What a trip getting here, we left our house at 4:30 am and arrived in Mexico City around 2:30 pm.

Our house in Teotihuacan is about 35 miles from the city and usually takes about an hour in traffic to arrive.  Thursday was a different story, Mexico City was hit by one of the worst rain storms in a super long time, leaving the city drenched in flood waters, specifically the area surrounding the airport. People were standing on top of their cars as our van/bus crept along the side streets, I must tell you that water was seriously dirty – WOW and the smell was through the roof!  I’m talking used maxi-pad left locked up in a car on hot August day…Uhnnnn.

Senora Gina was waiting for me as I came out of customs, she had taken the bus to Guadalajara and then flown into Mexico City earlier that morning.  I cannot express to you all what I felt as she embraced me – home.  If you’ve not followed this blog for long you won’t know who she is to me and the girls so I will give you a recap: Senora Gina is one of the most noble women I have ever met, she lives in Sayulita and now I KNOW she was truly one of the main reasons I moved there, to find her.

She is my friend, my family, my sister and my partner, I adore her and miss her more than I can express. I have not seen her since last June and the past eight months have been wild and twisty. I’m not certain if you all have relationships like this, but if you do, then you’ll understand the unconditional love and respect that ties us together, this tie or line that we hold for each other lends for great humor to be swapped between us!  The long bus ride through the floods flew by, as we sat and giggled like school girls – so thrilled to play once again.

The first night in our casa, known as the Dreaming House (we have a small two bedroom house that shares the land of our small boutique hotel and restaurant, all is wrapped within very tall walls forming a compound).  This compound rests upon ancient ruins and sits along the original Avenue Of The Dead, leading me to always have intense dreams here, from the moment I rest my eyes the dreaming begins and the download is on.

My first night of sleep I found myself in our old house (the one we just left) there was a small mouse running around and if you know me, I’m totally creeped out by mice – they seriously bug me.  I watched the mouse run back and forth, searching for the “hole” finally I said: “OK I’m getting off of this bed and catching that little guy and removing him from this house. “As I reached down for him, he turned into a white dog. This dog growled at me and I backed away…I woke up.

Friday I spent the day organizing my house and setting up my kitchen, I brought tons of food to cook so all I needed to do was buy veggies.  Senora Gina and I hit the market place and packed the cart with serious greens, that night my dreams returned, I was inside the old house, it was snowing inside of the house and there was a hole – this time the hole was in the center of the bed. The hole had a tunnel connected to it, when I peeked into the tunnel I saw another world, one that exists through the veil – or the other side.  There were many people busy trying to get through the tunnel, they didn’t seem to notice me, the world they lived in was swirling, chaotic and cold, I knew I had to burn the hole so that they no longer could pass through. Just as I realized my responsibility…I woke up.

Saturday the sun was shining and the word was Mexico City had dried out, Adriana-  a friend of Senora Gina’s had arrived late the night before from Mexico City.   Senora Gina had been telling me for months that I needed to meet with her – that she would be a good friend for me, a match in business, spirit, identity and bravery.  Senora Gina was really excited to return to San Angel and revisit her childhood home (which is now a store Toca Madera) and stroll the artist bazar.

For the record, I announced- “I think it will be a bad idea traffic wise”- but I wanted to get to know Adriana and I couldn’t bare to be apart from Senora Gina (as our time together is so valuable to me).  We made it to San Angel no problem and enjoyed a WONDERFUL lunch, then a walk through the many painters that appear every Saturday to peddle their fantastic paintings.  This is where Senora Gina purchased the most wonderful painting of three women and the three suitors that pursued them.  We all agreed that it was us and the women we have been and the women we have become, I love the fact that the painter sees his wife in every woman he paints and I too see myself in every woman that exists.

Knowing that we needed to return to the Dreaming House before dark, we left the city at 3pm only to sit in traffic for 5 hours! Can you imagine 35 miles in 5 hours? I must tell you all, it was the best 5 hours, I truly enjoyed every minute of it – OK well not the “I gotta pee really bad and the only option is a nasty Mexico City gas station bathroom that had been trampled by the other 3 million stranded motorists!”.

The best news is that I’ve made a new friend, Adriana. She is all that Senora Gina said she would be, successful and ego-less, brave and funny!

Last night I dreamed again of the old house, this time I was looking for the hole, I was trying to leave…this morning we headed to the Pyramid of the Moon – Senora Gina and I.  We climbed the many steps, I felt like I shot up to the top within seconds.  As we sat high above the old city I heard the voice of wisdom that lives within me – “This is your aerial point of view, this is where you must live from, above the reactive nature of humanness.  See the entire Avenue that you are walking.”  I can dig this, ’cause sometimes I get so caught up in the exact moment that I fail to see the opportunities that sprawl before me.

We joined Lee and the group that he is leading this week through the ruins, I was surprised to see the white dog from my dream. She was so sweet and had been following the group around. Some say that dogs are spirit power animals – meaning not really animals at all.

Lee finished with his group and led Adriana, Senora Gina and myself to “The Place of the Elders.”  I have had a hard time with grounding myself for over the past year, you see the house that we had lived in was 3 stories, once I found out what happened in the basement of the house I began to live only in the top two floors.  Every time I would try to ground myself I’d begin the process of finding my mental way to the earth but that would mean going through the basement….I could NOT do this.  In an even less metaphysical way, I found myself hiding in my bedroom!

Today as I walked into the place of the Elders, I knew what I needed to do.  Adriana, Senora Gina and all went to the center alter and lay down on our tummy’s, closing our eyes and imagining that a cord was coming from our womb’s, digging deep through the earth, passing through all that she is.  Once our cords were connected the dreaming began…There were woman swaying pepper tree  branches all over, cleaning our bodies and whispering into our ears.  As my mind would ask questions the answers would come and I fell deeper into the stone alter, drifting away swaddled by the warm sun.

Tonight we are preparing for a full on fiesta, Mariachis and all…tomorrow will bring yet another discovery but only after a clear night of dreaming.