🔥How Does Fire Speak?🔥

How Does Fire Speak?

There's no other experience like sitting around a sacred fire and listening to the words of Tatewari, the Spirit of Fire.

traditional Huichol yarn painting

The Axihuatakamé:
A Divine Voice Among Us

In the rich tapestry of Mexico's Huichol Indian tradition, a profound spiritual role exists: the axihuatakamé, or "god-speaker-man." Those chosen by Spirit to serve as a traditional oracle enter an other-worldly state that bridges the human and divine and allows a deity to speak directly with people.

For over 25 years, during special ceremonial gatherings called Fire Speaks, Grandfather Fire has been conversing through god-speaker-man don David Wiley, a respected elder of two Mesoamerican indigenous traditions— those of the the Huichol (Wixarikâ) and Nahua peoples.

You are invited to experience this profound event for yourself. On Saturday, August 16th, Grandfather Fire will be answering audience questions at the Olympia Sacred Fire House in northeast Olympia. Nestled on 10 wooded acres just 2 miles from downtown, this private venue borders 40 acres of forested open space adjacent to Woodard Creek.

In this tranquil setting, you're invited to ask Grandfather Fire questions about things that matter to you and your life. The answers can burn through thick fogs of fear and uncertainty, awakening us to possibilities beyond our perceived limits. The wisdom shared often lights a new perspectives on old challenges and ignites a path to deeper understanding of ourselves and our world.

Fire Speaks

Saturday, August 16, 2025

6:00 pm to After Midnight

Olympia Sacred Fire House

Registration is NOW OPEN

Early Bird tickets available until July 25: $99

Regular Adult tickets after July 25: $125

Children 15 and under: no charge

Tickets include Sunday's Integration Fire at 11 am

Onsite Indoor and Outdoor Camping Available

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KEEPING THE FIRE
Your Firekeepers Sharon and Peter Brown

Peter and Sharon Brown have made life-long commitments to hold sacred fire circles monthly. As trained and initiated Firekeepers by Sacred Fire International, they have received permission to hold space using a traditional fire consecration ceremony of the Huichol people of the Sierra Madres.

Both are also initiated Granicero, Weather Workers, in the Nahua tradition of Mexico's central highlands, and for nearly 25 years have performed ceremonies that build relationship between people, earth and sky to bring health and balance to our lives.

In 2007, Peter received his first of two initiations as a Mara' akame, an initiated healer in the tradition of the Huichol people of Mexico's western Sierra Madres. Peter is also an initiated Nahua traditional healer on the Nahua Tepahtiani path. Sharon practices spiritual counseling and bodywork rooted in our innate relationship with nature's spirits. She is completing her apprenticeship on the Nahua Tepahtiani path.

Sacred Fire --Transforming lives through the gift and medicine of Fire. Sacred Fire rekindles Fire's presence in the world to cultivate community, learning, growing and healing. sacredfire.org.