(Sunday, December 31, 2017) full moon Gemini / tarot maiden of cups reversed
The exact full moon tomorrow, New Year’s Day, is a super moon, the largest moon of 2018. Indigenous people call the January full moon “Wolf Moon.”
I dream I am a vibrant, social woman in my early forties. I have just moved into a large new house with my family. My husband is healthy, wealthy and wise. Our home is filled with extended family and friends. The environment is chaotic but joyful. (Because of the energetic activity level, details of this dream are too complex to recall completely.)
Black Wolf Romeo sits quietly in a corner of the living room. He is our pet, a family member. He has the deep serenity and calm of a giant Newfoundland. His soft fur shimmers like satin. He is beautiful and loving, a highly spiritual presence.
I head to the basement on a short errand. The lower level is the children’s play area. Dozens of them run about, giggling at each other, barely noticing me. I see how pleasant this place is for them. It has floor-to-ceiling windows with a view of green, rolling hills. The shape of the house is not rectangular, so the big windows angle against each other in an interesting, creative formation.
I go back to the main level. I notice that Black Wolf Romeo has left a thin stream of urine on the floor, thickened with clay dust or sand. At first I am irritated that my sister Jamie, who is in a room at a far-off part of the house, did not let Romeo outside to do his business. Quickly I realize that I am being unfair to Jamie, and I also remember that Romeo is wild. He is not domesticated. He has never been paper trained!
I relax and continue a conversation I have been having with a young woman visitor. We have attended several parties together, but still do not know each other very well. I want to send out invitations to a house-naming party. I want to give my home a title, in the style of old English manor houses, and even as in the small thatched roof cottages of Compton Dundon, the village near Glastonbury. She is resistant. She doesn’t like the name I have chosen, which includes the word “leap.” I think of “ten lords a-leaping, nine ladies dancing” and explain to her that the house was purchased in a leap year (2016?).
Day notes:
When I awoke from this dream I wondered if it was a vision of my leap into a next incarnation. The woman was blessed in every possible way, not my experience in this lifetime. The presence of Romeo made me profoundly grateful within the dream itself. He was animal wisdom and perfection. Unconditional love.
Tuesday, July 30, 2024: We did buy our new house on Rustic Lodge in the spring of 2020, a leap year.