“…There is a moment when a great nothing happens, almost as if the Ancestral Stars are holding their breath, nothing stirs and nothing moves and nothing speaks; in all of everything there is a deepness of nothing….”

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Wind & Horse, synonymous with strength and direction, within the Sagh’ic Tradition they also are songs of the Seanachais, the storytellers, and the Vitha, the dreamers. Both had the craft and gift to carry the other into worlds of possibility, through stories and divination.

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When there is the stillness and silence of nothing, all things are possible and revealed by the Ancestral spirits.

In the days long gone by, we were a simpler people, we were childlike, wandering, and wondering, explorers and adventurers. We may have been wild and primal; however, we were in balance with the world and all the gifts and opportunities that it shared with us.

We were songs sun g in the great story of creation, and that story spoke directly to our hearts and our hearts shared that story in many stories, which were. Of the times before, the immediate times and the adventures yet to be imagined.

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Creation, the world, the great wild forest, held no secrets from us nor we from them, or each other.

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The wind was the song of life, and this wind had four singers, four winds which snag of and through all things. And there were those, it is said, who rode those winds, and in this shared the stories of all things.

The Song of the Ancestors, all those who came before this moment, is the wind which fills the sails of our lives, every note, every rhythm, every lyric, every whisper, guides, carries, and holds us. These sails ‘ride’ the wind and in that riding know every note, rhythm, lyric, and whisper. In a quantum world, every breath of wind which catches a sail, is a moment that is before; in each moment we are the ancestors that sing. Ancestors are as a forgotten song, the trick, the prayer, the devotion, is in remembering who the ancestor is and who is singing who.

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This Retreat is a letting go into the potential and mystery of who and what we have forgotten. In a riding of Gaoth and Epona, the two horse spirits, we will catch or be caught by the circling winds of the Traditional stories which will start and ground each day in trance, dance, ceremony, healing, and community. Maybe in and through the magic of the stories to touch that which we believe is out of our reach, as perhaps/maybe we will touch the wild in our hearts that shared the songs of everything.

This is a nine day residential Retreat in cool green of Fireflies at Dinnepalya, Karnataka, with ceremonies, prayers, healing, singing and dancing, which come to us from our Sagh’ic animist tradition.

And as we always say, this is not a retreat from, rather a running to.

A gathering to remember that wildness, though tamed, within ourselves, to share the stories and divinations of the world around us.