Last Quarter Moon - Tuesday 6th of April

Last Quarter Moon : April 6th
Vision Quest

notes:
*Feeding the Fire lunch (when preparing lunch for everyone, a small plate of food was brought to the tipi and fed to the fire - feeding the Questers thro Spriit)
*Keeping the fire going constantly. It is the warmth of the Questers. Somebody always was in the tipi, maintaing and watching the fire for the hole 2 weeks
*Also each day making and changing a design in the fire. A design made by the coals. Such as an eagle, rainbow, 4 directions cross...
*Sunrise around 7am. We were woken up after 6:30am by a subtle beat of a drum and singing/chanting by someone each morning. And from there we met outside the tipi to sing to the four directions and the Questers on the Mountain (they could hear us, they were not that far away) We were sending them love and strenght 'fuerza'
*Sunset Salut as well to the four directions with Medicine songs, rattles, and drums
*Sacared herbs and medicines (tobacco, cedar, flowers...) were always in baskets around the fire in the lodge for offerings when entering or leaving
*Tobacco was smoked in corn husks and was sacred
*Logs on fire wer set in a criss cross pattern, repersenting an arrow towards the design made of coals, to the alter, and to the center of the tipi (where the Madrina always sat)
*Grandfather 'Abuelito' Fire
*Thanks was given to each meal we ate before hand and the food was made by all
*Community work was shared amongst all
*Tamascal (sweatlodges) were run once a day
*nightly cermonies (often yet not every night were run) ranging in just talking, planning, to a traditional Guatemalan baby shower where there was large cauldron/cast iron pot where coals and a vast variety of herbs, spice, and medicines were thrown into it and stirred up to celebrate the soon to be mama and cooking up her life
*Women had to wear skirts within the tipi and cermony area, while men had to wear pants

Gibbious Moon - Thursday 25th March

Gibbious Moon - Thursday 25th of March

"All/each individual life form is an expression and contains Great Mystery. A part of Great Mystery lives in everything and knows no boundaries or limits. Every life-form has the will to co create with the Original Source in beauty and truth or ugliness and dispair.

Every life form has one common mission as well as their individual ones. Each life form is created to learn to be an equal contributor to the beauty of the whole and how you areg going to go about it. The mission of discovery is the Sacred Path of Beauty that allows every living creature to express uniqueness in a way that exemplifies harmony and truth.

The human race is the only one of All Our Relations that has lost this inner knowing about our purpose. The 2-leggeds have been give much assistance by Great Mystery since they must answer the questions of common mission before understanding the value of their individual missions. This assistance has come in the form of teachers who are All Our Relations.

All creatures are a part of Great Mysterys whole, just as every cell in the human body had different function and yet together those cells make up a carbon combustion unit that houses a Spirit with a unique identity. All human ideas are birthed from the Spirit inside the human body, fed to the brain, and then acted upon throught the will of total being. All ideas in Creation come from the Great Mystery, are gathered by Great Spirit, and then are used to feed the rest of Creation in oursellves or others in a human concept. If we acknowledge the limitlessness of Great Mystery, we must acknowledge that this life force is also a part of our makeup because we are created by that same Original Source."

Balsamic Moon - Wednesday 10th March

Balsamic Moon - Wednesday 10th March

I said goodbye today, leaving behind the Bosque. An Eco Farm, dreams of a Village one day. Only till leaving did i really understand their main goal their. They do not explain it in the beginning, Brain and Marie the owners. Most likley that is because they are not really ever present truely in your experience at the Bosque. They have created a beautiful project, but have now faded into the darkness of their home. Spending all day inside on computers, in the cyber world, verses the world theyve created outside Mexico. The wonderful eco experiment. Watching and observing what will grow with earth water as its food. As they have rain catchment as their sole water source, they are not ready to use it all on just plants. Thus what they are doing, is planting, planting, planting. Planting everywhere, to see where plants, vegetables, fruit tree´s... will come up with Mother Earth watering her alone. It is a very beautiful experiment, only if we had been clear of this is the begininng, when arriving to the Bosque.

Hitchhiking, hitch a hikin, a hitchin. Pedir un Ride, Autostop, Hacer el dedo gordo.
I left with my friend Naima from France today, we left hikin outta the forest and onto the road to look for rides going up north to San Miguel de Allende.
First time since i have hitched for a while now. I lost my confidence to do it alone. Thought it was maybe i am getting older and not so CraZy... But i think its just ive been sheltering Fear on my shoulder for a while now. And woowwww its gone. That shadow of negativity has finally left from this last year of insight, learning, and emotion. And now im free. A free Spirit again.

