The animal itself
The strongest bite relative to size of any big cat, and the only one that kills by piercing the skull rather than the throat. Jaguars swim well and hunt caiman.Symbol only · 1,300 searches a month
Jaguar
The jaguar is read as moving between worlds — the hunter equally at home in water and dark. It carries no birth-date range in either calendar we cover, so no date can assign it to you — it is a symbol people choose rather than one they are given.
Which calendar assigns it, and when
Date range
none — not in either calendar
Searched
1,300 a month · rank 18 of 39
Neither calendar assigns dates to it, so any site that gives you them for jaguar has invented them. What the two calendars do cover →
What it stands for, and where that came from
Moving between worlds — the hunter equally at home in water and dark.
Honoured in: Central to Olmec, Maya and Aztec religion — the jaguar was the animal of rulers and of the night sun crossing the underworld.
Counted across all 39 animals
This one has no birth dates at all
22/39
animals here carry a birth-date range. The other 17 are symbols
people choose, not ones a date assigns.
4.7%
of the year — 17 days out of 365 —
is where the two calendars name the same animal. The rest of the time they
disagree.
19th
most looked-up of the 39 animals we cover.
No date can hand you this animal, because neither calendar lists it — which is worth knowing before paying for a reading that claims otherwise. How the two calendars differ →
Searched about as often
Jaguar is ranked 19 of 39 by search demand. Of all 39 animals here, 22 sit in one of the two birth-date calendars and 17 are searched as symbols only.