wow.. that was quite an experience :D
..to finish Lago Atitlan.. I met quite a lot of really awesome people!! :) ..had good games of chess and let my enemies tremble in fear ;) was on a funny horseback ride (taking every chance to make the horse running! :D ..missed then finally that long awaited BBQ (being starved to death, because of saving the "hunger" and arriving too late because of bad advices :P) but all in all, it was a really cool experience at Lago Atitlan (even if a lot of drinking and partying and having fun! :D haha ;) a place you have to go, if you're in Guatemala!
I spent the last night at some Swiss peoples place and we had a wonderful night, laughing a lot and even paying "Maria" a visit (only Lago Atitlan people may get that ;). Was adventurous!!
I finished one of my necklaces and I'm wearing it now.. holds part of the necklace that the indian man gave to Liz and me, when we were in Oregon.
wanted to climb the volcano San Pedro, but didn't happen then in the end.. I changed my plan various times because of people that crossed my way, but ended up finally on the mine (what's surely the best ;)
my next goal was the active volcano Paquaia. On the way ("on the fly" ;) I found even some new tires for my bike.. wasn't too hard and was done in a few hours. Asked A along the way, that sent me to B, telling me, if somebody has them, then C and C told me, he just sold his last one seven days ago, but D and E could have.. and yes.. D had one and E and one and D could even put them on :) ..was 150USD all in all (2 dollars for changing a tyre and 1.5USD to clean and lube the chain.. luckily they've seen that the chainlock is missing and I got a new one :) *phew*
here I didn't get a lot of choice for tyres, but anyway.. I think the ones I have will do ;) hehe :)
got even some fancy dragon stickers on the sides and on my helmet.. Dragonrider rulez!! Weehaa! :D
I still got some reduced breaking capacity on the rear brake.. will check closer tomorrow. might be, because tyres new and have to be driven for a while.. otherwise I'm happy to have some more profile, I used it A LOT in the last 3 days here in Guatemala :) not all the roads are paved here ;) haha :)
so I got a bit off the way and ended up in Santa Maria, Volcano de Agua (instead of Paquaia) and took a dusty dirtroad to San Vincente.. got there late, but got a nice room for cheap with hot shower and TV and prepared my things for the next day. Got up early, eating breakfast, buying food for the day and night and starting to walk. For my backpack was quite heavy I turned around after 300m and got the bike :P could drive up almost to the top.. the guides and guards were super easy :) no problem to get up and camp ANYWHERE you want! :D (I was afraid, they wouldn't let me). Well, about 5 years ago, they had some problems, so now they have guards there (with pump-guns ;) and the place is quiet.. so I had a good timing, as it seems :)
left my stuff at the center cone, where there were some antennas and small houses with measuring devices and went for a walk with water and food. The guy who was in charge there helped me to get to the hot part of the closer side of the volcano and showed me the natural hot ovens.. we talked there for a while about god and the world and I drunk my two beers and started and awesome daytrip! :D
you'll have to see pictures from the scene!! (saves me the description ;) hehe :) there are green hills around (actually the tops of some mountains) and you see far over the country.. beautiful hike!! almost no people! :) (I think the tourists come from the other side ;) and I walked all the way around the volcano to a hot flowing lava stream!! (dude, that's the shit! :D
in the evening I had a wonderful sunset over a sea of clouds and pitched my tent a bit further down. Had to recover from the day, so the night was pretty chill (and chilly, on that mountain ;)
haven't seen a sky like that! it was changing all the time, all kind of clouds (still a sunny day) and sitting on the crest, you could see the clouds passing by from one side to the other.. was just INCREDIBLE!! :D
this morning I got up with sunrise, packed my things, placed the food I had left at my friends place and drove down to the hotel, where I left most of my belongings. Had an hour to get all set and drove then to Guatemala city (trying to drive around) and getting stuck for a while, asking dozens of people for the way to get out of it ;) finally got on that road to Granada and further up to Coban.. the last 3 days gave me quite some skills :D ..today wouldn't have had to put it back on the road, if I wouldn't have hit accidentally "neutral" by trying to start driving :P then the bike stops and you fall.. :-/ but on the road, I was safe.. (better be with that steep boarders!) but with a skillfull trayectory, you get a stunning view of the volcanic landscape and mountains of Guatemala! (this country is a bikers paradise!! :D
climbing the volcano with my bike and also todays road were quite challenging.. can't go very fast, but still faster than buses and cars :) (they are sometimes really slow because of less efficent suspension). and produce a lot of dust!!! I got a black face of all that dust and diesel particles.. I wonder if there's a single car that would pass our standards for minimal-environment-pollution.. :-/
I'm having a slight headache and will take some Vitamine C and having a good rest. Last time this prevented falling sick, so I'm sure I'll be fine tomorrow :)
P.S. added after editing: I actually was fine this morning, only still having these nasty bugbites (probably bedbugs from Lago Atitlan? :-/ well, put a lot of bandaids all over my body to not scratch them further up.. will see what more I can do, hope they are gone within 2-3 days.. really nasty and so damn itchy!! :(
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
San Pedro.. a place to chill! :)
beloved friends and family!
once to upload my pictures takes a few minutes, I update my blog, even if there's not that much to write, due to my lazy hanging out here in the small town of San Pedro :)
Here are a lot of cool people staying (especially the place I rent my 6USD private room with king size bed (haha :) and there is psy trance in the night (well until 1am, because everything closes then by country law.. jaja.. very boring, but anyway.. every night a little and a little afterparty is also OK ;) I earned few drinks yesterday by fireperforming and got even the gasoline sponsored ;) hehe :)
yesterday I climbed the "nose of the indian" and it was a really awesome hike!! got a four legged friend when I started the trip.. the dog (it would call it "sombra") was a reallly cool dog! guided me all the way, went along on a huge detour and was mostly 30 meters ahead to check the way.. I'm sure he would have gotten me out of trouble, if there would have been any ;) hehe :) on the other hand, I made sure he got some water and food and kept him out of trouble with other dogs :) ..he's super smart and climbed even up and down a ladder.. was really impressed! :D
there is some kind of conflict between two towns that have access to the indians nose (both offer guides and have a trail going to the top), so if you pay on one side, you have to avoid the other side.. that's why I made a detour to stay on official roads for the way back.
