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Make your own
Spirit Water
½ cup dried sage
½ cup dried cedar
½ cup dried sweetgrass
½ cup dried lavender
6 cups good quality vodka (Finlandia is a good one)
Spiritually gather the herbs in a sacred way. Combine
them with the vodka. Place in a glass jar and store at
room temperature for 14 days (1/2 moon cycle). Place
a paper towel in a mesh strainer and strain out the
liquid from the herbs into a clear container with a lid.
Keep for years.
EXTRACT and INSTALL
Shaman’s Archetypes
Those archetypes that have grown from the seeds installed in the South — Ayni Carpi
Our archetypes must be kept healthy and strong as they inform and assist us
on a daily basis. In times of crisis one or more of our archetypes might step
up to protect us, and in doing this they take the “hit” so that we don’t have to
experience the trauma on a physical level. When we have experienced a crisis, it
is always good to check in with our archetypes to see if they are still healthy and
intact, and to see if they need to be strengthened or, in some cases, replaced.
I. Test
Baseline muscle test. Have Shaman go one by one to each archetype, embody it,
when ready, put arms up. Muscle test to see its strength. Go through: Serpent,
Jaguar, Hummingbird, Eagle/Condor, Huascar, Quetzalcoatl, Pachakuti.
Check to see how each archetype is getting along with the others through muscle
testing – especially lower four. Upper four are a reflection of the lower four. Hold
Serpent, arms up, and check next three asking if getting along with Serpent. Hold
Jaguar, arms up, and check Serpent, Hummingbird and Eagle/Condor to see how
they are getting along. Continue with each archetype. If there are issues, listen to
them, what is the story, negotiate.
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If a particular archetype continues to be weak,
look at Bands of Protection associated with that
archetype. May need to re-weave band.
II. Extract
Open chakra and go into it, sense/track what’s there. Have
Shaman call up archetype. Visit with the archetype to see if it is
weak and needs to be energized, or if it needs to be replaced.
Talk with Shaman too. May want it to sit for a while, see
if it corrects itself, depending on what’s going on. Get
permission before extracting it.
Light palo santos stick – need flame to attract
or pull out archetype. Go counter-clockwise
over chakra, coax it out. Once all out, can go
to smoke. Check for emptiness, make sure all parts are clear; take a moment,
sense it; touch skin in 4 places of Southern Cross with hot end of stick (no particular order). Yes, even at
1st chakra.
Install or let it sit for a while based on what the Shaman senses.
III. Install
Use South stone for Serpent, West for Jaguar, North for Hummingbird, East for rest, except use Lineage
stone for Pachakuti.
To install a new archetype, the shaman will open the appropriate chakra (if not already open from
extraction). Holding their stone, the shaman will call up the energy of their archetype, and the great
archetype, blowing this into the stone. The shaman then places the stone on the open chakra, cupping
their hands around the stone, and then blows the seed of the great archetype into the open chakra. Let
the new archetype settle into the bottom of the chakra and get comfortable. Visit with the archetype, sense
it, energize it or let it grow. Illuminate as needed. Close chakra.
IV. Follow-up Work
Take stick to fire, put feather in mesa or something else to take it to energetic level to release to the light.
Cutti Despacho
Black Paper (three sheets black poster board)
Black Ingredients
Black Beans
Black Raisins
Dried Peppers
Choo-Choos – Round black nuts from Peru
Red Chiles – Large
Red Chiles – Small
Red Ingredients
Red Beans – Kidney Beans
Dried Red Cranberries
Dried Dark Figs
Dried Red Peppers
Use Salt not sugar
Incense – Four Directions
Kintus – Broken Leaves – Coca or Bay leaves in USA
Flowers – Red and White
Bugs – facsimiles or . . .
Insects – facsimiles or . . .
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Red Wine
Pisco or White Wine or Vodka
Glasses for Shamans
Glasses for class
Bark of Nut – Looks like a piece of the brain
*** Everything is counterclockwise
with the Left Hand
*** Have a darker brown/ black/grey woven
cloth around the black paper
Anise
Black Licorice
Black Wild Rice
*** Important Points
Shell
Figurines
Male and Female Figure
Coca Leaf Seeds – Small narrow and black
Huayrurus
(Gold and Silver bead – cord)
Black Gummies
Black Candies
Chocolate – Bitter
Bitter ingredients
Llama Fat or Replacement
(Beef Jerky)
Condor Feather or Falcon Feather
Black Yarn
Red Yarn
Counterclockwise with Left Hand
Do the Despacho quickly – it is very hot
Broken Leaves for Kintus
Three people put their left foot on the completed
and closed despacho; those who may have
negative intent or sorcery being done on them
Wear your Black Poncho
At the Fire:
The despacho is placed into the fire by the
shaman at the end of the fire ceremony after
the Pachamama stick has been placed in and
everyone has left.
