This blog is a guest blog for I wrote for Patti Allen. You can find her website by clicking here. Patti is a dreamer, and a tarot-ist with her own deck of cards: The Abeton Key, named after the sleep chamber in the ancient healing temple of Asclepius.
Dreams at the crossroads of life. I had never imagined getting this old so I am celebrating. Listening to my dreams gives me the symbolism I need to face the challenge of this new phase of life… I will share a bit of my blog here and invite you to read the rest of it at Patti Allen her blog: pattiallen.com
When Patti asked me to write a blog post to contribute to her Heart-Centered Dreamwork I was thrilled. Patti and I share the same dream of creating a platform to share knowledge about dreams, spirituality, and mythology.
Looking back at my life, I see three crossroads I have passed through. I matured from childhood into womanhood, I choose my partner for life and entered a life stage of companionship and motherhood. And now at this point in my life I say farewell to my fertility and welcome the Crone stage. (In the ancient societies there where three stages of womanhood: the Maiden, the Mother and the Crone, all manifestations of the triple Goddess.)
Crossroads From Childhood Into Womanhood
My earliest memory of a dream is a nightmarish dream I had about an airplane being stuck in my closet. I was scared about the noise it made and how trapped it must feel in that little closet of mine. We used to live near a military airway. I later on deciphered it to be about the way I had to tune down my energy in the big family I grew up in. I am the youngest one in a family of 7 siblings. We had nine people living in our house. So it was always fun, always busy and there always was the need to tune in or tune down. I think my dream supported my longing to fly out, to spread my wings. I left home relatively early at age 17, doing just that. You can see that a dream that is concerned with showing you new roads on which to travel, often uses symbols of travel. In this dream it is an airplane. The air and the wind flow and chill, but it also supports transportation into new endeavors.
Click to see my interview with Ralph Metzner about the battle between the Aesir sky gods and the Vanir earth gods as the battle between old and new technology. To resolve this battle Odin showed both tribes how to conduct rituals based on mutual respect. The earth tribe in my childhood home was my father. Being the principle of the local high school he was all about rules. Teaching the rules, playing by the rules; do your homework. He liked things that where tangible. I was more “airy”: I saw ghosts, spirits, I could talks to them for hours. I was a dreamy girl. It took me several decades to engage in a ritual based on mutual respect to build a bridge towards my father’s knowledge. A dream paved the way for that. In this dream of mine I foresaw his death. After having this dream I asked him if he wanted to do anything before he was gone; anything he had not gotten around to in his life? He talked with me that night about his life, about how wonderful it had been and about how much he loved my mother. He had enjoyed the company of his children and told me how I always amazed him with my analytic skills and my guts to ask questions other people only thought, but never said out loud.
As I reflect on my journey through these significant crossroads in life, I realize how much my dreams have guided me, offering symbolic wisdom at each juncture. From the fearful airplane in my closet to the deep conversations with my father before his passing, dreams have been my compass. They have illuminated the path forward, provided clarity in moments of uncertainty, and connected me to a deeper understanding of who I am. Now, as I embrace the Crone stage and celebrate the wisdom that comes with age, I continue to listen to the messages within my dreams. Just as Patti Allen’s Heart-Centered Dreamwork invites us to connect with our inner selves, I encourage you to explore the symbols in your own dreams and let them help you navigate the crossroads in your life. To read more of my journey, join me over at Patti Allen’s blog at pattiallen.com.
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