- Honoring the Pre-Christian Deities of the ancient communities and cultures who spoke a Celtic language
- Honoring our ancestors and the spirits of the land
- Living our lives as Polytheists and Animists
- Maintaining a family hearth culture
- Developing a “Celtic Cosmology” and understanding of the physical and spiritual realms as “Land”, “Sea” and “Sky”
- Acknowledging that both scholarship and seership is important in developing a spiritual path
- Striving to reconstruct practices from mythological texts, archaeological and historical evidence and folklore but also maintaining the importance of personal revelations which does not contradict scholarly sources
- Combining the knowledge we acquire from both scholarship and seership with the application of Reconstructionist Pagan principles to develop our own traditions
- Observing the calendar of traditional Celtic celebrations including Samhain, Imbolc, Beltaine and Lunasa
- Following a code of personal and group virtues which includes piety, honor and hospitality
- Recognizing that many individual families in our tribe may have differing traditions at home around their hearth–but as a group respecting each others differences, and as individuals respecting the central tenets of the group.
What we are not about:
- Wiccan, Neo-Druidic or Western Ceremonial Magic
- Seeing our Deities as archetypes
- Pan-Indo-European Practices
- The mixing of pantheons of other cultures in our group practices
- Believing that we are the successors of the ancient Celts and are practicing a “True” or “Pure” form of Celtic Tradition which survived from ancient times
- Racial superiority or any form of racism or bigotry. All are welcome regardless of ethnicity, race, sexual orientation and/or gender
