A Circle of Stones: Journeys and Meditations for Modern Celts - Erynn Rowan Laurie 1995

Sacred Land

This is the Land of the physical realm. It is more than merely Ireland as one parcel of land, it is the entire manifest physical universe. All land is sacred land, and our connection to the Land is our stability. Sacred Land underlies all of our magical reality, surrounded and bounded by the Eternal Sea.

Coic urranna hErenn

etir muir agus tir

Addeoch-sa na coem canIe

cacha cóicid díb

(Irish source: Macalister, R.A.S., Lebar Gabala Erenn part V, Irish Texts Society vol XLIV)

The five parts of Ireland

between sea and land

I entreat the fair candles

of every province among them

KOH-ik UR-a-na HAIR-en

ED-ir mweer AH-gus teer

ATH-yok-sa na cove CAHN-leh

CAHK-a KOH-ik-ith deev

Moving Meditations on Sacred Land

Walk barefoot in the grass

Plant and tend a garden or a windowbox

Read about the history of your local area and its native people

Adopt a park and help keep it clean

Learn the medicinal or magical uses of an herb

Work for the preservation of a sacred site

Do a daily grounding exercise

Study the Gaia Theory

Take a course on local ecology

Affirmation for the Sacred Land

Today I affirm that I and the Land are One.