Walk the Sacred Red Road

Grandfather, Wakan Tanka, teach me to trust my heart, my mind, my intuition, my inner knowing, the senses of my body, the blessing of my spirit. Teach me to trust these things so that I may enter my sacred space and love beyond my fear. And thus walk in balance with the passing of each glorious sun…… Lakota prayer

THE SACRED RED ROAD Walking on the Sacred Red Road is following the Great Spirit, the Mother Earth and the sacred ways of the Native North American Ancestors. We start to walk on this road when we recognize and answer the call to restore the sacred balance in our life and the will to live through the teachings of the Sacred Circle of Life, and when we recognize and feel in our heart the inestimable value of this ancient way to live and interact with the World. Creation follows the Universal law of equilibrium, and moving, transforming, and growing in cycles, in circles. Our Sacred Mother the Earth whirling and dancing in circles around our Sacred Father the Sun and initiating and completing her four cycles of transformation through the equinoxes and solstices. We are dancing and cycling with her through our four stages of life by being a child, an adolescent, an adult and an elder. In the Sacred Circle of Life the center is the Creator of All, the Great Spirit who dwells in everything. The circle is the People and all Creatures. In the circle nobody is higher or lower because everybody has the same distance from the center, has the same value and the same power which is the gift of life. The foundation and the essence of the Sacred Red Road are respect and caring for the self and for all Creation and living by true spiritual values, dreams and visions, and by following spiritual guidance from the Spirit and from the Elders. It is a way to listen to our spirit and to the living spirit in all; to the Great Spirit, to Mother Nature, to the Universe. It is not a philosophy, a religion or a belief system, it is a way of life, a way to live in harmony with the self and with all Creation, not only thinking or talking about it, but to walk and to live that way. To be aware that in the Sacred Circle of Life all beings are gifted and have a sacred purpose and the sacred right to be, to be respected and to be cared for. The strength of the circle depends on how much everybody cares about each other. Purification, healing, spiritual connection, listening and acting through the heart in the benefit of all is the way to find our sacred place and purpose in the Sacred Circle of Life on this road. As human beings, like anything else, we are born from the Great Mystery, free and equal and we all share the same space and resources and the same parents; Mother Earth and Father Sky. We are all family, all related. Our relatedness is not only with other human beings, but with all known and unknown Creatures in this Universe, the Galaxies, the Stars, the Planets, the Mother Earth, the Four Elements,