Solstice Project

Our fourth film, "From the Mind’s Eye," is a culmination of more than four decades of research, collaboration, and deep listening with a message of cosmic connection, ancient ingenuity, and enduring cultural wisdom. We are grateful for your tax-deductible contribution. It will help us to complete the film for its projected Summer Solstice 2027 release.
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Chaco Canyon faces many threats from oil and gas drilling. Read about the work that Dark Sky International is doing to protect the naturally dark star-filled nights of Chaco, and other places around the country, from encroaching light pollution.

Create a garden that thrives at night As everyone starts to refresh beds, plant containers, and dream up backyard projects, it is the perfect time to ask a new question.

TWO OPPORTUNITIES to meet ANNA SOFAER!
You can now get a single session ticket for $35 to Anna Sofaer's fascinating discussions at the first-ever Santa Fe Magazine Festival on St. John's College campus this weekend. A single session pass also gives you access to the campus, live music, food trucks, special encounters, and more! Tickets available at www.santafemagazine.co

On Saturday, June 13, at 11:30am, join Anna to explore the wisdom of the ancient ones and how they integrated sacred celestial knowledge. Anna will share a 35-minute extended trailer of her new film "From the Mind’s Eye: Another Way of Knowing," an exploration of four ancient sites, thousands of years and miles apart, that parallel the ancient Puebloan site of Chaco Canyon, in alignments, elegant geometries and rituals --- Stonehenge, Palenque, Hopewell and Chaco --- each inspired by the sun and moon as powerful animated beings.

Then don’t miss a second opportunity on Sunday, June 14, at 10:30am. Anna and archaeologist Richard Friedman will discuss the complex Sun Dagger site --- called an “American Stonehenge” in Science 80 Magazine --- exploring in an interactive computer model its brilliant unity of the sun and moon. A small site revealing monumental knowledge and, as you will hear from Tewa educator Alfonso Ortiz in portions of the early “Sun Dagger” film, built with profound respect for the spiritual power of the sun and moon.

Visit https://santafemagazine.co/ for the full weekend schedule.
Use the code SOFAER26S for 20% off a 3-day pass and experience all the magic!
Locals Day Passes are available for $135+taxes & fees.
Santa Fe Magazine

TWO OPPORTUNITIES to meet ANNA SOFAER!
Join Anna on St. John's College campus for two fascinating discussions! You can now get a single session ticket for $35. A single session pass also gives you access to the campus, live music, food trucks, special encounters, and more! Tickets available at www.santafemagazine.co

Meet Anna Sofaer at the first-ever Santa Fe Magazine Festival, happening in Santa Fe June 12–14. Three days, 85 presenters, 35 sessions filled with ideas, art, music, storytelling, culture, food, conversation, and unexpected experiences.

On Saturday, June 13, at 11:30am, join Anna to explore the wisdom of the ancient ones and how they integrated sacred celestial knowledge. Anna will share a 35-minute extended trailer of her new film "From the Mind’s Eye: Another Way of Knowing," an exploration of four ancient sites, thousands of years and miles apart, that parallel the ancient Puebloan site of Chaco Canyon, in alignments, elegant geometries and rituals --- Stonehenge, Palenque, Hopewell and Chaco --- each inspired by the sun and moon as powerful animated beings.

Then don’t miss a second opportunity on Sunday, June 14, at 10:30am. Anna and archaeologist Richard Friedman will discuss the complex Sun Dagger site --- called an “American Stonehenge” in Science 80 Magazine --- exploring in an interactive computer model its brilliant unity of the sun and moon. A small site revealing monumental knowledge and, as you will hear from Tewa educator Alfonso Ortiz in portions of the early “Sun Dagger” film, built with profound respect for the spiritual power of the sun and moon.

Visit https://santafemagazine.co/ for the full weekend schedule.
Use the code SOFAER26S for 20% off a 3-day pass and experience all the magic!
Locals Day Passes are available for $135+taxes & fees.
Santa Fe Magazine

TWO OPPORTUNITIES to meet ANNA SOFAER!

There’s still time to get tickets to hear Anna Sofaer at the first-ever Santa Fe Magazine Festival, happening June 12–14 on the beautiful St. John’s College campus in Santa Fe. Three days, 85 presenters, 35 sessions filled with ideas, art, music, storytelling, culture, food, conversation, and unexpected experiences.

