Asheville Weather Workers Lead Annual Traditional Weather Harvest Festival

SACRED FIRE ASHEVILLE INVITES YOU TO
A TRADITIONAL HARVEST FESTIVAL
JOIN US IN CEREMONY
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15
11:30 am to 3 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 us.

Warmly,
Lisa Lichtig & Patrick Hanaway : Firekeepers - Sacred Fire Asheville
Erin Everett, Adam Laufer, Amy Haynes, Douglas Haynes: Weather Workers (graniceros) Nahua Tradition - ‭(828) 214-9355‬

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TO LEARN MORE ABOUT WEATHER WORK IN THE NAHUA TRADITION:
https://ashevilleweatherworkers.org
https://youtu.be/Pg_emwV9IWY
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT SACRED FIRE : https://sacredfire.org/
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR LOCAL SACRED FIRE COMMUNITY: https://www.sacredfireasheville.org/

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DETAILS AND REMINDERS
REGISTRATION REQUIRED:

• For practical reasons, we need each person coming to register via Eventbrite. Children are welcome. Its a simple and beautiful way to build relationship with and awareness of the divine natural forces that provide so much for us
• Most of the ceremony we'll be outdoors.
• This celebration is drug and alcohol-free with the exception of a special toast.

VOLUNTEERS: We need your help! Please let us know if you can assist with decorating, set-up, clean-up, potluck or parking.
DONATIONS: While this is a "free event," donations in support of your local weather workers who incur many expenses to renew their annual vows which serve our region as well as to support the Sacred Fire Asheville will gladly be received via PAYPAL (please use friends and family). There will also be a donation basket available onsite. Be sure to uncheck the "Paying for goods or a service" box, because we are friends and family. Thank-you for your generosity❣️
VENUE: You will be coming to the land and Sacred Fire Council House. Please respect that this is the home of the firekeepers. Drive slowly on the road into our neighborhood.
NOTE: Please cancel your reservation if you are ill. Thanks for your care.
CANCELLATIONS: If you need to cancel for any reason, please do so ASAP. Once you have been registered after your Meetup RSVP and we have received your email/phone number, you will be able to cancel via Eventbrite.
Media Disclaimer: We periodically take photographs at our events for outreach purposes. Our media volunteers are respectful. Please let the firekeeper or event host know if you do not feel comfortable with photos. When you register for an event, you agree to your photograph being used in our materials, unless you inform the host or Firekeeper otherwise before the event begins.