Machu Picchu

"Outer" Adventure and "Inner" Journey Part 1

Machu Pichu means "Old Peak" in the Quechua language. City in the Clouds,The City of Light and The Crystal City and the City of Knowledge are a few names.

No matter how people enter the city, by the Inca Trail or by bus, most people suddenly stop and try to digest what the optical nerve is transmitting to their brains. You stare in disbelief as your eyes swell with tears as everything around moves in slow motion. Yes, we have seen pictures of this amazing city but nothing can prepare you for the real experience. You can feel presence of the mountain spirits, looking down on you. The mountains stand before you like living beings, the aware intelligence you feel leaves you humbled. Oddly enough it feels like “going home”

Pictures do not do Machu Picchu justice, you must see it and feel it to understand how spectacular this site is. To try and imagine the Incas not only living in but building the city in such a remote and seemingly uninhabitable place baffles the mind.

Located in cloud forest between the Andes and the Amazon, Machu Picchu really is everything you expect it to be, which is breath-taking, awe-inspiring, mysterious, and beautiful. It is an architectural wonder. It is surrounded by mountains and jungle vegetation. The site is richly green and grantie stones are perfectly formed. The Terracing practically clinging to the slope of the mountain. Wandering the ruins you can feel the weight of history as you marvel at the Inca's achievements.

The ruins of Machu Picchu was rediscovered in 1911 by Yale archaeologist Hiram Bingham

Morning sun rays on Machu Picchu

Main gate into the citadel

The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu is one of the world's most spectacular ruins. Houses, temples, baths, storage rooms and agricultural terraces were built high among rugged and forested mountains with distant snow-covered Andean peaks providing a backdrop. It was and still is watered by natural springs, invisible from below and completely self-contained and in great state of preservation two thousand feet above the rumbling Urubamba river.

Machu Picchu seems to have been used by the Inca as a secret ceremonial city.
You stand in the clouds and it’s the most amazing feeling. Even when you walk in “solitude” in Machu Picchu you sense you sense that you are not alone there.
To watch the sun rays descend down the mountain slopes to the ruins is an unforgettable experience.

The Watch Post

Machu Picchu is often wreathed in mist.

Merging from the mist, the whispery clouds are pulled back in slow motion like curtains. Like a mirage appearing and disappearing in the clouds.

A walk in the clouds

Far below, the rapids of the Urubamba river loop round the site like a serpent wrapping and protecting the sacred site.

The Snake (death), Puma (physical plane), guardian to Machu Picchu and the Condor (after life), the carrier of souls to the "other world" were very sacred to the Incas. Machu Picchu is built in the shape of the Condor. Cusco (the navel of the world) is in the shape of the Puma, then you have the Urabamba river looping like snake below surrounding three side of the mound of the mountain then flows off into the sacred valley.

The Quarry

Crystal City in the clouds-- The stones of the city are white granite, composed of 40% quartz crystal. You feel as if you are inside a huge giant crystal city that is vibrating around you.
Like thin veils between worlds you can feel the magnetic inward pull and the electric outward pull.
Legends and myths indicate that Machu Picchu was used as a sacred place as far back as 2500BC. Machu Picchu was never discovered and ransacked by the Spanish Conquistadors, it is something of a time capsule.

It is obvious the city was a work in progress when suddenly the Incas disappeared.

Rare Triple Eclipse

Image by Nirgal aka G. Higgins

Triple Eclipse a Rare Astronomical Event in one Month.

The world is witnessing a rare astronomical event- a series of triple eclipses in less than a month. The first in the series of eclipses was a lunar (full moon) eclipse on July 7 which will be followed by a (new moon) solar eclipse on July 22 and then another lunar (full moon) eclipse on August 5th. Six more triple eclipses will occur over the next decade.

On July 21st at 7:35pm PST in the US and July 22nd at 2:35 am GMT in Asia, the sun will be eclipsed by the moon for 6 minutes and 39 seconds at its maximum point. The longest solar eclipse of the 21st Century.

With this will be such an on rush of energy, setting the stage for what may be...

Eclipses are like a Cosmic light switch being thrown on in an area of our lives that needs to be seen and highlighted. Also, solar eclipses are about outer events in our external world.

These celestial energies enhance and support all of your intentions to grow, learn, and increase your levels of consciousness. They are the star mirrors ‘As above, so below’ that give added meaning and depth to the cycles and processes we continually go through in life.

As to my previous post on the feminine, the moon is the embodiment of the feminine, during this “once in a century” solar eclipse, her energies will be high, bringing her into equal partnership and balance with the solar (masculine). Through this remarkable integration, a new balance of the Divine Feminine and Sacred Masculine will radiate to the entire world.

This is an extraordinary moment for humanity to collectively co-create through harmony and equality for all.

Some astrologers believe this is a time of shadows being lit up, untruths brought to the light and accelerated awakening coming to fruition.
The Black Madonna, the symbol for the oppressed, is also reemerging.
The solar eclipse has the potential to promote the liberation of all voices; voices of women, voices of indigenous people, & voices of all oppressed peoples. It is a promising time for these voices of wisdom and truth to be fully heard.

