Traditional Weather Harvest Ceremony & Festival - Sunday October 12, 2025

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

Sunday, October 12 - 11:30 am - 4:00 pm.

Family Friendly

Join in a gratitude ceremony giving thanks for the blessings received from the Wind, Clouds, Rain, Sun and Lightning.

GIVE BACK & GIVE THANKS

In 2024 Helene swept across our region changing our landscape and changing our lives; many of us felt a profound sense of vulnerability. We strove to accommodate the losses – loss of lives, homes, businesses, water, electricity, internet, roads, trees, as well as our beloved parks and trails. Slowly life is returning. The blessed rains have nourished our gardens, orchards, fields and forests. With great loss comes the potential for great renewal.

People are helping each other out which is wonderful yet something else is available and needed. The Weather Beings are calling us to be in relationship.  Giving gratitude through these prayers and offerings is a time-honored way to deepen our relationship with the Divine, vibrant expressions who sustain all life.

The Harvest Festival is a once-a-year celebration rooted in the Nahua tradition which has assisted communities for generations to build relationship with their local weather. As an initiated Granicera in this tradition, Amy Haynes will lead this ceremony of deep gratitude, supported by our Asheville-area Nahua-tradition Weather Workers along with the community.

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.

If you have questions about the harvest festival, please contact our volunteer coordinator - Pat Mulhern (603) 553-0090.

Warmly,

Lisa Lichtig & Patrick Hanaway : Firekeepers - Sacred Fire Asheville - (828) 713-1553

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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

Host or Publisher Sacred Fire Asheville - Firekeepers