Each Solar Age has an undertaking. When that mission is completed, we move on to the next Sun. Our Fifth Sun is the Sun of Movement (Nahui Ollin) meaning earth-shaking or change. The glyph for movement is called Ollin and is positioned in the center of the Mesoamerican Calendar of the Five Ages. The mission of the Fifth Sun has been to bring our entire planet together through the principles of movement and measure—think air travel and internet. And then the transition from the Fifth Sun to the Sixth Sun of Consciousness will be a time of earth-shaking and change from the greed and inequality of the Fifth Sun to the enlightened Age of the Sixth Sun.

Additionally, “we know that the Fifth Sun appears after four others have come and gone, and that this Fifth Sun is itself destined to be superseded by another. We cannot believe that these myths of solar cataclysms were inspired only by the eternal cosmic renewal manifest in natural cycles. Apart from the fact that Nahuatl religious phenomena, which are so highly spiritual, could never be so simply explained—in terms, that is, that have no inner meaning—there are various indications that the Fifth Sun is the creator of a great and indestructible work: that of freeing creation from duality.”^[i]

According to Mayan Elder, Don Tomás Calvo, an “image to illustrate the end of the Mesoamerican calendar is a serpent swallowing its tail. He and the other Elders believe a self-consuming snake symbolizes the upcoming era of the ‘Sixth Sun,’ one which brings the past to the present in order to construct a brighter future. The Elders also say they want to remind the world how important it is to live in harmony with oneself, the ancestors, the Earth, our environment, all living creatures and the greater cosmic order.”^[ii] Please note that the serpent swallowing its tail is symbolic of Quetzalcóatl.

I do agree with the elders as a snake eating its own tail is named an Ouroboros with the meaning of infinity or wholeness. In an eternal cycle of renewal, the tail-eating serpent symbolizes the cyclic Nature of the Universe: creation out of destruction, Life out of Death. 

The death of the Fifth Sun results in the life of the Sixth Sun—an Age of wholeness or Oneness. This is Quetzalcóatl’s Sun—the Sun of Consciousness. It will be the Age of the Divine Human—Hombre-Dios. It is an Age of the “heart,” truth, freedom, and equality.

The Sixth Sun will be Xóchitl Tonatiuh, the Sun of Flowers. Our Fifth Sun and the Sixth Sun are reflections of the last two day-signs of the Nahuatl tonalámatl—Sacred Calendar. The nineteenth day-sign, “Quiáhuitl, rain, signifies not rain of water—but rain of fire such as destroyed the Third World, and represents the fiery torments of self-sacrificing penitents. Its deity is of course Tonatiuh, the solar god of the Fifth World. The twentieth and last day-sign is xóchitl, flower. The deity is Xochiquétzal, goddess of flowers. As the ‘House of Flowers’ is the human heart, we understand that xóchitl here symbolizes the budding blossom of the human spirit at last freed from duality.”^[iii]

The Sixth Sun—a time to look forward to as xóchitl is love and the search for union. It’s happiness. It’s sex. The Sun of Flowers is when humanity comes to flower.

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[i] Laurette Séjourné, Burning Water, 157.

[ii] Court Stroud, “Dawn of the Sixth Sun: The Mayan Pope and Elders Visit the Big Apple,” 10/26/2012 Updated Dec 06, 2017,  https://www.huffingtonpost.com/court-stroud/dawn-of-the-sixth-sun-the-mayan-pope-and-elders-visit-the-big-apple_b_2007704.html

[iii] Frank Waters, Mexico Mystique, 224.