day 1: mexico city.

My first night in mexico city; i dream of running around the city streets. maybe not running but flying or gliding. i feel like i am taking in this place. being many places simultaniously. i am current. i am light trails of cars photographed at night. i am fast moving and frictionless.




first initiation; find the Zocalo, energetic centre of the city.

the image of the eagle eating a snake that is pictured on the mexican flag refers to the myth that built the city. the image symbolises the combination of earth and sky energies and is strongly associated with the mayan god, quetz coatl; the feathered serpant. The location of the city was decided when a shaman had this vision at the place that is today the busy square of the zocalo.

our first task is, amongst the noise and chaos of the mexico city day of the dead celebrations; to be still, to shut out the noise and listen to story of this place. follow the energy lines. find the zocalo.



At first, alone in the city, all my fears fill my head. i think of the british embassy's advice to travellers in mexico, i think of news reports of kidknappings and statistics that tell me more people go missing in mexico every year than in iraq. i can't speak spanish, i have a fairly weak sense of direction, i hate being on my own and a thousand other negativities poor through me. but then i stop. i remember to breath and as i look about me i realise; this is just a city, like any other. i shake off my interfering thoughts and start walking. throughout the day i find that when i chose a direction because i have seen a beautiful tree or butterfly or because i needed to find water; my steps take me ever closer to the zocalo. and when, as inevitably they do, my thoughts creep back in again telling me i should head this way or that; i find myself lost and confused.


from a few blocks away i can feel the pull of the zocalo like there is a string attatched to my belly that is being sucked down a plughole. i meander my way there smiling; i am coming, i am coming.