First Quarter Moon - Thursday 20th of May

1st Quarter Moon – May 20th
Destination: DF (Mexico City) Districto Fedral
I am spending these last few days in one the biggest cities of the world. At first I said, No, I am not going there. Yet I expanded my mind, remembered a lot of awake minds live in cities, that’s where consciousness can begin, and thus I am here. Here and far away from our Earth Mother. How can anyone stay connected to her while living within a cage of cement and pollution I ask? The ever speeding fast vibration of gotta get to my job on time, dressed in fancy black and white suits, hair pulled back, and brief case. I am defiantly on a different pace. A pace that now even has a hard time adapting within City walls… whole time im screaming to get out. There are so many less revelations inspired by nature and when being alone when constantly other city dwellers and concretes skyscrapers sucking away all light, natural vibes we call mama earth surround you. I have been caught up in this world, danced in it till dawn, worked in it from am to pm… yet never again. Where will these people go when the earth starts falling apart? When cities start crumbling. When Mama Earth is so sick that she begins to die, taking us along with her. Think about it, can humans live without water, food, animals, trees, and nature? No, and if you believe so, go try it on another planet why don’t you, instead of wreaking the one we have now. I realize more and more the importance of moving far away from cities, from vast populations and instead running into the forests of Eden with my sisters and brothers, Star Children of our Earth Mother.

New Moon - Thursday 13th of May

New Moon – May 13th
Destination: Chacala Beach, Nayarit

I am back on the beach, where I began this journey in Mexico. Here for a few days to soak up the sun, eat off the raw fire, and watch the New Moon change the tides and sea life as a new 28 day cycle begins. I sleep under the moon in my hammock, cook under the moon on a campfire, and sing songs of earth to the New Moon.

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