Emmers – The start of the dreams shows you in good health, and because of that you are ready to meet and inner adventure. Such adventures are about your growth, and cannot be undertaken while the person is weak. As far as what growth means, I quote from Marie von France in Man and His Symbols.
“Our dream life creates a meandering pattern in which individual strands or tendencies become visible, then vanish, then return again. If one watches this meandering design over a long period of time, one can observe a sort of hidden regulating or directing tendency at work, creating a slow, imperceptible process of psychic growth-the process of individuation.
Gradually a wider and more mature personality emerges, and by degrees becomes effective and even visible to others. The fact that we often speak of “arrested development” shows that we assume that such a process of growth and maturation is possible with every individual. Since this psychic growth cannot be brought about by a conscious effort of will power, but happens involuntarily and naturally, it is in dreams frequently symbolised by the tree, whose slow, powerful, involuntary growth fulfils a definite pattern”.
I take it that when John comes to tell you about the Juniper trees, it is suggesting you associate him with being a good helper and having some wisdom; this because the Juniper tree has magical connections according to folklore. And also the fire is like the burning bush that does not consume itself. Truly a wonderful sight to see.
The burning bush is a sign – in dreams – of a love that does not consume the body; an ability to move beyond the influence of the changing world. It can be seen as a sign or initiation into the spiritual, a sign of recognition. It is a baptism into the realisation that You Are It – I Am That I Am. So it can represent the beginning of spiritual awakening in you. It may indicate your spiritual purification and preparation or your need for this, with the promise of a great spiritual awakening to come.
What we have so far is a readiness for an inner adventure, and then a full blown initiatory experience, or promise of it. Then you glimpse the T-Rex.
You may not be aware that dreams are much like computer games; you can be killed a hundred times, eaten my monsters and even be consumed by flames – and yet no harm comes to you. Each time you emerge unscathed, although perhaps a little wiser. And like a game you can continue to fail, through fear, through not learning the rules of the game, until hopefully you get past the things that wiped you out – figuratively. See
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/what-we-need-to-remember-about-dreaming/Therefore you can continue the adventure, because you went into the unconscious, where all our inner growth occurs – the basement – and the unconscious is obviously older than you are with its stone walls. You have not been in this area of you much because it is still very dusty. And you are being chased by the ancient part of you, the T-Rex. It is important to meet it and come to terms with it, otherwise your inner adventure will be stuck.
You are in the unconscious because you meet your dead grandfather there, and you got there via the Escher type stairs.
Remember the T-Rex is not in the outer world but is a creature of your dreams – a virtual reality.
What this may mean in your everyday life is that you feel confused by what is happening.
Tony
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