Seal
As in sea, the inner energies, rising within. A seal is a trust, a security or promise, a sign of integrity, which we can abuse or use as a power. It depicts the emergence into your conscious life of your deepest instincts and life energies – in Eastern terminology the kundalini. As the seal can emerge from the water entirely and live on land, the seal is sometimes used to represent the emergence from the womb and the pleasures or difficulties of life as a ‘land animal’ physically independent of our mother. This is especially so if it is a baby seal. Otherwise the possible meanings are much the same as dolphin. See: Dolphin.
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Dear Tony,
I dreamt that I was on the beach typing a paper. I had been working hard and realized I had stayed out too long and was afraid of getting too much sun so I packed up to leave. I was feeling so content and energized the way I always feel when I leave the ocean. Before I went into my house I saw a ginger-colored horse running with a horse blanket in its mouth. It threw the blanket on the lawn of the house across the street and laid down on it. In my dream I thought it was getting ready to give birth. The colors of the horse and its blue blanket were very vivid. Then when I was inside my house I heard noise at the door. When I opened it two birds flew in – one larger, and the other small. Both dark. They immediately flew into another room where I couldn’t see them and I was very uncomfortable about that. ( In waking life I live on the 30th floor of an apartment and sometimes birds fly by very close to my open window making loud noises and appear to be very aggressive. )Then, in my dream, I call for the dog I had had for many years until its death to come and help me get the birds out of the house. I open the door and a small reptile-like creature crawled in followed by a strange dog. I ask it to help me get the birds and small creature out of my house but it walks away. Then in a dream within a dream I am thinking about how to get to a special beach that I have seemed to have been to and have known about before in my dreams but does not exsist in real life. At this beach I swim to a sand bar or island then swim out to another and then another. My dream experience tells me that I have done this many times and it takes a whole day. I experience the whole panorama of sights and smells, of ocean and palm trees and feel very refreshed and happy when I come home. My dream ends when I open the door again and my old dog, the one I was waiting for comes in. He leans next to me and I pat him lovingly telling him that I know he will help me get the birds out of my house. I always dream in color but the inside of the house is rather dark compared to the outdoors. In real life I have started a new writing project and two days ago heard of the death of a dear friend from my past.
Would greatly appreciate your insight.
Sharon – The house you want the birds out of is you – a particular part of you. While you are outdoors, in the sun, swimming you are happy and full of energy and love or what you see. But in the house the colours are not so marked.
So I wonder whether you are not very happy when you are shut in – or maybe not happy living where you do. So you are searching for something that is revealed by the swimming to the islands. What you are searching for is something that gives you that sort of pleasure. Also I feel the horse is also a part of your search. The horse is an expression of physical pleasure, the sort you mentioned, and it is giving birth to something new.
The birds are things that fly around in your mind that you want to get rid of. Then the dog rekindles the old loving feeling and you feel things will be okay. If you hang on to the feeling of the dog and the feeling of the long swim it will be a healing experience. The long swim shows a lot of courage and trust. Remember it.
Tony