I feel I have found the spot I have been looking for. Ahhhhh..............I am in this beautiful red and yellow stone canyon. I’m calling it, Canyon de Jemez, since this area is just beyond the reservation for the Jemez Nation. The radiant beauty of the stones is so amazing. I am in awe in this exquisite expression of Pachamama.
There was a sunrise service this morning in the Chaco Canyon park in honor of the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year in the Northern hemisphere. We could just easily say that the solstices and equinoxes mark a Sacred Geometry in the movement of the planet in relationship to the Sun. It is a matrix of energy(Sacred Geometry) which supports our planet and all the people living and breathing on it. Like a calendar, the Solstices represent summer and winter and are a way of marking time by indicating the extreme movements of the earth north and south, in relationship to the earth.
It appears that the people of the Chacoan culture(early Pueblo people, Hopi, Navajo,Zuni) lived here from 800-1250 AD. Naturally as indigenous people, they spent a lot of time observing the natural forces and elements and were adept at watching the movements of the Sun and Moon. There are several Kivas here (circular ceremonial rooms, normally underground), where the light of the rising summer solstice Sun comes through a window and hits a large niche on the wall, exactly within a half hour of sunrise. This is where we met this morning, observing this phenomenon.
It’s interesting to me that the Inka’s, in the Andes mountains of Peru,(where I’ve spent the last 5 June solstices) did the very same thing in their building and rock structures. They aligned windows with the Sun, so that on Solstice mornings, the first light of solstice would come through the window and make contact with a special niche on the wall. As well as making markings in stone which marked the extreme movement of the Sun/Earth at the solstice time.
I realize that for the average North American now, we rarely raise our faces to look at the stars or to watch the phases of the Moon in the night sky. Sadly, we as a people are deeply dis-engaged from the rhythms of nature, more obsessed with material desires and financial concerns.
I was awake several times in the night and went outside to pee and was overwhelmed with the night sky. The Moon had already set and the sky was ABLAZE with all these sparkling lights. Now this is someone who has watched the night and early morning sky from the place of the baths at Esalen for so many years....the Sky here was unbelievable, I suppose b’c of our elevation and no city close by.
Om Namah Shivaya....that was something
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