The Sacred Ones
The Branches of the Sacred Tree reach outward into relationship. They represent our connections with the Sacred Ones, those beings and presences who exist beyond the self, yet remain woven into our lives, our stories, and our practices. Through these relationships, we learn attentiveness, reciprocity, and responsibility beyond the human community alone.
Spirits
Spirits are the beings and presences that inhabit the living world—spirits of place, land, home, and the unseen spaces between. They are encountered through attention, experience, and relationship rather than definition alone.
Relationship with spirits invites awareness of the world as alive and responsive. It asks us to move with care, respect boundaries, and recognize that we share space with others whose presence deserves acknowledgment.
Ancestors
Ancestors are those who came before us—by blood, by choice, and by tradition. They are remembered through story, lineage, culture, and the influence they continue to have on our lives.
To honor the ancestors is to acknowledge where we come from, to learn from what has been carried forward, and to take responsibility for what we pass on. Ancestors remind us that we are part of a continuum, shaped by the past and shaping the future in turn.
Gods
Gods are the divine powers we honor and engage with—named and unnamed, personal and communal. They are encountered through devotion, story, ritual, and lived relationship.
Relationship with the gods is not uniform or required in a single form. It may involve reverence, service, challenge, inspiration, or transformation. What matters is not sameness of belief, but sincerity, respect, and responsibility within the relationship itself.
Across many ancient and modern Pagan traditions, relationships with the Spirits, Ancestors and Gods are shaped by reciprocity, attentiveness, and care. These relationships remind us that we do not exist in isolation, but within a wider web of connection that calls for respect, humility, and ongoing engagement.
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View our one-page Sacred Tree Handout, a concise summary of our core framework.