I got an idea where to go from here.. well, first another 4 days of chill and party and then to an active volcano, camping out on top and heading for new tires in the capital and then to Tikal, stopping on the way for some caves.. the roads seem to be safe where I ride and it connects many popular places of Guatemala.. so it's just perfect! :)
around lago Atitlan you find great food (had a BBQ last sunday and want to stay another sunday to have another good piece of meat! :) played petanque, chess and pool here and really enjoyed doing it (there are not too many opportunities to do so).
Met a lot of Swiss people that are traveling here in Guatemala.. so I got to speak Swiss from time to time ;)
so.. my pics are uploaded and I continue with my small tasks for the day :)
big hug and all the best!! having great weather here.. just have to put enough sunscreen ;)
once to upload my pictures takes a few minutes, I update my blog, even if there's not that much to write, due to my lazy hanging out here in the small town of San Pedro :)
Here are a lot of cool people staying (especially the place I rent my 6USD private room with king size bed (haha :) and there is psy trance in the night (well until 1am, because everything closes then by country law.. jaja.. very boring, but anyway.. every night a little and a little afterparty is also OK ;) I earned few drinks yesterday by fireperforming and got even the gasoline sponsored ;) hehe :)
yesterday I climbed the "nose of the indian" and it was a really awesome hike!! got a four legged friend when I started the trip.. the dog (it would call it "sombra") was a reallly cool dog! guided me all the way, went along on a huge detour and was mostly 30 meters ahead to check the way.. I'm sure he would have gotten me out of trouble, if there would have been any ;) hehe :) on the other hand, I made sure he got some water and food and kept him out of trouble with other dogs :) ..he's super smart and climbed even up and down a ladder.. was really impressed! :D
there is some kind of conflict between two towns that have access to the indians nose (both offer guides and have a trail going to the top), so if you pay on one side, you have to avoid the other side.. that's why I made a detour to stay on official roads for the way back.
I got an idea where to go from here.. well, first another 4 days of chill and party and then to an active volcano, camping out on top and heading for new tires in the capital and then to Tikal, stopping on the way for some caves.. the roads seem to be safe where I ride and it connects many popular places of Guatemala.. so it's just perfect! :)
around lago Atitlan you find great food (had a BBQ last sunday and want to stay another sunday to have another good piece of meat! :) played petanque, chess and pool here and really enjoyed doing it (there are not too many opportunities to do so).
Met a lot of Swiss people that are traveling here in Guatemala.. so I got to speak Swiss from time to time ;)
so.. my pics are uploaded and I continue with my small tasks for the day :)
big hug and all the best!! having great weather here.. just have to put enough sunscreen ;)
Saturday, February 13, 2010
..from the Jungle to the Volcanoes..
Beloved friends and family :)
I'm here at Lago Atitlan in Guatemala and will be chilling out here for a few days, probably hiking some volcanoes here :)
I just stayed one day in San Cristobal and drove then down to Palenque, where there are beautiful Maya ruins in the jungle! :) the ride was very beautiful!! spectacular through rain forest mountains, dropping through the clouds (it got very foggy and chilly for a moment) to leave the cloudy mountains behind and drive through jungle and over scenic hills!!
the people told me, that there are no more Zapatista issues (Chiapas is a very poor state of Mexico and the people are rebelling from time to time). So you see along the way signs that say "here rule the people and the government obeys" and it seems still to be alive somehow. Well.. they assaulted buses a few years ago, but it seemed to have stopped. But then anyway when I took a wrong turnoff, I hit a road block and 200 people standing around there.. half of them with black masks (what was kinda funny, because next to them was a black-masked-face painted on a wall with some Zapatista slogans). Well I didn't really know what this is about, so I turned my bike around and took the other way. Arriving in Palenque I heard, that the Zapatistas just attacked the local people of Agua Azul (another very beautiful place, where I wanted to stop on my way back), and hold them hostage in their own town.. it's about territorial issues and a conflict between Zapatistas and local people.. but it seems, that I just met the Zapatista army on their little push forward.. they closed the place for a few days (no tourist excursions to Agua Azul) and then the situation turned back to normal.. well, I didn't stop then on my way back, because it was still kinda "too hot" for me, to risk being locked down in this small town, if the Zapatistas would turn around ;)
but was not really dangerous.. the people were just dead serious, blocking the street and can imagine why.. there have been people hurt during the attack, so the vibe was a bit heavy..
then I spent some nice days in Palenque.. finally I didn't see the ruins that well as I wanted, because I blew it a little bit (for reasons not to be mentioned here :P ..I left earlier than planned and found myself an adventurous way back to a close campsite, that I visited the first night. I heard rumors about the trails through the jungle and found the way later on by myself :) well, it's not really off everything.. goes about 200-300m next to the road, but with a lot of thick bush. Mostly I was walking in dry riverbeds with steep walls :)
well.. so getting to Tikal here in Guatemala, I'll make sure to have more time to check out the ruins :D ..wasn't too bad in Palenque, no big loss, just one more deep experience along the way :)
oh.. and yes, my camera failed, so my picture album online is about to die.. maybe I take some cellphone pictures, but I don't feel like getting a new camera (I hate carrying around them anyway and not every moment has to be pictured.. so maybe I loose some wight and don't take pictures anymore :P ..was really frustrating there, because the site in the jungle is really awesome!! :) they dug up a lot of the temples and made the place really nice to walk through.. small waterfalls and jungle trails between different groups of ruins.
