20/07/2026
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🌘 Te Maramataka – Week Ahead
Monday 20 July – Sunday 26 July 2026
🌒 Monday – Okoro
Energy Levels:
A steady, balanced day to regain momentum. There’s no need to rush—consistent effort will achieve more than pushing yourself too hard.
Mahi:
Ideal for planning, administration, organising, practical projects, and steady progress. Work at a sustainable pace.
Whānau Dynamics:
A calm day for meaningful conversations, reconnecting with loved ones, and enjoying quality time together.
Māra Kai:
Excellent for light planting, transplanting seedlings, watering, weeding, and tending to your māra.
Rongoā:
A beautiful day to respectfully harvest rongoā, prepare teas, tinctures, oils, or spend quiet time reconnecting with the ngahere.
Fishing:
Moderate fishing conditions. A good day for a relaxed trip without placing pressure on bringing home a large catch.
🌗 Tuesday – Tamatea-kai-ariki
Energy Levels:
Energy becomes unsettled and unpredictable. Slow your pace and remain flexible if plans change.
Mahi:
Focus on smaller jobs, maintenance, paperwork, and planning. Avoid beginning major projects or making significant decisions if they can wait.
Whānau Dynamics:
Emotions may fluctuate more easily today. Practise patience, communicate with kindness, and avoid unnecessary conflict.
Māra Kai:
A good day for weeding, mulching, watering, and preparing garden beds rather than planting.
Rongoā:
Spend time observing the ngahere, preparing remedies already harvested, or reconnecting with your own wellbeing.
Fishing:
Fair fishing conditions, although success may vary throughout the day.
🌖 Wednesday – Tamatea-angaanga
Energy Levels:
Energy remains changeable. Pace yourself and don’t feel pressured to push through tiredness.
Mahi:
Good for reviewing work, finishing existing projects, and preparing for the days ahead rather than starting something new.
Whānau Dynamics:
Everyone may be feeling a little more sensitive. Offer grace, listen well, and choose your words carefully.
Māra Kai:
Continue with maintenance such as composting, pruning, watering, and caring for established plants.
Rongoā:
A lovely day to prepare medicines, dry herbs, label products, or deepen your rongoā knowledge.
Fishing:
Average conditions. Patience will serve you better than persistence.
🌔 Thursday – Tamatea-āio
Energy Levels:
A more sensitive phase calling for rest, reflection, and self-care. Honour what your body is asking for.
Mahi:
Reduce your workload where possible. Complete only essential tasks and avoid overcommitting yourself.
Whānau Dynamics:
Support one another with compassion. This is a good day to listen more than you speak.
Māra Kai:
Gentle gardening only. Water, tidy, observe your plants, and nourish the soil.
Rongoā:
An ideal day for healing practices, mirimiri, karakia, meditation, and replenishing your own wairua.
Fishing:
Not the strongest fishing day. Better suited to staying close to home if conditions are unsettled.
🌕 Friday – Tamatea Whakapai
Energy Levels:
Energy continues to wear down. Honour your limits and resist the urge to push through fatigue.
Mahi:
Complete important tasks only and leave anything non-essential for another day.
Whānau Dynamics:
Give each other space if needed. A little extra patience and understanding will help maintain harmony.
Māra Kai:
Focus on light maintenance, tidying garden beds, weeding, and preparing for the next planting phase.
Rongoā:
A wonderful day for making products, organising your rongoā supplies, and spending peaceful time in nature.
Fishing:
Fishing may be slow today, so lower expectations and simply enjoy being outdoors.
🌖 Saturday – Ari
Energy Levels:
Balance begins returning. Your mind becomes clearer, making this a great day for thoughtful and meaningful progress.
Mahi:
Excellent for learning, writing, planning, creative projects, and steady practical work.
Whānau Dynamics:
A beautiful day to reconnect, share kai, laugh together, and strengthen whānau bonds.
Māra Kai:
A favourable day for light planting, soil preparation, seed sowing, and tending young plants.
Rongoā:
A lovely day to harvest respectfully, prepare medicines, or spend time deepening your connection with ngā atua and te taiao.
Fishing:
Good fishing conditions, especially if timed well with the tides.
🌑 Sunday – Huna
Energy Levels:
A quiet, inward-looking day. Slow down, recharge, and embrace stillness before the week ahead.
Mahi:
Avoid filling your schedule. Reflection, planning, journalling, reading, and gentle preparation are all well supported.
Whānau Dynamics:
Enjoy peaceful moments with loved ones. Presence is more important than productivity today.
Māra Kai:
Observe your māra, nourish the soil, tidy garden spaces, and prepare for the next growing phase.
Rongoā:
Spend time with the ngahere, sit in quiet reflection, prepare simple remedies, or reconnect with your own wairua through karakia and nature.
Fishing:
Generally a quieter fishing day. Better suited to enjoying time by the water than expecting a large catch.
