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.
Current season · October 13–December 8
Next gathering · Tuesday, November 10
1:00–3:00 p.m. ET / Colombia · Live on Zoom · Held in English
Join the next gathering. No previous participation is required.
Join on November 10When 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
Time
1:00–3:00 p.m. ET / Colombia
6:00–8:00 p.m. GMT (London)
7:00–9:00 p.m. CET (Madrid / Paris / Berlin)
Place
Live on Zoom
Held in English
No recording
Contribution
USD 35
per gathering
Participation
Join one gathering at a time. Each gathering is complete in itself, and no previous participation is required.
Before your first gathering
You will receive a brief welcome video, the Circle Agreements, the Zoom link, and a few simple recommendations so that you can arrive knowing how the space is held.
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. Four years later, life brought me home as someone I had not set out to become.
In August 2026, an earthquake shook the ground beneath my home. It unsettled plans, certainties, and the sense of what could be counted on.
These experiences are part of the ground from which I accompany others: listening without rushing, staying close to what is true, and allowing the next form to emerge in its own time.
My role is to tend the fire, care for the Circle that forms around it, and share the teachings I have received from Maya K’iche’ elders as they meet the life we are living now.
I am inside this question too.
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gathering.
The season has begun, and the Circle remains open one gathering at a time.
Each date offers a complete experience. You do not need to have attended the previous gatherings or know exactly what you are bringing. Come as you are, with whatever is changing, ripening, or asking for your attention.
Remaining gatherings
Next gathering
Per gathering
1:00–3:00 p.m. ET / Colombia
6:00–8:00 p.m. GMT (London)
7:00–9:00 p.m. CET (Madrid / Paris / Berlin)
Live on Zoom · Held in English · No recording
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After you register
You will receive your confirmation, the Zoom link, a brief welcome video, the Circle Agreements, and a few simple recommendations for preparing your space. Registration remains open until one hour before each gathering, subject to space.