It took us all day to get to San Miguel de Allende. I think we had over 6 or 7 rides to get there. It was a journey. And once we were there, we spent the next few days exploring the streets of Spain. I mean Mexico.... I´ve been taken back to my years in Europe. There are no dusty, rocky roads here. Its all coblestoned and i feel like im back in Spain. The articecture is beautiful, just outstanding. And full of life, each house vibrantly painted a different color. And the Catholic Church in the Center square is comparable to Europe´s finest in my opinion.

¨Great Mystery lives in everything, is everything, and encompasses everything in creation. It created all things in beauty, harmony, and interdependence. Each facet of Creation was, is, and will always be. The energy of Creation is self-regenerative and eternal.
Great Mystery created Great Spirit to direct the creative flows of the Uniworlds, which include all unvierses, all levels of consciousness, all understanding, and all life. Trying to figure out all the answers to the Great Mystery is foolish and impossible because we are a part of that infinite, progressive Creation.¨

Dissementing Moon : Thursday 4th March

Dissementing Moon : Thursday 4th of March
Moon in Scorpio – Water
(Moon rises 1 hour later each night, after sunset and sets in morning)
Fruit

We are all in this together
“We all come from the earth and return to her belly. We are all made of the same substance, same as the sea, the soil, the stars. Birth, growth, death, development, change, adaptation, transformation, evolution, it is all really just about recycling.
We breathe the same air as our cave-dwelling ancestors-inhaling and exhaling, exchanging carbon dioxide and oxygen with our plant relatives untold billions of times over the millennia. And the same holds true for water. We drink the tears of crocodiles and elephants. It rains, it pools, it evaporates, it rains. We drink, we pee. Again and again and again, in a grand scale cosmic round robin.
All borders and boundaries and separations are pure illusion. Each time we touch someone, we leave some particles of our skin atoms behind and pick up a parcel of new ones. Thus we merge, literally becoming part of each other. I am you and you are me and we are we.
We are all in this together, inextricably bound on our beautiful blue planet spinning through space. Remember that extraordinary photograph of Earth taken from the moon? We are one family, one community, one world, one living, breathing entity. And the sooner we realize it, the happier, safer and saner we will be.” -excerpt from Mama Donna Henes (we’moon)

Full Moon: Sunday 28th February

Full Moon : Sunday 28th of February
Moon in Virgo – Earth
(Moon rises as the sun sets, and sets as the sun rises)
Flower

I can remember the full moon in February a year ago. It was a cold, frosty night in California. I was in a long Elven cloak, chanting Earth Mother songs, while lying out my crystals in my Faerie garden. Blessing the crystals I work with, with the magic of the moonlight. The moonlight of the Virgo, of me, of Earth. There was a magical mist that night, just as a year later it returns. This night as well, I danced to the moonlights glow and swayed in harmony with the Earth.
Just as last month, Jupiter has brought forth an opportunity, another Tamascal. Along with two other volunteers, my friends Mathois from Germany and Naima from France, we embarked on a spiritual journey thro time…Or just to another farm, outside Erongajacuaro. At this place, they actually hold Tamascal’s twice a month. Their sweat lodge was made of cement and was a beautiful picture of the Earth’s belly. It was a small ceremony, with around 10 people. The experience was quit different from my last, and I had a very hard time not comparing it. Naima was going thro the same as well. Fortuantly Mathois had never been, and thus didn’t have our problem. The actual Tamascal didn’t heat up for some reason to its fullest, and it acted quit like a mellow sauna. Before we had sweated head to foot for 3 hours and in comparison we only heated up for about 1 ½ hours. We did do some mantras within the Earth’s Belly and a Snake, Serpente almost took me within its grasp. Yet I never fully was entranced as before. What was very different, and hard to overcome was that it was quite Catholic/Christian as well. It was interesting indeed to see the combination of Hale Mary’s and chants of our Earth Mother, but overall it wasn’t exactly my place. Tho we had an amazing day anyways! I suppose especially for my company. That evening when we returned to the farm, we had a bonfire and ceremony for the full moon. We listened to music all night and danced to the beams of the moonlight. Connecting as one with the Earth. Watching clouds pass by in creatures of dragons, boats, and creatures of the old world. Sinking within, becoming one body, the Earth and I, we are all connected. The Moon dance and sang in peace and beauty. Words are nothing, nothing to what was. To the moment of the night. To the stars lite above as I slept by the campfire. The moon is within all of us. Within every women. We come from the moon, I am the moon. I am moonlight. The balance of the night of this Earth.

