Tiernan – Well you have done very well, and all I can do is to add some touches that might be helpful
Meeting your family obviously causes you anxiety. You do the ‘right’ thing but are then faced by a T junction, which means you are faced by a decision. That is when you have left your family atmosphere and are in nature, a situation in which you can tap into your intuition – what your nature underneath the anxiety can tell you.
The earth is all that has been lived, the ancestral ground, and as you say it can be used for growth and energy to achieve. This because it is all the wisdom an experience from the past you can draw upon.
Now the diving into the sea is a wonderful thing you have done, because you have managed to go under the surface of your ‘personality’ – the you that was built upon this life time. And what you see is a lot more than a thing to get around in. The boat can depict your journey through the seas of life and how you meet the rough and smooth experiences. It can also show your relation’ship’ and what is happening in it – as in the saying, ‘in the same boat’.
Also the boat is in excellent condition if I understand your description. It is again a promise of talents that were latent in you. In fact the man who helps you carry it ashore – makes it conscious and usable – is your potential, a potential that acts as a guide. This is very important. A potential isn’t actually a formed reality, but it can lead you as a hunch or an urge. Also it can go on and on leading you to discover more. So the boat and the man are linked.
The boat and the doorway it suggests is a further statement of the potential we all have but many never tap. It is a doorway to a special state of mind or being – a state in which we have stepped beyond our own small self into a larger being. I think you should walk through and meet what is beyond.
Tony