The people of Iran, especially the women throwing back their veils so their voices can be heard, the indigenous peoples of Southern Peru fighting for the preservation of the rain forest are a few that comes to mind.

So it is that you, the children of the Sun, are now being bathed in the waters of remembrance, prepared as rainbow warriors to fulfill the promise of the new and ancient myth. By simply anchoring love's presence on Earth, you lovingly draw down the mantle of the gods, sending waves of healing and love throughout Gaia's eagerly receptive body. As you emerge in this time, your gifts awaken and empower others. Utilizing the tools of laughter, song, dance, humor, joy, trust and love, you are creating the powerful surge of transformation that will transmute the limitations of the old myth of duality and separation, birthing the miracle of unity and peace on Earth.

Excerpt from The Mythical Call by the Mayan Oracle

(Mantel is the shroud, blanket, cloak, covering or veil or as I say that is the light

Duality needs no explanation)

Also Rare Triple Eclipse on Jupiter

2012-A Shift in Consciousness

Return of the Natural Order

According to Mayan elders of the eagle clan. The Mayan prophecies speak to us of the changes towards the fifth sun, on the famous, yet misunderstood date of December 21, 2012 which so happens to be winter solstice date. Right now we are in the throes of the fourth sun transitioning to the fifth.

**Carlos Barrios is a Mayan Ajq'ij. He has been given the mission by his elders to begin sharing the prophecies and teachings of the Mayan peoples with the rest of the world

The sun, moving to the heart of the galaxy (also called the dark rift), will align with the solar and galactic plane bringing about changes. The precessional Cycle of the Holy Cross, the Heavenly Cross is formed by the Milkey Way and the ecliptic-galactic center (notice the 8 spoke wheel on plate 67 & 69 from the The Lost Book of Nostradamus ). The crossing or wheel of time. Just between Sagittarius and Scorpio where Sagittarius’s arrow is pointing to a dark gap, there is a 13th zodiac sign call Ophiuchus (the serpent bearer).

A Change in ages requires a change in consciousness.

• The first cycle was a feminine energy, its element was fire.
• The second cycle was of masculine energy, its element was earth.
• The third cycle was a feminine energy, its element was air.
• The fourth cycle is a masculine energy, that we are in now and its element is water.
  
• The fifth cycle will be a fusion of both feminine and masculine energies. It will be a transition bringing about balance between the two. Both energies will support each other. It is why this period is called one of harmony, the kingdom of love and the return of consciousness. Its element will be that of ether.

Images from the Lost Book of Nostradamus

The masculine energy being taken down, cut away from the tree.

Pope and a cross on fire. Fall of church and state (notice the man and woman are together equally)

The fire and cross may signify the raising of the Kundalini from base of spine and activating the Chakra system.The Tree of Life.

The Human Chakra System

She takes away the bow from the blind man. Scales of justice and moon (feminine energy) below the wheel of time (Image 69)

She now holds the bow and arrow (Image 67)

Rebirth of the feminine

Feminine Energies elevating to rightful place.

There's a possibility that we may just discover that the next step in evolution and evolution of consciousness has been gestating in us waiting for the right time, a trigger in time, to move forward and give way to a new era.

Ahead may lie not only an alignment with our sun to the Dark Rift but an alignment of our inner light and out outward actions giving way to a clearer reality shared by Science and Spirituality. Giving us a chance to reconnect to our cosmic heart and eternal source.

Inner Technology Forgotten

Prayer

Seventeen hundred years ago, many key elements of our ancient traditions and heritage were lost. Removed by Scholars of the day at the Council of Nicea.

Many documents were removed altogether or modified. Some of the text were found to be so mystical and believed to be of no value. What remained were rearranged and condensed to make easier for the masses to read.
The Holy Bible is what the final out come was.

If many seem to have lost their faith in prayer it’s because the true meaning of the language of prayer was gone.
Today however, The Dead Sea Scrolls tell us differently.
Prayers do not live in the words alone as many believed.
There are no magic words or codes to utter to the “powers that be”.
Ancient traditions reminds us that the effect of prayers come from more than just the words themselves.

The Dead Sea Scrolls showed us what was missing and the true way to pray.
We are encouraged to live the intent of our prayer in our daily lives for if the words are “spoken only with the mouth, they are as dead as hive…which gives no more honey.”

The words are empty without the feeling behind it.
Feeling is the force, the energy that can not be written or spoken and the feelings that it evokes in us is potent. The first language we all learn is that of feeling. Feel the prayer, feeling is the prayer. It’s the feeling that opens the door…to the seen and unseen.

Resources: The Isaiah Effect by Gregg Braden.

“Quantum science now takes this idea one step further, stating that it is precisely such conditions of feeling that creation responds to, by matching the feeling (prayer) of our inner world with like conditions in our outer world. Though the outcome of our prayer may not yet be apparent in our outer world, we are invited to acknowledge our communion with creation and live as if our prayer has already been answered.”