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In a society filled with endless options, ancestral traditions help us live a good life that’s aligned with the way the world is made.

About seeds of tradition

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called by the weather…

Welcome to Seeds of Tradition! We are husband-and-wife team Adam Laufer and Erin Everett. Following the wise guidance and teachings of our teachers, don Lucio Campos Elizade and don David Wiley, we are tradition-holders in the timeless lineage of graniceros (also known by our traditional titles quiaquepiz and quiatlzques). In English, people of this tradition are known as weather workers.

The elders of this living and active spiritual path of the Nahua people of the Central Highlands of Mexico initiate and train people like us who have been struck by lightning or otherwise specially called to lives of working with weather for the benefit of our communities. We were initiated by don Lucio Campos Elizade in May 2003, and we return to our homeland in Mexico multiple times each year to renew and strengthen our ties to our tradition.

We join together with others of our tradition in the Asheville, NC, USA area to offer a celebration of weather and the bountiful harvest at our Traditional Weather Harvest Festival. This is a time, usually in September or October, when people from all walks of life from the Asheville and western NC area can join together to give thanks in a beautiful, practical and joyful way.

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.

Want to find balance in your or your community’s relationship with weather? Contact us, read our blog or join us for our fall Harvest Festival or our other events taking place throughout the year.

 
 
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Together, we can preserve and cultivate seeds of tradition to bear fruit in our lives and communities.