The Shaman quickly places the despacho in the
fire and moves away from the fire to a protected
space while the despacho is being consumed.
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Anyi Despacho
MATERIAL SYMBOL/PROCESS
Large piece of white paper
Envelope of dreams which we will write with prayers.
Fold into thirds both horizontally and vertically so that nine squares are
formed; the central square is the space where offerings are placed.
Red wine or port in small cup or glass
Blood of Pachamama
With your breath and words, put love, intent, prayers, and purpose into
wine.
Pisco or vodka in glass
Offering to mountain spirits; especially to the holy mountain from which
we source ourselves. (Since we have received our rites from Alberto, we
source from the same mountain as he—Ausangate.)
Toss the two drinks outside to bring together heaven and earth, and to call
the “elementals” of the three worlds:
Uhupacha:
Mukis: keepers of the riches of Pachamama, extension of
Pachamama, roots of plants, spirits honored by miners.
Naupas: prehuman beings who live “between” spaces (caves, springs),
who source from Causay. Don’t call them—they are not invited—but
make peace with them. Detach from Jaguar
engagement with them—go into Condor and Inka states instead.
Anchanchu: other beings which live close to surface of Pachamama;
extensions of Illas, the reproductive principles which come into
dreamtime.
Kaypacha:
Willkis: guardian angels
Lanlas: angelic beings out to have fun with you.Their job is to confuse
you; confusion is a form of energy from which they feed. Don’t invite
them either!
Ispallas: winged angels which manifest in dreamtime, who have a
different frequency which does not correspond to our waking state.
Hanaqpacha:
Hake Mallkis: the luminous ones, the wise ones (can appear as
fireflies, then quickly disappear).
These elementals appear hovering about a foot above the ground as
contoured bubbles when we learn to see between the spaces.
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Quintos
Coca, bay, or mint leaves
The basic equation of the Despacho: the three leaves are assembled face
up, stem down.The leaves represent lower, middle, upper world
(uhupacha, kaypacha, hanacpacha); power, love, intellect/mind (yanqui,
munai, yachi); past self, present self, becoming self of knowing, wisdom,
availability.
Red and white carnation petals
Red petals represent Pachamama – the blood of Pachamama; White
petals represent mountain spirit, glaciers on top of mountains, water of the
source of the Amazon and source of life. Placing on top of the three coca
leaves the red first, then the white on top to bring together heaven and
earth.
Icara (breath, song)
The most important act of doing a despacho is the breath; active prayer
of engaging the sacred. Breathe into the quinto.Tell it who you are (who
you really are, merged with your external identity), your myths, wounds,
contracts, promises, who you are becoming. Call on all places of source:
Apu, Pachamama (source of being while we are in kaypacha) huacas,
teachers (anyone who has contributed to who you are now).
Right Hand
Clockwise
Use your right hand going clockwise around the paper when assembling
despacho ingredients.
Sugar (love)
Place sugar on four corners of paper to assemble four corners of the
world, the four archetypes.
Make a small cross in the center of the paper with sugar to represent the
Southern Cross: “What is in heaven is reflected back to me.”
The Southern Cross serves as the guiding principle of the people – ayllu
before individuals. In the northern hemisphere we use the North Star as a
guiding principle: individual before community.
Use liberally throughout
Incense (Copal) or sage
Place on top of sugar.
Anise (Panta Anise)
Place on top of incense. Combine with incense and sugar to feed
elementals.
Wiracoya (or sage)
or Paulo Santo (lighted), dried flowers with
aroma, essential oils
Aroma, smell, sweetness, smoke for cleansing.
The wiracoya aroma stimulates the power of directed or focused action.
Port/Pisco
Call on Pachamama to bless this first layer; hold glass, pray into it,
sprinkle despacho using flower dipped into wine.“Be with us; thank you
Pachamama for our lives.” Call on apus, mountain spirits,“Be with us,
thank you lineage, twelve mountains.” Dip flower into pisco and sprinkle
onto despacho.
Offer red/white wine to elementals outside.
Rice
Sprinkle rice over whole paper for fertility, abundance, to bring prayers into
fruition.
Quintos
Place quintos onto this foundation layer. There are a variety of
configurations for the placement of quintos:
1. Using 3–leaved quintos, depict apus on upper half of paper.
2. Use 7 quintos to represent the 7 organizing principles (Causay – life
force, Chekaq – absolute truth, Kallarity – embodiment, Chulla – oneness
or communion, Munai – love, Nuna – spirit,Yuya – wisdom). Place these
across center of paper, calling on each as the quintos are placed.
Sugar
Cover this first base of quintos with lots of sugar.
Sugar represents the sweetness of our life and of our love. It also
represents the snows and the sweetness of the water that will come from
the snows.