La tierra es nuestra madre, Debemos cuidar la.
La tierra es nuestra madre, Debemos amar la.

Nace la vida, en esta tierra sagrada
Nace la vida, en esta tierra sagrada

El fuego es nuestra hermano, Debemos cuidar lo
El fuego es nuestra hermano, Debemos respecter lo

Nace la vida, en esta tierra sagrada
Nace la vida, en esta tierra sagrada

El aire es nuestra hermano, Debemos cuidar lo
El aire es nuestra hermano, Debemos respecter lo
Nace la vida, en esta tierra sagrada
Nace la vida, en esta tierra sagrada

La agua es nuestra hermana, Debemos cuidar la
La agua es nuestra hermana, Debemos amar la

Gibbious Moon: Wednesday 24th February

Gibbious Moon : Wednesday 24th of February
Moon in Cancer – Water
(Moon rises before sunset and sets before sunrise)
Bud

Bosque Village – This has been my work schedule…
Cob
Tierra de Encino (Raking Oak leaves, wheel barrel to “Barranka” empty creek bed and dump into for soil)
Basket Weaving Class (Local native art form of weaving pine needle baskets)
Market (Local Tuesday market with veggie farms, fresh food…)
Plant Seeds (Pine nuts, anise, and cactus)
Cob
Grafting (Cut Mazanillo tree’s to graft pear and quince tree’s)
Cob

Here is just an idea of what I have been doing at the farm, work wise. Cob is defiantly overall my favorite project. Working with mud to build houses is just the simplest yet extraordinary idea out there. We are using Red soil that’s quit fine (not too heavy in clay) with pine needles, as they are extremely long here (in replacement for straw) and sawdust; which they get for free at a local sawmill (replacing sand). While here I have been reading a book: The Hand sculpted House, to learn a bit more. Well, frankly a lot more. Tho since the first day we have had the 2 local Mexican Brothers (they work here) Chileano and Beto help guide us with mixing the cob. But still, if I want to build my future in cob, gotta learn bit more.
We haven’t done any other natural building here yet, tho an Earthship is in its beginning-beginning stage. Pounding dirt into the tires with a sledge hammer, I suppose I don’t have to do that right away. And I hope I might be able to learn some straw bale or earth bag building later on.
Besides working, I have been learning pine needle basket weaving, reading on cob and eco villages, yoga and hulla hooping, eating far too much, building fires and singing around fires, cards, and making new friends.

Song:
Brother Sun, Sister Moon-
If you want your dream to be
Build it slow and surely.
Small beginnings, greater ends
Heartfelt work grows purely.

If you want to live life free,
Take your time, go slowly.
Do few things, but do them well.
Simple joys are holy.

Day by day,
Stone by stone
Build your secret slowly.
Day by day
You’ll grow too, you’ll know heavens glory.

First Quarter Moon: Sunday 21st February

First Quarter Moon – Sunday 21st of February
Moon in Gemini – Air
(The moon is visible from noon to midnight)
Growth

Destination: Bosque Village (Eco-Farm), near Yotatiro Pueblo, 20 minutes from Patzcuaro, on the lake, North Michocan
Mission: Wwoof Volunteer and to learn Natural Building

http://www.bosquevillage.com/

I left on the 18th from the beach to finally head into the mountains of Mexico for most likely a few months. I needed a breath of fresh air from sandy beach after sandy beach and now to have a few missions… This is my first Eco Farm that I am going to visit in Mexico. Here it runs a bit differently than most. It isn’t really a family run affair nor an eco village as their name clams. It is an American couple with a large piece of land in the mountains that host about 5-20 volunteers at a time year round. As volunteers we actually pay to stay and work here, unlike most Wwoofing farms, yet by the looks of their webpage, I was quite excited to check it out anyway. And as a plus, my Goddess friend Emily, from Sweden was already there. Thus from the 19th I will be here the next 2 weeks. My first day I arrived just before lunch and met all the other volunteers, thou not till the next day did I begin work with the others. On a daily schedule, we wake up before 8 to have breakfast in the Casita (Volunteers house with living room, library, bathroom, and kitchen) and begin work at 8:30. My mission is to learn about natural building while in Mexico and on my first day of work here, we worked with cob to build a cob house that is already half done. Yet we had no one leading us and only one girl who has a bit of experience with cob, trying to do her best to instruct the rest of us. Longer I stay here, the more I realize the lack of teachers and the majority of self teaching. As many complaints I have, along with the other volunteers, in general the place is great. What I am trying to do is focus on how my future community could run better. And with each day I know more with what I want and don’t want.

