Exploration

To explore the mysteries and possibilities of the universe is to also understand the mysteries and possibilities of the universe that lies within.

Remember when you were a child? Wild and free, going on adventures... What kind of adventures did you create? What kind of stories did you tell?

When I was a child, I was fortunate to grow up in nature in a time before cell phones and social media. Children were allowed to be children. We were not yet hypnotized by technology and filled with the superficial anxieties of perception and image. We had the space and time to play, to explore, to do things for fun, to enjoy nature. Spinning adventures on a whim, not planning what’s next. Fun was allowed to unfold in the present through play and imagination.

After school was adventure time until the sun went down. I explored the woods with neighborhood friends. We went on bike rides and ventured off into random corners deep in the woods. We made rope swings, started fires, built forts and hideout posts, went ‘camping’, pretended we were lost. We dug up ‘artifacts’ and encountered ‘rare’ animals. It was some of my best memories of childhood. And I feel so grateful to be able to have those experiences of exploration as a child.

I think our natural inclination to play and explore as children reflect our truest nature as humans. As children, we are pure and true. Full of love and light, simply following our desires for love, play and fun. Those same desires live on in all of us, but perhaps now repressed and under-nourished. Yet we are all still the same children in slightly aged bodies. Unconsciously we understand as children that play and exploration is what we are designed to do. It is what we came here to do and it is what will continue to move us forward to grow and expand. Children unite over fun, and they exercise their powers of imagination to create new worlds and realities.

We all come from a long ancestral lineage of exploration. Early humankind were nomadic people. Their act of exploration gave way to the evolution of present-day humans. The act of imagination and exploration is an innate human endeavor. It is our need to explore and discover what is out there that has kept led to rapid evolution of the human race.

To this day, we are still exploring, traveling, inventing and creating. We still look to the stars, just as our ancestors did, in search of new worlds and new possibilities. The stars have always been inextricably linked to the act of exploration, and will forever be tied together. They help chart the path of our evolution and the future of humankind. Great ancient civilizations understood this wisdom. They were built on the scholars’ ability to chart, understand and interpret the energy of the stars and how they affect us and our planet. The system of astrology and astronomy were developed over thousands of years of intelligence across cultures and civilizations around the world, gathered through systematic observation and recording. Back when astrology and astronomy were the same thing. It was the earliest science. These systems are still available to us but are overly simplistic distillations of the Greek system.The foundation of early civilizations relied on knowledge of the stars and planets for divination, planning agriculture, and planning of societies and events. Early explorers used stars as way-finding guides and maps to explore and reach new lands.

Early on when I started my journey, I had visions of stars and constellations in my meditation practices. I saw all sorts of fiery red balls of light, some connecting to form various constellations, which I recorded in my journals. I received messages that I would learn about the stars and unlock ancient secrets and wisdom from them. At the time I didn’t know what that meant but the messages were fairly regular and consistent. Some time after I felt called to go to Tulum. I later learned that Tulum was an astronomy school for the Mayan elite. People made pilgrimages there to observe the stars. It wasn’t until two months in I noticed bright stars and constellations outside my bedroom balcony. I began identifying stars and constellations and researching them. At that time of the year, the constellation of Scorpio—representing death, change and transformation—directly faced my bedroom every night, and the bright star of Altair felt like home. Every full moon shined brightly into my bedroom, illuminating the room with the necessary energy to initiate new phases of development. For me, the stars and celestial bodies that I looked at directly mirrored the phases I was going through in my personal life. I began meditating and receiving downloads of knowledge from them. I received downloads about the nature of the universe, wisdom about starseeds, where my soul came from, what my karmic lessons are in this lifetime, the evolution of humanity, the purpose of humankind on Earth, and the process we must all go through.

My time in Tulum ‘unlocked’ star wisdom and I am drawn to the stars now more than ever. It is now calling me to explore ancient civilizations and to remember ancient secrets and wisdom. It’s calling me to undergo a process of remembering or uncovering wisdom through the act of travel. As if each place I go to unlocks or activates energy within me, and something gets activated in the land.

I begin my own explorations, embarking on a year-long journey through Mexico, Central and South America. I have nothing planned. And I don’t intend to plan anything. This will be an exercise in complete trust and faith. Only using my intuition to guide me to the next destination, when it’s time to go, and when it’s time to leave. I will trust that everything will be provided for, and all accommodation, transportation and details will work out. All I know is the general direction I’m going in, and I trust that incredible experiences await me. It is a total process of discovery; things will unfold in its own time. I will adapt, be flexible, changeable, patient, brave and open. I don’t even question what is being asked of me because my desire to live all of life—to see, to experience, to learn, to question, to understand, to be surprised, to be curious, to be in awe, to face whatever needs to be faced, to grow, to wonder, to be inspired…is what it means to live a great life. And in this process I can allow myself to grow and discover new things about myself.

Exploration, discovery, invention is an act of unlocking and harnessing the energy and potential within to create magic and beauty beyond what we could ever imagine. The energy of exploration is the fuel for progress, evolution, growth and expansion. Driven by inherent qualities of curiosity and wonder, it is the ability to imagine all of the possibilities of what could and can be. To be willing to explore is to be willing to live. You will never know what your true potential is until you explore the unknown. And when you are open to magic and all of the possibilities in life, I promise magic will unfold all around you.