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Quintos
Bring quintos of individuals, of prayers. Intent is the common denominator,
and you need to give SOUND, voice to the intent.This is the prayer. When
prayer comes from our deepest self, it becomes our mantra and allows us
to access and bridge all possibilities.
Shell (Mamacocho)
Place shell in the middle of the despacho: this is the womb of
Pachamama, our source and birthplace.This holds us and nourishes
us, provides opportunity and safety. Represents mother of waters
(sachamama, great serpent).
Figurine (made of candy)
Place either one, to represent yourself, or two (male and female) to
represent complementary opposites (“yananti, matinti”) balance, and
communion.
Foundation
Everything after this basic foundation can be created as you wish.
Two little quintos
Placed in shell to nurture male and female figures.
Llama Fat (Untu)
Rub onto the figurines. Represents energy in purest form, comes from
llama chest, close to heart. Used to metabolize huachas. It revitalizes our
own energy.
Coca leaf seeds
Put into shell/womb; represent sacred seeds of prayer, of the unmanifest.
Red and white wine
(or port and vodka or pisco)
Bless; say prayer; pour over seeds in shell.
Choe-chis
Little lead figurines, tools
After removing lock, knife, coffin, place on top of figurines. Represent
balance, tools we will/can use to transcend the journey of our work. Offer
with prayer of ayni.
Gold and silver bead
Put into shell, to represent Sun and Moon.
Gold and silver paper
Represent wisdom of Pachamama (gold) and wisdom of the apus or
mountain spirits (silver) to be available to us.
Gold cord
Silver cord
Our connection to heaven, apus (silver) and Pachamama (gold); creates
safety.
Huayruros
1 red bean (female)
1 red bean with black dot (male)
Put into shell for protection; represent magical and mystical sides;
represent luminous template, to bring balance of night and day, shadow
and light. (Seeds are from the Amazon.) Signifies the energetic readiness
to bring harmony and balance to all of our relations and to all opposites.
Stars
Sprinkle all over; represent star brothers and sisters.
Flutes (Pinkullos) represented
by silver and gold rods
Put in shell. Represent sound, the primal engagement with the universe.
Sound has more information, is more complete than sight. Brings full
blossoming of manifestation. Celestial music brings harmony to all
elements of the despacho.
Lima Beans
Represent Huacas, places of power locations where veil between the
worlds is the thinnest. We need to be in ayni to go through the veil.
Huacas contain Causay – the energy of the universe; we can tap into
knowledge of the universe through huacas and come into synchronicity
with our path.
Candies
Candy hearts
Gum drops
Cinnamon hearts
Candy corn, etc. etc.
Sprinkle a LOT all over. Represent everything we are in relationship with;
bringing harmony to all our environment (even our enemies, upstream);
making our life homogenous and congruent with our vision so our life
flows; make peace with ourselves and with our enemies; to be in right
relationship.
Sugar represents the sweetness of life.
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Candy sprinkles
(red, green, multicolored)
For elementals.
Use liberally throughout ceremony.
Chocolate
For Pachamama.
Use liberally.
Rice
Abundance, fertility of our dreams and prayers and thanks.
Represents the snows and the glaciers, and also the seeds that feed us.
Corn (unpopped popcorn)
Sustenance: gift back to Pachamama what we have been given.
Red beans and/or Garbanzos
Garbanzos offer protection so that our path is clear of obstacles.
Small red beans represent places of emergence, the pacarinas, such as
springs.
Peanuts
Old trees (mailki) plant people.
Lentils
Abundance of earth.
Raisins
Spirits of our ancestors, our blood lineage. Represents healing for them
and for us. Helps us escape from grip of linear time.
Cranberries
Native to our gardens, our localities.
Figs
Spirits of ancient ones who dwell in sacred mountains (whenever our
ancestors pass, their wisdom goes back to the mountains). Divide figs into
two piles for male and female ancestors.
Starfish
Put in middle.We seek to bring the stars, i.e., our destiny in the kaypacha,
in good relationship with the apu and with the Pachamama.
Pink dough
(St. Nicholas)
Southern Cross; assemblage of reality; intersection of time and space; for
manifestation of life to occur.
White dough
Place of source, Pachamama, which is sitting our home, our dreams,
our life, children, our ideas. Protects the physicality of our home and
its integrity. Note: when we move to a new place, be cautious. Do a
ceremony, and engage with local Pachamama, the local elementals and
the keepers of nature.
Animal Crackers
For all animal spirits; health.
Alphabet Noodles
They enable us to step outside and beyond language and linear reasoning
to true understanding and wisdom. The learning that we have before us
lies outside of language and beyond consensual reality.
Llama fetus
(could use beef jerky)
The “unborn” returned to Pachamama. Represents any dormant aspect of
ourselves which needs to return to Pachamama. It also represents that all
animals belong to the Pachamama and to the apu.
