The Lineage

The Origin path

There are those born into a profession, and then there are those forged by the land. The lineage behind Moss & Compass was not built inside a single institution or under a sterile title. It was woven through decades of classrooms, the deep alchemy of grief, the study of complex ecosystems, and the long, quiet work of learning how to lead without severing tenderness.

This work emerged from the convergence of three sacred roads:

1. The Scholar’s Path: 25 years of education.
2. The Steward’s Path: Decades lived off-grid and rural, immersed in the the forest, and the desert.
3. The Bandrui’s Path: An initiation into the ancient ways of knowing, tending, and ritual.

As a teacher and a field guide, Ashe is equally at home designing learning structures as they are reading the subtle systems of the soil. They believe they exist to help people find orientation in moments of transition, decomposition and evolution – helping bridge the fracture of our current world to the regeneration of our immediate future. They are making a call out to the wild, hoping to find those who want to lead with and learn along side them.

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The Vision: Reclaiming the Wild Soul

Moss & Compass exists because we are a people profoundly under-initiated. Many move through life highly competent yet fundamentally severed: from the land, from meaningful skill, from rites of passage, and from themselves. This is not escapism or aesthetic romanticism; it is a whole hearted attempt to rebuild ecological literacy and communal belonging.

This is a beckoning to those who feel the pull of the indigenous ways of knowing and working with earth — a call to step out of the clock-time of the world and back into the pulse of the Great Green.

We are fierce advocates for “risky play.” By inviting children — and the child within the adult — to engage with the raw elements of mud, sticks, grass, moss, fire, tools, height, etc, we awaken an ancestral competence. We do not just play; we practice the sacred technologies of our ancestors, fostering a resilience that is both humane and deeply, vibrantly alive.

Welcome to the hearth. Let us weave a new mythology together.

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