Trecena 8 runs from 1 Malinalli through 13 Cuetzpalin, lizard, its thirteen days carrying grass, reed, jaguar, eagle, vulture, movement, flint, rain, flower, crocodile and wind before closing on the sign that opens Trecena 12 next in the round. The trecena sits just past the count's middle third, and its span crosses Acatl, the reed, one of the four year bearers, at its second day, so a diviner reading this week held in mind both the trecena's own reversal theme under Mayahuel and the separate significance a year beginning on that day sign would carry in the 365 day solar count.
Boone's study of the surviving painted books of fate describes the trecena patrons as drawn from across the pantheon without an obvious single organising principle linking one trecena's patron to the next, a pattern this stretch of the count illustrates clearly: a rain god, a maguey goddess and a frost lord govern three consecutive weeks with little thematic connection beyond each colouring its own thirteen days. The lizard sign that closes this trecena carries its own reading of regeneration and survival elsewhere in the count, as the day sign patronised in its own right by Huehuecoyotl, a different register from its role here as merely the closing day of Trecena 8.