Kia ora e hoa ma. Hello again friends. Many of you may or may not know, that a team of six comprised of members within the SoulPath Collective, recently journeyed to Peru to carry out grid work. This happened during the southern hemisphere’s winter solstice and our Matariki Celebrations here in New Zealand which I commented on in an earlier post. In other Skool spaces over the last few 2 months I have posted a series called 30 Embers of Remembrance rekindling the quiet knowing of the flame that has always lived within.This was followed by a Matariki series called Voices Around the Fire, that invited us to pause, listen, remember our ancestors, and reflect on the wisdom carried across generations. While doing this series I was also supporting our team of spiritual warriors in Peru where the indigenous people there were celebrating Inti Raymi, the Festival of the Sun, held near the Southern Hemisphere winter solstice. While it is centred on Inti rather than Matariki (the Pleiades) themselves, the festival reflects the same turning point that Matariki does for Maori - a renewal of life, light and relationship with the natural world. Our team’s pilgrimage mantra was “Walk the line. Remember what is carried. Align. Walk in truth”. For those who walked the whenua (land) and immersed themselves in the womb of Titicaca, as well as those who held the field from afar we all return home with the challenge of embodying the lessons all pilgrimages teach us and for this reason and to support post trip integration, I’ve decided to start a new flame embodiment series. Where the flame represents the individual - the inner light we tend, the sun represents the greater light that has always been there. The flame is not separate from the sun. It is the same fire, expressed on a different scale. The sun temples of Peru taught us this. We are not separate. Where the 30 Embers of Remembrance were warm, close and intimate and Matariki lifted our eyes to the heavens, Flames of Embodiment returns us to Earțh. The teachings are no longer “out there”. It is lived where our feet meet the land.