Today in the Mexica Tonalpohualli, also known as the Aztec Calendar
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* If you were born between 12am and before sunrise (Central Time), use the previous Gregorian
day because days in the Azteca/Mexica calendar start at sunrise.
(Correlation: Ruben Ochoa)
The significance of this day
And the day sign Two Reed, which followed, they said was a very good day sign; because also at that time they honored Tezcatlipoca Titlacauan by placing the image of [a god] called Omacatl. In the same manner [as Tezcatlipoca]4 was the face painted; they ornamented it when they placed it. And whosoever wished to place the image of Omacatl guarded it in his home for two hundred [days]. He placed it on the day sign Two Reed. And if he who placed it did something well, that is, if now his goods and possessions increased and appeared, no more did he wish to relinquish it. He just placed and introduced it permanently into his home, and guarded it for a long time. And if now he wished to abandon it, and no longer to guard it, he likewise abandoned it on the day sign Two Reed. This same one chose his day sign; on [the day sign] in which he had placed it, on it likewise he abandoned it. He left it there at his temple in the calpulco of Omacatl, and went offering it incense. And there, to take it, would go he who earlier had wished to guard it in his home. The old men of the tribal district accompanied it with song; the [new] householder served food to the people; there was feasting and drinking in his home. And when it grew dark there was drunkenness. In the same way was the placing and termination. Then was the breaking off and the finishing; then they observed the two hundred days of guarding it in one's home when [the image] entered as well as when it left. And, it was said, he who was then born, they said, would become rich and wealthy. And well would he gain his livelihood. What he might do would not fail. He would find his consolation. (Florentine Codex, Dibble and Anderson, bks 4-5, page 56)