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2 April 2025 Note

For several months now I have been diving deep into various resources as I revise my book manuscript for Lexington Books. I realized in December of 2024 that I needed to reduce my focus in my rambling manuscript just to the works of Gloria Anzaldúa. My book had begun, in fact, as a study about her, but in 2017 I decided to combine my work on several other Chicana and Indigenous writers and activists into a single book.

That didn’t work out, though, as my manuscript reader luckily had also noticed.

After spending three months in a deep reading of the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s notion of chiasm, in late March of 2025 I returned to Anzaldúa’s work. I spent the past two or three days reading heavily in material concerning the Aztec goddess Cihuacoatl. And as I was working through several points of inspiration in this new work, I realized that I should conclude the book with a chapter on a topic that Anzaldúa herself never wrote about.

That topic is the need to turn to the figure of Quetzalcoatl as an initial step towards working our way out of the illusion of separation that continues to mark our contemporary notions of sex and gender. Rather than turn singly to Amerindian goddess figures as we try to reconstitute our own mythology of the Present in this Dawning of the Age of Aquarius, I have come to believe that the figure of Quetzalcoatl might better serve as our figure of divine identification. For Quetzalcoatl embodies the unification of the Heavens and the Earth as the combination of the Quetzal bird and the Coatl serpent. Just so, Quetzalcoatl embodies the future unification of the sexes into a higher order of Cosmic Sex.

I had come to this conclusion back in 2016, and, luckily, I had written down some notes from my recollection of a telepathic conversation I had had with the goddess Coatlicue, who had served as a key figure in Anzaldúa’s shamanic awakening before she turned to Coyolxauhqui. So as I slowly dive more deeply into this spirit terrain in my book revising process, I will at this juncture present you with my notes from 2016.

You might notice if you have been following my narratives before this point that I have referred to my High Self as Adam Kadmon. But before that name was presented to me, I had earlier been instructed to refer to my High Self as Samuel. And that is the name I use in the following notes.

In my attempt to provide some additional experiential background material regarding this turn to figures from the Aztec pantheon, I will include recordings of two separate telphone sessions I had in 2016 with the entity known as Monitor, channeled by Harvey Grady in Sedona, Arizona. I should also mention ehre that this material has churned up a lot of emotional dust for me and will require a lot of reading, soul searching, and spirit communication before I can feel comfortable with the topic.

This is Gabriel Hartley, and you are about to hear episode #66 of my Soul Planet Channel on the 2nd day of April 2025. Today’s episode is entitled “Talking With Coatlicue on the Way to Quetzalcoatl: Into the Age of Aquarius.”

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Notes on My Coatlicue Communication

21 March 2016

The other morning as I awoke, I felt the urging of my High Self, Samuel, to enter into conversation. He suggested that I do my usual yoga and pranayama exercises in order to warm up and clear my systems, which I did. Then as I entered into my post-pranayama meditation and communication stream, Samuel told me that if I wished to, he would arrange for me to speak with Coatlicue. And, of course, I said, “Yes!”

Some of what we discussed remains a bit blurry at this point, but the gist of her message was that if I chose to do so, I could continue Gloria Anzaldúa’s project beyond the point where she unfortunately left off at the time of her death in 2004. I’ve been getting a similar message from various spirit sources for some time now, but up to this point I was clueless concerning what exactly this might mean. Beyond that, I feel a bit daunted at the prospect of putting myself in her shoes and continuing her journey in this way. I can’t imagine such a process going unchallenged, yet I do feel that the calling is legitimate and important.

What I learned from Coatlicue was that Gloria had gone quite far in overcoming the Shadow-Beast stage of her initial confrontation with Coatlicue when she began work on the project of “putting Coyolxauqui together again.” What this means, in short, is that at a certain point in her liberation project, Gloria had begun to identify with Coyolxauqui, the daughter of Coatlicue. As the story goes, while Coatlicue was pregnant with Huitzilopochtli—the Aztec Sun-God of War—Coyolxauqui recognized that her brother-in-utero was destined to bring about the end of the feminine world order up to that point. Huitzilopochtli would bring around a patriarchal military order that would lead to untold death and destruction. And such certainly seems to be the result of Huitzilopochtli’s reign, which is just now at a critical crossroads.

