It was a warm sunny day in the cool shadow of the woods. Three little brown bear cubs were romping about. One particular cub a brave little soul went exploring. It tackled a tree branch with leaves sprouting from the top. The weight of the branch could not support that of the cub so it dangled over the hearth. With a swoosh sound the branch recoiled and the cub scampered off to topple its brother and sister with a friendly pounce. Large friendly trees with gray trunks sheltered the cubs from the hot sun. Soft light danced its way down through the treetops. A pretty yellow butterfly captured the attention of the youngest cub, a male, and it went chasing after it over stones and shrubs. Clumsily it fell to its belly on the green earth. The two sister cubs seemed to smile and laugh at the action of their brother. Everything was green and golden. The younger female cub happened upon on stream and saw her reflection. Frightened she cried out and the two siblings came to the rescue. The eldest sister pounced on the younger causing her to fall it the stream. The bother cub splashed head first into the water to join in on the water play. All three cubs nipped at each other and wrestled. The better part of the day was spent play fighting in this manner. The eldest cub ventured out further, she showed more curiosity, examined the plants, trees and foliage. The cubs rested snuggled by each other's side as the sun began to fade. The cry of their mother could be heard in the distance calling them home. All three cubs raced towards the pleasing sound of their mother's cry from their day of delightful play.
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This was a dream I had back in 2003. I believe I had this dream to remind me of the importance of 'play' in ones life for a healthy balance. I think its important that people remember what its like to have a little fun and mix it up. All work and business can make one sick physically, mentally and spiritually. Now only if I can take my onw advise and listen to this dream I may be better off today!
Extrasensory perception (ESP) is the ability to obtain information beyond the limitations of our five known senses. ESP happens normally in everyday life, like when you simply have a feeling something important is going to happen for no reason and it does. Feelings of "de ja vue" are believed to be forgotten precognition dreams. ESP can be divided into many smaller categories, but the three most common are telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.
Telepathy, the best known form of ESP, is the direct transmission of messages, emotions, or other subjective states from one person to another without the use of any sensory channel of communication. In other words simply sending a message from one mind to another. Telepathy is particularly strong between people who have an emotional bond and works best in times of stress. It can be as simple as knowing exactly what someone wants for dinner without discussing it earlier or as complex as knowing when someone close to you is in danger and needs your help. An interesting example of telepathy comes from a young woman who woke around 2:00a.m. with an urgent feeling that she had to go see a friend who she was very close with. When she finally went to see her friend later that day they started, and she found out that about the same time of morning her friend had been fighting off a rape attempt.
Clairvoyants can often foretell plane crashes, major fires, or even earthquakes. Clairvoyance is the least common of the three extrasensory perceptions mentioned in this article, mainly because it cannot happen on command. Sights of clairvoyance come suddenly and cannot be controlled, and they are not often recognized for what they are. Here is an example of clairvoyance that at first was thought nothing more then a strange and disturbing nightmare. Once a young man who was very close to his grandfather, but they lived thousands of miles apart and rarely saw each other. This man awoke one morning hearing his grandfather calling his name. He opened his eyes and thought he saw his grandfather sitting on the side of his bed crying. He asked what was wrong and his grandfather told him that he had come to say goodbye, and that he loved him. With that said the image disappeared. The young man was very disturbed by this, but eventually fell back to sleep. When he awoke he thought it was all a bad dream and went to work. After he got home that evening he received a phone call from his sister telling him that their grandfather had passed away around 1:30 that morning. Clairvoyance is also called second sight and is defined as the foretelling of future or past events, or of knowing of something that is happening a great distance away at the same time as the clairvoyant is 'seeing' it happen. Clairvoyance is said to occur most often in a state of trance, during which the medium (clairvoyant) describes what he or she sees or foresees. Such as a man living in the U.S. and watching a building burn down in England in his own mind.
Precognition and clairvoyance are closely related. Precognition is the foretelling of events before they happen, but this usually takes place in dreams, whereas clairvoyance often happens when the person is wide awake. A man named Michael was planning a trip up north to the English provinces. A few days before the journey he had a vivid dream in which he saw himself speeding in his car when suddenly there was a sharp turn in the road. He saw another car's headlights coming around the corner and they ended in a head on collision. Taking his dream seriously he drove more cautiously on his trip. When he recognized the road from his dream he slowed and therefore avoided hitting a car, head on, that came around the turn in the wrong lane.