I had some amazing encounters lately.. met a girl just on the street, that I met at a psy trance party in B.C. Canada and then at the ruins my friend Delia who just lived 5km away from me while I was in Baden :) we had no idea where we are at the moment and was a really special encounter!! :D almost couldn't believe that we're meeting randomly on some ruins in the jungle of Mexico :D haha ;) yeah.. a lot of cool stuff happening, if you're traveling! :)
on Wednesday it was pouring 24 hours really strongly (kinda knew, that there will be a rainy day). That's why it's called rain forest ;) and it was pretty to see all the colors and listening to the sound of the rain drops hitting the leaves.. and it was super cozy, because I met somebody from Italy and we were cuddling the whole day in bed ;) hehe :) made ALL the difference ;)
there are some Swiss people working there.. selling jewelry and making fire performances. I also made some fire stuff, but just for fun and for free ;) ..and if I would have stayed, I might have got my own contract.. making some fire show and probably jam with my didgeridoo together with some other people.. but it was OK, just to have a look at the place and to move on. But I have enough skills, to stay in a place, if I wish so ;) hehe :)
so I packed my things the next morning and had a beautiful, sunny day to drive out of the jungle and getting close to the Guatemalan boarder. I visited a place called "Lagunas de Colon" and saw some small ruins (only local tourism), that are almost not worth visiting ;) but the way to get there was super beautiful.. lagoons with clear water and a lovely way through forest. The village itself is also nice.. half of it is flooded and there are all these lagoons, where people take a bath in :) ..crossing a street, I lied down my bike (no big deal, didn't hurt me or the bike.. ) and deformed my pannier again, that I had partly fixed a few days ago :P ..at least it was the one, that was already bent out of shape ;)
I was getting a cold, but took a lot of vitamin C and eat at a very, very small place in town (more a private household that is cooking for people ;) and got a real this-is-Mexico experience :)
went to bed very early, because getting sick..
the next day I felt great again and started with the sunrise to be at the border as early as possible. The crossing was really easy.. no rip off, no searching, no fucking around with foreigners.. just some paper work. Didn't see the Mexican side, so I had to turn around and the the emigration stamp, give my bike import papers back, getting a receipt, getting new stamp 3 month Visa in Guatemala (for free :) and paying 5 USD to import my bike for 3 month.. 1 USD to get my bike smoked and they just let me pass.. was really cool! :) didn't have had any problems crossing borders so far.. not in Canada, not in the States and not down here so far..
the most challenging part was driving through La Mesilla :) there were hundreds and thousands of people in the street, selling cheap products of Guatemala in Mexico (couldn't have been more chaotic than that ;) was really interesting to see.. have seen that in other border towns as well :)
and then my first impressions of Guatemala :) ..it's super, super beautiful!! had one on the greatest rides ever through volcanic landscape, over mountains, dropping then on the other side through the clouds down to Lake Atitlan (with a bicycle, you'd die on this trip ;) I'm sure I dropped over 1000m in a very short time.. even getting to the lake here were some of the steepest roads, I've ever seen (well, that's where first and second gear are for ;)
Guatemala is partly more expensive than Mexico (strange), but might also be just the place I'm hanging out now.. but beer it's 2 USD here.. hope to find it cheaper as well ;)
there are a lot of traditional clothed people and also the style of living is pretty traditional.. lot's of manual work, as it has been done hundred years ago in Switzerland.
But I experience it as pretty chill and good vibes here.. don't know, where are the dangerous places and how much corruption, rip off and mugging I'll find here..
So I took a sauna yesterday night and found some good company (I'm in San Marcos at the moment ;) but might anyway move over today to San Pedro (where it's cheaper and being more parties going on ;) I also want to hike some volcanoes.. there's even an active one just a few hours from here.. yes, the country is way smaller than Mexico, so finally I won't drive that much as I did in North America.
Well.. that's it :) you'll hear from me soon.. so far I'm having a lot of fun! :D ..even if this trip doesn't show pure Latin America (it's as most foreigners do, a Pizza and Pancake trip.. you end up in nice, lovely places, where other cool backpackers hang out) and not lonely in some small (&boring) local town, where the only shop has a small supply of goods, including Coca Cola :P
so yeah.. I've been more off the track when I was cycling, but it's hell a lot of fun, to go from Maya ruins to volcanoes and enjoy the warmth of Guatemala (I read, there's a lot of snow in Europe... well, I don't miss it at all ;) hihi :)
big hug and love'n'light!! :)
I'm here at Lago Atitlan in Guatemala and will be chilling out here for a few days, probably hiking some volcanoes here :)
I just stayed one day in San Cristobal and drove then down to Palenque, where there are beautiful Maya ruins in the jungle! :) the ride was very beautiful!! spectacular through rain forest mountains, dropping through the clouds (it got very foggy and chilly for a moment) to leave the cloudy mountains behind and drive through jungle and over scenic hills!!
the people told me, that there are no more Zapatista issues (Chiapas is a very poor state of Mexico and the people are rebelling from time to time). So you see along the way signs that say "here rule the people and the government obeys" and it seems still to be alive somehow. Well.. they assaulted buses a few years ago, but it seemed to have stopped. But then anyway when I took a wrong turnoff, I hit a road block and 200 people standing around there.. half of them with black masks (what was kinda funny, because next to them was a black-masked-face painted on a wall with some Zapatista slogans). Well I didn't really know what this is about, so I turned my bike around and took the other way. Arriving in Palenque I heard, that the Zapatistas just attacked the local people of Agua Azul (another very beautiful place, where I wanted to stop on my way back), and hold them hostage in their own town.. it's about territorial issues and a conflict between Zapatistas and local people.. but it seems, that I just met the Zapatista army on their little push forward.. they closed the place for a few days (no tourist excursions to Agua Azul) and then the situation turned back to normal.. well, I didn't stop then on my way back, because it was still kinda "too hot" for me, to risk being locked down in this small town, if the Zapatistas would turn around ;)
but was not really dangerous.. the people were just dead serious, blocking the street and can imagine why.. there have been people hurt during the attack, so the vibe was a bit heavy..
then I spent some nice days in Palenque.. finally I didn't see the ruins that well as I wanted, because I blew it a little bit (for reasons not to be mentioned here :P ..I left earlier than planned and found myself an adventurous way back to a close campsite, that I visited the first night. I heard rumors about the trails through the jungle and found the way later on by myself :) well, it's not really off everything.. goes about 200-300m next to the road, but with a lot of thick bush. Mostly I was walking in dry riverbeds with steep walls :)
well.. so getting to Tikal here in Guatemala, I'll make sure to have more time to check out the ruins :D ..wasn't too bad in Palenque, no big loss, just one more deep experience along the way :)
oh.. and yes, my camera failed, so my picture album online is about to die.. maybe I take some cellphone pictures, but I don't feel like getting a new camera (I hate carrying around them anyway and not every moment has to be pictured.. so maybe I loose some wight and don't take pictures anymore :P ..was really frustrating there, because the site in the jungle is really awesome!! :) they dug up a lot of the temples and made the place really nice to walk through.. small waterfalls and jungle trails between different groups of ruins.
