Huachuma for the Holidays

Now, officially an annual event…

We will be graced with 2 speakers discussing Huachuma cactus care, cactus as sacred medicine and ceremonial practices. We’ll have Rodney Fox, along with our very own, Kate Hawke. There will also be a cactus giveaway! Don’t miss it!

Kate has been working with psychedelics since the 1970s, trauma since the ’80s, and psychedelic harm reduction since Burning Man in 2003. Now she finds herself part of a generation being called to step into elderhood in ways that weren’t modeled by our parents and grandparents. Her current work includes researching death, dying, and expanded states of consciousness, helping shape New Mexico’s emerging medical psilocybin program, and exploring what it means to be a psychedelic elder.

In 1999, Kate brought a chunk of San Pedro cactus home to Arizona from the Telluride Mushroom Festival, thinking it might be fun to grow. Over the years, that one piece of cactus multiplied until its descendants filled a 30-foot greenhouse and found their way into the homes of countless friends. When she moved to Santa Fe, her first trip was a load of cacti.

At this gathering, Kate will share what she’s learned from more than 25 years of growing and caring for San Pedro. She’ll also have cactus plants to share, inviting you to take one home and begin your own relationship with it, nurturing it with love and intention.

Rodney has been sitting with Ayahuasca since 2012 when he was looking for a cure for his Lyme disease. In 2021, after an intense medicine retreat in Peru, he saw the symptoms of that disease rapidly diminish. That same year he found San Pedro in Cusco and further healed himself from this supposedly “incurable” disease.

He is now facilitating monthly San Pedro gatherings following the methodologies he learned there in Peru, hybridized with his own style of ceremony, often seeing miraculous results that western medicine cannot emulate.