Sacred Fire

Our sacred fire has been kept alive for generations throughout the indigenous world. We understand the power and the beauty that it holds not only for physical understanding, but for our spiritual nourishment. The ceremonial fire that is used represents and reflects a micro-cosmos of the sacred fire of the sky, our Grandfather Sun, for both give and nourish life. Our ceremonial prayer through the sacred pipe also holds the sacred fire within, creating another wave of a micro cosmos from the larger fires- connecting our grandfather Sun, our ceremonial fires, our pipe fire, our prayer fire, and the fire that lies within us. This fire gives us our nourishment, our strength, our vitality, our warmth, just like the Grandfather Fire and the ceremonial community fires. Our internal fire reflects the evolution of our soul, our state of mind, and our relationship to our world- it is in direct link to all these fires.

The spiritual fire of the sky coming in the form of the lightening creates the heartbeat and the sound of the union of the cloud people, what we call thunder. The voice of the thunder beings can also be heard in the palpitation of our own heart, and the flow of our blood within our veins. As the fires reflect our emotions, we start to understand its dynamics, its power, and its elemental and spiritual gifts to us. It can be too hot, and the emotions boil to anger and frustration, but as we burn all those things that are not needed, we will fertilize our own purification. And we use the connection of all these ceremonial fires to purify and cleanse ourselves for these elementals can transform energies and substances into many forms, to cleanse and renew us.

Just as the Daystar comes through the day to give us light and nourishment, so do the healthy forest and the grassland fires. The mirror image also happens within ourselves when we go through the ceremonial and purification fires- we make room for new life and new seeds to be planted. In traditional societies the relationship with the forest and grassland fires was a keystone responsibility to maintain the health of the land. To be able to work with the sacred fire is to have discipline, commitment, and responsibility, for its powers are immense. One of the greatest pains that the human can ever experience is the burn by the fire, and one of the greatest benefits offered is a very fertile ground to work with.

It takes great courage and strength to knowingly and willingly create a sacred relationship to the Divine Fires. A commitment to the sacred pipe is in service to all life as we know it upon our Mother Earth, for the ceremonial fires direct intention to open the gateways for the spiritual to be alive within the human experience, with a direct spiritual relationship to the Divine. By knowingly co-creating these relationships, it creates the wavelengths of inter-reaction, where one influences the other- when one can aid the other’s needs with full consciousness and understanding of the full relationship. This means that the sun knows when you are praying to it, and the fire knows when you are talking to it, and what you are offering to it. And so the fire talks to us in a language to be rediscovered- the expressions of the fire coming from the smoke, the flames, its heat, its colors, its sounds, its intensity, are all a truer communication with Spirit.