An ESP experience can take the form of a hunch, an uncanny feeling, an intuitive impression, or it can be stronger and more defiant, such as a flash. an image, or auditory signal, a warning voice, or vision, depending on your own make up and inborn talent as a receiver. Everybody has an extra sense beyond the five known senses relied upon. It is very easy to find information on telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition in your local library, and even to find tests to see which form of ESP you possess. Now is the perfect time to learn more about your extra sense!
This article was posted by M. Harris of Pacific Junction, USA & Written by M.A. ALLEY
Note: This is intended as a guideline only, the dreamer has to consider what the color means to them and what connects most importantly to the dream symbol.
Red is a color of power. It is most associated with passion and love, as in red roses or sexy red dresses. Kissable red lips and a glass of red wine for toasting, red strawberries and raspberries on a plate. Negative - blood, corruption
Orange is an unusual color, a color of fire, of tropical fruits and island sunsets. This color represents adventure, change, unusual situations. Negative - an unwanted change.
Yellow is a bright, happy color, the color of sunshine, of daffodils and buttercups. It represents joy, fun, laughing out loud. Negative - illness, as in jaundice and yellow skin.
Green is the traditional color of growing things, of fertility, of fresh young plants and fresh grass. It also represents wealth and money. Negative - greed, green with envy.
Blue is the color of great expanses - the deep blue sea, the wide blue sky. It represents peace and harmony, of patience. Negative - Sadness, the blues.
Purple is a spiritual color, representing spirituality, religion, self belief, self empowerment. Negative - Sadness.
Brown is a rich, earthy color, the color of fertile soil to grow vegetables in. The color of chocolate and tall trees and acorns. It is a color of solid dependability. Negative - Dullness.
Black is a color that has many meanings. To some it means death and destruction, the lack of all. To others it means the comfort of night, the warmth of a snuggly black blanket that keeps you safe. Black is definitely a color that you need to look within yourself to find how you react to this color.
White is equally a color that has unique meanings to each person. While many may feel it represents the fresh, innocent bride, the brand new baby, the dawn of a new day, white can also be the impersonal hospital, the cruel, harsh teacher, the white expanse of a harsh desert.
Our subconscious has the astonishing ability to reveal the underlying truth of ourselves, our relationships, struggles, and fears. We need only to pay close attention, to honor the revelations offered by writing them down, bringing our issues into the light of consciousness. In the simple act of acknowledgment and journalizing our dreams we begin healing ourselves and progressing toward wholeness. By working with intention, we are able to take this healing even further.
Witches work with the cyclic energies of the moon, sun and seasons. Make note in your dream journal of the moon's phases. You may begin to notice your own patterns of dreaming and how they appear to correspond to the waxing and waning energy of the moon. Many dreamers report an increase in vivid dreaming as the moon waxes to fullness.
Work intentions with your dream symbols in concert with the moon energies.
Working With The Moon
Distinct issues arise in dreams during the changing phases of the moon, even of the seasons. Dreamers have reported that during the darkening days of fall, they feel a psychic turn inward, and dreams become darker, deeper and more mysterious. Winter may bring a time of grounding, contemplation, and healing in the solitude offered by the cold ice moon. Spring may bring sexy dreams, of love and desire, fueled by a growing sense of expansiveness and rebirth. Summer finds many dreamers drifting without any real inner work to do, their heated slumber prompting lighter, softer dreams reflecting daily life and outer relationships.
The Waning Moon
During the waning moon, choose a dream symbol that reveals a need to let go of something. The decreasing moon is the perfect time for banishing an old habit or energy-draining addiction. If you need to let go of the "ties that bind", in an old relationship, the waning moon is the ideal moon phase to cut those lingering cords and break free, to bury the past hurts once and for all.
For example if you are aging but have difficulty of letting go of that youthful image society has embedded into our psyche, one could look at a picture in a magazine that represents that frilly artificial person, cut it out place it in a cauldron on the eve of a new moon light a black candle say a chant for protection and truth and set your intention to let go of the restraining pressures to conform to society's depiction of their narrow concept of youthful beauty. Burn the picture and bury the ashes in your garden or backyard. Then celebrate your own uniqueness is some special ritualistic way.
There are many ways to approach rituals of intention. They may be simple as writing down that you wish to banish on a piece of small paper and burning it, thus releasing the negative symbol. Or take a warm bath with sea salts and surround yourself with black candles for banishing anointed with rosemary and thyme oil. In a banishing bath, spend time visualizing the discarded expectations or unwanted aspects washing away, and let them swirl out of you and down the drain as you unplug the tub.
