The Return of Sunlight Brings Prosperity

A few months ago, all the people in our tradition were delighted! our teacher and leader, don David Wiley, had commissioned a hand-carved ancient Nahua-Aztec Calendar Disk, or Disk of the Fifth Sun, to be carved in ancient stone. It was then leafed in gold and installed into the East wall of our Templo Mayor (main temple) at Casa Xiuhtecuhtli (House of Fire), our spiritual homeland in Mexico.

Fast forward to yesterday, the day that representatives from two traditions — our Nahua granicero tradition and a related group of the Huichol Indian tradition — as well as representatives from the three main Sacred Fire organizations — Sacred Fire, Sacred Fire Foundation, and Blue Deer — all gathered near our temple in ritual space to harvest corn from a ceremonial milpa, or cornfield. This was part of a cycle of Prosperity Rituals for these groups and all of the people involved with them.

And, this morning, those representatives awoke to see the most marvelous response to their ritual: a beam of light from Tonatiuh, Father Sun, came shining through the center of our Sun Disk, through our temple, to bless the people on the land with its special light.

This image shares with us all the Weather Beings’ acknowledgement and blessing of prosperity for our upcoming year.

May you all receive the blessing and prosper!

Photo: P Hanaway

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.