Upon recognizing Coyolxauhqui’s fratricidal (and consequently matricidal) intentions to murder her brother in utero to prevent such a drastic outcome and overthrow of the world order, Huitzilopochtli caused his own premature birth, leaping from the womb of Coatlicue and dismembering and beheading his sister Coyolxauqui, tossing her head into the heavens where it now reigns as our moon. From this tale of cosmic sibling rivalry Anzaldúa put together a restorative project of putting Coyolxauhqui together again and bringing about a new, reborn feminine source of power (the rebirth of the feminine that many see as the primary quality of the shift from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius).

So far, so good. But what Coatlicue then suggested to me was that this restoration or re-membering of Coyolxauqui was a very important but ultimately transitional process of social healing. The “Rebirth of the Feminine” that one might imagine as the consequence of “putting Coyolxauhqui back together” is a restorative moment paving the way for the unification of the masculine and the feminine. This bisexual unification should be the ultimate goal for today’s spiritual activists. And the figure best prepared to stand in as the representative of such a project is not Coyolxauhqui but Quetzalcoatl.

My job, then, is to present Gloria’s Coatlicue-Huitzilopochtli-Coyolxauhqui in as much detail as possible, highlighting the cosmic logic behind this family drama, and then to develop in as much detail and clarity as possible what the new reign of Quetzalcoatl might look like. Quetzalcoatl is the best figure for such a cosmic-social transformation because He/She represents the manifestation of the cosmic unification of the masculine and the feminine as well as all other logics of social polarity. Being the dragon figure, the winged serpent whose home is both the Heavens and the Earth, Quetzalcoatl represents the next stage of healing cosmic consciousness, the Yin-Yang fusion of all oppositional factions into a movement of planetary liberation.

So this is what I plan to do as I move forward in this development of Anzaldúa’s project of healing the cosmic Self. This is the next moment on the path of cosmic bridging that Gloria sought throughout the last decade of her life.

Monitor on My Coatlicue Project

Two months after my conversation with Coatlicue concerning Quetzalcoatl, I had a chance to ask the multidimensional entity known as Monitor about the merits of that communication and about my plans for pursuing a post-Anzaldúan approach to Coatlicue. You can hear that conversation with Monitor in the following recording. (I apologize up front for the poor audio quality.):

GABRIEL: Monitor, this is Gabriel. I have an extended question starting out. As you know, I have spent over ten years working on a book project concerning Gloria Anzaldua. In many ways, this project is responsible for my spiritual awakening. I hope to finish this project this fall during my sabbatical. I have been in spirit contact with Gloria ever since she spoke to me in San Antonia in 2009. I have since then been in contact with some of her guiding Spirits, as they have assisted me in gaining the proper path and focus for this project.

I understand from previous discussion with you that Gloria unknowingly placed limitations on me while still serving as an instigator to change and growth. My focus now is specifically on her shamanic experiences and understandings, what she calls “conocimientos,” but in a planetary rather than ethnically specific context. Even so, I feel once again compelled to engage with various Mesoamerican cosmologies and devic beings, especially Coatlicue, with whom I believe Gloria was in personal contact, and now Quetzalcoatl of whom I believe Gloria was fairly oblivious.

I have been told that the planetary spiritual progression she laid out in her transition from Coatlicue to Coyolxauhqui as a healing response to the ravages of Huitzilopochtli must now be complemented by a turn to Quetzalcoatl. This androgynous, hermetic Quetzalcoatl figure appears to represent the unification of warring factions of human consciousness and ultimately planetary consciousness.

My question is whether I have overcome my previous limit