Dreams
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I Had a Dream….
So, a few nights ago I had a dream. It wasn’t that extraordinary of a dream. It was about an apartment that I had moved into (not in real life, only in the dream) that was SO beautiful and I loved it SO much. There were all the things that I wanted: hardwood floors, big windows, lots of space, old world charm and romance… the only problem was, this apartment was FILLED with stuff! There were boxes and boxes of stuff EVERYWHERE filling up the rooms! And in my dream a friend of mine helped me go through the boxes, organized their contents, and put things where they belonged opening…
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Confession! (Snake and Spider)
Like a proper tomboy, I was never afraid of bugs, spiders, or snakes. I thought they were fascinating. Beautiful, otherworldly creatures with mysterious origins. The bringers of change, strength, growth, and knowledge. Power over your world. Efficient, effective predators. We can even say they were a little sexy. My mother even died of complications due to a spider bite. Still, I was not afraid of spiders. They were unwelcome in my house and if they entered my domain they had to weather my wrath. But I still wasn’t scared. The dreams started during my rebirth into shamanism. Rivers of snakes everywhere I went. Trying to get from here to there…
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Dreams and Dreaming
Dreams are an immense part of our lives, even when we don’t remember them. Science hasn’t quite figured out the purpose of dreams, except that while we’re dreaming, our brain is building and reinforcing neural pathways. But dreams do a whole lot for us. They help us remember things, important information, they help us work out problems and find solutions, and they allow our unconscious minds to communicate with our conscious minds. And this unconscious to conscious communication is perhaps the most intriguing part. There’s a lot that happens in our unconscious, while we’re awake and while we’re asleep. So much happens that we don’t really know for sure everything…
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Book Review: Spirit and Dream Animals by Richard Webster
Richard Webster’s Spirit and Dream Animals is a multidisciplinary view of modern, mythical, and shamanic practices regarding animal spirit guides (totems), power animals, and shape-shifting. For those who have studied shamanism and mysticism for awhile, this reading may be a tad on the light side, but it does discuss interesting topics such as using the numerology of your name and birth date to find your own personal power animal. The book begins with a discussion of the importance of dreams according to various philosophies and mythologies, exploring each idea briefly and noting any interconnectedness. After this, it goes on to discuss the frequency and importance placed on animals and animal…
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Creativity + Dreamtime + Spirit
Creativity is an interesting thing in our culture. We value it highly, but not consciously. We expect everything to be attractively arranged and we’re swayed by the appearance of things – anything, really – websites, products, furniture, cooking utensils… you name it, and someone has taken the time to design it and find out what is most attractive and functional – together, not necessarily one more than the other. Shops play music while we enjoy our browsing experiences. Our phones highlight their abilities to display websites properly, take photos, and store music. We are constantly surrounding ourselves with things that are beautiful and sooth the senses. Creativity is a way…
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I Want You to Succeed
Wow, how do I follow up that last post? How about with what I want from our relationship? You see, I want you to succeed. I know you have a ‘thing’, a dream, a hope, a wish, a destination or a desire. I know that sometimes it grips you so hard that you tremble inside at all the possibilities. I know that when you’re driving to work you’re thinking about it and when your mind wanders, it’s the first place it goes. I know that because I have a dream, too. And that dream is helping you realize your dream. I fully believe that we can all be the captains…
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Dream Interpretation
Dreams can reveal a lot about our selves, our experiences, and our lives in general. It’s a way for our unconscious mind to communicate with our conscious mind while it works out issues and questions from our everyday lives. A lot of information gets processed this way and a great amount of resolving, healing, and learning can be accomplished in our dreams. But how do we know what our dreams mean and if we need to follow up on them? Well, this is another area where tarot can help us! I’ve recently learned a couple new spreads that help us explore our dreamworlds in more detail and understand what our…
