A pilgrimage to Mexico City where land, symbol, lasting wisdom, and the eternal power of the Sacred Feminine converge.
Optional 3-day integration extension in Oaxaca.
Mexico City is one of those places.
Ancient ceremonial centers rise beside cathedrals. Indigenous wisdom and artistic expression remain ubiquitous despite centuries of colonial oppression. The land itself has birthed and called forth artists, mystics, revolutionaries, and visionaries for thousands of years.
It is here, in this holy place the Aztecs knew as Tenochtitlán, that three extraordinary feminine transmissions converge.
Across thousands of years, Frida Kahlo, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and the Aztec Moon Goddess have each carried a message that speaks with remarkable urgency to the moment we find ourselves living through.
Systems and structures that once organized identity, spirituality, relationship, and power are shifting beneath our feet. And while information has never been more abundant, genuine truth and wisdom can feel increasingly difficult to perceive.
Amid the chaos, confusion and noise, many of us are longing for what some Native traditions refer to as an eagle-eye view: a perspective expansive enough that we are no longer caught inside a story written for us, but can begin to perceive the larger pattern and choose the story we are here to author.
This pilgrimage is as much about a journey through Mexico City as it is about changing the lens through which we see ourselves, our lives, and this pivotal moment in human history.
Archetypal forces come into our consciousness from all dimensions of being and from the timelines of the past, present, and future at once. They carry ancestral knowing, a resonance of what we are ready to become, and a sudden recognition of truths that live in the subtle realms. They penetrate our psyche, our emotional field, our memory—powerful, immortal and radiant.
There is a profound connective thread between these three feminine forces. Through their transmissions, I have come to understand that their unique and legendary stories are not separate, and the proximity and miracle of their rise is no coincidence.
So how might an Aztec Moon Goddess, Latin America’s beloved Madonna, and the world’s most recognizable female artist illuminate the cycles of transformation and rebirth that are available for us, now?
Through your own felt sense, you will be invited to listen for the thread that has connected these archetypes through time—a thread that carries a message for our souls’ fulfillment and the call for each of us to usher in and birth the Brave New Earth in the here and now.
Together we will bear witness, listen, and begin to perceive what these holy messengers are telling us about our own lives in this pivotal moment.
At the heart of the ancient Aztec capital lie the remains of Templo Mayor, once the spiritual center of one of the world’s great civilizations. Here we encounter Coyolxauhqui, the Aztec Moon Goddess, whose monumental stone has fascinated archaeologists, historians, and Indigenous wisdom keepers for generations.
Most of the modern world inherited a story of violence, dismemberment, and defeat. Yet when viewed through an Indigenous lens*, another possibility begins to emerge. What if what has long been interpreted as annihilation is actually depicting one of life’s most profound creative processes—fragmentation and separation as an essential process in creation, re-membering, and birth itself?
Rather than simply learning about Coyolxauhqui, we will enter into conversation with her story, the land from which it emerged, and the possibility that what has long been interpreted as tragedy may, in fact, be carrying a message of extraordinary power.
*Inspired by the work of Martha Galeana in A Partera’s Perspective.
What happens when we are willing to question the stories we have either inherited or were told about ourselves?
Where in your own life have you mistaken fragmentation for tragedy, and what’s possible if you begin to see it as part of a much deeper process of creation?
Tepeyac Hill is one of the most sacred places in the Americas. Today it is home to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, where millions of pilgrims gather each year in devotion to the woman many know as the patron saint of Mexico.
Long before Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego, a Nahua man, on this very hill, Tepeyac was a sacred place where Indigenous people worshipped Tonantzin, the ancient Earth Mother Goddess. In 1521, during the height of the Spanish conquest, Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared at Tepeyac. Only some still carry the knowledge that this was indeed no coincidence.
As colonization spread across the land, Indigenous communities were given two choices: the cross or the sword—conversion or death. Millions lost their lives as their spiritual traditions, languages, and ways of being were systematically dismantled.
Drawing from Indigenous scholarship, oral tradition, and the enduring wisdom of the people themselves, a truer story emerges. The Earth Goddess—the Sacred Feminine—was not extinguished. Tonantzin instead metamorphosed into Our Lady of Guadalupe, taking a form her people could gather around openly in love and devotion, while preserving the lives of millions.
Standing on Tepeyac Hill, we encounter one of history’s most extraordinary acts of cultural resilience and spiritual triumphs. Here we begin to contemplate the creative genius of the Sacred Feminine—not simply as a historical event, but as a living force within ourselves: the creative intelligence of life itself, the life force that always knows how to find another way.
