Our dear brother, Maya Elder Rigoberto had cancelled his Kiche fire ceremony with us due to health reasons. Enrique and I wondered what to do. Maybe we would do our own type of Maya Ceremony. But by chance, the local Itza Maya Elder, Filfido Chayash, was available to join us. He was very pleased to join our group, and welcomed us with a great open heart. He performed a beautiful fire ceremony at the base of Temple #5 in Tikal. We made a sacred site essence during the ceremony that embraces a higher octave of divine authentic power from the element of fire and brings about deeper understanding over new laws of nature.

That night, the staff at the Jungle lodge prepared an awesome Christmas dinner for us. The lodge was decorated with Palm fronds. Love filled the room, and we gave them a standing ovation for their efforts. Afterwards, some of our group got rowdy (those Aussies are always trouble) and danced aboriginal dances and sang in the lobby. Our trouble maker Aussies and a few followers did an aborginal danc...

On Christmas Day, we boarded our Christmas bus that we had decorated with Guadalupe flags and Christmas garland. We traveled toward Livingston, Guatemala. The only way to get to Livingston is by boat. We took an amazing boat ride on the Rio Dulce that was so beautiful that I felt like my soul was renewed. The canyons that we traveled through were breathtaking. In Livingston, the staff at our little Caribbean hotel offered us a Garifuna celebration with lively dancing and drumming. It was a beautiful day for integration . . . and at this point, we really needed the down time. We were already so full with energy and experience.

By this point in our transformation, it became apparent that the energy was beginning to manifest in some strange body issues which we rarely see in the Maya lands Many right hip issues in the group came up . . . possibly from a perceived fear of nothing to move forward to, as most seers could not see past 2012 into 2013. Some people had stomach issues and nausea that was the new energy coming in which our bodies didn't know how to deal with it yet. A few had energy fevers that came from the intense downloads of energy which we were absorbing. There was just so much to process that we had to let go, and just allow the process.

Quirigua - the Element of AIR and Heart
On December 26th, we traveled to yet another favorite sacred site of mine, Quirigua, the element of the air. It is known for its amazing living Stele. The feeling here is very ethereal and airy. This site was built for inter-dimensional travel. Maya Elders confirmed a memory that I had which was that this was the last known site where the Star Elders were still in human-like form. The site was built with a lot of quartz crystal, maps to other dimensions and cosmic locations, and directions on how to make the journey.

Today the living stones really shared with us. This was new to me as the Stele, in the past, would not speak to me until it was time. They do not give up their wisdom easily. It was obvious that this day was in fact TIME! We received a bit of transmission from them. Each of the Stele in this site hold different keys to the new world, and many were already transmitting and planting seeds into us (full message coming soon).

We were being called to give back to the Earth, at this powerful convergence on the Maya grid. We offered a heartfelt ceremony in Quirigua's small plaza. We sent our love and blessings to the earth, to the sky and to all living beings. Here we made a sacred site essence that embraces a higher octave of limitlessness in a human form, from the element of air, and holds the codes and map of the physical voyage between dimensions.

Copan - The Element of ETHER and Emergence After our visit to Quirigua, we crossed yet another border into the country of Honduras, and landed for the night in the peaceful little village of Copan. The Copan Marina is the only hotel I will stay in while in Copan, because it has such a nice spirit about it. But we slept restlessly that night as we were already in the energy field of Copan the temple site. It was intense.

Copan represents the element of Ether, and I find it to be the most powerful site in the Maya world. We entered the sacred site on December 27th and on the 28th. We like to take 2 days for this site, because the energy is so intense that we cannot stay in the site very long. The energy was SO strong the first day that it rocked us all. I felt my tummy do a flip flop before we even got to the front gates . . . like morning sickness. We were being invited into a new temple that was much larger than who we were in that moment. It was sort of like when you get an enormous offer from someone you truly respect, but you have that little negative voice inside yourself saying that you didn't earn that position. It was humbling and empowering all at the same time. Yet here we were, being invited into this temple site. We were out of our comfort zone for sure. It was like the holy grail of Maya energy. We were walking into the etheric record of a new world. There is no category in which I can place this feeling. This is the place where we can birth a new world, and we could really feel it.

First we went to the living Stele on the left hand side of the site. This is where we received a download . . . a message from the standing stones who had not given up their wisdom easily in the past. Today they were quite open and sharing. It was time (full message coming soon).

Then we were asked to move to the hieroglyphic stairway. This stairway is a dimensional doorway where trained initiates ascended, with great care, into the great central sun. This story was told to me by a Maya Elder back in 1996, when the comet Hyakutake was visible in the night sky over Copan. The Maya Elder's name was Eusebio Leon Chebo Leon, and he lived in Copan his entire life. He was so old that his eyes had turned blue. He was a just child when the famous archeologist, Sylvanus Morley was in Copan excavating the site. Every single day, he would travel to Copan's temples. When I met him, he had picked me out of a crowd of tourists to tell me this story. The story changed me in ways I still do not understand.

As we approached the hieroglyphic stairway, we could feel the energy rush down the steps. We sat there for a while absorbing the energy. Some of our group had to move away, because it was too powerful. It is always good to listen to your heart and not burn yourself out. It is good to receive energy in stages. We knew that we would return back to the site the next day for more.

The next day we entered the site again. This time we could stay longer. We noticed that another stairway to the right of the hieroglyphic stairway was also activated. On top of this stair way, was a huge, old, split Ceiba Tree. The Ceiba Tree is sacred to Maya cosmology, and represents the tree of life. This was the very tree that Eusebio pointed out to me back in 1996, as one of his favorites. He said "It was only this high when I was a boy". He held his hand out about chest high. Today, I finally got why it was so important.

The tree has split in two which marks a place where there is an earth acupuncture point or vortex line. Instead of the tree growing up toward the sun, it bowed down as if to pay respect to the temple which it was shading below. I stood at its base for a bit. Then I noticed a couple from our group had positioned themselves dead center between this stairway and the hieroglyphic stairway in the plaza below. They began to do a ceremony. This is not allowed in public sacred sites . . . yet the guards decided, after a bit, to look the other way and let them do what they came there to do.

I climbed down to the base of the stairway and took the usual tourist photos and discovered an apparition of a spirit descending the temple steps. (See Photo) Here I was called to make a sacred site essence of the element of ether that embraces the next higher octave of living mastery / emergence, from the element of ether, and it brings about the culmination and birth of all five newly evolved elements needed to manifest the new codes of life on Earth. I made this essence between the base of the stairway and a living stele (Estela N). The guards were distracted by the girls doing the ceremony (thanks to Janie, Linda, and Carmel), so I was able to cross past the roped off area and begin the process of making the essence at the feet of the living stone stele. We all stayed in the site as long as we could and we left little by little as we felt complete.

We had our closing circle that evening in a yoga palapa at the Hacienda San Lucas with breath taking views of the Copan valley below. We shared our experiences and said our goodbyes. We had our final dinner in candle light at the Hacienda. The corn soup is legendary.

Now, as I write this, our pilgrimage feels like a dream to me. What took two years to plan and manifest, was over in a blink of an eye. What we gathered, learned and discovered could take the rest of our lives to unravel, unpack and integrate. The next morning, we all began another journey . . . the journey back to where we came from . . . home. I know that we didn't return home in the same recognizable form, but altered and distinctly refined, purified and prepared for the new that is coming. What this will be, no one knows in this moment. But I do know this . . . it will be what we make of it.