Traditional Weather Harvest Ceremony & Festival - Sunday October 11, 2026

Join in a traditional Nahua gratitude ceremony to give thanks for the blessings received from Wind, Clouds, Rain, Sun and Lightning.
About this Event

Sacred Fire Asheville invites you to a Traditional Weather Harvest Festival.

Sunday, October 11, 2026 ~ 11:30 am - 4:00 pm.

Family Friendly

The Harvest Festival is a once-a-year celebration rooted in the Nahua tradition which, for generations, has supported communities in relationship-building with their local weather. As an initiated Granicera, Amy Haynes will lead this ceremony of deep gratitude, along with her husband Douglas Haynes, our Asheville-area Nahua-tradition Weather Workers with the support and participation of the public and community.

GIVE BACK & GIVE THANKS

Gratitude opens the doors to balanced living. The Weather Beings see us and relate to us as we open our hearts, offer our thanks and honor the sacred, life-giving waters we received this past year. This cycle of reciprocity helps to mitigate the extremes and bring us into a deeper, sustaining relationship with the divine forces around us. Please celebrate the precious waters that grow life, given to us by the Weather Beings – Wind, Clouds, Rain, Sun, Lightning.

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.

Your participation includes bringing 3 traditional offerings and a potluck dish for our feast. The specific offerings being asked for by these Divine expressions are:

1) Fresh cut flowers

2) Fruit – particularly aromatic are appreciated.

3) Bread – traditionally some sweet and some savory.

Please read your registration confirmation email for more details including driving and parking directions. Check your junk mail if you do not receive this information or contact us.

Please consider offering a financial donation via paypal or onsite.

Warmly,

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

Amy Haynes & Douglas Haynes: Graniceros - Nahua Tradition - (828) 230-7761

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DETAILS AND REMINDERS

• Register: For practical reasons, we request each person coming to register via Eventbrite.
• Volunteers: Ceremonies happen with the help of others. Our coordinator will be in touch to see if you can assist with decorating, set-up, clean-up, potluck or parking.
• Donations: While this is a "free event," donations to help support the local weather workers who incur many expenses to renew their annual vows to serve our region throughout the year 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 via your Eventbrite confirmation email.
• Media Disclaimer: We periodically take photographs at our events for outreach purposes. Please let the firekeeper or event coordinator know if you do not feel comfortable with photos.
• Other: This celebration is drug and alcohol-free with the exception of a special toast. Most of the ceremony will be outdoors, dress accordingly.

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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:

Graniceros Weather workers - Nahua Tradition

ABOVE: Our Ceremonial Leader Amy Haynes, quiatlzques (caller of water) with Lisa our firekeeper.