Our Lady of Guadalupe
Our Lady of Guadalupe – The Most Important Symbol of Mexico
by Sergio Magaña Ocelocoyotl
The most important symbol of Mexico is Our Lady of Guadalupe, an image flawlessly designed by the eagle warrior Cipactli, who was later known in our history as Juan Diego, a humble indigenous peasant.
According to traditional accounts, the Virgin appeared to him on a hill, Cerro del Tepeyac, where the ancient Mexihca temple of Tonantzin Coatlicue, the Divine Mother and ruler of life and death, was once located. The drawing Cipactli presented to the Spanish archbishop Fray Juan de Zumárraga at the time contained everything I mentioned above. The Virgin was standing over the moon, vanquishing it, while rising towards the sun, that is, tearing down the moon’s invisible prison in order to reach the full potential represented by the sun. The blend of catholic and traditional symbols made Our Lady of Guadalupe the perfect example of Mexihca–Spanish syncretism.
Nowadays the pilgrimage to el Tepeyac, which takes place on 12 December, is the most popular in the world, attracting approximately 7 million people each year. I try to make this pilgrimage every year and I can say that it is the epitome of devotion. Millions of people come together to visit Our Lady of Guadalupe – the Virgin, thousands come to visit the Tonantzin coatlicue temple and thousands, like me, come to visit them both.
Sun and Moon
These teachings were also illustrated in the ancient Templo Mayor in Tenochtitlan, in the temple dedicated to Huitzilopochtli, the main energy cultivated by the Mexihcas, which in the tonal is the warrior’s discipline and the rising sun, and in the nahual is the hummingbird flying to the left, guiding us to overcome our weaknesses and achieve our potential during our dreams. It is said that the sculpture of a moon cut into pieces, called the coyolxauqui and representing the moon’s phases, was originally placed under the temple’s staircase. on top of it was the rising sun, vanquishing the moon day by day and fulfilling its grand destiny, just as we too overcome the moon and the darkness to reach our sun, changing our tonal (waking) via our nahual (dream state) .
I’d like to clarify that the vanquishing of the feminine moon by the masculine sun doesn’t refer to masculine and feminine duality. The Náhuatl tradition goes far beyond gender. There are masculine and feminine names for the moon as well as for the sun, and for everything that exists for that matter. For example, the entity that governs the moon is the Black Tezcatlipoca, or smoking mirror, the most important energy ruling dreams, and this gives the moon a masculine name. But the ancient tradition of dreaming doesn’t talk about masculine or feminine but about being awake or asleep, alive or dead.
The preceding is adapted from The Toltec Secret: Dreaming Practices of the Ancient Mexicans by Sergio Magaña ©2014 and is reprinted with permission of Hay House.
Pilgrimage to the Navel of the Moon
Please Join me on a Pilgrimage to the Navel of the Moon which begins as a pilgrimage to the Lady of Guadalupe, the largest in the world, located at the ancient temple of Tonantzin / Coatlicue – The Temple of Mother Earth and the Goddess of Life and Death. The ancient pilgrimage took place on Dec. 21 or 22 after the Solstice, to congratulate the Mother Earth for the birth of Huitzilopochtli and served as a time for reviewing one’s life – a recapitulation. Learn the 6 secrets of life and how to integrate your life stages to become a person of wisdom, to become Mexicatzin. Learn to die consciously and of the 6 secrets of transition in the death state. We perform a sacred ritual while walking the Pilgrim route from Tlaltelolco to the Basilica of Guadalupe, where Our Lady of Guadalupe resides, unblocking heavy energies, making peace with our own mysteries, preparing us for the birth of the Hummingbird Sun inside us. We hunt the energy of devotion in the Pilgrimage that will take us with millions of people to the Lady of Guadalupe, the midnight of the December 12th.
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About the Author
Sergio Magaña, “Ocelocoyotl”, is a well-known and respected healer in Mexico City, who has been initiated into the 5,000-year-old Toltec or Toltecayotl lineage of Mesoamerica. The tradition began with the ancient Chichimecas, who transmitted it to Teotihuacans and then Toltecs, who then taught both the Mayans and Aztecs. Sergio is also trained in the Tol shamanic lineage (nahualism) of dreaming knowledge that has been passed on in the oral tradition without interruption from master to student for over 1,460 years. The time for these teachings to be unveiled is now and Sergio is one of a few spokespeople asked to share this ancient and hidden wisdom with the world. He is the author of 2012 – 2021, The Dawn of the Sixth Sun – The Path of Quetzalcoatl, as well as, the newly released book The Toltec Secret (Hay House). He has also been appointed head of a prestigious project with Club UNESCO for the Protection of Intangible Heritage of Ancient Civilizations. www.sergiomagana.com
