We eventually made our way to the backyard. It was evening time and the string lights were on alongside the stars shining down on us. We could hear the laughter of our children running around the woods while James chased them and kept them entertained. We lit some candles, added a few items of symbolism around them and burned some copal. One of my friends noticed that the smoke made its way to each of us in a circle after it was lit. I thought that was a really beautiful thing for her to witness.
We grabbed a deck of oracle cards and decided to pull a card for the person next to us and go around the cirlce, pulling and reading for each other. Just as we were about to begin Ava ran over and sat in the circle with us, so we let her begin the pulling of the cards. It was such a sweet moment, and she intuitively pulled exactly what my friend needed to hear. Each card spoke to us on an individual level, but also ended up feeling like a collective message for us all as well. We each walked away with whispers from the Fruit, the Mountain, the Fire and the River.