I had some amazing encounters lately.. met a girl just on the street, that I met at a psy trance party in B.C. Canada and then at the ruins my friend Delia who just lived 5km away from me while I was in Baden :) we had no idea where we are at the moment and was a really special encounter!! :D almost couldn't believe that we're meeting randomly on some ruins in the jungle of Mexico :D haha ;) yeah.. a lot of cool stuff happening, if you're traveling! :)
on Wednesday it was pouring 24 hours really strongly (kinda knew, that there will be a rainy day). That's why it's called rain forest ;) and it was pretty to see all the colors and listening to the sound of the rain drops hitting the leaves.. and it was super cozy, because I met somebody from Italy and we were cuddling the whole day in bed ;) hehe :) made ALL the difference ;)
there are some Swiss people working there.. selling jewelry and making fire performances. I also made some fire stuff, but just for fun and for free ;) ..and if I would have stayed, I might have got my own contract.. making some fire show and probably jam with my didgeridoo together with some other people.. but it was OK, just to have a look at the place and to move on. But I have enough skills, to stay in a place, if I wish so ;) hehe :)
so I packed my things the next morning and had a beautiful, sunny day to drive out of the jungle and getting close to the Guatemalan boarder. I visited a place called "Lagunas de Colon" and saw some small ruins (only local tourism), that are almost not worth visiting ;) but the way to get there was super beautiful.. lagoons with clear water and a lovely way through forest. The village itself is also nice.. half of it is flooded and there are all these lagoons, where people take a bath in :) ..crossing a street, I lied down my bike (no big deal, didn't hurt me or the bike.. ) and deformed my pannier again, that I had partly fixed a few days ago :P ..at least it was the one, that was already bent out of shape ;)
I was getting a cold, but took a lot of vitamin C and eat at a very, very small place in town (more a private household that is cooking for people ;) and got a real this-is-Mexico experience :)
went to bed very early, because getting sick..
the next day I felt great again and started with the sunrise to be at the border as early as possible. The crossing was really easy.. no rip off, no searching, no fucking around with foreigners.. just some paper work. Didn't see the Mexican side, so I had to turn around and the the emigration stamp, give my bike import papers back, getting a receipt, getting new stamp 3 month Visa in Guatemala (for free :) and paying 5 USD to import my bike for 3 month.. 1 USD to get my bike smoked and they just let me pass.. was really cool! :) didn't have had any problems crossing borders so far.. not in Canada, not in the States and not down here so far..
the most challenging part was driving through La Mesilla :) there were hundreds and thousands of people in the street, selling cheap products of Guatemala in Mexico (couldn't have been more chaotic than that ;) was really interesting to see.. have seen that in other border towns as well :)
and then my first impressions of Guatemala :) ..it's super, super beautiful!! had one on the greatest rides ever through volcanic landscape, over mountains, dropping then on the other side through the clouds down to Lake Atitlan (with a bicycle, you'd die on this trip ;) I'm sure I dropped over 1000m in a very short time.. even getting to the lake here were some of the steepest roads, I've ever seen (well, that's where first and second gear are for ;)
Guatemala is partly more expensive than Mexico (strange), but might also be just the place I'm hanging out now.. but beer it's 2 USD here.. hope to find it cheaper as well ;)
there are a lot of traditional clothed people and also the style of living is pretty traditional.. lot's of manual work, as it has been done hundred years ago in Switzerland.
But I experience it as pretty chill and good vibes here.. don't know, where are the dangerous places and how much corruption, rip off and mugging I'll find here..
So I took a sauna yesterday night and found some good company (I'm in San Marcos at the moment ;) but might anyway move over today to San Pedro (where it's cheaper and being more parties going on ;) I also want to hike some volcanoes.. there's even an active one just a few hours from here.. yes, the country is way smaller than Mexico, so finally I won't drive that much as I did in North America.
Well.. that's it :) you'll hear from me soon.. so far I'm having a lot of fun! :D ..even if this trip doesn't show pure Latin America (it's as most foreigners do, a Pizza and Pancake trip.. you end up in nice, lovely places, where other cool backpackers hang out) and not lonely in some small (&boring) local town, where the only shop has a small supply of goods, including Coca Cola :P
so yeah.. I've been more off the track when I was cycling, but it's hell a lot of fun, to go from Maya ruins to volcanoes and enjoy the warmth of Guatemala (I read, there's a lot of snow in Europe... well, I don't miss it at all ;) hihi :)
big hug and love'n'light!! :)
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Maya Sign..
Hi there :)
you don't need to read that.. it's for having this entry completed. It's my Maya sign, that I looked up online (not sure it's 100% correct) but I liked it, so I post it here.. but you might just follow the link and find our yours (I know, Inet is not really cool, but the guy who set it up made it quite nice with the text..)
http://www.astrodreamadvisor.com/M_blue_sol_eagle.html
Blue Eagle is your Conscious Self - who you are and who you are becoming.
Blue Eagle reminds you to step powerfully into your commitment as a planetary server! Your assignment includes whatever furthers your personal evolution and the evolution of global mind. You are an awakener, a transformer, an empowered gloal visionary. In your vision, you have compassion for others, and your decisions are made in the light of global consciousness. Ask yourself how you might experience compassion toward self, the Earth, and others. Be guided towards types of work, relationships, places to live, and projects that will benefit the Earth and her creatures. Allow your spirit to expand. Soar on your spreading wings and planetary perspective. Affirm: "Through your, Gaia, I am also transformed! I am awakening as the return of divine love and light. We are all one. Gaia, as you awaken, I heal myself. As I awaken, you are healed, and together our petals open ecstatically to the new Sun of Flowers." You are a member of the one global family, a planetary server and transformer. Blue Eagle asks you to join in lifting the collective mind. It is up to each one of us to hold a positive vision and affirmation, for the means by which this miracle will occur is through changes in the one affecting the greater whole.Imagine the profound impact your loving thoughts have on planetary mind. You do make a difference! As you connect individually with the larger crystal grid network, your power is multiplied exponentially. This galactic grid is also known as the Mayan cobweb.The greatest gift you can offer to the planet is to simply be the love. Believe in yourself and your dreams and visions! Remember your special gifts, your path of service on Earth, your promise to serve the light. Everything you are connects to the greater whole. You are starseeded! You have the vision of the eagle. Believe in your dreams. You are the hope and the vision revealed.
