Dreamtime – I am very well in myself, but I have entered the autumn and winter period of my life, and like any growing thing, my body is ageing and fading in energy. Life is followed by death, and death is followed by life, in natures great cycles. But my fading seems quite slow, and it seems it will be few more years before a new beginning.
Your dream has so much intimated in it, but I will do my best.
You start in company with women in different stages of their life. It suggests that you have within your own life experience or relationship with these stages. You have certainly lived through being in your mother’s womb, on through childhood, girlhood to your present stage of growth. Also by being with your mother witnessing her own ageing you have experience of that too in some measure.
The next part of the dream takes another step – excitement. Clothes for alive young women are an extension of what they feel within them. As an example, flowers are the sexual organs of plants, and they extend the wonder of reproduction in most amazing colours, perfumes and shapes. Women also feel this wonder and do likewise, but unlike the plant, they have more than reproduction and attraction to offer for we are multilevel being – also an incorporating being. You are made up of many different cells, and have incorporated many different bacteria and have taken in alien life forms which you now have as part of your evolutionary history – the mitochondrion which at one time had a separate existence.
As I keep repeating in various ways, we are an extraordinary mystery, only a small part of which we are aware of.
The niece, I do not know what you associate with her, but she gives you a deeper understanding of the mystery mentioned above. The black and the white are symbols of that. They represent the duality that is part of every part of living – the female and male, sun and earth, sleeping and waking, life and death. They typified by the sun and earth. The sun reaches out through space, and in doing so penetrates the earth and the earth gives form to living forms. Without the sun the earth would be dark and lifeless – without the earth there would be no creation if life forms. The male sexual organ reaches out across space and penetrates the female sex organ, which in itself is just a nothing ness, an emptiness, and yet is rich and can bring forth a life form.
But the mystery your niece sent you has qualities. The gloved hand – which I like to think was in a black glove – suggesting it too was part of the creative emptiness. The thumb is, in dreams, often represents our will, our signature of self-expression, which is still active in the darkness, the absence of light, but is at the same time the mother of everything. They are co-dependent – the light and dark, the emptiness and the fullness, the female and the male.
The white side has a sparkle, which is a quality of light, and a crystal – the invisible power that creates form with ‘lifeless’ materials.
But all that is words unless they produce an inner response. As I am fond of repeating - - Dream images are like icons on a computer screen - You have to ‘click’ on your dream images to make them come alive. Thinking about them doesn’t work. You need to open yourself to the magic of them. To make them into the wonderful gateways they are you may have to learn certain skills. See -
http://dreamhawk.com/body-and-mind/peoples-experiences-of-lifestream/ and
http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/the-lifestream/#Open Tony