Waking Dream: Painted Turtle Visits Lola

(Saturday, June 11, 2016)

I went to check on Lola. She was sitting on the front step, quietly watching a painted turtle, who was about three feet or so away from her. How odd that both a tortoise and a hare appear today.

One spirit animal website says turtle is the oldest symbol for mother earth, and one of the ways into the realm of faery. A directive to use water and earth energies (clay!) to create harmony and flow.

I am reading “The Woman in the Shaman’s Body.” In the first chapter Dr. Tedlock describes a dream of a turtle she had at the age of four. Her Ojibwe herbalist grandmother interpreted it to mean that she would follow a shamanic path. Dr. Tedlock is also the only researcher I have come across that defines waking dreams (omens, waking dreams, visions) and sleeping dreams (personal, prophetic, archetypal, nightmares, lucid).

I put turtle in a bucket and brought her back down to the water.