The Pack Tradition

What is The Pack?

The Pack is a powerful, gestalt spirit. So far as I can tell, it touches every canid (and some others), whether physical or spiritual, in at least some way.

The Pack is, in effect, the conscious spirit of every pack, big or small, physical or spiritual, wolf or coyote or dog or interspecies. It is, by its very nature, plural. It isn’t the spirit of Wolf, though the two are obviously related. Nor is it the spirit of just any group of animals or living things. The Pack is not, for example, the spirit of pods of whales or groves of trees.

The Pack Tradition

The Pack Tradition is an initiated tradition that is being developed by myself and a few others. It is inherently polytheist and animist in perspective. There are a great number of gods and spirits in this tradition, and it blends well into other polytheistic worldviews (for example I am also a Heathen, coming from the worldview of the Well and the Tree).

It is a path dedicated to and centered on seven primary spirits, usually called the Pack Spirits. These are Earth, Silence, Howl, Sky, Hunt, Prey, and Pack. There are a number of other groups and types of spirits involved, but these are the main.

As it has been put to me in times past, “This is about re-connecting to the wolves who forgot themselves when they became human. And also about connecting to humans (and not-quite humans) again, as wolves did once long ago.” In a lot of ways this is a path dedicated to Ancestral memories and the spirits of those who walked similar roads before us, and trying to pave an easier way for those who may come after us.

While wolves and wolf spirits are part of religions all over the world, this particular iteration is very much new and being developed all the time.

And indeed, while wolves and wolf spirits are my primary focus within the Tradition, wolf is but one of many perspectives that folks within the Tradition approach from, and no more valid or important than any other.

It is an ongoing project. As more is developed and explored, I will will continuosly update this page and put (probably over-long) posts in my blog feed.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions you might have.