Originally posted on sciy.org by Ron Anastasia on Mon 20 Oct 2008 11:11 AM PDT
MAYAN SYNERGY
Ancient traditions unify with contemporary visions
A MAYAN JOURNEY
In the summer of 1999, two years after I was introduced to Mayan Dreamspell Astrology and while living in Canada, I made a trip to Mexico accompanied by my friends Sobey and Geronimo. The trip lasted for two weeks and during that time, I visited a small town close to Mexico City called Amatlan de Quetzalcoatl with my uncle. This is meant to be the place where the great Mesoamerican ruler and spiritual guide was born. We arrived at night, to a place owned by a guy named Ian. He had several beautiful tipis built on wooden platforms which he rented out for the night. There were some outhouses, showers and a big hole where a pool was being built. The whole village was by a place called the Portal, because there is a huge rock wall on the side of the mountain that is believed to be an inter-dimensional gateway. People say that if one sits in front of it at night one can hear voices coming from the rock.
We arrived there as a Temazcal (traditional Mexican sweat lodge) was
about to take place and people were getting prepared to enter. I
participated in the opening ceremony, but did not enter the sweat lodge
as I wasn't expecting it and didn't feel I was
prepared. Instead I sat in front of a stone altar and gazed at the portal. I n my meditation I can't say for sure where from, but I did hear voices.
When the Temazcal was done, Ian directed us to our tipi for the night. We said goodnight and entered the dream world.
The next morning when I woke up, my uncle, who is a chiropractor, gave me a wonderful full body adjustment. After this we headed to the kitchen for our breakfast. During our meal, I noticed a man who was wearing a silver pendant of the Mayan sign Ahau and I asked him where he got it. He told me he made it himself and asked if I knew what my sign was. I said naturally, "sure, I'm an Ahau myself". When he heard my reply, he said: "But do you follow the Jose Arguelles count? I said I did, he laughed and continued to fully discredit anything that Jose Arguelles has ever said or written about the calendar.
The man told me the traditional Quiche Mayan elders have their own count, which has been in use for thousands of years and that Jose was wrong and the elders were right. He then asked me for my birth date and figured out my Quiche Mayan sign. It turned out to be Kat 1 instead of Ahau 5, like I knew from my studies with the Dreamspell. He gave me a book on the Quiche count and told me to read about Kat 1. Up until that moment I had no idea there was a Quiche count or that the one I had been studying wasn't the same as the one that the Mayans practice.
I read the pages and felt no connection what so ever to the words on the page. I suppose that his negative attitude caused me to shut down and that kept me from getting anything positive out of the experience. So I thanked him all the while thinking that he was a total nut case and the traditional Mayan count made no sense. I discarded the experience and continued with my trip.
Back in Canada I never told anyone about the encounter, I simply continued with my Dreamspell studies. Six months later, on my very first snowboarding trip in Vancouver Island, I had an amazing revelation. I was with my sister, her boyfriend and my husband when on the second night of our trip I had a most wonderful dream. In it, there was a sorcerer inside a cave with his body divided into left and right opposites. His right side was dark with a dark eye, hair, skin and clothes. His left side was light with blond hair, light skin, white clothes and a blue eye. This sorcerer was holding a small seed in his hand that was also divided into black and white. As he held the seed in his right hand, he inhaled and turned his head to the right. As he would exhale, he would turn his head to his left and move the seed from his right to his left hand. Each time he did this, a flash of light appeared and all that was visible to me was a huge spider-web. I could sense that it was the force of the sorcerer's exhale which disintegrated one of the many strands in the web at a time. After this, I could see him again as he went through another sequence exactly the same as before, in total the whole scene repeated itself three times.
As soon as this was done, I found myself by the edge of a lake. The sky was cloudy and the water calm. I walked along the shore with the lake to my left until I found a pier that went out onto the water. I walked on it and when I was half the way to the end, I turned to my left and saw far away what appeared to be small bubbles rising to the surface of the water about 200 meters. from where I stood. As I looked, the bubbles began to move in a zig-zag motion giving me the impression that what ever was making them was swimming towards me. As it got closer the amount of bubbles increased until they were like the ones in a Jacuzzi. Then, suddenly in slow motion (something that only happens in dreams) a tiny head popped out from the watery chaos. I knew immediately it was a lizard even though I still hadn't seen its body. As soon as its head peaked out from the water, it lounged in my direction so fast that it was a blur to me. I quickly caught it with my left hand and from its body emanated wave upon wave of the most intoxicating, unconditional love. We made eye contact and it was most intense since its reptilian eye disclosed no emotion. After a couple of seconds of holding it in my hand, I knew exactly why it had come to me, so I rubbed its body against my lower abdomen and allowed for its love to flow into my ovaries. I then placed the lizard on my heart chakra, thanked it and threw it back into the water.
