Dear Friends and Community,

For 18 years I’ve dedicated my life to learning the Nahua indigenous tradition of being a Weather Worker, or Granicera. Every year, as a requirement of the tradition, I travel to central Mexico to participate in ceremonies that help keep the world in balance by maintaining a living relationship with the Weather Beings. After many years of participating and deepening my understanding of the ceremonies, I trained to become a healer in this same tradition - eventually being formally initiated as a Tepahtiani, or spiritual healer.

As a Granicera and a Tepahtiani, I must return to central Mexico twice each year in fall and spring to learn and do my part in bringing these gifts of learning and ceremony back to my local community in California. My local community benefits from special ceremonies I bring, such as our annual Calling the Rain ceremony and Rain Gratitude ceremony. In this time of changing weather patterns it is essential to maintain a relationship with the local beings that give us the blessing of needed rains.

I’m humbled to be asking for financial support for my next trip for this work. I leave on October 30th to attend our Nahua Fall Weather Ceremonies and traditional healing classes in Tepoztlan, Mexico.

My fundraising goal and how the money will be spent

My goal is to raise $2200 by October 23rd. This money will be spent on travel expenses, food, lodging, class fee and offerings.

How did I discover this life path?

After 10 years of seeking medical help for chronic health issues, I eventually discovered through the help of traditional elders, that I had a spiritual calling. This calling was found in my soul, and the call was to honor the Nahua ancestral tradition of building a living relationship with the Weather Beings - Wind, Clouds, Lightning, Thunder, Sun and Rain. Answering this call was essential to my healing.

In 2007, I was initiated as a Granicera in a special ceremony, called a crowning, in which I made my life-time commitment to serve the Weather Spirits and my community. In 2013, I began to deepen this path through a rigorous apprenticeship training to become a traditional healer. In 2021, I became fully initiated as a Tepahtiani to offer traditional Nahua healing to my local community.

As part of my training, I went through a guided ancient process of building relationships with sacred sites and the Weather Beings through pilgrimage in order to receive the gifts that I can now offer to my people. These Nature forces restore balance, well-being, and spiritual connection.

You can learn more about the Nahua Weather Working tradition of Don Lucio Campos and my teacher Don David Wiley by watching this documentary film https://www.weatherwork.org/video

Why does this work mean so much to me?

The path of being a Weather Worker and Tepahtiani in the Nahua tradition has been a huge blessing for me and has completely transformed my life. It has given me great purpose and a way to live a life of service and help sustain life in the most fundamental way.

Being initiated as a Weather Worker has also made it possible for me to offer community weather ceremonies where I live in Santa Cruz, California and for many years in Santa Monica, California. In these areas, and through this ceremonial work, we’ve begun to restore the ancient relationships of reciprocation with the Weather Beings. Having people come together in ceremony to welcome and ask for rain, as well as give thanks for the rain we receive, has been an incredible blessing.

As a traditional healer, I’ve had the honor of helping my clients care for their spiritual well-being and deepen their relationship to Divine Nature, while helping them to find the courage to face the challenges in their life with more ease.

If this speaks to your heart, I humbly ask for your help in reaching my goal of $2200 by October 23rd to travel to Mexico to continue learning and growing in this tradition and to fulfill my obligations.

Thank you for your consideration in supporting my Fall Weather Fundraiser in whatever way that you can. I’m grateful to have found a life of meaning and purpose through doing this sacred work.

With love and gratitude,

Megan