From the smallest, most ordinary challenges we face in our daily lives to the greatest collective crises humanity has ever encountered, this same creative force remains available to us. When we learn to recognize it and stay connected to it, we begin to perceive possibilities we could not see before. We discover within ourselves the capacity to respond with creativity rather than fear, with imagination rather than resignation—not only transforming our own lives, but blooming into a source of immense beauty for our families, our communities, and the Earth itself.
Where has life presented you with only two apparent choices, neither of which were good options—and yet in finding another way you become someone you never imagined you could be?
How might Tonantzin / Guadalupe reveal that the creative force capable of meeting this moment has been living within you all along?
Nestled in the heart of Coyoacán, Casa Azul—The Blue House—was Frida Kahlo’s lifelong home. It was here that she painted, loved, grieved, dreamed, and created some of the most recognizable and stunning works of art in history. Walking through its rooms is to step into the living landscape of a woman’s full life, where she was born, died, and everything that happened in between.
Frida lived her art as much as her art lived her. Her own body and lived experience became the canvas through which she explored universal truths. She didn’t paint landscapes to escape her life. She painted herself to reveal it.
Most of the world knows Frida as one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. Fewer have considered the magnitude of what she transmuted in order to become one.
As a young woman, Frida survived a catastrophic bus accident that shattered her pelvis and spine. A steel handrail literally pierced her birth canal, forever changing her relationship with agony, sexuality, motherhood and loss. She endured dozens of surgeries, chronic pain, miscarriages, heartbreak, betrayal, and a body that continually demanded more of her than seemed possible to endure.
Yet none of it silenced her. Frida did not hide her suffering from the world. She was unashamed of her pain, her desire, her blood, her grief, her longing, and the fierce complexity of her inner world. She offered the truth of her experience to herself and to the world without apology, transforming it into one of the most extraordinary bodies of self-portraiture in the history of art.
Frida didn’t exploit her trauma; she modeled something far more profound. She refused to exile any part of herself. In doing so, she reminds us that the places we are most tempted to hide, the parts of ourselves that we have been taught to be most ashamed of, may also become the wellspring of our deepest creativity, beauty, life force, and the unique gift we are here to bring into the world.
Standing in Casa Azul, we encounter the creative fire that cannot be extinguished.
Where in your own life have you hidden parts of yourself that may be asking to be seen, honored, or expressed?
What might become possible if you offered the truth of your experience to yourself and to the world without apology, allowing even the parts of yourself you’ve been most desperate to conceal or hide to become a source of beauty, creativity, inspiration, and the unique gift only you can bring into the world?
Just beyond Mexico City lies Teotihuacán, one of the most extraordinary ceremonial cities ever built. Long before the Aztecs arrived, this sacred place was already ancient. They named it Teotihuacán—“the place where the gods were born”—believing it to be the place where creation itself first emerged into the world.
Who built it remains one of archaeology’s great mysteries. We still do not know who its creators were, what language they spoke, or why this magnificent city was eventually abandoned. Somehow, rather than diminishing its power, the mystery seems only to deepen it.
Walking the Avenue of the Dead between the Temple of the Moon and the Temple of the Sun, we enter a landscape that has invited humanity to contemplate the great mysteries of existence for nearly two thousand years.
Many people today speak of the Quantum as the field where all possibilities exist. Long before modern language attempted to describe such a reality, cultures throughout the world understood the generative power of darkness, the womb, and the fertile space from which all life emerges. For me, Teotihuacán is one of the closest tangible places on Earth where that mystery can be felt—the merging of the no-space with space itself.
Here we gather everything the pilgrimage has offered us thus far. The fragments we have begun to re-member. The creative intelligence that always finds another way. The fire that refuses to exile any part of itself. And we allow them to settle into the Void, the Womb of Creation.
Standing between the Sun and the Moon, we remember that the masculine and feminine are not opposing forces in battle. They are the original sacred creative partnership—the dynamic relationship through which life continually births itself into existence.
So we pause and listen. We can remember here how every ending is a beginning, and every beginning already contains countless possibilities waiting to be lived.
If all possibilities truly exist, what is the life that is waiting for you to choose?
What might become possible if you trusted that creation is not something happening outside of you, but something you are already participating in with every thought, every choice, every relationship, and every act of love?
