“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realise their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realise at the centre of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its centre is really everywhere, it is within each of us.”
Black Elk
This world is as a beggar sitting on the street corner, bowl held out trusting that someone will place a morsel, which will nourish and quench, into it. We pray that each who needs upon and within this Earth as home, will be seen, heard and witnessed. In that charity, placed into that bowl are the offerings of ceremony, ritual, prayer and practice, turning that bowl onto a wellspring and those who hold it healed and held.
“Whether we realize it or not, prayer is the encounter of God’s thirst with ours. God thirsts that we may thirst for him.”
– St. Augustine
COMMUNITY
This tradition is a way of being in this world and life, not a religious practice. To live in accordance with this tradition is a choice and an invitation to any and all. It is a forest in which we can walk in unity and harmony with all the children of the earth.
We welcome as friends and family those who wish to follow our ways either informally or formally. Many come as friends to sit in the light and warmth of the Sagh’ic tribal hearth, as humans have done since time immemorial; we are all a warming of hearts in ourselves! And you are welcome to be with us, for here is the family gathered – members of the community, elders, teachers, students and children. The family around the hearth, who are indeed the hearth itself. They are the flames that extend beyond the boundaries of the ‘fireplace’. They are of the tradition’s blood and sit in sacred acceptance and defence of all who gather by the tribal fire.
The Sagh’ic is a tradition that takes its journey (calendar) from The Thirteen Moons lunar cycle. We call to the Moon, birthed to guide and gather us, as she leads the nomadic journey of life – the Wheel of Seasons.
The Ancient Ones tell of the time when all lived as one song, one bone, one blood, one breath, in the Deep, Dark, Green Forest, and how it was that the first human fell into the shadowed dream and forgot that oneness. So many times, the Ancient Ones, the Ancestral Spirits, and the Old Ones of the land tried, and try, relentlessly to bring the two-leggeds back to that oneness. It is for this reason and this hope, that the Sagh’ic put and take great value and emphasis on community, tribe, clan and family.
And so it is that this community of communities, close and far, gather in dreams, in reality, and remotely, aspiring for that almost forgotten time; gathering in celebration, ceremony, learning, sharing and prayer.
“What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.” Gautama Buddha
These Communities are formed under the guidance and directives of the sacred stories of the Sagh’ic Tradition, which were dreamed, unwoven and rewoven through deep journey work and egregorial communion with ancestors and spirits over many years by Elder John-Luke, who founded these communities around the world, to share this sacred wisdom with all who seek. The work is in keeping and in community with all Animist Traditions that hold the Earth, and call Her ‘home’, who all live in equal relationship with each other.
EVENTS
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” Rabindranath Tagore
Cu-fasaich Coisiche Dooidhche Wolfindark 