Power Mad – It took me ages to get a hang on this dream. I was thinking about it and that isn’t always the right way to enter the dream. So this morning I woke early and lay in the meditative prayerful state and it started flowing up from deep in me. See
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/prayer-and-dream-interpretation/. What I understood I will try to put into words.
There was the hill, the ocean and the animals. The ocean is that from which our life has sprung, and so it is the source of the enormous urge to promulgate. And strangely enough here is a newspaper article:
Dandelions bring train to a standstill - The dandelion “parachutes” have come out across the country in the recent warm weather but yesterday large drifts were airborne in South Yorkshire and gusting across the main line. Somewhere near Doncaster, the five-carriage train ploughed through the drift, sucking vast numbers of the tiny seeds into the air filters, which were soon blocked.
I see the dream as a way of illustrating your desire to attain and the meeting with the extraordinary urge to promulgate, to populate. When you realised the cloud was too much for you to deal with you tried to climb above it but the bark was in the way. I saw the bark as all the thinking and words you have collected and are bogged down by. Like words they are lifeless protective things that fall away. You tried to grow or rise by thinking or trying to hard.
But then you died because the seeds suffocated you. The path you are trying to walk is up the hill toward a greater awareness. But death is a necessary part of that. Your personality that has been raised on words and thinking has to die to make way for growth. This type of death is like the spider that sheds its skin because it has grown too tight. So death is like recognition that we have grown as far as we can in our present mind state. That mind state has to die to give birth to another one.
And then you meet and become your totem animal. This is very much a Native American dream theme, and according to tradition it means Moose represents self-esteem and is also about the magick of life and death. Late autumn and early winter is her cycle of power.
It is One of the most ancient and unique power animals, the Moose energy brings in the power of self-esteem through recognizing ones own strengths and place in society. Moose medicine may be showing you that you have reason to feel good about a recent accomplishment or a task you have completed.
So those are quotes, but from the dream I get that this is a meeting with your Animal, the part of you that needs to be met and developed. And it is saying that you need to become meek as well as strong. You need to become your animal self for a while.
As a baby you were a small vulnerable animal, with all the natural instincts to feed, to survive, and to bond with your mother. This natural and spontaneous part of your nature is the foundation of what you have become now as an adult. Not only were you born with an enormous natural wisdom gained through millions of years of evolution, but your newborn self also carried protective responses such as fear, anger, and sexual longing. These are all built into your nature without any recourse to a self-aware personality. But our animal self has the inherited wisdom about survival and relationships, parenting and finding a mate. There is a lot to learn from it, and it is a wonderful resource.
But what many people find is that they are frightened of their dream animal, or have never learned to help it evolve into the human world. This means that many people have a great lack in themselves and in their dreams they have to meet and work with the animal in them. As a child we are often told not to do things that would allow us to mature with our animal self intact.
Therefore the dream is an initiation into death and the Native American tradition.
Tony