COMPOST TOLIET

Song:
Amor, Amor, Amor, Amor, Amor
El mensaje es el amor
Amar tus Hermanos… (La Luna, El Sol, Los Arboles, Los Plantos, Los Animales, La Tierra Madre)
Como tu mismo
Y yo soy amor

Dissementing Moon : Tuesday 2nd February

Dissementing Moon: Tuesday 2nd of February
Moon in Libra – Air

Imbolc
Mid Winter Celebration, phrophecy, purification, initiation –
Candlemas (Christian), New Year (Tibetan, Chinese, Iroquois), Tu Bi-Shevat (Jewish).
Goddess Festivals: Brigit, Brighid, Brigid
“A pure, new light sparks as we emerge from winter’s dark sleep. The power Gate of Aquarius opens, releasing the Air element and heralding returning light. We recharge our psychic batteries as the entire universe begins to quiver and pulse its cosmic rhythm. Earthlings feel Her intensity acutely as the Wheel shifts in these troubled times.
We meet in the temple’s outer chamber. Since childhood we have trained as Priestesses of Brigit and keepers of Her eternal flame. Our lifework is committed to social justice and feeding the poor, sick and hungry; inspired by Brigit, we ask nothing in return.
Wemoon construct moonpoles with slender birch trees, parchment frames and votive candles. Dressed in white, we proceed into the dimmed temple, where our community waits. We can hear their soft humming. Our moonpoles are lit, held high they cast a beautiful glow of hope. We slowly circle the room, ending in a spiral. Everyone chants encouragement to the returning Sun; then we pledge our yearly commitments to Goddess- within and without. We devote ourselves to peace, caring for our precious earth and ending hatred among Her people. Our community is blessed.”

As we returned to Mal Paso Beach, on an overnight bus on the 2nd, a storm had struck Mexico. And when we went back to our Paradise, it still had not ended. Our beloved campsite was not in ruins, yet definitely had been damaged. An omen. I took it, and took up and left a short time later.

Lighting, thunder, Air and Fire
Elements of Earth
Cracking open Darkness, of negativity, secrets, power
Balancing the forces of all living things
Cracking the order of illusion back open to the only one in power
Mother Earth striking the land back to life.


Song:
Mother I feel you under my feet
Mother I hear your heart beat (x2)

Hey ya hey ya hey ya ho
Hey ya hey ya hey ya ho (x2)

Mother I hear you in the river’s song
Eternal waters flowing on and on (x2)

Hey ya hey ya hey ya ho
Hey ya hey ya hey ya ho

Father I see you when the eagle flies
Flight of the spirit gonna take us higher (x2)

First Quarter Moon - 23rd January

The morning sunrise brought Venus square to the moon. With her she brings - Relationship, love, sense of beauty, and empathy. And man we were really feeling the sense of beauty of Mal Paso. The pristine, rugged life we were beginning to live there. Using all the elements as our guides. The Earth - Sand beneath our home, Fire - our only source of making food to eat each day, Water - the sea as our only source of cleanliness, and Air - Oh, sweet air we breath. We were also building new relationships as time passed. Building quit the community. Nearly 20 foreign, nature loving campers living off the land. Yesterday we formed our Goddess trio, taking in Emily from Sweden. With her we started a new project. Our Canadian neighborly pirate boy scouts were constantly creating beauty at their camp. Creating zin rock gardens, alters, and such. They were living there bout 2 months. But we were starting to catch up with them in time. Besides our tree alters and dream catchers, we decided to build a Medicine Wheel. A traditional Native American Prayer/Meditation Circle.


The Lesson of Patience:

