A TRADITIONAL HARVEST FESTIVAL

JOIN US IN CEREMONY

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15

12:30 pm to 4 pm

GIVE BACK & GIVE THANKS

Our Asheville-area Nahua-tradition Weather Workers will lead us in a gratitude ceremony giving thanks for the blessings received from Weather. The Harvest Festival is a once-a-year celebration which stands on the foundation of a tradition that has assisted communities for generations to build relationship with their local weather. Your attendance at this communal celebration helps complete the cycle of reciprocity with the Weather Beings by acknowledging their life-sustaining gifts and offering thanks for those gifts.

You will be walked through this traditional gratitude ceremony dedicated to the Wind, Clouds, Rain, Sun and Lightning. These vibrant living expressions invite us to engage with the world and participate meaningfully in the unfolding story around us. As humans in this story, part of our role is to offer gratitude for the abundance and generosity gifted to us. Ceremony and gratitude help us move in alignment with these expressions of weather rather than ignoring them or bracing against them. The alignment deepens our relationship with the Weather Beings and we find our community strengthened and enriched.

The ceremony also includes a potluck feast.

Your full participation includes bringing 3 traditional offerings that will be outlined in your registration confirmation email along with address, driving and parking directions. Please check your junk mail if you do not receive this information or contact us.

If you have questions about the harvest festival , please contact our volunteer coordinator, Eileen Gertz - (828) 215-4263‬.

Hosted by Lisa Lichtig & Patrick Hanaway : Firekeepers - Sacred Fire Asheville - (828)768-3302

Led by Amy Haynes, Douglas Haynes, Erin Everett, Adam Laufer: Weather Workers (graniceros) Nahua Tradition - ‭(828) 214-9355‬