Maya New Year Fire Ceremony - March 6

The Maya New Year will arrive on March 6, 2013. The date will be commemorated with a traditional Maya Fire Ceremony to be held on the grounds of the Cenacle Retreat Center, 1400 South Dixie Highway, Lantana, Florida from 6 - 8 PM. People of every faith and culture are invited to attend this free event.

“This New Year has special significance,” said Maya Spiritual Guide, Miguel Angel Chinquin Yat who will preside at the Lantana ceremony. This marks the first New Year of the new Long Count. The old era ended last December and received much publicity, being erroneously reported to predict the end of the world. Rather, the New Year is a time of hope and spiritual encounter.

At the event, Chinquin Yat will help attendees experience the true meaning of the end of one era and beginning of the next, echoing the words of the Maya Council of Elders in Coban, Guatemala. “During this year, 2013, we enter fully ready to put into practice the GREAT WISDOM OF THE EAGLE, the ways of the FIVE SUNS and THREE MOONS, having left behind the plumage that accompanied us for the past five thousand years, entering now to the full in this new five thousand years with plumage renewed.”

The event is being sponsored by the Organization of Maya People in Exile and the Lake Worth Interfaith Network. For more information and photos, see the Facebook event page for Maya New Year Fire Ceremony.