Taking the Necessary Steps at the Heart of AN
This has been a busy week! Last Wednesday, we had the new land surveyed and on Saturday received the papers from the surveyor. So on Monday we went to the Notario’s office in Urubamba to sign a contract to buy the sanctuary land. After a wait of over 45 minutes, we were told that we had to go to the Notario in Calca. We drove there and met with the Notario there who said that we needed still more papers. These papers are being gathered and we will try again on Friday.
It’s all just a dance. Once you are in the dance, you just do whatever is in front of you, step by step, until it is finally complete. Knowing all the while that ALL IS WELL.
We are so excited to finally be able to incorporate this amazing land into the Heart of AN. It is the best energy spot here. We noticed this the first day that we found our land, but it wasn’t for sale at the time. The new land is in the most True Positioning. It’s the perfect place to put our Sanctuary, AN•Sonqo. Sonqo means heart in the Quechua language and it really will be the heart of the Heart of AN.
We still need to raise $32,000 more before the end of the year to pay off the land, but we know that somehow this will happen, because there’s such a stunning rightness to it. After we get the title to the land, we will fence the new land and take down our old fence which currently separates the two pieces of land. Then all of our land will merge and the Heart of AN will expand. This will be momentous!
If you want to support us with the purchase of the land, you can donate here: anvisible.com/donate
We’ve also been busy working on our two special events in October ~ the Cards of AN Master Class, followed by the Conclave of the Family of AN. Registration forms should finally be online this weekend! It’s important that we come together on the physical this year and we really hope that many of you will come.
Eloy is busy this week preparing the wood for the raised beds of our upcoming organic vegetable garden. Here we hope to grow various types of lettuce, arugula, herbs, peppers and some vegetables which aren’t available here. Emanaku and I want to create the garden in the form of a mandala, but still need some free time to finalize the design.
We’ve also experienced a few breakthroughs this week. Our ANvisible, Surf Reports and 11:11 Photo Journeys websites have all been moved to a much faster server and now work quickly and efficiently!
Our second breakthrough is a good example of the old, “When one door closes, a new door opens”. Our dear friend Ludo had to move from his hostal in the nearby village of Arin, so now it is closed. This was where many of our visitors enjoyed staying when the Heart of AN was full. But now a new, small hostal is opening less than a block away from the Heart of AN! It is simple and rustic, but very cheap, and is run by a super nice Peruvian – German couple.
We are deeply heartened by your Love and Support for what we are doing here. It feels so right to do this together ~ in one form or another. With huge LOVE to all of you from the Heart of AN!
- Last Wednesday, we had the Sanctuary land surveyed.
- Eloy helped by holding up the measuring rod, while Cachorro watches from inside the Heart of AN. It will feel so amazing when we can finally reunite the two pieces of land!
- Our soon to be new land fortunately had accurate boundaries.
- They also resurveyed the boundaries of our existing land and found them to be accurate. Here’s a rare view from the back of our house.
- The surveyor’s assistant was stationed part way up the mountain with his theodolite to get exact measurements from the measuring rod held up by Eloy who is fearlessly standing on top of our wall. Notice our two cow neighbors!
- On Friday, while returning from Cuzco, Emanaku got stuck in a traffic jam on the bridge into Pisac for almost an hour.
- Pisac was having a long procession for the Fiesta of the Virgin del Carmen which stopped all traffic.
- Pisac residents lined the streets to watch the parade.
- The parade lasted for almost an hour! And as always, there was a strong element of the surreal in the creative mixture of the old and new.
- There was lots of music that was a combination of traditional and non traditional, including a large, wooden Andean harp that was being both carried and played in the procession.
- Yesterday a possibly pregnant, deer came to eat in the succulent fields next to our house. It’s always such a blessing to have deer visitors!
- Yesterday afternoon, we walked over to the beautiful land that we are in the process of buying. This land is so special. We’ve known this since the first time we saw it. It’s no coincidence that our sanctuary will be called AN•Sonqo, since SONQO means HEART in the Quechua language. This land has such an amazing, True Positioning and will be the heart of the Heart of AN. This is why it is so important for us to buy it.
- Nightime reflections outside our front door from our beautiful Mexican starlight.