Receive daily Cholq’ij energy guides and explore the day’s invitation through reflection, mindfulness, and a closer relationship with your gifts.

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Our community / Gatherings

Gather around
the mesa.

Join our community for announcements about workshops, live events such as The Trecena Ahead, local fire ceremonies, and other gatherings.

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Energy work / Free consultation

Begin with
a conversation.

Curious about illuminations, extractions, soul retrieval, or other energy work? Schedule a free consultation with Santos to share what you are carrying and explore a possible next step.

Schedule a free consultation

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Local offering / Community temple

Bring your petitions.
Make space to listen.

Visit our community temple to bring your petitions, light copal or a candle, and spend time in reflection. Reach out to Santos through Calendly to arrange your visit.

Arrange a temple visit

Your next step

What is asking
to grow in your life?

If you are considering an illumination, extraction, soul retrieval, or other energy work, begin with a free consultation. Bring your questions and what you hope to understand or tend.

Schedule a free consultation

Schedule through Calendly. Temple visits can also be arranged there.

A few things you may be wondering

Frequently asked questions.

Mayan Cross readings

What is the Mayan Cross?

The Mayan Cross is a spiritual tool that helps you recall and develop your innate gifts and virtues, guiding you toward an authentic and fulfilling life.

What information do I need to request my Mayan Cross?

We need your place, date, and approximate time of birth to create your Mayan Cross.

How is the online Mayan Cross session conducted?

The session takes place live via Zoom or Google Meet. It lasts one hour and is recorded so you can review it later.

What is the cost of the online Mayan Cross session?

The contribution is 70 USD. Special pricing is available for Mexico, Central America, and South America. Schedule a free one-on-one consultation for more information.

What types of Mayan Cross can I request?

You can request a Human Development Mayan Cross Reading (the complete personal reading), a Relationship Mayan Cross Reading for couples, or a Project Mayan Cross reading for a business, project, or event. Each has a specific focus to guide your exploration.

What benefits will I gain from the Human Development Mayan Cross Reading?

This complete personal reading explores your virtues and gifts, your life purpose, your mission and service, and the conditions that support your growth. It also helps you reflect on your legacy: what you bring into the world through the life you cultivate.

How will the Relationship Mayan Cross Reading help me?

The reading explores the spiritual bond between you and your partner, compatibility and the strength of the connection, and the relationship as a shared project. It offers guidance for mutual support, growth, fulfillment, and realizing your relationship’s potential.

What can the Project Mayan Cross do for my business or event?

The Project Mayan Cross explores the spiritual energy of your project, its compatibility, and the conditions that support its growth. It offers guidance for developing its potential and bringing your intentions into concrete results.

How can I contact you for more information?

Schedule a free one-on-one consultation through Calendly. We can discuss your questions, explore the offerings, and arrange the next step together.

Our practice & gatherings

Do I need to know about Andean or Maya cosmology?

You can begin with curiosity. The relevant ideas and practices are introduced in the context of your session, with space for your questions.

What do you mean by my “life project”?

Your life project is a way of exploring the direction your gifts can take as they mature: what you want to cultivate, the relationships that nourish it, and the contribution you want to make. We connect reflection with actions you can take in daily life.

Does a Human Development Mayan Cross tell me a fixed future?

The approach here uses the Cross as a map for reflection and development. Your choices, relationships, circumstances, and participation matter. We explore possibilities and the way you want to cultivate them.

Which offerings take place locally?

Home cleansing, business cleansing, Huaca work, and visits to the community temple are local offerings. We confirm location, availability, and the appropriate format before arranging a session, ceremony, or visit. Arrange a conversation with Santos.

How can I hear about upcoming gatherings?

Join our community for workshops, live events such as The Trecena Ahead, local fire ceremonies, and other gatherings. For daily energy guides, subscribe to Walking with the Sacred Cholq’ij on Substack.

How do I choose between a reading, ritual, and coaching?

A reading may be a useful beginning when you want language for your gifts or direction. Ritual gives a personal intention a form to work with. Coaching supports the process of carrying insight into choices and daily practice. The starting-point guide introduces these options.

Remember your gifts.
Give them a life.

We cultivate
the seed already
within you.

The Cholq’ij.
A count of days.
A path of becoming.