For years I have walked the villages, jungles, cenotes, and coastal winds of the Yucatán Peninsula, listening to the stories carried by the land and learning from the Maya people who keep those stories alive. Again and again, one presence has appeared in their words, their rituals, their art, and their quiet, everyday gestures of reverence: Ixchel — the Moon Mother, the healer, the one who weaves the worlds together.
This book was born from those encounters. It is rooted in real places, real teachers, and real conversations — offered with deep respect and gratitude for a culture that has welcomed me, taught me, and reshaped the way I understand magic, water, and the feminine.
Ixchel: Moon, Water & Magic is my invitation to you to step into that living world — not as a tourist of myth, but as someone willing to listen, breathe, and remember. What follows is a glimpse into the journey this book holds.
She is the moon in her fullness and the rain that softens the earth. She is the serpent of light arching across the sky and the water that remembers everything. She is midwife, healer, dream walker, weaver of destinies — and she is calling us home. Ixchel is one of the most ancient and beloved goddesses of the Maya world: guardian of moon cycles and sacred waters, patron of midwives and healers, rainbow-woven bridge between worlds. Yet her magic is not a relic of myth — it lives in the land, in the language, in the breath of the people, and in the waters that shape the Yucatán Peninsula. This book is an invitation to walk her spiral path. Through gentle teachings, living cultural respect, prayer, ritual, meditation, and embodied practice, you will learn to: ✨ honor the moon as a living teacher 🌿 work with water as memory, medicine, and spirit 🐍 awaken the inner serpent-light along the spine 🌈 walk the rainbow bridge between seen and unseen 🌬️ breathe as the Maya understand breath — as spirit 💧 commune with cenotes, storms, and still water 🌙 move through life not in straight lines, but sacred spirals 🌸 embody the fierce tenderness of feminine creation 🕊️ weave magic that is rooted, respectful, and real Along the way, you will encounter stories, invocations, and Maya terms offered with love and humility — honoring the living language and living people whose lineage carries Ixchel still. This is not a book about worshiping a goddess from afar. It is a book about remembering your place in a cosmos of water and light — and learning to listen the way water listens, to see the way moonlight sees, to rise like a rainbow after the storm. Whether you are beginning your journey with Ixchel or deepening a path already walked, this book will guide you with tenderness and truth, helping you return again and again — like the moon, like the tide, like the spiral — to the center of your own sacred knowing. Take a breath. Touch the water. Lift your eyes to the moon. Ixchel is waiting.