Celebrating with Substack, One Year Since the First Remembrance with Pachamama

Leading to a deeper purpose in my Life. Thank you for being here with me.

Tomorrow is August 1st. Día de la Pachamama, as celebrated in the Andes. The day of Mother Earth.

A year ago this date marked the start of something I didn’t fully understand I was beginning. It’s a significant day of beginning for the Andean people, the beginning of their agricultural cycle, the cycle of life sustenance.

And on this very special day, I started a seven-day personal challenge for my Substack audience. Seven days of sitting with my cacao, a ritual I’d already been keeping for over a decade. Seven days with my Queuña tree, the Water Guardian of these high Andes. Seven days of writing to you, here, about whatever rose up in the meditation.

I thought I was just showing up for a challenge.

By the seventh day, something in me had shifted. Not gradually, but in this instance of journeying my seventh meditation with Pachamama.

I looked back over the six days before it, and realized I hadn’t just written seven entries. I’d walked through a journey. And the message waiting for me on the other side was simple: this was not only mine to journey, it’s to be shared.

Not as advice. Not as a teaching from me. As a remembering. Of the oneness that’s always here, the ever-present, accessible when we pause and listen. Deeply.

I made a short video from here in the Sacred Valley to mark this anniversary, and to give thanks — to this land, to the Queuña, to Pachamama, and honestly, to this Substack space itself, for giving me the nudge to keep showing up in practice. You can watch it above.

If you want to go back to where it started…

[link to original seven-day story].

Now, after a year…

That seven-day remembrance became the seed for everything I nourish today. And it’s grown, over this past year, into my signature offering: Chrysalis: A Living Initiation, a seven-week, 1:1 journey through the Seven Portals of Remembrance — the deepest expression of what becomes possible when we surrender to what Pachamama and the wisdom, beyond time and space, are calling forward — for visionaries and changemakers.

It’s deeply personal work. I only open a few spaces at a time.

If something in this video or this story is speaking to you, I’d love to hear where you are.

In service to Life,
Christina 🌸