Julian - The soil, which is the basis of all life, for plants are fundamental to the feed chain, comes from death and decay. We all need to compost what is dying or dead, and even our human waste is valuable, for in dreams as in life, nothing is wasted but is transformed into fertiliser for new growth.
Your appreciation for the work you are doing on the compost, shows the wisdom of dreams, it is saying, “Well done!”
Composting is a form of digestion. Digestion is a very important function not just for our body but also for our mind and spirit. I have seen people become very ill in mind because they have not digested their experience or what they have learnt at school or the lessons and experience of a relationship long gone. And digestion is a Life function. Life in us is often greatly overlooked and our dreams are one way of showing us how we have not surrendered our life experience to that function. See
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/lifes-basic-functions/ and
http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/
