Category: Denise

(Sunday, July 27, 2025) waxing crescent moon Virgo / tarot five of pentacles

I am reading old dreams to get me started on my folk/fairy tales. One dream from 2015, “Bonnie Mitsch, Good Witch Of The North,” suddenly feels highly prescient. It is a very long dream, and towards the end I am having a conversation with Paul and one of his friends:

I sit in the kitchen for awhile and talk with the two men. My awareness is dulled, I am not able to understand the full conversation, though I try very hard to concentrate. It’s almost like there is a veil between us that distorts speech and comprehension. Paul’s friend seems skeptical or impatient of my difficulty.

Paul has Alzheimer’s, a form of dementia. This dream seems to be a clue about my upcoming aphasia, my diagnosis of semantic dementia (struggling with words). Many times Victoria has mentioned that dreams are precognitive. It is important to review them, often.

It is curious that Paul’s friend is skeptical or impatient. I am not sure at all what that means, or who he is. Bonnie’s comment is “Wow, a modern fairy tale!”

(Tuesday, July 22, 2025) tarot High Priestess

A few days ago I had a dream where I was visited by my grandparents (Lenora and Ellsworth). That felt sweet. It was good to “see” them. Our family reunion is coming up next month.

I am getting ready to write the story inspired by my Edie dream (and a few others). I was driving home from acupuncture today and thought about Louise Erdrich’s store Birchbark Books and Native Arts. There appears to be no relation between “Edie” and “Erdrich” but they made me think of each other. Louise says the German name Erdrich means “rich earth.” Some sources (not all) say the Old English name Edie/Edith means “rich gift.” Rich gift reminds me of the nine of pentacles card Denisea drew for my writing question. In my fairytale, I will probably also include elements of the dream “Cloister And Trumpet Hats.” Yesterday when I walked home from my therapy session I saw beautiful yellow trumpet flowers at Wise Acre restaurant.

I am paying more attention to little synchronicities that show up. Noticing them and honoring them help to create more of them.

Wednesday, July 23 synchronicity: This morning I went to Lakewinds to buy a card for my friend Denisea, who is having her second hip surgery on Monday. When I got home and opened the card to write her a blessing, I noticed that the photo on the cover was Jim Brandenburg’s. We viewed many of his artworks together in Grand Marais. Wikipedia says he died this year. After I bought the card, I stopped at Washburn Library and picked up my on-hold book called “A Matter of Death and Life” by Irvin and Marilyn Yalom.

(Friday, July 11, 2025) full moon Capricorn / tarot nine of cups / oracle Commitment

Near sunrise this morning I dream of being a resident on the shore of a lake. The bay is shallow, although high, rogue waves periodically wash to the beach. I need to be a protector (wounded healer?) and travel to find a female who is in anxiety or danger. She lives across the bay, so I consider driving or swimming to find her. Driving feels safer because of the tall waves, the baby tsunami, but I swim out anyway. Because this part of the lake is not deep, when the rogue arrives it is not dangerous. I swim under and past it. There are more details, more people in the dream, but this is my fragment memory. Early morning dreams are often fragments for me.

Day notes:

Denisea did a tarot reading for me on Wednesday. Her house is so full of art it is very inspiring. We talked about our dream guides. Her guide is the Buddhist goddess Kwan Yin. The goddess often appears in Denisea’s dreams. I told her about my eight- or nine-foot tall guide and she said, “That is an angel.” She also said she had read something in a book about how he “has my back” but she could not remember the details.

If I wish, I can start working with a PhD Jungian therapist in September. That sounds just right for me.