Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Marita Esteva . We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Alright, Marita thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Let’s start with the story of your mission. What should we know?

The heartbeat of Cuatro Manos Y Cinco Volcanes Farms and Cacao is deep consensual relationship to land and it’s medicina.

We teach an old way of relationship, one handed down to me for generations in which all of nature is sacred, has a beingness and sovereignty if it’s own apart from humans. Humans idea of value and worth created by consumerism does not replace the inherit value of land, nature and in this case cacao.

This is what we teach, this is how we grow, this is how we offer ceremonial cacao. We are stewards of cacao, we follow what they ask of us.

ROSE & MARITA
Hi our names are Marita and Rose and we are super exicited to invite you on our journey!
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Cacao, Mauna Kea, Pele and the Big island called us and so we packed up everything and moved across the Pacific with our 4 cats and followed the call.

Marita’s @thepathofix ancestors are olmeca, one of the original cacao people and their relationship with cacao goes back to their grandmother singing songs and making them hot steaming cups of cacao in Mexico City.

Rose’s love for animals, gardening and Hawaii date back for as long as she has had family living on the Big Island.

OUR PHILOSOPHY
e hele me ka pu’olo
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Always Take An Offering With You. Make Every Person Place or Condition Better Than You Left It Always. Wherever You Go, Always Take Something With You.) …This Is The Sacred Hawaiian Way, the Way of Abundant Flow Honoring Ke Akua (God) and His Creation Which is Nature.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

ROSE & MARITA Hi our names are Marita and Rose and we are super exicited to invite you on our journey!
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Cacao, Mauna Kea, Pele and the Big island called us and so we packed up everything and moved across the Pacific with our 4 cats and followed the call.

Marita One Who Catches Lightning

My lineage is Zapotec and my metaphysical and spiritual training includes work in the Lakota, Mayan, Aztec and Hopi.

Marita’s @thepathofix ancestors are olmeca, one of the original cacao people and their relationship with cacao goes back to their grandmother singing songs and making them hot steaming cups of cacao in Mexico City.

Rose

Rose’s love for animals, gardening and Hawaii date back for as long as she has had family living on the Big Island.

I’m a lifelong adventurer, with 20 years in design under my belt, experience working in multiple countries and cultures, a lifetime of learning in spiritual circles, and a master’s degree in Social Welfare from UC Berkeley. I’m a radically compassionate badass, who talks to rocks, knows how to use knives, loves expensive champagne, and has had to pursue extensive development of social emotional and identity mastery to break the cycles of wounding within my own family line.

I live on 8 acres in Hawaii, with my partner, our many fur babies, and enough rocks and oracle cards to start my own spiritual store. I’m slightly (very) obsessed with tropical fruit and snorkeling, and am learning to become the muse of my own life alongside being the divine channel of creation and transformation that I’ve been since day 1.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

“Matter can never be created nor destroyed”

We forget that we are here for the journey not the destination. It is the journey that teaches us.

Our journey on the Big Island began as our planes where the last to touch down before the COVID shut down (that in itself is a whole nail biting story as well as the call to this island).

As the world adjusted and continues to adjust to this crisis we found ourselves on a property that had been highly sprayed with poison for a vast number of years as is the practice in most of Hawai’i. So we began reclaiming the land to itself and let me tell you…. There is no stop to the growing season in Hawai’i so that’s been a super long, costly, and 10 Ft weed journey that continues today. Part of this journey included planting cacao trees on a part of the property that had not been sprayed nor developed. And need I remind the readers Hawai’i is a volcanic island so when we say planting trees it’s a pickaxing grueling labor of love. Marita even had to have shoulder surgery because their bicep retracted!! We could go on and on but…

The other part of the story is in finding someone on the island who had cacao, grew it organically and grew it in a sacred way. We found the one person in the island who know how to and we began making ceremonial cacao. How Marita found them is another story…

We didn’t want to just sell ceremonial cacao Marita opened an online school called The Path of IX and extended their offerings to Cuatro Manos Y Cinco Volcanes Farms in teaching how to build sacred relationships with cacao. One of the reasons for this is we began to see a wave of colonized spiritual cacao circles pop up with people who had never farmed, grown up with nor trained how to do cacao ceremonies nor new anything about the origins, complex origin history and myth of cacao in central and South America where cacao originated from. So we set about to educate, train and teach using the first ever ceremonial cacao made in a good way from the island of Hawai’i.

We started making just 10 pounds and now we release around 70 pds a year of small batch limited production ceremonial cacao and have grown our trained facilitator circle from 6 to 24 with people from around the world. Now it has become a trend to train facilitators but our trainings remains unique in so many ways nothing can compare to it.

How did you put together the initial capital you needed to start your business?

Currently We are self funded through a full time job, side businesses, and credit cards.

We are looking in the future for funding and grants to be more sustainable in the venture. So we are currently seeking investors who believe in our mission.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.cuatromanosycincovolcanesfarms.com
• Instagram: @4manosy5volcanes_cacao
• Facebook: 4 manos y 5 volcanes cacao
• Other: Www.thepathofix.com https://www.livebidesign.com @thepathofix @lucidcouragequeen