The Altar by Maggie Battista

The Altar by Maggie Battista

The Altar in September: Sacred Timing & the Practice of Listening to Your Life—August No. 6

All the Details on the Theme and Live Gatherings

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Maggie Battista
Aug 20, 2026
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Hello sweet souls of The Altar,

Today is 2 Tz’i—the energy of the sacred guide, the keeper of law and right relationship, the one who walks the path faithfully and shows the way. And 2 holds polarity: the tension of two, the choice between, the pairing that must find its balance.

On 2 Tz’i, we feel our way toward what is true and trustworthy—the inner authority that guides us rightly. A fitting energy to look toward September, a month all about learning to trust the timing of your own life.

If you’d like, listen to me speak about the September theme in The Altar:

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Here are the full details for our live gatherings and monthly theme.

In September, I’ll share stories and transmissions on Sacred Timing and the Practice of Listening to Your Life—not the calendar as a system to memorize, but the deeper remembering underneath it.

There was a time when we tracked the movements of a life—the turning of seasons, the phases of the moon, the energies that rise and recede. Then the Gregorian calendar replaced the older ways, and slowly we stopped tracking movements and started tracking minutes. We began to live by the clock instead of the cycle—and something was lost in that trade: the felt sense that timing is intelligent, that there is a right season for each thing.

This month is about remembering. The Mayan Sacred Calendar was my doorway back—not because you need to memorize it, but because walking with it taught me how to notice. How to feel the season and the timing of my own life. And that’s what I’m here for: to tell you what the energy of a moment holds, and to help you understand how these energies move you—through your emergence, your expansion, your unfolding.

Because when you begin to work with energy instead of minutes, with movements instead of the clock, something remarkable happens:

Time starts to collapse. Things begin to happen all at once.

Your desires start to arrive—and what’s meant for you, what you’re meant to hold and bring to the world, begins to reach you, too. Not always chronologically. But always in the right season of your readiness.

We’ll move from what sacred timing is into what happens when time collapses and what’s meant for you begins to arrive—how, when you’re living attuned to your Soul’s timing, every moment, every synchronicity, every person and idea and feeling becomes guidance toward your next step. And we’ll close the month by walking the whole wheel: all twenty energies of the Sacred Calendar, which are the energies of a life. Your life.

Here are the details for the live gatherings—please add them to your calendar.

For new members, I also share Your Sacred Rituals, a guidebook for your private rituals, including how to work with Cacao.

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