CM – This seems like an important dream. It starts where you are lost and in a place in your life you haven’t been or explored before. The surroundings are both beautiful and even treacherous. So it suggests that it a new and challenging phase of your life. But the difficulties do not discourage you. The others with you are the many thoughts or feelings you consider but decide against acting upon.
The beauty of what you feel encourages you, even though the going is often rough. Then you see a beautiful grey mansion, and that is a step you have maybe not taken before. Because the mansion represents your past, and as it is an old building it suggests a long past; it is strong and it/you have a history. As you begin to realise/see your history it is a shock because of the state of the first room. Each room is simply an aspect of your past, maybe a past you cannot recall, because we all come into this life with a past. No seed is planted that doesn’t carry its history with it. And the dirt can mean that at some time you lived a life that was very depressed or uncaring, and you recovered from it. But yet it is important for you to see it.
The white shining cat is the exact opposite, and at some time you must have touched this outpouring from your very centre – a light that heals and yet is slightly threatening. The light and the cat are the strength of your own womanhood, the light that lights everyone, though it may be hidden. It frightens you and yet you stand and face it – and that firmness took you on the next step of your inner journey, a journey that is what life is all about, the discovery of who and what you are.
Of course the journey has begun for you, facing the crash of the plane ad the difficulty of carrying on, but you are well on the way.
And of course it matters that you are a 28 year old woman, staying to create a home for your children. Having lived through the war as a child, without a mother at home because she had to work, I know what it is like not to have a mother always there.
As we age I believe we come to different levels of maturity – spiritually and materially. And I feel from your dream that you are reaching toward something important. From twenty eight to thirty-five, for instance, is a period where the creative process of mind becomes most active. Researchers and inventors seem to make their greatest advances during these years. It is interesting to note that physical science finds evidence of the reason for this in the fact that the association centres of the brain come to their peak efficiency at about thirty-five years of age.
And here is a man's comment about the inner journey.
I was led to go down on my knees and kept repeating the words, ‘Withered flowers, withered flowers’. I thought it applied to myself, yet as it developed I saw my partner and other people who had not connected with an awareness of their inner life. So they became as they thought - limited. Then I felt my child speak from within. The words that arose were, “I have had to live through you (the adult). It was not safe and I would have died if you had not opened to me.” I then felt like a shoot had been buried deep inside me. I felt it struggling to grow through all the obstacles that the experiences of my childhood had put in front of it. Now I could feel it was nearing the surface. This was such a joyful experience I cried out, “I am alive! I am getting old with age yet I am filled with life.” K.
Tony