Over the years, these archetypal forces have profoundly inspired me, healed me, challenged me, empowered me, and ultimately changed my life.
They have transformed the way I understand my own experiences—my pain, my trauma, my body, my sexuality, my relationships, my desires, my purpose, and my deepest becoming. They have taught me that whether we have children or not, womb-ins are life-givers, and as such, miracle makers.
This pilgrimage is not about asking you to see what I see. It is an invitation to enter into relationship with these extraordinary forces—with their stories, the sacred places that gave rise to them, and perhaps most importantly, with yourself.
It is not about adopting anyone else’s interpretation of Coyolxauhqui, Tonantzin / Our Lady of Guadalupe, Frida Kahlo, or Teotihuacán.
I have come to believe that meaning does not arise from information alone. It emerges through direct encounter, of place and land interacting with your body’s deep intelligence, your DNA, your primal nervous system, your womb, and your heart that emanates knowing far beyond what the conscious mind can hold alone.
Stand before Coyolxauhqui.
Walk Tepeyac Hill.
Sit in Casa Azul.
Watch the light move across Teotihuacán.
Answers arise through the relationships you cultivate—with these places, these stories, the land itself, and most importantly, with yourself.
Some of what these places and stories have revealed to me may resonate deeply with you. I will indeed share some of them with you along this path. But more of what they reveal to you will be entirely your own.
It lives within your own relationship to these places, these stories, and the magnificent life that has been unfolding within you all along.
If something in you recognizes this invitation, I would be honored to walk beside you.
There will be space for integration, although the integration of this journey will likely extend far beyond the time when our pilgrimage comes to a close.
It will include a small, intentionally gathered team whose presence, unique skills, wisdom, and gifts will help create a space where you feel supported every step of the way. Together, we are committed to cultivating an experience that is intellectually rich, emotionally meaningful, spiritually evocative, and grounded in authentic human connection.
Each day will weave together visits to sacred sites, storytelling, guided reflections, group dialogue, embodied integration practices, delicious meals, beauty, laughter, rest, and spaciousness for the unexpected moments that often become the most meaningful.
There will be time to absorb what each place has awakened.
Every meaningful pilgrimage holds the gift of personal and collective transformation. It would be my greatest honor to travel with you and witness the beauty and miracles unfold.
My heart holds a passion and enduring love for Mexico and its people. I can only hope that this journey honors them in that spirit.
I offer Archetypal Womb-In with great care, deep respect, and tremendous excitement for what may unfold.
If something in these pages has stirred your curiosity, your imagination, or your heart, I hope you will join us.
I offer this journey with deep gratitude and reverence to my teachers, guides, and to the many Indigenous knowledge keepers, historians, artists, and elders whose courage and generosity have preserved these Her-stories, oral traditions, and sacred wisdom for future generations.
This pilgrimage has been shaped by years of study, lived experience, and the extraordinary generosity of my teachers; the stars, the soil, the wingeds, the 4-leggeds and sea ones, the trees, the water and humans who have influenced the way I understand life and the multidimensional world we live in.
I am grateful to Curandera Grace Sesma, who first introduced me to the work of Martha Galeana. I then read Galeana’s book, A Partera’s Perspective, offering an Indigenous understanding of Coyolxauhqui that forever changed the way I perceive the Sacred Feminine; the Moon’s phases, our menstrual cycles, and the miraculous birthing process of life.
I deeply revere the many works of Clarissa Pinkola Estés, whose lifelong devotion to the archetypal feminine, the mythic as truth—and particularly her work in Untie the Strong Woman—illuminated the profound relationship between Tonantzin and Our Lady of Guadalupe while continually inviting us to listen for deeper symbolic language to orient our lives.
I am especially grateful to Andrew Harvey, whose writings on Divine Union, the Sacred Feminine, mysticism, and sacred activism have expanded my understanding of humanity’s evolutionary potential and the transformative power of love in action. Some of the bravest things I have ever done in my life were ultimately inspired by this remarkable man.
The connective thread woven throughout this pilgrimage is my own. It has emerged through my own life, a deep desire to understand and honor my mother, grandmothers, and sisters and my own father. I have been protected, inspired, and prayed to Our Lady of Guadalupe, Frida, and Coyolxauhqui. I’ve walked the land, listened deeply, and allowed these remarkable feminine forces to speak to me in ways that have profoundly transformed my own life. Ultimately, it is through their direction and guidance that I bring forth this pilgrimage to all of you.
