Into the New True Year at the Heart of AN! : The AN•visible

Into the New True Year at the Heart of AN!

Jan 6 2018 in Blog by Emanáku

The last two weeks of December were super busy and much was accomplished here. The area around the Tower of Light of AN is now full of luscious grass and looks gorgeous. The energy is absolutely stunning!

On December 16th, we had our World Treasures Pop Up Sale at the Viva Peru Cafe and made enough money to live on for the rest of the month. On Christmas Eve, we went to Cuzco for the huge Santurantikuy Christmas Fair in the main plaza which is always a fun adventure. Even though we have a super minimal Christmas, we did put up Tibetan prayer flags around the outside of the AN•Chakana and enjoyed a surprise visit with Eloy’s partner, Juana and their beautiful new baby girl.

On New Year’s Eve the three of us made a Fire Ceremony to let go of the old and welcome the New. We put up fairy lights in the Octagon and quietly immersed ourselves in the energy. At midnight, we went up to the AN room and chose our personal Cards of AN for each month of the year. It was a good beginning to 2018.

Between Christmas and the New Year, I wrote the Year 2018 Surf Report (“Living Our Mastery” – read it here) and am now writing the one for January 2018. This time of year is always such a marathon for me, writing two Surf Reports in a row.

Next week, we really hope to have all the information, prices and registration forms online for our Special Events in May (dates and – soon – more information here) and apologize that it has taken so long. Even so, we already have filled up almost half of the spaces.

We are in the midst of preparing for our upcoming Alpacas of AN. Pedro is preparing the ground for their alpaca shelter and we hope to start the construction next week, if we can find someone to do the work. As soon as it’s ready and we manifest the funds to buy them, we will be able to get our Adorable Alpacas of AN. If you would like to help make this possible, you can do it here: https://anvisible.com/donate/ or directly at our AN•Project “Alpacas of AN”.

2018 is going to be a momentous year in so many ways. We prepared for this year all last year. Now the Heart of AN feels READY!

WITH HUGE AN LOVE to our beloved Family of AN ~ Solara and Emanáku.

: On December 16, we had our World Treasures Pop-up Sale at Viva Peru Cafe. It was a lot of work and much fun. Plus, we finally were able to meet some of our neighbors!
Photo by Keenuane.

: The Tower of Light of AN continues to be very active and totally magnificent.

: Flowers of AN washed clean after a rain.
Photo by Keenuane.

: Emanaku carefully applies a preservative to the floor of the Octagon. It was much work, but it made the floor so beautiful.

: Closeup of the center of the Octagon floor.

: The colors of the Octagon floor come alive!

: The center of the Tower of AN is next for the mighty Brush of Emanaku.

: Raindrops form pools of water on the center of the Tower after the preservative has been applied.

: Emanáku takes a well deserved rest after applying all the preservative.
Photo by Keenuane.

: A few days before Christmas, our Q’ero friend Agosto visited us with some Q’ero treasures. We’ve been friends for seven years now.

: At 6:00 am on Christmas Eve was another community meeting ~ this one was about security and the possible addition of street lights. Of course, Emanaku was there! (He’s getting really good at these early morning meetings.)

: On Christmas Eve, after the early morning community meeting, we all went to Santurantikuy ~ the huge Christmas Fair in Cuzco’s main plaza.
I’ve been to Santurantikuy eight times now, starting in 1972!

: There are always great treasures to be found here and never enough time to look at everything or enough money to buy them all. But we really enjoy the interaction with the people.

: I always visit the pottery ladies from Rachi who make simple, but very beautiful ceramics, many of them with the Sun & Moon on them.
Rachi is where there is a huge Inca temple dedicated to Viracocha, the Creator, which has eleven huge pillars inside it, on each side ~ which makes 11:11!

: Santurantikuy also has many ladies selling special grasses for nativity scenes.
Photo by Keenuane.

: The stillness of Christmas morning at 6:00 am.

: We received several rolls of small Tibetan prayer flags as a gift from Avillion. (Thank you, Ingrid Jolly!) We especially love them because they have Windhorses carrying Mani Stones on their backs.
Keenuane held the ladder while Emanaku put them up around the AN•Chakana on Christmas day.

: Here’s the AN•Chakana, happy to be adorned with its new Tibetan prayer flags!

: On Christmas afternoon, we had a surprise visit with Juana, her new daughter, Leida Milagros and Juana’s younger sister Iliana.
Photo by Keenuane.

: Juana and Eloy now live in Ollantaytambo and seem very happy, especially with such an adorable daughter.
We loved seeing Juana and little Leida!

: A few days after Christmas when Pedro and Alexander returned from visiting their family, we gave them small presents. Pedro said that they were the first presents he had received in his life.
Photo by Keenuane

: Alexander’s favorite present was definitely his new soccer ball. (Cachorro had destroyed his old one.)

: Our AN•Labyrinth got a bit overgrown while we were focusing on other areas. Fortunately, Keenuane and Pedro leapt into action and a few days later, it had been totally cleaned up and recalibrated.

: Keenuane and Pedro removed each stone of the labyrinth, cleaned the ground underneath it and carefully replaced the stones.
As they recalibrated the AN•Labyrinth, they naturally entered the Timeless True Worlds.

: Here’s the AN•Labyrinth when it was half done. The difference is stunning and the magenta light of AN is already pouring in!
It feels like the AN•Labyrinth has been reborn on a totally new level.
Photo by Keenuane.

: Now that the AN•Labyrinth has been renewed and reset, Cachorro and Manzana really love it here.

: In the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, we made a Fire Ceremony to release the old and seed the New. It felt very strong to end the year this way ~ with a deep letting go and much gratitude.

: Sitting in contemplation at our Fire Ceremony.
Photo by Keenuane.

: Keenuane and Alexander have become close friends, even though Alexander only speaks Quechua. I’m sure that they will miss each other when Keenuane leaves in a few weeks.

: Walking with great joy from the Tower of AN to the Octagon. So happy that we not only survived this year, but got so much done!
Photo by Keenuane.

: On January 2nd, Keenuane and Alexander began cleaning up and recalibrating the altar area around the Queen Tree.

: Alexander absolutely loves his new ball and takes it with him wherever he goes.
Photo by Keenuane

: This is the corner of our land where we’re going to build the small shelter for the alpacas where they can sleep at night when it is raining.

: The exquisite Flowers of AN!
Photo by Keenuane

: The Octagon is totally aligned with the Tower of AN. They don’t feel separate at all. When you are inside the Octagon, you feel as if you are also inside the Tower!