(Tuesday, April 23, 2013) Christopher has purchased a home for us from an older gentleman who lived there with his beloved wife until she passed away. The house sits in the middle of an open meadow.
I enter the house with my friend Michelle to show her around. Chris is in the kitchen, chatting with Dan Connor. I notice for the first time that the kitchen has two stoves, two refrigerators, two sinks. It’s built to entertain many guests, as is the whole house. The rooms are expansive and the upstairs has dozens of bedrooms. For some reason I think there are 53. Each bedroom has as many beds packed into the space as possible. The house has been empty since the death of the gentleman’s dear wife so the furnishings and decor are a little tired. When she was alive, however, it was quite sumptuous.
Michelle and I go outside for a walk in the meadow. Lots of other people are doing the same, enjoying the beautiful, sunny day. We are walking on a path that forms a large square. We reach the farthest point from the house when I see a huge mountain lion in the center of the grassland. The cat looks over its shoulder, directly at me. It’s prehistoric in size, an ice-age feline, yet I don’t fear for myself. I fear for the other people in the meadow, especially the two young women nearest the cat. Until I realize the puma is a mythic beast and that any danger it may pose is not physical. (Lucid moment?)
Day notes:
Meadow: open field, field of opening
My second recent big cat dream. “White Lion” was the first. The book “Mystery of the White Lions” proposes that one reason for the reappearance of white lions in South Africa is as harbingers of a new ice age (caused by climate change). Snow Lions.
The Tarot reader Julie Cuchia-Watts told me I could work on my marriage in dream-time. She also said Chris would write about his amazing life-death experiences (he’s already started). This seems like a past-life dream to me.
Michelle and I went to see an East Indian dance program Friday night, put on by our friend Suchitra Sairam. Michelle has long dark hair like Julie. She is a writer and also coaches other writers.
I am not that close to Michelle so it’s curious to me why she appears. She is always dressed completely in black, I wonder if she is Lola in disguise. I think of the Beatles lyric “Michelle, ma belle.” Belle is one of Lola’s many nicknames.
From the web:
People who have identified the puma, mountain lion, and/or cougar as their animal totem are people who typically come into this world with a spiritual knowing. Those who attract this animal totem have a deeper understanding of spiritual things. They are very psychic, intuitive, and are likely to be artistically inclined.
Furthermore, the puma is a very protective energy. If you have this creature as your animal totem, you are blessed to have such a fierce and aggressive guardian with you. When called upon you will be amazed at the resourcefulness and assistance the puma meaning can offer.
Native American Mountain Lion Symbolism and Lessons
These felines, with their take-charge energy, symbolize leadership, physical grace, strength and coming into one’s own personal power, which is similar to black panther symbolism, reclaiming one’s own personal power. Mountain lion’s cycle of power is year ‘round. She teaches people that leadership doesn’t equate with dictatorship. Dictators are tyrants who abuse their power and prevent followers from doing things on their own and being part of the decision making process. True leaders listen to and enable their followers. The key to personal power is confidence in the direction in which a person has chosen to follow.
The mountain lion teaches people to learn the ability to be so true to themselves in terms of responsibility, honesty, responsibility and to trust their inner knowledge and sense of personal responsibility, so that the voices of their detractors are no louder than that of a whisper. She balances responsibility, intention and strength and shows people how to do this.
Native American Mountain Lion Qualities
The Cherokee people considered the mountain lion and the owl sacred because they have the power to see in the dark. Their attributes vary with Native Americans. Positive qualities are proper use of power in leadership, self-confidence in dealing with problematic people, balancing power, intention and strength, needing freedom and cunning which can be positive, like the weasel’s, in that it means being clever in showing inventiveness and skill and negative which is being crafty and skilled in deception.
Wow, When I asked if you had any follow up dreams, I didn’t realize it would be this “big”! I love the photo of you with the cougar/mountain lion.
The house and meadow sound so lovely. Some insights if it were my dream would be that Chris is getting nurtured (in the kitchen with a nurturing part of himself (Dan). The two of everything makes me think that the third (something new) is in the works-New ways of nurturing?
It is interesting that Michele is a writer and helps other people write. Writing is communicating. Michele may be a part of myself that communicates through the written word. Then the bedrooms I look at as intimate parts of myself. There are 53 which adds up to 8. The infinity sign as well as in Tarot-Strength-the woman with the lion. The old furnishing? Some old beliefs?
The square reminds me of Jung saying it means completion. It also is masculine, stable, solid. Then the mythic, larger than life mountain lion. Worried about hurting two young women-young feminine parts? What a great symbol for self-actualization. If this were my dream, I would feel blessed, that things are going well.