I have been fascinated by the four-petaled flower of Teotihuacan ever since my first visit to the ruins in 2005.
The city of Teotihuacan was built over two-thousand years ago, and then around 800 AD, for unknown reasons, the Teotihuacanos vacated it. When the Toltecs arrived, they considered it a holy place. Centuries later, the Aztecs found it, and even though land was in ruins, they acknowledged its greatness and named it Teotihuacan, which roughly translated from Nahuatl, their native language, might mean—the place where man becomes god. They named the pyramids—Sun and Moon—based on their cosmology and the North/South passageway through the city (assuming the overgrown temples along this thoroughfare must have been burial mounds) the Avenue of the Dead.
Three thousand years ago (one thousand years before the Pyramid of the Sun was built) a natural cave underneath the center was carved by hand into the shape of a four-petaled flower
During our group journey, my partner Emily and I realized it was time to immerse ourselves in Teotihuacan without any of the preconceived ideas or names given to us by the Aztecs or archeologists. We wanted to learn from the ancestors. Who are they? What was Teotihuacan really about?
Our group sat on top of the Pyramid of the Sun, directly in the center of the pyramid and cave, and listened to my Teotihuacano spirit teacher, Sarayna speak through me:
“As you hear me speak, the energy of creation is filling you from underneath, through the base of this pyramid. Let it.
This is what we did in my day.
The four-petaled flower is a symbol of All Life, Wholeness, Beauty, Fragrance, Bounty, Harvest, and Union.
My people loved and revered this symbol.
The energy of each petal imparts uniqueness, and each comes together in the center—a combined union of all of the petals—and radiates out to create the energy of the entire symbol, which is its own uniqueness.
In my day, every home had a specific altar place where the four-petaled flower resided and radiated.
Sometimes we would become the flower.
During ceremonies and festivals, we would dance, sing and integrate the symbol inside of ourselves.
All Life. No Beginning. No End. All Unified. This is human shape-shifting.
It is important to instill the four-petaled flower within.
Imagine your heart center as the circle within the flower and each petal radiating from your upper chest.
Every day is an opportunity to live as a four-petaled flower. Receive its energy deep within.
Become the energy, and feed it to all humanity. ”
After this teaching, Emily and I realized our next journey would focus solely on the four-petaled flower.
One year later...
Before that group arrived, we were sitting around her kitchen table making plans and simultaneously awoke to the purpose of the week.
Our task was to reawaken the Four-Petaled Flower—the symbol of the Unity of All Life—and integrate it into Universal Consciousness. To learn about the flower from our loving guides and teachers and bring the image to the planet in a new way.
We were tasked with seeing and moving through the ruins differently than we had in the past. Begin in the center, at the cave, and walk along the path of the flower while activating its hidden petals. This unique, four-petaled route through the ruins of Teotihuacan included being outside of the gated area and in the surrounding communities. No one in our lifetime, as far as we knew, had seen Teotihuacan in this way.
We decided it was The Way of the Ancients.
Here are a few things we learned:
The four-petaled flower is a universal symbol embedded within the body of Earth.
The image and energetic imprint of the flower was brought to us from somewhere in the outer cosmos by star family ancestors who placed it within the Earth in an infinite number of directions.
The symbol spins out from the center an endless number of times and creates a complete sphere, which is what we perceive as Earth.
The four-petaled flower is a life-enhancing healing symbol.
It’s not enough to look in the mirror and say to the reflected image, “You are a four-petaled flower of wholeness.” That’s just the beginning. Our flower blossoms as we live it. Moment to moment, day by day, the scent, beauty, and color radiate.
How do we live as a four-petaled flower?
See through and act from the eye of the flower, which is the eye of the heart. Our flower-heart center.
16 comments
Ahhh… Annie, you have captured the essence! While reading your words, which were filled with the substance of your journey, I sensed the energy and its fullness in my heart chakra. I look forward to knowing more about your adventure.
So perfect and concise. Thank you for taking the time to post this.
