Category Archives: Dreaming

I can leave my body, can you?

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I have found that I’m absorbing a great deal of what I read and I also frequently experience episodes of deja vu. For example, although I know I have never done any reading on a specific topic I can find a book and as I begin reading it my mind races ahead of my eyes supplying me with information and past life  “memories”.

I am filled with calmness and peaceful knowing that I have been here and have been presented with this life lesson before and will be presented with it over and over again until I learn it. The truth is that I possess knowledge of some subjects that I have not explored before in this life and I cannot explain why that is. More truth is that I can leave my body and travel back to these times.

As a young child I left my body and returned to it again after the spiritual journey during which I watched myself being born. I have retained this ability to leave my body and I have embarked on spiritual journeys throughout my life.

I’ve been tapping into my intuition since I was a very young child.
When I am at my best:
* I follow my heart
* I listen to my inner voice
* I trust my feelings
* I often experience information that just comes to mind without seeking it
* I often anticipate future events and “see” them, ahead of time
* I frequently see, feel, and hear things that prove to be accurate later on

When I am at my worst I am ignoring or forcefully rejecting intuitive abilities . And when I ignore or forcefully reject I become ill in my body and depressed.

Dragon Dreaming: Symbology

Black Dragon Dream

Red Dragon Dream

Blue Dragon Dream

Secret Gardens: Bear Symbology

Secret Gardens: Dreamtime Bear Cave

Wisdom: The Old Man/Woman

Secret Gardens: Dragonfly Symbolism

Secret Gardens: Recycling Lost Life

The Gift of Fire

During this time of healing, hibernation and incubation I am conscious that I am preparing to move forward.

These nights I dream of fire, ashes and, of the proverbial phoenix rising from the ashes. It seems we are refined through the fire of passion. Just as metals become malleable under heat and pressure we are likewise shaped by the fire in our bellies, shaped by our attachments and our aversions.

Just as the fire of the sun is central to our solar system, the fire in our heart is the center of our physical universe. Spirit of Fire radiates warmth and light as does the human heart and connects us with our divine nature and wisdom. Spirit of Fire dispels loneliness and teaches us the value of community that assists with our emotional transformation.

The Gift of FIRE
By Tina Olivero

Fires come into our lives for all the right reasons.
Out with the old world, this fiery time for change calls the new.
As it ignites we realize we have also been ignited
and in so we have been granted permission to move forward.

What was, is no longer, what is to be… awaits.
New doors open and new realms become available.
Is it not fascinating to witness nature clear the past on our behalf?
Curiously we may now ask, “Where to from here?”

Completions rest in the ashes and the past disappears in the wind.
Speaking to us we hear, “We are not our possessions,”
“We are not our former knowledge,”
“We are not our circumstances.”

Suddenly we have a seed deep beneath the rubble,
one that pushes to the surface, like phoenix it whispers softly,
“The power of this fire will never exceed
the power of community, love and kindness.”

Seen so clearly when we get to nothing,
when everything is burned to the “ground,”
we are finally grounded in the greatest gift of knowing,
from nothing we can create anything.

The fire has spoken, taken and given
all that was is gone, all to be is now here;
and who we are is a new set of eyes that clearly sees through flames.
Sparks from nothing, we are the light and the possibility of anything.


Secret Gardens: Bear Symbology

From First Nations people we learn that animals have much to teach us as they are messengers of the Great Spirit. In their culture a Power Totem Animal is an animal symbol that is there to guide them through their entire life.

There are three other types of totems:
A Journey Totem that is with you for a period or phase of your life perhaps anywhere from a week to a year.

A Visiting Totem who comes briefly with a message for the moment.

A Shadow Totem is an animal whom you may initially fear. They represent the hidden side of yourself and will soon become your allies after certain initiations giving you the opportunity to overcome your fears.

bear1.jpgBear Symbolism – Strength, Introspection, Knowledge, Healing
Bears hibernate in the winter, which may explain their association with “dreaming the Great Spirit” or retrospection. The symbolism of the Bear’s cave reflects returning to the womb of Mother Earth. [A Cave is an archetype for the mind - sleep - returning to higher consciousness.This female receptive energy, for centuries has allowed visionaries, mystics, and shamans to prophesy.] This also suggests a strong feminine aspect, one of nurturing and protection. Bear cubs, born in the early spring, can spend as many as seven years with their mother before reaching maturity.

People with Bear Medicine are considered by many as self-sufficient, and would rather stand on their own two feet than rely on others. They are often considered dreamers. Many have developed the skill of visualizing new things, but as a result can get caught up in the dreaming, making little progress in waking reality.

Bear’s medicine includes introspection, healing, solitude, wisdom, change, communication with Spirit, death and rebirth, transformation, astral travel, creature of dreams, shamans and mystics.

Bear is the keeper of the dreamtime, and stores the teachings of dreams until the dreamer wakes up to them. Many tribes have called this space of inner-knowing the Dream Lodge, where the death of the illusion of physical reality overlays the expansiveness of eternity. It is in the Dream Lodge that our ancestors sit in Council and advise us regarding alternative pathways that lead to our goals.

Bear is the spirit keeper of the West which is the place of maturity and good harvest. The gifts that Bear offers to those with this totem are strength, introspection and knowledge. From this spirit keeper of the west we learn our personal truth, and find our answers that reside within. This animal will show us the path to reach our personal goals.

Bear holds the teachings of introspection and teaches you how to make choices from a position of power. Bear can help us with the ability to turn inward to access our strength and honor your nature cycles. He teaches us when it is time to act and when it is time to be still.

When Bear shows up in your life pay attention to how you think, act and interact. Use discernment in all that you do and discriminate with care.

Related blog posts:

Wisdom: The Old Man/Woman

Secret Gardens: Dreamtime Bear Cave

Evergreens a Symbol of Rebirth

New theme for a new cycle

Secret Gardens: Dragonfly Symbolism

Secret Gardens: Recycling Lost Life

See also: Dreaming
Bear Symbology

Wisdom: The Old Man/Woman

Wise Old Man/Woman

A Wise Old Man figure may appear in a man’s dream, a Wise Old Woman in a woman’s dream. The Wise Old Man may take various forms; for example, old bearded man, guru, priest or prophet, king, magician, teacher. The Wise Old Woman may appear as Earth Mother, Great Goddess, Mother Church, priestess or prophetess, teacher. Attend to whatever this figure tells you in dreams: the result could be a transformation of your personality and your life, in tune with your true self.

Such figures Jung called ‘mana’ personalities. Mana denotes awesome, mysterious power associated with gods but also with natrural phenomena and extraordinary human skills, genuis, holines, psychic powers and supranormal knowledge. These figures may therefore be frightening. If you find them too frightening, consult a {Jungian} therapist.

People may let themselves be ‘possessed’ – taken over – by the Wise Old Man/Woman and become insufferably domineering, self-important, opinionated. Alternately, failure to acknowledge the ‘divine’ wisdom and power within yourself may lead you to project it on to some authoritarian – but not necessarily authoritative – public figure, or guru, or personal aquaintance.

Whatever such a mana figure says to you in a dream will be extremely important and will almost certainly open up a new dimension of life for you.

Should the Wise Old Woman appear in a man’s dream or the Wise Old Man in a woman’s dream, it may be the anima/animus that is being represented.

Related blog posts:

Secret Gardens: Bear Symbology

Wisdom: The Old Man/Woman

Secret Gardens: Dreamtime Bear Cave

Evergreens a Symbol of Rebirth

New theme for a new cycle

Secret Gardens: Dragonfly Symbolism

Secret Gardens: Recycling Lost Life
See also: Dreaming