Dreams, visions, waking dreams, lucid dreams, these are powerful ways of communicating with our deepest selves and the earth. She reveals us to ourselves through the dream state, if we listen. I call it being in session. And I slip into session regularly throughout the day, every day. In my experience, over analysis of dreams and visions dosen't help much. For me, it is the integrating process which reveals the depth of the vision, the potency of the knowledge or wisdom shared. This blog is part of that integration, as are many other activities. Tumbling like a shiny ocean smoothed pebble along the shore, dreams accumulate, sounding out connections across years and symbols in beautiful woven patterns far too gorgeous for the mundane mind to invent. The element of surprise is then evident in the life, lovely little surprises. New doors. Always a new door. "Take a step and you'll be in a world of pure imagination. Living there you'll be free, if you truly wish to be.." Willy Wonka.
A large portion of the weekends are devoted to following my children's impulses. This weekend they wanted to make dream catchers. So we looked it up online make a dreamcatcher, and here they are!
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| our first dream catchers |
The weave is pretty simple, and before long the children were making them completely on their own. We now have several to give away, and as long as I can keep some hoops and waxed thread in the house I am sure they will be in creation. Then, the lovely little buggers created alters in their bedroom underneath the catchers. This summer, camps and holidays are at a minimum. Spirit whispered to me, stay home, stay home and teach them ceremony. After creating several little fire pits, they are learning to build fires on their own, and we are camping in the garden alot. Earlier this year I introduced them to ecstatic dance and at the end of summer we will help facilitate a Sun Moon Dance not far from our home. It is marvelously delicious~ It is the fruit of completing the dream.
"Dreaming is a powerful force. It allows is access to the past and helps with autonomy for the future. Dreams are the closest thing to shamanic journeys that all of us experience; indeed, spirit messages, or prophecies, can manifest themselves to anyone who pays attention to their dreams. If we learn to be more mentally aware in our dreaming, we can become more open to healing images. As we do so, we move beyond a perception of dreams as static entities, mythic texts, or landscapes and toward an understanding of dreaming as a spiritual process of transformation within the poetic landscape of the human soul." From Woman in The Shaman's Body, by Barbara Tedlock, Bantam Books, 2005.
I am dreaming, with you. Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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