Blue Monkey is your Higher Self & Guide.
Blue Monkey represents the Divine Child, the child that is ever in a state of open-hearted wisdom, innocence, trust, simplicity and joyful wonder. What would it feel like to actually BE a magical child in this culture and time? The secret that very few know - because they may feel more comfortable trying to protect themselves - is that the divine child offers the strongest of all protections, the invulnerability of openhearted Love. Through innocence, a kind of immunity is created that allows the divine child to be TRANSPARENT so that the apparent 'slings and arrows' of the world can pass right through without being personalized into wounds, reactions or hurt feelings. This is the path of innocence regained. Transparency is the path of the new consciousness.Look deeply into the eyes of a happy two year old. There you will see the innocent trust, openheartedness, and spontaneous joy that typifies the divine child. Imagine yourself as an enlightened two-year old, in a state of ecstatic communion and delight. In childhood, you didn't have to remember to be playful - you could easily and fluidly express your emotions. You didn't have to understand whys and wherefores - you knew with your heart. This if your natural state of being, the state of ecstasy, the path of revealed innocence.In Western culture, many people have a distorted understanding about what it is to be a human being. We are often taught that sucessful adults are responsible, serious, rigid, controlled and goal oriented. In your journey with society, your developmental stages may have been incomplete. The natural sensitivity, fluidity, and freedom of the child may have been left behind in partial passage. Perhaps your inner child was wounded or treated insensitively, and you carried this unresolved process into adulthood. Blue Monkey encourages you to bring forth this incomplete or wounded part for integration and healing.In this New Myth, your spontaneous, divine child will usher in and anchor the new frequency. How can you heal your inner child? Explore what truly gives you joy. Find types of work that support your sensitivity and create deep satisfaction. Be simple: love, play, dance, draw, colour, sing. These activities are for all divine children - they serve the expression of the magical child in everyone. Consciously make time for the joyful freedom and magic of play!The number for Blue Monkey is eleven, the vibration wherein novelty and spontaneity break down resistant forms. When unity merges with Essence Self, a mystical foundation is created that disintegrates old patterns. This is actually integration in disguide. As your walls tumble down, they crack into a smile, and the illumination of self shines through.
White World-Bridger is your Subconscious Self and Hidden Helper.
In this life-time you are being asked to release and surrender. Surrender is the opposite of giving up. It is freeing yourself from the desire to be in control, letting go of how you think things should be. Surrender is freedom. You are being invited to release yourself from the bondage of preconceived action, to let everything be all right as it is, so that you can live a more inspired life in the moment!You are being asked to take action in the process of surrender and release. You are requested to die a symbolic death, to surrender your limiting beliefs. Symbolic death unveils the self by cutting away the outgrown parts of yourself that no longer serve you. In such death, ego structures fall away to reveal the garden of the true self. Look for new ways of being, new people, new ideas, and new directions that will move into the vacuum created through surrender and release. Like yeast, surrender enlivens and empowers you to experience more of life's fullness.Holding on to past patterns and grievances only limits the possibilities. Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Let go. Surrender whatever limits you. Face whatever you are resisting. In the experience of any loss, it is never too late to complete. Through your willingness to walk in the dark forest, insights and revelations will naturally emerge.
Red Serpent represents your Challenge and Gift.
With maturity and awareness this challenge will turn into a Focus. This is what you desire to learn in this lifetime. Red Serpent represents the reptilian brain. This part of the brain thrives on routine, pattern and predictability. If you are in the shadow of Red Serpent, you may be living your life on "automatic pilot," appearing to be separated from choices motivated by your Essence Self. Utilitze the power of Red Serpent to create spontaneity and novelty, freeing the predictability of the routine and habitual.The shadow of Red Serpent can also be seen as adherence to cultural beliefs. One example of this is having the "right" diet, car, house, meditation practice, and so on. Another is wanting others to fit your picture of desirability or fulfill your desires, in order to create a feeling of security and self-worth. Transform these patterns. Discover your own intrinsic motives. Sense the novel choices available to you. Practice making decisions intuitively and spontaneously. You are being asked to connect instinct with essence.Another shadow of Red Serpent is being attached to the physical body or being enmeshed in sensual desires. Perhaps you identify so much with your body and how it looks that you think your body is you. This can support the illusion of separation from your Essence Self. Work with the issues and physical desires held within your body. Step aside from your self-judgements and issues of sexual expression. Utiltize Red Serpent to fully experience sexuality in alignment with love. See the body as a sacred tool for transformation. Step aside from judging the sexual preferences and expressions of yourself and others.Hidden in the dark recesses of this shadow are issues of sexual dysfunction, sexual harassment, rape, sexual abuse, and the fear around AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. Red Serpent offers transformation and healing. Revealed in these shadow issues of sexuality is a desire for deeper union, love, and intimacy. Some people feel intimacy only during infatuation or romantic interludes and lovemaking; however, intimacy is the mutual connection between essences. It is the ability to acknowledge the depths of another person, and it can be fostered through many kinds of sharing, including that of feelings and vulnerabilities, warmth and affection, and hopes and fears. Explore what it means to be intimate with another, remembering that intimacy is an open door to higher state of consciousness.The transformation offered in this shadow is found in learning to love yourself and others unconditionally.
Yellow Seed is your Compliment - something that comes naturally to you.
