Ceremony of the Ra: is how an apprentice becomes a wisdom cat, imparting specific powers of that element, as well as strength, love, spiritual rebirth, and knowledge of that element's secret lore. The Ra is given by the elder cat of that element to an apprentice who has completed his/her vision quest.

Commonspeak: shared tongue of body language, scent, and intuition

Dog Father: the masculine principle, fierce, war-like, protector of wolves and dogs

Earth Mother: Nature, considered feminine, nurturing, growing

Elementals: another word meaning spirit cats, each polestar has a spirit cat
    Starlight - northern spirit cat, earth - about healing
    Cloudrunner - eastern spirit cat, air - about psychic ability
    Solara - southern spirit cat, fire - about seeing the past and future
    Ripplemist - western spirit cat, water - about empathy, compassion

Great Mother: the female all-mother deity, the eternal mother, nurturer of all life

Harmony Tree: giant cedar, a polestar open to all Kin & home of Starlight, spirit cat of the north

Milk Mother's Spill: the Milky Way, “Milk” signifies that the cosmos is naturally compassionate

Newmoon Gatherings: held on the night of no moon, wisdom cats & apprentices learn, commune

Polestars: Great Mother's homes on Earth, spirit cats dwell within polestars

The Prophecy: an augur written in the time of first kin whose unfolding will bring peace

The Ra: the fifth element: potential that enhances other elements

Shelter-veil: Great Mother's protection, dens that are invisible unless you know their secret

Spirit Cats: elementals, liaison between Great Mother and wisdom cats. The dwellings of spirit cats are called polestars. There is a symbol, an equilateral triangle that represents the four polestar elements, drawn as rows of circles:

Waking Dreams: dreams while in a meditative trance, prophetic dreams

The Polestars in the Green:
North – Harmony Tree: corresponds to earth element The only polestar that is public, the others for wisdom cats only.
East – Crystal Aerie: corresponds to air
South – Akashic Flame: corresponds to fire
West – Sacred Scrying Pool: corresponds to water

NORTH – HARMONY TREE – Element of EARTH: Spirit Cat - Starlight
Description: Male, white pelt, Prussian blue eyes, sheds blue-white diamonds of energy from his pelt
Properties: corresponds to pentacles in tarot decks, live in caves & rock dens, always abundant
Physical - Northern Kin: sturdy builds, well proportioned, hunters of herbs and animals
Prey: rodents, small woodland animals, small birds
Spiritual: herbal healers, natural leaders, good hunters, the best hunters of the four

EAST – CRYSTAL AERIE – Element of AIR: Spirit Cat - Cloudrunner
Description: male, black fur, silver eyes, shoots lightning from mouth, controls the weather
Properties: corresponds to swords in tarot decks, lots of challenges, intellectuals, thinkers
Physical - Eastern Kin: long claws & pad horns, skin between limbs & body for jumping, extra long rear legs
Prey: lizards, snakes, prairie dogs, ground squirrels, tree squirrels, doves, pigeons, rabbits
Spiritual: psychics, mind readers, astral travelers, masters of waking-dreams, most feral of the four

SOUTH – AKASHIC FLAMES – Element of FIRE: Spirit Cat - Solara
Description: female, golden pelt, golden eyes, spits fire from mouth, appears in a pillar of flame
Properties: corresponds to wands, rods in tarot decks
Physical - Southern Kin: fierce warriors, large strong build, thick, strong claws and fangs
Prey: rodents, small woodland animals, small birds
Spiritual: akashic record keepers, sun worshipers, ancestor knowledge, most intense of the four

WEST – A SECRET SCRYING POOL – Element of WATER: Spirit Cat - Ripplemist
Description: Silver female, blue-green eyes, pelt ripples of flowing water, slender, long legs
Properties: corresponds to cups in tarot decks, emotions, wave, flow, pool, lake
Physical - Western Kin: beautiful thick pelts, large loving eyes, comfortable in water,
Prey: fish, frogs, dragonflies, insects
Spiritual: empaths, sensitive, most beautiful and intuitive of the four

The Dark Prophecy
Who takes a life into his own
Grows strong of muscle, hard of bone.
And he who eats a beating heart
Will rule a kingdom, long and dark.

Behold! The greatest power comes
To he who eats the heart of one
Who is but spirit, body-free.
That heart bestows eternity.

And the finest heart to eat
Beats within the Mother Great.
A single bite of Her Sweet Flesh
And he can rule the Vast Expanse.