Clearing Death with an Aya Despacho

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Wednesday, 28 December 2022

Written by Alberto Villoldo PhD

An Aya despacho brings closure energetically after a death. It is a collection of prayers and reminiscences that symbolize crossing over the rainbow bridge.

Any soul fragments that may be stuck or unfinished business is placed in the despacho to be burned so the soul doesn’t have to do this work to come to completion. This despacho is a deep celebration of the layers of a person’s life.

Instructions:

Begin by pouring a glass of red wine and white wine representing the blood of Pachamama and the mountains and give to Pachamama, outside. Then begin building the layers with sheets of black, red, green, blue, purple, gold and white paper. Use the ingredients you can find; you can substitute other fats for llama fat or create a drawing of a llama fetus.

Black layer – lower world, the unmanifested, the potential

Place sugar in the four directions. Use breath and intent.
place first set of kintus that represent all that is unmanifested in your lives, your potential. Each kintu has a red and white carnation petal holding it. Red for Pachamama, white for the apus.
coca seeds–the unmanifest
waruru seeds–masculine and feminine
llama fetus–the unborn potential
llama fat–capability of animating the unmanifest. It is the fuel to make the unmanifest, manifest.

Red Layer – Pachamama

chocolates
candles (not white)
red wine, say thank you to Pachamama and pass it around
photo of person
sprinkles
incense
herbs – thanking Pachamama for all the herbs she provides for us.
coca seeds – the most sacred to this lineage

Green Layer – Kay Pacha – Middle world, this world of our lived reality.

llama fat – again the fuel
fruits, raisins, dates – represent the little old ancestors
alphabet noodles – represent language, our spoken words.
garbanzos, peanuts – all the foods our mother provides, our nourishment
quinoa – high in protein
tables, little figurines – that represent the aspects of our everyday life.
dollar
loadstone or magnet
coca seeds
cinnamon stick

Blue Layer – the sky, clouds, the Apus

sugar
clouds (Cotton balls)
silica – magnetic qualities
white corn
white beads – air spirits
angels
white grains
white flowers
feather – flight

Purple layer – the rainbow layer

seashell – container for the intent of the despacho
inside the shell, a figure which connects the human and the sacred. This matches the person with their cosmic twin. We want to connect the spirit who has departed with their cosmic twin.
multicolored wool represents the rainbow bridge
rainbow ribbons
flowers
string to surround as a circle of life
confetti – joy
incense

Gold/Yellow layer – vision, alignment with your destiny and you’re becoming.

Place a new layer of kintus.

copal-golden incense to carry our dreams
silver and gold leaf….the knowledge of Inti and the knowledge of the mystery of the moon.
gold and silver flutes for the music in our lives
starfish – for the concept of as above so below
coca seeds

Final White layer – Oneness/ Nothingness

Finish by folding and tying with a gold and silver thread. Then take the despacho and place it into a fire to send the energy following the smoke to the heavens.

Are you ready to clear death from your calendar?

Credit

Alberto Villoldo PhD is a medical anthropologist who has spent the last 30 years investigating the healing practices of the shamans of the Amazon and the Andes. He is the founder and director of the Four Winds Society, and author of Shaman, Healer, Sage, Mending the Past and Healing the Future with Soul Retrieval, The Four Insights and Yoga, Power and Spirit. Alberto is founder of the world-renowned Four Winds Society and of the Light Body School. In his teachings and writings, he shares the experience of infinity and its ability to heal and transform us, to free us from the temporal chains that keep us fettered to illness, old age and disease.