Our Journey to Our Source to Bring Back Abundance for You, Our Community
As we always do in late October and early November, we made the long trip from our Appalachian home to Mexico City. This time, we met companions there and explored the many sacred treasures at Teotihuacan, a sacred city to our spiritual ancestors where they lived and acted out their awareness and honoring of the sacred patterns of this human life that we, like they, live in this beautiful realm.
Image of Tlalocan, the source of all rainy blessings, reconstructed from an original at Teotihuacan
After learning from the ancient ways of those whom our ancestral predecessors called the Toltecs, we journeyed to Casa Xiuhtecuhtli, our spiritual center and the home of our traditional temple in Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico.
We created altars to our blood ancestors for Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), a traditional time when the veils are thin and we, the descendants, honor our family and mentors who have passed on.
Traditional Day of the Dead altar
Then, we received the wise guidance of our elders at a fire that night to inspire us and focus us in our work.
Throughout the ceremonial cycle that commenced after that, we prayed not only for the people of that rugged land—the Central Highlands of Mexico—but we also prayed for you, for the farmers and people of our region here in western North Carolina, and for the rains and beneficial waters to continue to support us.
After our visit to an ancient ceremonial site of our tradition, the volcano Iztaccihuatl (“White Lady”), the rains freshened the land until we returned here to the Appalachian mountains. On the day after our arrival here at home, we received a lush dose of the abundant and fruitful rain we prayed for. We received a full day of rain here on our mountain in Weaverville, and we hope you received some of that precious life-giving fluid, as well.
For more on how you can participate in receiving and encouraging balanced weather for our area, email us.
Just as our elders do, we call for blessing for you, for these lands, with open hearts and deep emotion. We are so grateful to serve you in this role.
Traditional weather workers and healers Erin Everett and Adam Laufer
We are Adam Laufer and Erin Everett, and we are weather workers, tepahtiani healers and ceremonial leaders in the ancient lineage of graniceros (also known by our traditional titles quiaquepiz and quiatlzques). We were called to this work and initiated in 2003.
All year, we and our colleagues work for beneficial weather for the area in and around Asheville. Our work involves gratitude and giving back, elements in a universal language of ceremony that has its echoes in all authentic traditions of human beings.
We also offer healing and counseling appointments both in-person at our location in the Asheville, NC area and via phone or Zoom.
Learn more about our elders and teachers in our tradition.
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