As could be seen at the end of the B’en trecena, it was evident that the forthcoming Kimi trecena was going to be very difficult for large numbers of people on this planet. In particular the torrential monsoons in Asia and the widespread fires in Russia had already set up situations that were still in the process of unfolding, and indeed, throughout this trecena those regions continued to be hammered by the elements. In some places it may have felt like the images of global cataclysm that began being pummelled into the ether on 1 Kimi precisely one Tzolk’in cycle ago via the disaster movie titled “2012” were actually being manifested!
Historically a large number of events that have been associated with a complete return to “foundations” have taken place within this energy frame, in some ways reflecting the mythological sacrifice of Tecciztécatl (the patron of this trecena) at the time of creation. This mythological story suggests that this energy represents death in the sense of “returning to source in order to regenerate”. And in the past this has included such things as the great San Francisco Fire of 1850, the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890, and the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989.
Unfortunately this energy associated with the idea of cutting things right back to the “bare bones” brought continuing devastation to Pakistan throughout this entire trecena. By the end of the trecena the monsoons and floods had taken the lives of at least 1500 people in that region, and left at least 20 million people homeless. Referring to this as “the worst monsoon-related floods in living memory”, the UN has launched a major appeal for humanitarian aid for the region, indicating that the scale of the disaster (in terms of the numbers of people affected) has surpassed the total number affected by the 2004 tsunami, the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake combined. Although the death toll is much lower, the number of displaced people is much higher, with some six thousand villages destroyed, roads washed out throughout the region, and flood waters still inundating the entire region. . . with the rains still continuing.