Xochitl's patron is Xochiquetzal, goddess of flowers, weaving and female sexuality, patroness of the artisans, embroiderers and weavers the day sign's own augury specifically names, one of the tightest matches between a day sign's reading and its governing deity's domain in the whole count, name and character aligning almost completely. Its direction is south, the fifth and final instance of that direction across the twenty sign sequence, closing the rotation's southern stations that began with Cuetzpalin at four and continued through Tochtli, Malinalli and Cuauhtli.
Xochitl is not a year bearer, standing two places past Tecpatl at eighteen, the nearest year bearer sign, so its role stays within the 260 day tonalpohualli, the count's own closing sign fittingly holding no additional office in the separate solar year calendar. Xochiquetzal's patronage of Xochitl as a day sign is a separate office from her role as trecena patron of Trecena 19, opening on Cuauhtli the eagle, so the flower goddess holds two calendrical posts, one governing the count's own closing day sign and the other governing a trecena of ambition and its price, a pairing that together spans both the finished accomplishment Xochitl represents and the striving that precedes it.