Yellow Seed is the ordered pattern of growth. You and your life are the fertile soil, and the mystery blooms within you through the power of your intention or seed thoughts. Just as a seed contains the hologram of its completion, the process of manifestation follows a natural order. In this gestation process, your intention is quickened by Spirit. The charged seed, your true desire or vision, becomes the focus for germination.What can you open that will support receptivity and assist the germination of your seed intentions? Envision the seed receiving the invitation to grow in the openness of your world. Viscerally feel the possibility of your heart's dream emerging. Your true desires and dreams contain an innate intelligence that can break through even the rigidity of fixed expectations. Planting a new seed, even in the hard soil of old belief systems, can bring unexpected magic and growth.Be willing to break open the constraining shells of past patterns, the shackles of belief structures. Call forth your creative involvement with life. This involvement frees and awakens the powerful energy of the life force, shifting your perceptions and experience, catalyzing the manifestation of your dreams. Participate spontaneously in your growth, unrestricted by the illusion of old structures that once provided safety. Move forward into the light of new possibilities.Offer your dream-seed to the universe. In the ordered patterning of the light, align with your heart's greater purpose. In gratitude, surrender and release the seed to the benefit of your growth and its own pattern of perfection.The number for Yellow Seed is four, the vibration of measure. This is the number of cycles and seasons. It represents the ordered patterning of the light wherein, as Jose Arguelles says, "form learns to generate its own seed." The number four represents the freed pattern of form, the germination of specific seeds co-created with Spirit. If you are in the process of seeding something, meditate with the number four and the energy of Yellow Seed to assist you.
Your Tone is Tone 9 - Solar
Completion, expansion, mastery, larger cycles of time, fulfillment, grand design.Nine is the ray of greater cycles, the foundation of self opening to the four points of measure and cycle. It is the grand design, the unfolding order of the larger pattern. With the Solar tone of nine, you are being offered the embrace of longed-for completion. Fulfill your pattern, your circle. Embody the mastery and wisdom you came to express. This ray asks you to be rather than try to be. Embody the wisdom of the larger cycles. Become the one who shines the light for others. You are the humanitarian whose being unfolds the larger pattern of the new world.In the grand cycle of time, nine is the number of completion and expansion. What is it that you are being asked to complete? Can you see the clues to this lifetime of completion? As you expand, shed old patterns that do not support your growth. Receive completion's fulfillment. You are poised on an arc of a grand cycle of time. In this cycle, time and space fold, past and future merge, and lifetimes meld in completion. Join in the fulfillment of the mystery of the triple triangle by offering your mystery to be woven into the larger loom of reality.
you don't need to read that.. it's for having this entry completed. It's my Maya sign, that I looked up online (not sure it's 100% correct) but I liked it, so I post it here.. but you might just follow the link and find our yours (I know, Inet is not really cool, but the guy who set it up made it quite nice with the text..)
http://www.astrodreamadvisor.com/M_blue_sol_eagle.html
Blue Eagle is your Conscious Self - who you are and who you are becoming.
Blue Eagle reminds you to step powerfully into your commitment as a planetary server! Your assignment includes whatever furthers your personal evolution and the evolution of global mind. You are an awakener, a transformer, an empowered gloal visionary. In your vision, you have compassion for others, and your decisions are made in the light of global consciousness. Ask yourself how you might experience compassion toward self, the Earth, and others. Be guided towards types of work, relationships, places to live, and projects that will benefit the Earth and her creatures. Allow your spirit to expand. Soar on your spreading wings and planetary perspective. Affirm: "Through your, Gaia, I am also transformed! I am awakening as the return of divine love and light. We are all one. Gaia, as you awaken, I heal myself. As I awaken, you are healed, and together our petals open ecstatically to the new Sun of Flowers." You are a member of the one global family, a planetary server and transformer. Blue Eagle asks you to join in lifting the collective mind. It is up to each one of us to hold a positive vision and affirmation, for the means by which this miracle will occur is through changes in the one affecting the greater whole.Imagine the profound impact your loving thoughts have on planetary mind. You do make a difference! As you connect individually with the larger crystal grid network, your power is multiplied exponentially. This galactic grid is also known as the Mayan cobweb.The greatest gift you can offer to the planet is to simply be the love. Believe in yourself and your dreams and visions! Remember your special gifts, your path of service on Earth, your promise to serve the light. Everything you are connects to the greater whole. You are starseeded! You have the vision of the eagle. Believe in your dreams. You are the hope and the vision revealed.
Blue Monkey is your Higher Self & Guide.
Blue Monkey represents the Divine Child, the child that is ever in a state of open-hearted wisdom, innocence, trust, simplicity and joyful wonder. What would it feel like to actually BE a magical child in this culture and time? The secret that very few know - because they may feel more comfortable trying to protect themselves - is that the divine child offers the strongest of all protections, the invulnerability of openhearted Love. Through innocence, a kind of immunity is created that allows the divine child to be TRANSPARENT so that the apparent 'slings and arrows' of the world can pass right through without being personalized into wounds, reactions or hurt feelings. This is the path of innocence regained. Transparency is the path of the new consciousness.Look deeply into the eyes of a happy two year old. There you will see the innocent trust, openheartedness, and spontaneous joy that typifies the divine child. Imagine yourself as an enlightened two-year old, in a state of ecstatic communion and delight. In childhood, you didn't have to remember to be playful - you could easily and fluidly express your emotions. You didn't have to understand whys and wherefores - you knew with your heart. This if your natural state of being, the state of ecstasy, the path of revealed innocence.In Western culture, many people have a distorted understanding about what it is to be a human being. We are often taught that sucessful adults are responsible, serious, rigid, controlled and goal oriented. In your journey with society, your developmental stages may have been incomplete. The natural sensitivity, fluidity, and freedom of the child may have been left behind in partial passage. Perhaps your inner child was wounded or treated insensitively, and you carried this unresolved process into adulthood. Blue Monkey encourages you to bring forth this incomplete or wounded part for integration and healing.In this New Myth, your spontaneous, divine child will usher in and anchor the new frequency. How can you heal your inner child? Explore what truly gives you joy. Find types of work that support your sensitivity and create deep satisfaction. Be simple: love, play, dance, draw, colour, sing. These activities are for all divine children - they serve the expression of the magical child in everyone. Consciously make time for the joyful freedom and magic of play!The number for Blue Monkey is eleven, the vibration wherein novelty and spontaneity break down resistant forms. When unity merges with Essence Self, a mystical foundation is created that disintegrates old patterns. This is actually integration in disguide. As your walls tumble down, they crack into a smile, and the illumination of self shines through.
White World-Bridger is your Subconscious Self and Hidden Helper.