Condor in Circle (can use anything to
represent all the elements of our world)
Ensures vision of our prayer coming to safe harbor. Destiny (Remove knife,
lock, coffin – toss over left shoulder).
Layer of Sugar, Sage, Incense, Anise,
Frankincense
Choo–choos (round black nuts); could
also use black beans or licorice
Protection; trap and reflect energy coming to us; ensure that what we are
praying for is effective.
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Bark of Nut (looks like a piece of brain)
Yachi, wisdom,
Put into center.
2 candy frogs
(It is said that Dogs and Frogs have individualized souls.)
Messengers, envoys to carry our prayers; archetype of cycle of waters,
creating, planting, and rain.
Money
Ensure successfulness of despacho; measure of our success.
Cotton
Clouds (phuyo), the provider of the waters. Above and below; represent
aware time and dream time.
Rainbow Yarn
Connect clouds; bridge between worlds. Represents the Kuychi or rainbow,
our capacity for transcendence. Use to navigate uncharted territory. (Lay
out in rainbow shape in center and lay out around edge of despacho.)
Represents the great way, the path of munai, the Hatoon Yan.
Red yarn (HatoonYan)
Elliptic followed by all celestial bodies; path of life.
Confetti paper
Celebrate all life.
Flower petals
Use yellow for healing; use purple and yellow for a “jumpstart”.
Ending: pass red and white wine to all participants.
The above list of despacho items should provide you with some ideas for your offering. There are no “rules” about
what has to go in a despacho. You should liberally substitute items according to their availability and meaning to
you. Remember, what matters most is your intent. Don’t get caught up with the details.
When you have placed all your items in the despacho, the entire contents are typically encircled with a long thread
or piece of yarn. Often this string is dyed with the colors of the rainbow. This is to weave or tie together our prayers
and offering and bring them into harmony. We seek to create a vortex of energy in order to manifest our prayers.
The corners of the large paper are then folded over the contents so that they (the corners) all touch at the center.
The despacho is now a smaller square. The new corners of the square are also folded to the center, making it
smaller still. The despacho is typically tied with white and yellow yarn. White to bring clarity, yellow to bring harmony.
We are bound to the apu and to the Mother. The despacho is then typically wrapped in a cloth and used to lightly
cleanse the energy body of the persons participating in the ceremony.
To cleanse the energy body:
Take despacho and clean the luminous field in the front of the body by wiping the despacho around head, down
arms and legs, paying particular attention to the three focal points and the mesa. Turn the person around and wipe
twice in the pattern of a large cross. Blow away from the despacho the impurities thus taken from the person’s light
body.
The despacho is either buried (for slow, steady results) or burned (for an explosive transformation) or fed to the
running waters ceremonially within a reasonable amount of time after it was prepared. When the despacho is placed
into the fire, participants generally do not look towards the flames until after the offering has burnt. This symbolizes
non-attachment to outcome and a release of all claim to that which was given away.
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Cords: bind us with people through time.
Cords show up when toxic energy is built up.
What you need:
l Palo santo
l Candle (to light palo santo)
l Knife or feather or rattle handle (to cut cord)
u Working with a sword/blade: hold both ends of knife (so you don’t puncture anyone...)
u Knife: dulled purposely and sharpened energetically.
What you do:
First track — in Wiracocha — and ask about possible toxic relationships/cords – ask where your client thinks
there is a cord. Or if you track a cord… get an image of the Cord.
Cord cutting process:
BE GENTLE AND CAREFUL — SO THE CORD DOESN’T SNAP BACK. Use feathers and/or knives, cut and
clear carefully; seal and cauterize; and include the client in the process... by having them use the name of the
person they are cutting the cord from... “say name, I release you to your own destiny.”
NOTE: Client tells the person on the other side of the cord: I release you to your own destiny
(not to your best, or highest destiny.)
Steps – once you have tracked a cord:
l Have client sit/stand up so they are in their power when cord is cut...
l Ask client: Are you ready to let go of this relationship that is karmic/toxic and not true love
(love cords are made of light and cannot be cut). Cord that is cut has density.
l Tell client: Imagine your _____ call and invoke his/her presence — feel where s/he comes in and where
s/he is hooked to you...
l Tell client: When we work on this — we will each grab hold of where we see this — and pull it out —
acknowledge the person for ______ thanking and releasing.
l Client says, out loud: “I release you, (say the name of person at other end of cord), to your own destiny.”
l When we are ready — exhale with all your attention — as exhaling pull out.
l Shaman: use the knife or feather to cut it.
l Shaman: use palo santo with fire to cauterize right on the skin where the cord was cut.
l Shaman: smooth the luminous energy field. Complete Illumination to clear the affinity.
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