A seasonal Circle
The Autumn
Fire Circle
What falls. What ripens. What remains.
For those standing between what is ending and what has not yet taken form.
Oct 13 – Dec 8 · Every other Tuesday
1:00–3:00 p.m. ET · Live on Zoom · Held in English
Join a single gathering or take part in the whole season.
Enter the CircleWhen change arrives quietly
Autumn announces itself. Some changes don’t.
Some changes arrive without announcement. We may know the moment they began, or only recognize them later, when the light has already changed—like a flame becoming an ember.
This Circle exists for these moments of change: the ones that leave us without words or a clear direction. Not to resolve them, but to stay close enough to hear what they are asking of us.
You may be here because
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You are moving through a change in place, work, relationship, or identity.
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Something is ending, even if you have not fully let it go.
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You sense that a new direction is emerging, but cannot see it clearly yet.
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You are carrying uncertainty, grief, or hope that you have not had space to listen to.
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You know that something needs to change, but do not want to force an answer.
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Or perhaps your life looks much the same from the outside, while something inside you is quietly changing form.
THE MOVEMENT OF AUTUMN
Returning
to the Earth
We will come closer to the Earth as Mother.
To take refuge in her rhythms, listen to her counsel, and remember that we belong to something larger than any single form our lives may take.
Autumn speaks differently across the land. Across much of Europe and North America, leaves will be falling. Here in Colombia, coffee and cacao will be ripening, ready to be gathered.
Falling and ripening are not opposites. They are two movements of the same season.
Some things are ready to return to the ground. Others have been quietly maturing through everything we have lived.
Across the five gatherings of the season, we will accompany what is ending without rushing it away. We will give thanks for what can no longer remain, listen for what it leaves with us, and receive what has ripened through the experience.
What is ready
to fall?
What has ripened enough
to be gathered?
What remains when
an old form is gone?
THE FIRE AT THE CENTER
A real fire will burn through every gathering.
From Kaukitá, the nature reserve where I live in Pereira, Colombia, I will light the fire before we begin and tend it throughout our two hours together.
Across the distance, it gives the Circle a shared center—a living light that calls us in, receives what we bring, and remains beside us as we listen. If you wish, you can light a candle where you are, allowing the fire to be present on both sides of the screen.
Each gathering will move through silence, breath, guided visualization, compassionate listening, and honest conversation. I will also share teachings I have received from Maya K’iche’ elders and from the fire itself—ways of listening to the Earth, to time, and to the relationships that sustain life.
There is nothing to perform here, and no experience needs to become a lesson before it is ready.
We bring what is present. We allow ourselves to be witnessed. We offer that same presence to others.
In practice
Five gatherings. One season.
Every other Tuesday
1:00–3:00 p.m. ET
Live on Zoom · Held in English · No recording
Join one gathering or take part in the whole season.
You will receive a brief welcome video and the Circle Agreements so that you can arrive knowing how the space is held. Each gathering is complete in itself, and no previous participation is required.
Who holds the Circle
I’m Andrés.
I hold this Circle from Kaukitá, the nature reserve where I live in Pereira, Colombia.
My own life has asked me more than once to enter the uncertain ground between one form and another. I left Colombia to deepen my relationship with cacao on the shores of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. Five years later, life brought me home as someone I had not set out to become.
More recently, an earthquake shook the ground beneath my home. It unsettled plans, certainties, and the sense of what could be counted on.
These experiences do not make me an expert in anything. They are part of the ground from which I accompany others: through presence, compassionate listening, relationship with the Earth, and the teachings I have received from Maya K’iche’ elders.
My role is to tend the fire, care for the Circle that forms around it, and share those teachings as they meet the life we are living now.
I am inside this question too.
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One gathering.
Or a whole season.
Each gathering offers a complete experience.
You are welcome to join a single date when something in the season calls to you. No previous participation is required.
You may also take part in the whole season, returning to the fire across all five gatherings and allowing the questions, practices, and relationships to deepen over time.
Begin with the first gathering
If you join the October 13 gathering individually and afterward decide to participate in the whole season, let me know within 48 hours. Your $35 payment will be applied toward the Full Season Pass.
If you register for the whole season and decide after the first gathering that the Circle is not for you, let me know within 48 hours and I will refund your payment in full—no questions asked.
Before the Circle begins
Living Fire
October 4
Before the Autumn Fire Circle begins, we will light the season’s first fire together.
Living Fire is an open gathering for anyone who feels the pull of this threshold—a place to pause, listen, and meet the changing season in community.
It is not one of the five Autumn Circle gatherings, and you do not need to attend it before joining. There is no commitment beyond showing up. Contribute whatever feels right.
More about Living Fire
We may not yet know
what is taking shape.
For now, we can come closer to the Earth.
Take refuge. Listen.
And meet the life that is
already changing form.