Work with your dream symbols as simply or elaborately as you wish. Write a poem about it. Draw the dream out on a piece of paper. Burning or burying symbols of the negative and outgrown during the waning moon energy is extremely therapeutic, as well as magickal. Magick not only happens, it heals!
The Waxing Moon
During the waxing moon we are blessed with an expanding, realizing energy, helping us move toward our full potential, fueling our growth and creative expression. Find a positive dream image that captures your desire toward healing, hope, a wish, a new venture or project, a new love ... any possibility. Work with it. Make it a part of your everyday life. Write a short poem visualizing its potential and stick it on your bedroom mirror. Find a picture that represents a wish or a desire and tack it up in your work space. Choose a figure in tarot to represent that wish to attract and place the card on your alter.
Write down your goals and intentions, and desires for each full moon and keep them tucked away close to you at all times. Foe example, your wallet. A wallet symbolizes those things of value that we carry at all times. Coins, money, identification, credit, proof of who we are. So why not carry our wishes, hopes and dreams with us too?
Celebrate the possibility becoming a reality. Inscribe a candle in the appropriate color and burn it on your alter. Find a visual image that expresses your dream and display it on your alter, surrounding it with flowers, herbs, and crystals. Burn cinnamon and mint for abundance, lavender for happiness, and sage for wisdom and protection.
Leave a small glass of wine or juice outside in the garden to give thanks to the Lord and Lady for helping manifest your dream. And leave a tiny dish of treats for the fairies! Feed the birds with seed. Leave a gift by a favorite tree.
Believe in your soul and its innate life force. Fill your heart with love and generosity, and open your life to all possibility. Accept healing and wholeness, and hold within the light of truth to guide your way. The Goddess is alive, and magick is afoot!
Information derived from "A Witch's Book of Dreams", Chapter 8
Dream work inevitably leads to shadow work. As the shadow embodies the parts of ourselves we prefer to deny or disown, often the only time we are made aware of our shadows is through dreams, The subconscious (our deeper un-known-self) is very aware of our shadow, and nudges us to acknowledge it by sending us arresting images in dreams to get our attention. If we persist in ignoring these darker unknown aspects, our subconscious will start sending us stronger and more frightening representations.
Seeds Of Denial:
From early childhood we were encouraged to behave in one way and repress certain traits. These traits that we suppress, reject, or deny within ourselves become submerged into the depths of our subconscious, becoming our shadow.
Women & Shadow:
Sometimes because of our upbringing we were taught certain behaviors were "unladylike", even embarrassing. We were programmed to deny a part of our "true selves". Often we may have certain dreams that frighten or disturb us because our "shadow" is trying to tell us that we must cultivate that part of our "true selves", before it is lost forever. When we begin to hide essential part of ourselves, especially instinctual, fiery, and passionate traits, we loose touch with our core energy. Hence we loose touch with ourselves! Through dream work women can develop a relationship to their shadow or Daimon Lover, rekindling lost passions and seeking new modes of expression for their creative self.
The Shadow Men Cast:
For men, the collective institutes different pressures; they suffer along with us our culture's devaluation of feminine attributes. Intuition, feelings, empathy, and cooperation are suppressed and discarded so they can be seen as "real men". The expectation of sacrifice and devotion to hard work for the hierarchy of status, power, materialism, and completion takes its own toll. The creative, vital, emotional force gets lost to the pressure of conforming and compliance. The Green Man goes underground. This is often the time to reclaim the shadow energies and spark old dwindling fires. Rather than living out the shadow destructively, men need to recognize they have an option of facing the shadow through dream work, moving towards a positive expression of their lost self, and renewal of their creative energies in constructive ways.
Ownership of the Shadow:
To consciously acknowledge that we have a dark unknown side, a shadow, is to take ownership of ourselves as whole human beings; beings with yin and yang energies, dark and light, masculine and feminine, creative and destructive. To know that the entire range of emotion, and all possibility is inherent in every human being frees us from self-deception.
In taking such ownership, we then free others from our projections. If we deny that we have these shadow impulses in others, we project onto others the very traits we fear, suspecting these traits are deep within us, but not wanting to admit to them. We scapegoat, picking someone in town, in class, the office, the family, to carry our shadow for us. We blame and point fingers.
Shadow work is important because it helps us become aware of our whole self, accepting responsibility for our own weaknesses and darker impulses, and healing our own spirit, we take away one soul from the collective participation in shadow projection. We help to dismantle culture's collective denial of shadow that creates the powerful need for scapegoating.
Information derived from "A Witch's Book of Dreams", by Karri Allrich
