Renewal after 27 Years

As the sun returns, revival and rebirth dawns in our lands. On January 6, 2021, on the day of our 27th wedding anniversary, we renewed our marriage vows. The leader of our tradition, don David Wiley, traveled to the Sacred Fire Council House near Asheville, North Carolina to lead the ceremony, where 18 guests witnessed our exchange of vows.

In our Nahua tradition, we have learned that each marriage contains four marriages. We have just entered the stage after children have grown and left, where we move forward with a common vision together. This ceremony and celebration confirmed our transition into this more mature stage of marriage, where we now have the opportunity to become a guiding light together for our community and our healing clients.

Gentle winds joined us for the celebration, and it was followed by the blessing of seasonal snow the next day. So many people contributed to the success of this event and we are grateful. We are so happy to be focusing our efforts on ceremony and renewal in these times.

Initiated as a tradition-holder in the Nahua/Mexican weather worker lineage in May 2003 by don Lucio Campos de Elizalde of Nepopualco, Morelos, Mexico, Erin Everett is a weather worker, ceremonial leader, and traditional healer. She is known in Nahuatl as a quiatlzques and in Spanish as a tiempera. As are many in this tradition, she was struck by lightning in her youth, which is a known calling to this path. A native of western North Carolina, she and her colleagues work with weather in the Asheville, NC geographical region. More information about their work, tradition, and teachers can be found at seedsoftradition.org.