copyright Ana Cortez 2009
Healing and… Chocolate!Receiving a position at Kakawa Chocolate House in Santa Fe, NM I count as one of my more recent, larger sized gifts from Spirit. Kakawa is owned by a chocolate historian and serves up the past daily in the form of drinkable chocolate elixirs. One could forget where one is - ingesting thick, earthy, Mesoamerican elixirs dating to 1000 B.C. or sipping Marie Antoinette’s favorite orange blossom, chocolate, and cinnamon brew.
Daily I observe as customers are transported by chocolate infusions, stirred by the experience of that magic brown substance.
The people that work here are the priests and priestesses of “the bean” (or Kakawa, the Mayan word for chocolate), not only making all the chocolate served, but consulting with each customer to find just the right blend of soul medicine. It is an intuition building experience, choosing among the myriad of recipes available on any given day: flowers, herbs, chilies, nuts, oils, milks, and nectars…. parallels in history…
As my manager (head priestess) so aptly put it… Kakawa is at the center of the universe. The transformation ensuing for each person who mingles with the energy of Kakawa is truly something to behold… not always comfortable. At times I have felt that here in this little shop we are processing the history and stories for all humanity and that ultimately we will all be carried into a place of new understanding and peace on a river of drinking chocolate.
Chocolate lifts us into a multi-sensual euphoria supported by the love chemicals it arouses in the body - and lures us to remain. I have conceived my role here as healer - reaching across time and blending all with pure brown love. Even The Playing Card Oracles have found a home here on Friday afternoons with readings by Ana Cortez. ©