Thank you for sharing this timeless healing wisdom with us. I’m looking forward to learning more about the four petaled flower and bringing this energy into my life. xox
I don’t know if it is the four petaled flower, but May has marked the beginning of my healing. I have been in pain since Halloween, and just last week I saw the light, started to feel better, and feel my joi de vivre coming back.
I miss you and the connection to Spirit that I felt when we lived in Ashland and spiritual healing and workshops, journeying, etc was a bigger part of my daily life. I look forward to connecting again. Love, Raina.
Perfect, I draw this image all the time. It is very calming on many levels.
Thank you for this. I will be in Téoitihuacan next month. My first time there was a very moving experience and I look forward to returning. I will be with dear family, surrounded by their love, and meeting new and beloved beings each day.
I came upon this article, well I want to say by accident, hahaha. When I read your words about the flower this whole concept fell into place, and I felt it. It all is so simple, why do we not already see this? But it wasn’t until I read your words, and it was like I remembered it all. I felt the flower as if I was in its being. It makes me more aware of my heart place as an energy center, pulling in from the 4 petals. Thank you, This was very powerful for me. I’m still learning, I guess we always are, but a lot of these concepts are very new to me.
Thanks again.
I look at the symbol and see the earth in the center, and the petals look like the energy fields of the the earth. In that view we live in the petals, bathed in the energy.
annie,
wow thank you so much for this.. this deeply resonates and feels utterly connected to my mesa to peru. to hawaii.. to a long line across the earth connected to the heart..
deepest munay
xxx
Thank you, Annie. I have been stuck in the birth passage since our journey in Teo two years ago. I had arrogantly thought my rebirth in Teo would be easy, as my physical ability to birth my children was easy. But I now realize my powerful childbirth experience was merely my awakening to my own spiritual essence, which literally led me to you nearly 20 years ago. In my heart, everything you share above deeply resonates. Teo has been calling to me daily since the last full moon and I HAVE felt the energy of the Four Petaled Flower. I DO feel myself emerging from the birth passage, after a very long transition. I am in profound gratitude and humility for this moment and the opportunities the future holds. I so look forward to learning more about the Four Petaled Flower, as I meditate on what you’ve already shared. Much Love.
We visited this place last year as part of a pilgrimage to Our Lady of Guadalupe. Our guide pointed out to us that the Virgin of Guadalupe has the four-petaled flower on her outer garment, in the region of her womb. It is singular there, as the designs on the rest of her garment are not four-petaled flowers.
Yes!! Isn’t that amazing? And – the four petaled flower is found all over the world – The symbol of the Unity of All Life. Thanks for reading and commenting. Annie
Wow, thank you for sharing this lost anecdote. I’ve seen it so many times and never connected it. La Virgen de Guadalupe appeared to me a few times and I never knew why. So I’d study her image.
It was right there this enitre time! It even troubled me how the rest of the markings on her dress didn’t take the shape of a flower.
Isn’t it funny how we can sometimes overlook the most obvious. But that is what the flower teaches us. To be here – now – to fully live.
Truly beautiful and really brings a lot together for me. Thank you and may this world repay your kindness many times over.
I was searching for a powerful healing ring for my family to give to my sister who is having a mastectomy due to breast cancer. I found the perfect ring without fully understanding why I was compelled to buy a ring in the shape of the four petal flower. It has a halo of sparkling diamonds with four natural rubelite tourmaline in the center which are rose colored. I began to meditate the shape and found (not by accident but by my guides) your page and blogs. I’m now convinced that I intuited correctly the healing ring that my sister needs to become whole, love herself inside as well as out and know that she is never alone. Thank you for sharing and the sisterhood through the four petal flower. I stood atop the pyramid of the sun over 20 years ago and felt the same as you have so beautifully described. I loved Teo and felt then that flowers were offered up, along with spices and incense to the gods.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience. The symbol is so amazing! And the synchronicities. I send your sister and family Big, Big Blessings. Annie
I came across a purple flower with four petals. I posted the image online and many asked what type of flower had I captured. In reaching four petals flowers, your post came up. I loved reading about your experience and deeper dive into the four petals flower. Thank you for your share!