On Saturday, June 13, at 11:30am, join Anna to explore the wisdom of the ancient ones and how they integrated sacred celestial knowledge. Anna will share a 35-minute extended trailer of her new film "From the Mind’s Eye: Another Way of Knowing," an exploration of four ancient sites, thousands of years and miles apart, that parallel the ancient Puebloan site of Chaco Canyon, in alignments, elegant geometries and rituals --- Stonehenge, Palenque, Hopewell and Chaco --- each inspired by the sun and moon as powerful animated beings.

Then don’t miss a second opportunity on Sunday, June 14, at 10:30am. Anna and archaeologist Richard Friedman will discuss the complex Sun Dagger site --- called an “American Stonehenge” in Science 80 Magazine --- exploring in an interactive computer model its brilliant unity of the sun and moon. A small site revealing monumental knowledge and, as you will hear from Tewa educator Alfonso Ortiz in portions of the early “Sun Dagger” film, built with profound respect for the spiritual power of the sun and moon.

Visit https://santafemagazine.co/ for the full weekend schedule.
Use the code SOFAER26S for 20% off a 3-day pass and experience all the magic!
Locals Day Passes are available for $135+taxes & fees.

The National Trust’s 2026 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places includes the Greater Chaco Cultural Landscape: "Actions to safeguard public land and respond to ongoing threats like industrial development are part of a broader history of American land, including the dispossession and destruction of Indigenous sites," the National Trust writes. "Those organizing to protect this landscape demonstrate that Indigenous histories and enduring relationships with the land are not secondary to economic gain, but rather essential, equal, and permanent threads in American history."

America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2026 | National Trust for Historic Preservation Now in its 39th year, the list has proven to be a highly effective tool for shining a light on the threats facing our nation’s greatest treasures. The places featured on the 2026 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places are united in how they illuminate stories of remarkable individu...

TWO OPPORTUNITIES to meet ANNA SOFAER!

Anna will be presenting at the first-ever Santa Fe Magazine Festival, happening June 12–14 on the beautiful St. John’s College campus in Santa Fe. Three days, 85 presenters, 35 sessions filled with ideas, art, music, storytelling, culture, food, conversation, and unexpected experiences.

On Saturday, June 13, at 11:30 am, join Anna to explore the wisdom of the ancient ones and how they integrated sacred celestial knowledge. Anna will share a 35-minute extended trailer of her new film “From the Mind’s Eye: Another Way of Knowing,” an exploration of four ancient sites, thousands of years and miles apart, that parallel the ancient Puebloan site of Chaco Canyon, in alignments, elegant geometries and rituals --- Stonehenge, Palenque, Hopewell and Chaco --- each inspired by the sun and moon as powerful animated beings.

Then don’t miss a second opportunity on Sunday, June 14, at 10:30 am. Anna and archaeologist Richard Friedman will discuss the complex Sun Dagger site --- called an “American Stonehenge” in Science 80 Magazine --- exploring in an interactive computer model its brilliant unity of the sun and moon. A small site revealing monumental knowledge and, as you will hear from Tewa educator Alfonso Ortiz in portions of the early “Sun Dagger” film, built with profound respect for the spiritual power of the sun and moon.

Visit https://santafemagazine.co/ for the full weekend schedule.
Use the code SOFAER26S for 20% off a 3-day pass and experience all the magic!
Locals Day Passes are available for $135+taxes & fees.

My friend, author Jim Graham, wrote this powerful op-ed for the Cleveland Plain Dealer about why the federal administration must stop "desecrations of ancient land art" across the country.

The desecrations of ancient land art must stop, writes James W. Graham The Trump administration is bent on erasing America’s rich Indigenous history from signage at our National Parks and museums. Now, it is literally scraping it from the earth in the few places where Native heritage is still richly displayed. This must stop, writes guest columnist James W. Graham, a...

DOLORES RATZÁN and ANNA SOFAER
Anna Sofaer and her Solstice Project’s crew filmed in Palenque, Mexico, in December of 2025 for her fourth film, From the Mind’s Eye." With the guidance of Maya archaeoastronomer Alonso Mendez, they recorded the magnificent temples’ alignments with auspicious solar and lunar events.
In February of 2026, Anna had the good fortune to visit Dolores Ratzán, a Maya elder and healer in her village of Santiago, on the edge of the sacred Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. Guided by Dolores, Anna learned how this traditional village had preserved their ancient knowledge of the Sun and Moon and handed it down for generations. When the Spanish conquistadors built their cathedral on top of the ancient Maya temple at the heart of the home of the ancestors and destroyed imagery of their sacred understandings, the Maya ingeniously preserved the knowledge in their weavings, which live to this very day.