Hatun Karpay – the great initiation

Karpay – the watering of your light seed

Karpay means “to water” in Quechua. With a karpay we water the seeds of light that we carry within us so that they sprout and grow.

The Hatun Karpay is transmitted in individual sessions and last from two to two and a half hours.

In Peru, the Paqos often make pilgrimages to a mountain and the reception of the Hatun Karpay is prepared with a despacho ceremony. Here in Europe we are used to working in a practice. The Hatun Karpay is usually run through when you start creating your own Mesa. All participants of the Mesa School go through the Hatun Karpay. The order of the three initiations begins with the heart, then follows the head and lastly the navel. There should be at least six months to a year between the Karpays. 

The term “great initiation” beautifully describes the awakening process of this sacred work. During a Hatun Karpay, many cosmic energies such as the power of the four elements, energy lines, sacred temples and mountains, the light of the stars and the power of the archetypes are transferred into the three energy centers.

Each Hatun Karpay contains other forces that help us to cleanse our centers, harmonize them and activate our light seeds for each center. The energy work of the Andes can often be felt physically and triggers cold, warmth, pain, inner images, relief, tears and many other emotions in us. We often sink into a kind of wake-sleep in which our mind comes to rest.

A Hatun Karpay starts a gentle growth process that leads us through cognitive processes, clarity and changes over months. A Hatun Karpay unfolds slowly and gently, like a flower carefully blossoming. These growth and healing processes are connected to the respective qualities and properties of the respective centers. 

Munay – Awakening your love and joie de vivre

The Munay Karpay is the initiation of the heart center. It balances our heart temples, our stored feelings, our ability to feel and heals injuries and storage in the heart space. After a Munay Karpay, those issues and blockages that have to do with our heart, our emotions and our ability to love ourselves begin to move. Gentleness and acceptance can grow within us, allowing us to see the world and ourselves with compassion.

Yachay – awakening your wisdom and intuition

Yachay is the Quechua word for wisdom and learning. The Yachay Karpay harmonizes our head center and brings us clarity. It clears the clouds of ego that cloud our third eye.

In this second Karpay, luminous energies of the cosmos and your soul are transmitted, which not only help you to draw from the experiences of your mind, but also from your spiritual experiences. In the Andean tradition, the condor stands for the ability to take a higher perspective. In the subsequent integration process, we become aware of patterns and thoughts from our past, which we place in front of our third eye like filters. We grow into deep wisdom and open ourselves to the many levels that lie hidden in our existence as beings of light.

Ll’ankay – awakening your soul path

The Ll’ankay Karpay is the initiation of the abdominal center and the last initiation in the line of the Hatun Karpay. Ll’ankay is the Quechua word for “holy work” and “service”. Serving here does not mean altruistic self-abandonment, but rather the living of our task, our gifts and talents. The more we develop our abilities, the more we can be of service to others and the world with our work. This initiation works with our power of action. It is also called the initiation of action.

I have often experienced that participants of the Mesa School had a blockage in their power of implementation and after this initiation they reorganized their entire life.

This initiation entails special challenges, since our entire behavior of daily action is put to the test here. The Ll’ankay Karpay transmits those light sources that help us find our way on Pachamama.