Giving Back to the Earth: An Illustrated Guide to Andean Despacho Ceremonies

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The ancient Andean ceremony for maintaining harmony and balance in the world, called a despacho, teaches you reciprocity with the earth and all that is. This illustrated, step-by-step guide shows how to create and offer these ceremonies in your communities, building your relationship with land, ancestors, people, and the more-than-human world. It includes discussion of traditional despachos, their underlying cosmology, and their power to create change, along with a story about a call from spirit to create Ch’aska (star) despachos—asking for help in these times we are in—and how that process rippled out into the world. The great value of the intent, beauty, and reciprocity in creating despachos to maintain harmony and build a sustainable world is woven throughout.

PDF. Earth Caretakers Press. 58 pages, over 40 photgraphs.

The ancient Andean ceremony for maintaining harmony and balance in the world, called a despacho, teaches you reciprocity with the earth and all that is. This illustrated, step-by-step guide shows how to create and offer these ceremonies in your communities, building your relationship with land, ancestors, people, and the more-than-human world. It includes discussion of traditional despachos, their underlying cosmology, and their power to create change, along with a story about a call from spirit to create Ch’aska (star) despachos—asking for help in these times we are in—and how that process rippled out into the world. The great value of the intent, beauty, and reciprocity in creating despachos to maintain harmony and build a sustainable world is woven throughout.

PDF. Earth Caretakers Press. 58 pages, over 40 photgraphs.