You have been walking for hours.
The rhythm of your steps has settled in your body,
the sound of the ocean somewhere beside you.
At times, there was only movement.
And sometimes, thoughts kept going
around and around in your head.
And then, without really knowing why,
something begins to slow.
The path descends.
Your feet, warm and tired,
meet the softer ground of Milfontes.
The air changes.
The light shifts.
And somewhere between your arrival and the pull of what lies ahead,
you feel it…
A quiet sense to pause.
Here, you are met
near the water where the small boat
brings people ashore and across to Furnas Beach
Or maybe beneath the trees, up the stairway by the old Fort, where the birds fill the air with their endless song.
There is the moment to arrive.
To set things down.
To let your attention return
from the Fishermen’s path outside
to what is moving within.
The cards open a quiet field
in which patterns, images and movements
come into view.
Not as something new,
but as a recognition
of what has been there all along.
What emerges is often simple.
Clear.
Unmistakable.
In that moment of knowing
something shifts.
A thought finds its place.
A direction comes in view.
Or a simple sense of ease falls over you
There is time to let it settle.
A cup of hot tea.
The sound of the river.
The space between steps.
And from there,
you continue your journey.
