Shamanic drumming at the Full Moon

It still surprises me that I'm surprised.

I went to my drumming circle tonight and a couple more amazing experiences. There were only two of us there, the circle-holder and myself, our normal third unable to make it, so we had the leisure of doing several journeys on whatever topic that we wanted to. We ended up doing about four, I think, a couple of healing journeys for various people (my grandmother, for one), and a personal journey for each of us (I went to see Grandfather, my ancestor), and then we made a journey to meet the Spirit of Place for her house and land.

What surprised me was that our journeys were so very similar. This has happened every time we've done a group journey together; we come up with similar imagery or with similar content in some major way. For both of us, we kept being pulled to the front yard of their approximately 15 acres where they've invested much time and effort at planting a new orchard. It was interesting - we both used very similar words to describe how we were pulled there, and by what/whom was doing the pulling. At this stage of my practice, I really ought to know better. It just shows me that on some level I still think I'm making this up.

But I'm not.

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