In this life-time you are being asked to release and surrender. Surrender is the opposite of giving up. It is freeing yourself from the desire to be in control, letting go of how you think things should be. Surrender is freedom. You are being invited to release yourself from the bondage of preconceived action, to let everything be all right as it is, so that you can live a more inspired life in the moment!You are being asked to take action in the process of surrender and release. You are requested to die a symbolic death, to surrender your limiting beliefs. Symbolic death unveils the self by cutting away the outgrown parts of yourself that no longer serve you. In such death, ego structures fall away to reveal the garden of the true self. Look for new ways of being, new people, new ideas, and new directions that will move into the vacuum created through surrender and release. Like yeast, surrender enlivens and empowers you to experience more of life's fullness.Holding on to past patterns and grievances only limits the possibilities. Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Let go. Surrender whatever limits you. Face whatever you are resisting. In the experience of any loss, it is never too late to complete. Through your willingness to walk in the dark forest, insights and revelations will naturally emerge.
Red Serpent represents your Challenge and Gift.
With maturity and awareness this challenge will turn into a Focus. This is what you desire to learn in this lifetime. Red Serpent represents the reptilian brain. This part of the brain thrives on routine, pattern and predictability. If you are in the shadow of Red Serpent, you may be living your life on "automatic pilot," appearing to be separated from choices motivated by your Essence Self. Utilitze the power of Red Serpent to create spontaneity and novelty, freeing the predictability of the routine and habitual.The shadow of Red Serpent can also be seen as adherence to cultural beliefs. One example of this is having the "right" diet, car, house, meditation practice, and so on. Another is wanting others to fit your picture of desirability or fulfill your desires, in order to create a feeling of security and self-worth. Transform these patterns. Discover your own intrinsic motives. Sense the novel choices available to you. Practice making decisions intuitively and spontaneously. You are being asked to connect instinct with essence.Another shadow of Red Serpent is being attached to the physical body or being enmeshed in sensual desires. Perhaps you identify so much with your body and how it looks that you think your body is you. This can support the illusion of separation from your Essence Self. Work with the issues and physical desires held within your body. Step aside from your self-judgements and issues of sexual expression. Utiltize Red Serpent to fully experience sexuality in alignment with love. See the body as a sacred tool for transformation. Step aside from judging the sexual preferences and expressions of yourself and others.Hidden in the dark recesses of this shadow are issues of sexual dysfunction, sexual harassment, rape, sexual abuse, and the fear around AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. Red Serpent offers transformation and healing. Revealed in these shadow issues of sexuality is a desire for deeper union, love, and intimacy. Some people feel intimacy only during infatuation or romantic interludes and lovemaking; however, intimacy is the mutual connection between essences. It is the ability to acknowledge the depths of another person, and it can be fostered through many kinds of sharing, including that of feelings and vulnerabilities, warmth and affection, and hopes and fears. Explore what it means to be intimate with another, remembering that intimacy is an open door to higher state of consciousness.The transformation offered in this shadow is found in learning to love yourself and others unconditionally.
Yellow Seed is your Compliment - something that comes naturally to you.
Yellow Seed is the ordered pattern of growth. You and your life are the fertile soil, and the mystery blooms within you through the power of your intention or seed thoughts. Just as a seed contains the hologram of its completion, the process of manifestation follows a natural order. In this gestation process, your intention is quickened by Spirit. The charged seed, your true desire or vision, becomes the focus for germination.What can you open that will support receptivity and assist the germination of your seed intentions? Envision the seed receiving the invitation to grow in the openness of your world. Viscerally feel the possibility of your heart's dream emerging. Your true desires and dreams contain an innate intelligence that can break through even the rigidity of fixed expectations. Planting a new seed, even in the hard soil of old belief systems, can bring unexpected magic and growth.Be willing to break open the constraining shells of past patterns, the shackles of belief structures. Call forth your creative involvement with life. This involvement frees and awakens the powerful energy of the life force, shifting your perceptions and experience, catalyzing the manifestation of your dreams. Participate spontaneously in your growth, unrestricted by the illusion of old structures that once provided safety. Move forward into the light of new possibilities.Offer your dream-seed to the universe. In the ordered patterning of the light, align with your heart's greater purpose. In gratitude, surrender and release the seed to the benefit of your growth and its own pattern of perfection.The number for Yellow Seed is four, the vibration of measure. This is the number of cycles and seasons. It represents the ordered patterning of the light wherein, as Jose Arguelles says, "form learns to generate its own seed." The number four represents the freed pattern of form, the germination of specific seeds co-created with Spirit. If you are in the process of seeding something, meditate with the number four and the energy of Yellow Seed to assist you.
Your Tone is Tone 9 - Solar
Completion, expansion, mastery, larger cycles of time, fulfillment, grand design.Nine is the ray of greater cycles, the foundation of self opening to the four points of measure and cycle. It is the grand design, the unfolding order of the larger pattern. With the Solar tone of nine, you are being offered the embrace of longed-for completion. Fulfill your pattern, your circle. Embody the mastery and wisdom you came to express. This ray asks you to be rather than try to be. Embody the wisdom of the larger cycles. Become the one who shines the light for others. You are the humanitarian whose being unfolds the larger pattern of the new world.In the grand cycle of time, nine is the number of completion and expansion. What is it that you are being asked to complete? Can you see the clues to this lifetime of completion? As you expand, shed old patterns that do not support your growth. Receive completion's fulfillment. You are poised on an arc of a grand cycle of time. In this cycle, time and space fold, past and future merge, and lifetimes meld in completion. Join in the fulfillment of the mystery of the triple triangle by offering your mystery to be woven into the larger loom of reality.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Montezumas Revenge :P
haha.. for some reasons my iron stomach got pretty much turned around the last days ;) but anyway, I'm traveling on and just arrived in San Cristobal de las Casas, an old and beautiful town, where I will spend the next days :) hmm.. was pretty much a day :D started at 4.00am feeling really bad, getting up at 7.30am and having pancakes and 2 coffee at 8.00am to be fully packed and rolling 9.30ish :) getting out of town, military stopped me and wanted to check my stuff, but it was more friendly tapping my boxes, while the attention lied on the conversation I had with the official :) he told me where to be careful and that the roads were built with minor materials, so not to slip if it's wet ;) Anyway, they wouldn't have found anything and I don't even think in starting to unpack my stuff.. then I can pitch the tent first ;) ..So I drove on and broke probably my record of riding hours, with having to lacto drinks along the way (no worries, for tonight I got some appettite ;) was cloudy and therefore hot and humid when I started in the morning. Hit some raindrops, but no real shower.. just drove through. The scene changed from roads through dry forests and over hills, to Mountains and Sierra.. it's incredibly beautiful, what I've seen so far from Chiapas :D
there were of course some other Militaries along the way who stopped me and we were talking for a while about bikes and stuff.. he was kinda keen and and asked me about smoking weed and finally I wonder why they didn't search me.. either he liked me too much to have a closer look or I just convinced him, that there is no need to do so :D haha :) in both ways, it's amazing what happens to you because of you! :)
I spent 3 dollars to get on the highway and make it barely before dark in this town here.. jaja.. was just in time. (also getting lot colder up here) found in notime a cool hotel with this free internet, free breakfast, hot shower, parking, even cable tv to watch Cartoon Network ;) hehe :)
all this for less than 15 bucks..
