outdoors

I don't know about you but I love being outside when I can be out. My son loves it too. So yesterday, seeing as how it was in the seventies as far as temperature goes, in December too of all things. We spent some time out. I took my tarot, oracle cards and my pendulum and runes outside with us. While my son played, I went through each cardbeing careful to study each and wrote in my rune journal and did a little work with my pendulum (which was kind of difficult since the wind was blowing a bit much) but I felt like I needed to bring these things outside so they can get rid of some bad energies or at least stale energy. I also did a little bit of wind meditation. What that is is where on a windy day you either walk barefoot or at least sit outside and you picture the wind blowing away the stale or negative energy around you. Its very up lifting. But its a relaxing experience for me and it burned off some lent up energy in my son so that's a plus.
I've always loved being outside even as a kid. And as I studied more into Wicca, I realized that I associate with the earth element and Gaia, the earth goddess. My son however is associated with the fire element. I have to be careful with lit candles around him. They attract him like flies to honey ;) my husband though is the water element. I noticed that on days when it rains, he seems calm and relaxed then usual.
Any ways, I even got in some reading time. I couldn't go out today because its actually cold and raining. But there will be other days :)