"We are born at a given moment, in a given place, and like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season in which we are born."

-- Carl Jung

Who Are You?
Who Were You
Supposed To Be?

We are all made of stars. In Cherokee belief, the departed souls arise into the sky to become stars, and it is from the stars that souls come to earth to be born as children.

The planets, stars, and constellations, the "Star People" showing their faces at the birth of a child, speak to his or her strengths and weaknesses and to destiny's role for that individual.

The link between the People and the stars, between Earth and Heaven, is so strong that it's even claimed that our ancestors came to earth "from the Pleiades." At the end of the Seventh World, it's said that we will return to our home in the sky.

Oral tradition tells that the calendar is really 22 different cycles, which are overlaid to form a complete picture of the influences on any given day, such as a birth date. While these overlapping calendars clearly derive from the same sources as the Olmec, Mayan and Aztec calendars ( no surprise, since Cherokee oral history says our ancestors migrated northwards from and through those areas) there are significant differences of interpretation and symbolism that give a uniquely Cherokee perspective.

Thirteen Moon Calendar

Today is (Gregorian)

All the world is but a stage, and all the people only players. There are 260 "roles" to be played in this drama, and whether you regard them as earthly aspects of divine beings, Jungian archetypes, knowing your role and your character's "motivation" can help you navigate this increasingly complex and hurried world.

In Even Heaven Falls Apart, noted author and language instructor Brian Wilkes shows not only the Cherokee names for the days and months of the modern Gregorian calendar and their meanings, but also shows the lunar months, seasonal starts and mid-points, the 13-day Cherokee weeks, and the 20 signs that change daily.

He began the assembling calculations and analyses based on the birth date to give healers and therapists an additional tool to understand and help their clients. Now he's amking this service available to the general public.