I feel different from most people.
I avoid large groups and busy schedules.
I don’t like big and formal events and don’t do well with social expectations.
I need a lot of pausing and alone time.
I like deep, authentic and free.
I want to be where I can be myself fully, and I have built a life now that honors that. Honors who I am.
I am how I am for a reason.
Maybe you feel the same way.
We all have a unique design that is connected to the gifts that we carry.
My ancient matriarchs have been speaking to me, but I didn’t know it was them.
In western spiritual communities we are not taught that there are pre-colonial, pre-patriarchal ancestors in our blood line here to support us in these times of great change.
It was Dra Rocio Rosales Meza, medicine woman in the Q’ero Inca lineage, who taught me this – lately in the container The Alignment Sanctuary.
She is teaching us how to connect to, work and be in right relation with these spirits – they who called us in to use the gifts in our lineage to support in the creation of a new ancient paradigm. This is indigenous wisdom.
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 be 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 notebook.
I trusted it as guidance and started re-creating it digitally. I realised 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.
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:
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.
Eva Christin 