The jaguar's spots in this mural are not a simple marker of zoological identification. Their trilobed form—which also appears on the hearts depicted in other murals at Tetitla and across the site—suggests a possible visual equivalence between the feline's body and the organ that concentrates vital heat. The fact that those spots also incorporate a five-pointed star—the symbol of Venus in Teotihuacan iconography—endows this jaguar with an unusual symbolic density: it brings together in a single body the power of the feline, the energy of the heart, and the cycle of the planet that organized the city's ritual calendar. The swollen belly adds a dimension that few jaguar representations in Mesoamerican art possess: gestation. A pregnant jaguar carrying Venus in its spots and hearts in its skin may have functioned as an image of the cosmos in a state of renewal.