was good to move on from Zipolite to some other place (how things can change quickly..) I spent my last day driving to a beach, where a plane of a drugdealer once crashed and still a plane is sticking out of the sand :) made some pics.. will be online soon I guess.. :) went also through a chilly boatride through the mangrove forest of a nearby lagoon.. saw a crocodile and some animals on an island, where I wasn't sure if they should be there or not..
had quite some hours for myself (that I really needed!!) ..maybe was also that in Zipolite.. was quite a busy time..
ah.. and actually, it can easily be dangerous here in Latin America.. but along the way you hear various times the same recommendation (as I'm here ;) and you hear where you should not go.. drugtraffic cities as Ciudad de Juarez (that's just next to El Paso, where I stayed a night ;) hehe :) but other side of the boarder :P ;)
so anyway.. it's not too hard to be safe.. of course, you never have a guarantee, but it's not just randomness, once your there, you will know :) and: the places you should leave out aren't really "must sees" ;)
well.. heading out for food.. a fruitjuice and something that goes with my stomach ;)
have a great time!! ..Mexico is really cool! :)
there were of course some other Militaries along the way who stopped me and we were talking for a while about bikes and stuff.. he was kinda keen and and asked me about smoking weed and finally I wonder why they didn't search me.. either he liked me too much to have a closer look or I just convinced him, that there is no need to do so :D haha :) in both ways, it's amazing what happens to you because of you! :)
I spent 3 dollars to get on the highway and make it barely before dark in this town here.. jaja.. was just in time. (also getting lot colder up here) found in notime a cool hotel with this free internet, free breakfast, hot shower, parking, even cable tv to watch Cartoon Network ;) hehe :)
all this for less than 15 bucks..
was good to move on from Zipolite to some other place (how things can change quickly..) I spent my last day driving to a beach, where a plane of a drugdealer once crashed and still a plane is sticking out of the sand :) made some pics.. will be online soon I guess.. :) went also through a chilly boatride through the mangrove forest of a nearby lagoon.. saw a crocodile and some animals on an island, where I wasn't sure if they should be there or not..
had quite some hours for myself (that I really needed!!) ..maybe was also that in Zipolite.. was quite a busy time..
ah.. and actually, it can easily be dangerous here in Latin America.. but along the way you hear various times the same recommendation (as I'm here ;) and you hear where you should not go.. drugtraffic cities as Ciudad de Juarez (that's just next to El Paso, where I stayed a night ;) hehe :) but other side of the boarder :P ;)
so anyway.. it's not too hard to be safe.. of course, you never have a guarantee, but it's not just randomness, once your there, you will know :) and: the places you should leave out aren't really "must sees" ;)
well.. heading out for food.. a fruitjuice and something that goes with my stomach ;)
the streets got pretty dirty here.. rubbed a lot of dust out of my face and have to improve my helmet-glasses.. getting red eyes by pure driving around ;) hehe ;)
have a great time!! ..Mexico is really cool! :)
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Zipolite, beach paradise! :)
Hi there friends and family :)
I spent another night in a Hammock in Acapulco, because it`s just so crazy expensive!! then I continued to Zipolite, where there was a beeeeautiful psytrance party the last week end! :) dancing on the beach in a full moon night.. was really enjoyable! :)
well, I might continue here from Zipolite, after I have been here for a week.. met a lot of awesome people and had great times!! :)
well, at the moment, my stomach recovers from something strange that I eat ??? but it`s not too bad. My back is hurting terribly .. but that`s all that bothers here. Otherwise I managed to keep my insurance running again and went on a snorkling trip yesterday with friends (was nice to be out for a day and do some other stuff instead of hanging around ;)
Last Friday I went to an aqua massage class.. was the last days and my friend did some with me and it was a real special experience!! you get a nose clip and then you`re moved around in the water, catching breath whenever you can ;) but being in underwater silence with closed eyes.. awesome!! :)
hmm.. might add something later to this.. right now going on the beach and chilling out (recovering from stomach issue ;)
hear from me soon and have a great time as well! :)
I spent another night in a Hammock in Acapulco, because it`s just so crazy expensive!! then I continued to Zipolite, where there was a beeeeautiful psytrance party the last week end! :) dancing on the beach in a full moon night.. was really enjoyable! :)
well, I might continue here from Zipolite, after I have been here for a week.. met a lot of awesome people and had great times!! :)
well, at the moment, my stomach recovers from something strange that I eat ??? but it`s not too bad. My back is hurting terribly .. but that`s all that bothers here. Otherwise I managed to keep my insurance running again and went on a snorkling trip yesterday with friends (was nice to be out for a day and do some other stuff instead of hanging around ;)
Last Friday I went to an aqua massage class.. was the last days and my friend did some with me and it was a real special experience!! you get a nose clip and then you`re moved around in the water, catching breath whenever you can ;) but being in underwater silence with closed eyes.. awesome!! :)
hmm.. might add something later to this.. right now going on the beach and chilling out (recovering from stomach issue ;)
hear from me soon and have a great time as well! :)
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