The Four Directions

EAST – GOLDEN EAGLE, THE DAWN OF VISION AND TRUTH.
THE UNIVERSAL MIND OF CLARITY, WISDOM AND ILLUMINATION.
Turning your dreams and hopes into reality – visions made manifest.
Having mind that can discern.

“When you see a new trail, or a footprint you do not know, follow it to the point of knowing.”

–Uncheedah, Sioux Grandmother

SOUTH – COYOTE, THE UNIVERSAL HEART THAT OPENS TO TRUST, GROWING INTO LOVE OF SELF AND ALL OUR RELATIONS.
Will you stand by, speak for those you love?
Will you commit to love of self, family, life?
Will you love your relations and stand for the interconnection of all people, all species?
To love one must trust oneself to love first self, then all life. 

“The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that are alive.”

-Thich Nhat Hanh

WEST – BEAR, THE SOUL THAT LIVES WITH AWARENESS AND INNER-DEPENDENCY WITH ALL LIFE SEEN AND UNSEEN – MATURITY AND STRENGTH BORN OF EXPERIENCE AND SELF-EXAMINATION.
Discipline, accountable awareness, strengthening the foundation of character and will, soul making.

“The secret of life”, say the Utes, “is in the shadows and not in the open sun; to see anything at all, you must look deeply into the shadow of a living thing.”

-Joan Halifax

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage”

-Anais Nin

NORTH – WHITE BUFFALO, THE BODY, OUR MEDIUM, THE CHANNEL FOR RECEIVING AND GIVING, CLEANSING, RENEWING, AND PURIFYING. 
Ancestors long dead are not in the past, but are present guiding us into the future. 
The outward expression of our life comes from our body. 
Our personal home, our body, our piece of Mother Earth holds the seeds of who we are.
Giving birth to the shoots of our life.

The way of Elder loving compassion, a dedication to the young and their home, Mother Earth.

TRISHUWA is Ceremonial Director of the Church of Gaia and founding member of Foundation for Gaian Studies. She is an Earth Keeper and Metis of Irish and Cherokee lineage.  Her first ceremonial experiences were with the San Juan Pueblo people who live 25 Miles north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the Rio Grande where she lived as a child.  Trishuwa works with the 4 great ceremonies of the Earth—the experiential forms of working with the invisibles of the world—Sweat Lodge, Sacred Pipe, Vision Quest and the Medicine Wheel.  She continues to travel and teach internationally each year.  Her work has been profiled in The New York Times, on “Good Morning America,” and on “CNN.”  She now lives in New Mexico with her partners, Julie McIntyre and Stephen Buhner, author of The Fasting Path, Lost Language of Plants, and The Secret Teaching of Plants.

AMY GOODMAN KIEFER  has been working with plants for 14 years.  She is an avid gardener and a community herbalist, and has assisted Rosemary Gladstar for many years.  She teaches classes throughout New England, co-founded “Herb Camp for Kids.” and has completed advanced studies in Sacred Plant Medicine.  She stewards a special piece of land with her husband Joseph in East Montpelier, VT.

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