Maria – This is a very important dream indicating a possible future you could have. But I will spell it out for you.
The tattoo is an attempt to constantly remind you of your important possibility. It is in black and greys because you have not realised how important your inner urges or intuitions are. It should have been shown in brilliant colours.
The ship is the journey you are making on the seas of life, showing you meeting the tides and storms, all of which are part of what makes you. It links with a Shakespearian quote - There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea you are now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Following your dreams or heart is much the same. The heart dreams and the dreams include the heart. It is calling you to clarify what your dreams and your heart are calling you to do. It is a call to action for the time of dreaming and of wishing is past. “Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.”
Take the voyage. Imagine yourself aboard that ship, and see where it takes you. See
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