Congratulations! - Felicidades!

Happy Birthday! - ¡Feliz cumpleaños!

Hello, hi - Hola!
(Use for both formal and informal greetings)

Hello (on the telephone)
Bueno? / Mande! / Hola!
The choice of telephone greeting varies from area to area. In Mazatlán, “¡Mande!” and “Bueno” either as a statement or a question – are the most common.

The stars & planets of March 23, 1792 influenced the city we know (and love) today

Astrology charts reveal the character and life of a people, a town, a country and all world events. The city of Mazatlán has an astrology chart based upon the date March 23, 1792. Mazatlán is Aries; that means unique, one-of-a-kind, exceptional, inimitable, distinctive, matchless, enterprising and innovative.

It’s just below the Tropic of Cancer (Aries, hot), it has glistening sea, sand and sun, it’s a fishing port, a world center for sport fishing discovered by Hollywood’s (Pisces) rich and famous in the’30s. It’s a working city (Saturn in Aries, Mars in Virgo) with a backdrop of the Sierra Madres, a seaside town so vibrant (Aries Sun, Moon and Saturn) it can generate natural amnesia (Mercury in Pisces) from everyday problems, a city of resorts (Jupiter and Neptune in Libra) as well as a premier winter tourist destination. Its more than half-million residents (Mazatlecos) love to walk along its malecon, or seawall promenade, and it has a thriving economy (Jupiter in Libra, Mars in Virgo) based on fishing and beer (Mercury in Pisces), agriculture (Mars in Virgo) and tourism (Libra).

TIE! Hotel Freeman / Olas Altas

It’s really no wonder that you couldn’t choose just one winner in this category – there are just so many options, and fabulous ones at that! Eventually, though, two spots pulled away from the crowd, both in Olas Altas: along the malecón and from the top of the Posada Freeman Hotel.

At the Freeman, savvy sunset connoisseurs can enjoy a breathtaking 360-degree view of Mazatlán, and an unforgettable, unobstructed view of the setting sun out over the glittering Pacific. You can sit in the lounge on the 11th floor (easily reached via a creaky kinda-scary elevator) or – my personal favorite – go to the lounge, order a drink and then walk up one more level to the rooftop deck, where the bird’s eye view is just stupendous. Ain’t life grand?

Should you want to be a little more up-close-and-personal with the atardacer (sunset), just stay at ground-level and sit on the beach wall along the malecon in Olas Altas. As the brilliant sun sets, you’ll see fisherman scurrying home in their tiny lanchas, pelicans flying low and usually a few determined surfers catching the last of the daylight waves. Families, sweethearts, businesspeople and just about everyone stops to watch and see if the fabled “green flash” will be visible – but whether it is or not, you’re guaranteed a spectacular ending to what was most likely another spectacular day in Mazatlán, our personal paradise. -JB

Waters of Life Poured Forth for Thirsty Humanity

These words are the keynote and inner spiritual essence for Aquarius. The waters are electrical, the new energies falling to Earth. These permit humanity to build the new culture and civilization, allowing us to imagine a future where there’s peace and prosperity enough to be creative. It is a fixed air sign. Fixed signs bring ideas into form and matter and stabilize them. Air signs (Gemini, Libra & Aquarius) are mental. They think and ponder, study and research, gather and distribute information previously created and stabilized by the cardinal and fixed signs. For air signs, education and learning are most important along with being social, communicating, writing, tending to money, participating in groups and creating sustainable communities for the future.