About this Event
SACRED FIRE ASHEVILLE INVITES YOU TO
A TRADITIONAL HARVEST FESTIVAL
JOIN US IN CEREMONY
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5
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 participation at this communal celebration helps complete a cycle of reciprocity with the Weather Beings by acknowledging their life-sustaining gifts and offering thanks for those gifts.
Together we will walk 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.
Your participation includes bringing 3 traditional offerings and a potluck dish for our feast. The specific offerrings being asked for by these Divine expressions will be outlined in your registration confirmation email along with driving and parking directions. Please check your junk mail if you do not receive this information or contact us.
Please consider offering a financial donation via paypal or onsite.
If you have questions about the harvest festival , please contact our volunteer coordinator, Tracy Pearson, [email protected], (828) 702-2047
Warmly,
Lisa Lichtig & Patrick Hanaway : Firekeepers - Sacred Fire Asheville - (828)713-1553
Amy Haynes, Douglas Haynes, Erin Everett, Adam Laufer: Weather Workers (graniceros) Nahua Tradition - (828) 230-7760
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TO LEARN MORE ABOUT SACRED FIRE : https://sacredfire.org/
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR LOCAL SACRED FIRE COMMUNITY: https://www.sacredfireasheville.org/
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT WEATHER WORK IN THE NAHUA TRADITION:
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE LOCAL WEATHER WORKERS: https://www.ashevilleweatherworkers.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.
CANCELLATIONS: If you need to cancel for any reason, please do so ASAP .
Go to the Eventbrite confirmation email.
- Click on "View event details".
- On that page, in the upper right corner, there is a little icon that looks like maybe a little person: click on that and you'll see your name, etc.
- Click on the "Tickets", and you can choose "Cancel Order".
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.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Sacred Fire Asheville, Rocky Hollow, Weaverville, United States
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