I awoke the next day feeling exhilarated. I told my husband and sister about my dream. I understood that my connection to the lizard's sexual energy had its source in water, due to the fact that for weeks I had been practicing Taoist female sexual kung fu every morning by a beautiful river that was near my house. I had decided to practice next to the river merely on an instinct and discovered that I could feel the energy moving from my ovaries to my uterus and then up my spine much stronger than when I practiced in my room. I felt that part of the dream, to be a confirmation of my intuitive pull towards water while practicing Taoist sexual kung fu. I was very happy, but didn't give the rest of the dream much interpretation, except for the fact that the sorcerer in the dream had been made up of two people I love dearly. The light side was my former partner Dave from England, whose skin complexion was very fair, his eyes blue and his hair long and blond. He always carried a long, dark green piece of New Zealand jade around his neck. The dark side, was my wonderful friend Frederic from France, who is very dark, has long black hair, deep brown eyes and he always wore a long, white piece of bone around his neck shaped very much like the one around Dave's. When I first met Frederic a year after I last saw Dave, I was struck by the uncanny resemblance between the two, which was evident in their mannerisms, laughter, body shape and size. This was especially interesting since they were of such opposite colors, so I felt it to be natural for them to be unified in a dream, since I already believed them to be twin souls.
Two weeks after we got back from the snowboarding trip, my friend Sobey with whom I went to Mexico, lent me a book about the Quiche count named "Jaguar Wisdom" by Richard Johnson. When I began reading the book I wasn't even thinking about that very intense man I had met in Amatlan de Quetzalcoalt six months earlier, who totally turned me off from the subject. As I read on, I eventually came to the part where I'm supposed to decode my Mayan sign. I did so and found out that I was Kan, tone 1 (still not linking the Mexico incident). I opened the page with the description of the sign and what I read there struck me like an iron pan on my little head. It talked about the seed being the symbol for Kan, representing fertility; having tone one, means that within me is planted a seed, unifying light and dark polarities through the magnetism of unconditional love.
Further more, it said that the Naguals (spirit guides) of the seed, are the spider and the lizard. The spider weaves the stories of creation and interconnects all beings and their stories through her web and the lizard is the keeper of sexual energy for the purposes of creativity and stores this energy in its genitals. As I read this, images from my dream came flooding in weaving all of the events in the past six months with a cord of synchronicity that I couldn't overlook. The Taoist exercises and their relation to water, water as the source of the lizard, the man in Mexico who was a sun like me except on a different count. The technique of recapitulation I had been practicing since I met Frederic who gave me the books by the female sorceresses who studied with Don Juan, the same sorcerer that Carlos Castaneda studied with. This technique tends to vary a bit but in general it is always described as anin breath accompanied by a turn of the head from left to right and then an exhale accompanied by a turn of the head from right to left. This technique is used for the purpose of reclaiming the energy we have spent in past interactions by untangling our emotional cords from the stories we have taken part in. The sorcerer in my dream was recapitulating; something I did notice right away, what I didn't know was that the spider was the one that helped him to do so since she is the one who spins the web of our interactions! The full force of my dream hit me not so much as a thought, but as a physical sensation that filled my entire being with knowing. I knew this was very important as I believe nothing happens by chance. I felt this was my inner being talking to me, something the Mayan ancestors have been very connected with from time immemorial. I felt how the force of being an Ahau 5 in the Dreamspell count, had come to me in a much more subtle way, in the company of people. It had been like a delicious fruit that was handed over to me. Nevertheless this Quiche count, had a whole different type of power, a mysterious, deep power. It came to me in Mexico and since I wasn't ready, it came back into my dreams telling me to pay attention and listen. Linking my life to what my sign was all about so I could see that clearly I am Kan 1. I was even given a book after the dream to aid me in understanding the symbolism of the dream.
These events reshaped and expanded my understanding of the Tzolkin. I learned to see how deeply perfect its nature is. I took on the challenge of unifying both the Quiche and the Dreamspell calendars. Something no one I've met has attempted to do because of the great rift that divides the ancient traditions from the contemporary visions that want to push forth into new realms. Yet, the fullness of my vision is this: just as a tree needs the firm grounding of its roots, that allow it to be nurtured from the raw elements and energies of the earth, so do we need to learn the true value of the wisdom given to us by our ancestors. They have labored through millennia in order to produce the fruits of their wisdom, practical tools that guide us in unlocking the deepest mysteries of our nature. Having said this, it is also a blessing to remember that a tree is not only its roots, but also the trunk and its branches that grow ever upward towards the heavens, showering us with their blossoms, shade, fruit and seeds; a canopy under which we can gather to share, grow and rejoice together. This is the contemporary vision, a need to unify all traditions and push them forward into the present unfolding, actualizing them in order to meet our current place in evolution. We are dissolving old boundaries and limitations with our hearts and our imagination.
Let's dream the dream we are becoming, together as one.
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