A symbol of my sacred work

From August to December last year, I was in the container The alignment Sanctuary held by Dra Rocio Rosales Meza. She is amazing at facilitating and teaching how to build relationship with the spirit of Mother Earth and the ancient healed matriarchs in our blood lineage (pre-colonial, pre-patriarchal ancestors) – to in service of the new ancient paradigm.

We were guided to create an altar for our ancient healed ancestors and to do daily prayers in front of this altar for a week.

Many things were revealed to me during that week.

One of the things that happened was that my ancestors started showing me an image that I kept drawing in my my notebook.

I trusted it as guidance and started re-creating it digitally. I realized it is a symbol of my lineage gifts and sacred work.

The image is a solar cross that stands for harmony and balance. They showed me it is also the back of a drum. And a target / aiming point, which for me symbolises the power of intention.

The serpent is the Mother. And to me, the flowers stand for life, creativity and expression.

In the first version I made the flowers were more rigid. ”More life”, the ancestors said. So I gave the flowers more animation and life.

Also, something in the solar cross wasn’t right and I added the swords. Now I feel the energy of the symbol is in resonance.

A co-creation with the spirits walking with me 💛

I am so grateful for my ancient matriarchs, for giving me this symbol as a reminder and an anchor for my work ahead.

Decolonial consciousness

I felt inspired to amplify these teachings from Dra Rocio Rosales Meza as I revisited my notes from her program ”Decolonial Shadow work – unlearn the white colonial mind”.

To shift the current world order in a sustainable way more people need to have a decolonial consciousness. But what does it mean to have a decolonial consciousness?

First, the definition must come from an indigenous perspective. The colonial mind can not define this. Also, it is a consciousness: integrated in mind, body and spirit.

Dra Rocio speaks of four things to understand and acknowledge to say we have a decolonial consciousness:

  1. The White Colonial Capitalist Patriarchy exists. It was white European settlers (men) that created the colonial paradigm for capital, for exploiting and extracting from lands and peoples. 

It is important to understand the history of the system we live in. That colonization is not only about people but also about land. To just name it racism and white supremacy is incomplete. It doesn’t show where it comes from. When we have a decolonial consciousness we understand the history of the system and are unlearning its harmful ways.

2. All spaces are colonial except indigenous spaces. This is why we need  indigenous wisdom to shift things sustainably in the world, because right relationship is required.

3. White Europeans colonized the ENTIRE world. It changed the way we think and the way we relate to each other. We have ALL been trained to think like a colonizer. For example how we define success.

4. White people have more power in the system.  And as we have more power, we have a bigger responsibility to dismantle the system. Not in a colonial, individual way, but as a sacred, collective responsibility.

We need deep roots

What I am learning is that to be vessels for the new paradigm our roots must be deep.

And that the white colonial capitalist patriarchy cut our roots and broke our ancestral lineages a long time ago. For almost all people.

But in indigenous nations medicine people have kept their lineage intact. And there are also some repairing their roots, who have reawakened and reconnected with their ancient pre-colonial lineage in deep ways.

They are walking in constant communion with their pre-colonial, pre-patriarchal ancestors. An example is my teacher Dra Rocio Rosales Meza. Her roots and Earth medicine are deeply felt. It is a potent frequency I have never experienced before.

Zionism in the western spiritual community (part one)

Like many others, I have in the last 1,5 years begun to see more and more clearly the true dynamics behind the chaos and destruction in the world. There are things that are obvious to me now that I was blind to before. 

This post is for you who care about human rights and believe in equal value for all. I will give an example of a spiritual teacher who is a zionist.

It is a woman that I followed on Instagram for years and at some point I was also part of her community for a short period. She is a shamanic priestess and speaks of Avalon, the Order of the Blue Rose and of Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Mother Mary.

You would think that such a person is caring for all people, for humanity and all of life. But no.

One day about one year ago – during the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians – she linked in her stories to one of her IG highlights called ”Israel”. In which she declares her love and devotion for Israel as the ”the holy lands”.

I was shocked. (today it would not shock me but one year ago it did)

Some time went by and I was still perplexed. So I wrote her a message asking her to clarify.

She replied:

This message might seem harmless, but she could so easily – with basically one sentence – show me she cared about what happens to the Palestinians. She didn’t.

So… First, in her post she amplifies her love and adoration for Israel. She does not bother naming the Palestinians and the genocide in any way neither in her post, nor in her reply to me. She is avoiding to comment and suggests in a way that I unfollow her. She never ”circled back” and I did not expect her to.

This is a spiritual teacher who is white supremacist, okay with genocide and is basically holding nazi-like values. There are many people like this in the spiritual community and it is harmful.