Starseed Mexico Adventure, 2023
Behind the Adventure
Standing in front of one of the sound healing temples at Saqqara, Egypt, I closed my eyes while emitting a sacred tone into a carved niche. When the reverberations were complete, I turned to step away only to be surprised to find another adventurer waiting to step forward. Later, she described how her inner vision led her to the Maya. A reoccurring vision for many during our 2022 Starseed Adventure in Egypt. What she did not know was the sound current I had offered was Mayan. Whilst in Egypt, my plans to visit Mexico in the New Year were forming but not for a group adventure but rather a personal one. What shifted? When I returned stateside, I sat in meditation to develop my Mexico itinerary, and each time, several clients would consistently present themselves. I asked Spirit for the way forward. Starseed Mexico Adventure was launched! Filling very quickly, especially by those I saw in the etheric realm along with some new faces. I love good surprises.
Teotihuacán
To appreciate the enormity Teotihuacán once was, our adventure begins with a hot air balloon ride for that critical aerial view. In the ancient past, a settlement formed in the countryside that grew into an urbanized city larger than Rome. A site purposely planned and laid out in a square grid to eventually handle a population of about 200,000. Imagine a city planner from 100 BCE planning a future orthogonal grid to manage the swell of immigration, a workforce, political leadership, and housing for multigenerational families. In contrast, modern cities with orthogonal grids are shown below.
To walk the mile and a half Avenue of the Dead, to partially climb the bare rock of the Pyramid of the Sun, Moon, or Serpent is inadequate. The view from above is critical to understanding the scope of this site historically, ritually, and astronomically. Besides, when shared with starseeds, Hot Air balloons are fun.
Unlike other pyramids obscured by time and growth, the Mexico basin was not buried in sand or jungle, nor were its monuments lost and rediscovered over time. Teotihuacán is located 30 miles northeast of Mexico City, the inhabitants then and now have had their consciousness shaped by these pyramidal structures since its construction. The original builders were unknown. The Aztecs utilized the temple site while the city was host to Teotihuacanos and people from the farthest reaches of Mesoamerica.
At the National Museum of Anthropology, a temporary exhibit on Teotihuacán’s original 1964 dig is available to us during our visit. The exhibit room provides site photos prior to and after excavations, artifacts found, and more. All of life is like an archeological dig. We move from dense and base layers of our human self into the finer movement of the soul. This pathway is likened to an initiate becoming whole, like Osiris in the Egyptian tradition. The solar movement, away from the profane toward the spiritual realm from which we have come. Let’s close on Teotihuacán with an oracle and a goddess. According to Deborah Nichol, Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth, Teotihuacán had buildings on top of the Pyramid of the Sun and Moon in which an oracle resided. Professor Nichol further describes the site’s principal deity as the Great Goddess, aka Spider Woman, based on murals in the Tepantitla compound. And if you can’t get enough, I presented Teotihuacán in my recent class, Fire Ceremonies, Sacred Sites, and Transmutation. A course that tracks the historical use of fire ceremonies to illuminate, educate, and review our use of internal power.
Puebla, Orion, Volcanos, Pyramids
Our adventure continues to Puebla located 68 miles SE of Mexico City. Discover the Great Pyramids of Choula considered the world’s largest known pyramid by volume. A Catholic church is built on top of Choula and from here, we can take in the view of Popocatépetl, an active volcano with recorded activity dating back to the 14th century. In 1891, an ancient Aztec map was found concealed in the monastery, we will discuss this map, Choula, explore the tunnels, if available, and build an understanding how the Puebla area is said to have an astronomical orientation to the constellation of Orion. See you soon, starseeds!
References
Halpin, A.T. (2018) Interpreting Tepantitla Patio 2 Mural (Teotihuacan, Mexico) as an Ancestral Figure, Scholarworks.calstate.edu. Available at: https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/downloads/zs25x9131 (Accessed: December 12, 2022).
History.com Editors (2018) Teotihuacan, History.com. A&E Television Networks. Available at: https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-americas/teotihuacan (Accessed: December 12, 2022).
McClelland, E. (2021) Why Chicago’s grid is a model of Perfect urban order, Chicago Magazine. Available at: https://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/why-chicagos-grid-is-a-model-of-perfect-urban-order/ (Accessed: December 12, 2022).
Moreira, S. (2020) Orthogonal grids and their variations in 17 cities viewed from above, archdaily.com. Translated by T. Duduch. ArchDaily. Available at: https://www.archdaily.com/949094/orthogonal-grids-and-their-variations-in-17-cities-viewed-from-above (Accessed: December 12, 2022).
Nichols, D.L. (2018) Video: Teotihuacan and the making of a World City, Peabody Museum. Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology. Available at: https://peabody.harvard.edu/video-teotihuacan-and-making-world-city (Accessed: December 11, 2022).
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