Solstice Project

06/05/2026

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.

06/03/2026

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.
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/GDQ83KKBRLGFA

06/01/2026

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 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...

05/30/2026

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.

05/27/2026

"Chaco Canyon is not for sale." — Deb Haaland

05/26/2026

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 11:30am, join Anna to explore the wisdom of the ancient ones and how they integrated sacred celestial knowledge. Anne 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.

05/23/2026

We invite you to join our mailing list and follow our ongoing film journey and our work to protect Chaco Canyon’s remarkable heritage. It’s easy and secure to subscribe on our website.
https://solsticeproject.org/

05/20/2026

Have you heard the story of the fossilized Martian remains discovered in Colorado in 1864? Archaeologist Kenneth L. Feder talks about "Exposing Frauds, Busting Myths, and Solving Mysteries in American Southwest Archaeology" in an online presentation for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center ‛s Third Thursday Food for Thought series. Tomorrow, May 21, 9 pm MT.

Did you know that archaeological evidence of an ancient community of Jewish settlers was discovered in Arizona in 1924? Have you heard the claim that ancient Celts visited Colorado and left a written message proving their presence? Certainly you’ve heard the story of the fossilized remains of a Ma...

05/18/2026

The full version of our Sun Dagger Film is available to rent and stream. It documents the extraordinary celestial calendar created by Ancestral Puebloans and rediscovered by Solstice Project founder Anna Sofaer.

— For Home Use Only — This classic, timeless film documents the extraordinary celestial calendar created by ancient North American Indians, and rediscovered by artist Anna Soafer, high on a butte in New Mexico. The "dagger" is presently the only known site in the world that marks the extreme pos...

05/15/2026

Our award-winning film, "The Mystery of Chaco Canyon," has aired more than 10,000 times on 95% of the nation’s PBS stations since its release in 2000. New Mexico PBS has broadcast it more than 90 times. Find out where to watch it on our website.
https://solsticeproject.org/the-mystery-of-chaco-canyon/