“…To ride the horse is to ride the wind….”

“…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.

​​This Retreat was 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 caught and were caught by the circling winds of the Traditional stories which began and grounded each day in trance, dance, ceremony, healing, and community. In and through the magic of these stories we touched that which we believed was out of our reach, touching the wild in our hearts which shared the songs of everything.

 

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