Using a "ladder" or cord with knots to keep track of each recitation of the meditations, participants use an old Wiccan tool to focus group energy toward healing Mother Earth, as well as any other needed healing. Rev. Melissa Murry, high priestess of the Temple of the Sacred Raven, was initiated as a third degree high priestess in the Coven of the Citrine Dragonfly of the Black Forest Tradition of Wicca.