From the red star, red is. The red is East. It is the doorway within the physical wheel of learning. The red is red medicine, Confidence. Red is also Patience. From the spirit we are united with our memory of consistency. We connect with Constant. The red teachings are carried on the wings of the eagle. A spirit keeper stands at the wheel in the early morning mist and speaks to us of deer medicine. Deer is the one who carries prayers to Great Spirit, Grandmother/Grandfather. Both deer and eagle give us the teachings of spirit. It is the memory of the Rainbow Medicine Wheel that is brought to us from the red.
A physical Medicine Wheel is a place where you can encounter spirituality. It is your own church, your own classroom, your own sanctuary. Medicine wheels are very old. Within the mother wheel that is mother earth, we have the opportunity to see all things, hear all things and do all things. The Rainbow Medicine Wheel starts in the center where creation occurs. A song of spiraling colors comes out from the center, and the seven rocks placed around it represent the Song. From the Song comes direction.
Starting in the East, with red, in spirit. In the South, with green, are lessons, emotions. In the West, with blue, is the physical. In the North, with white, is wisdom. In the spirit section, the East, are seven stones: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, burgundy. With each of these stones are words of medicine: Confidence, Balance, Creativity, Growth, Truth, Wisdom, Impeccability. From the East gate, going into the center, are seven more stones; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, burgundy. These are the lessons: Patience, Unity, Original, Faith, Sincerity, Reason, and Worth. In each section there are seven medicines and seven lessons.
In the teachings of spirit, as we learn to be sacred, we listen to the Song, for we are accountable. As we learn to pray, we listen to the Song, for we are responsible. When we learn to pray, we listen to the Song, and we are sincere. When we learn to teach and we learn to learn, and we learn to give and take, we listen to the Song and we are honest. When we do, practice and be, on the good red road, walking in the good way, we listen to the Song of Faithfulness. When we select, when we make something happen in our life, we listen to the Song of Commitment. When we do it and carry it on, and produce it in our everyday walk, we listen to the Song - we are dedicated.
We apply our lessons and listen to the Spirit keepers that walk through the gates. From the spirit, the spirit realm is carried on the wings of the eagle. From the emotions, it runs on the paws and hairs of the coyote. From the physical, it is seen within the depth and the power of the eyes of the bear. From the mental, it is from the mind of the wolf.
It is yours, to build, to dream, to sit with, to have the opportunity to feel creation, to hear salvation, to walk with uprightness, to be on the red road, to follow the ways of Grandmother/Grandfather, great Spirit.


Patience was our guide and song our friend as we spent 2 long days slowly constructing this wheel around a sacred tree. We had all the materials between the 3 of us. Synchronistic, meant to be. All the while we sang. Songs of Earth, of her sacred steps, of the love we hold as Light, Rainbow, Earth Warriors. We are goddesses and put all our power of love, beauty, and strength into the rocks as we painted, into the poles as we planted them, and into the center alter, Great Spirit (Tree) that was bedazzled with dozens of sea shells and powerful crystals. We finished at dusk on the Waxing Moon. We held our first ceremony with songs of Earth. And afterwards we celebrated. Celebrated with food, song, and dance. What a traditional, sacred evening it was. We indulged and bought Camarones - Shrimp to make shrimp/veggie kabobs and fire roasted potatoes. Our new neighbors from Guadalajara, brought drums, song, and music. Thus we danced to the beat of the Earths heart. Danced until we grew wings and were birds and could fly...


I feel like dancing
till the end of time.
Till my feet and arms
are wings
and i´ll fly
into Heaven.
To be one
with my Spirit
and all Kind.
A ho

We all come from the Goddess

and to her we shall return

Like a drop of Rain

flowing to the ocean.

Hoof and Horn, Hoof and Horn

All that dies shall be reborn

Corn and Grain, Corn and Grain

All that dies shall rise again

We all come from the Horn God

and to him we shall return

Like a spark of Flame

rising to the Heavens.

Hoof and Horn, Hoof and Horn

All that dies shall be reborn

Corn and Grain, Corn and Grain

All that dies shall rise again

New Moon - 14th of January

One day past, 24 hours ago the moon became linked together (in conjuction) with Mercury at 8:35 am. Mercury represents communication, travel, thought. At this very hour i was in travel. Taking another leap into time. I flew over deserts, mountains, and ocean to arrive just south of my home in Mexico.
I am embarking on an intergallatic journey of consciousness. Through time and space i am travelling to seek out Mother Earth´s Messages. To atune my mind, body, and spirit with nature. To where we all came from. To the Stars. The Plieades.

Destination: Puerto Vallarta
Note: Aweful skyscrapper gringo ridden city, but it does have an airport, thus i have landed

Yet not alone have i landed. Never alone. There waiting for me was my soul sister from the north. The Eagle.
Back to the New Moon
It is the beginning of the first full cycle since the winter solistice. And with it, i have began a revoluntary change in Uranus. Death, Rebirth, deep total change in Pluto. I am one with the Universe.

New Destination: Sayulita, 1 hour north of Vallarta on the West Coast of Central, Mexico

We are the Change

We are the one´s that we are waiting for

We are dawning

We are the Rising Sun

We are the Change

We are the one´s that we are waiting for

We are Dawning

We are the Rising Sun!