Category: Denise

(Tuesday, Independence Day, 2023) full moon Capricorn / tarot: Strength

During the past two days I have gone to Trader Joe’s in Edina and both times there were fathers sitting at the corner of the parking lot, holding signs about their precarious lives. Both had strollers holding small children in the 90 degree heat.

On Monday I forgot to grab some spinach for a recipe I am making today, so I walked a mile to Kowalski’s. There is always a homeless person standing or sitting on the sidewalk outside the door of the local grocery store. Yesterday it was a woman with brown skin. I saw her stroller, and when I went inside I grabbed a little money from the cash machine. I asked the cashier why there isn’t a shaded spot for the homeless but she had no answer. “Some people use umbrellas.” On my way out I was surprised to see the mother had a toddler and an infant. She was beginning to breastfeed her baby when I handed her a five and ten dollar bill.

I am never homeless in my dreams. Homeless people make me deeply sad. All of us deserve shelter, especially children.

(Wednesday, June 28, 2023) waxing gibbous moon Scorpio / tarot ace of swords

I dream I am heading up to the Art Leap. My sister Jo appears in the dream. I need to put aside an art project and schedule four days of vacation. This could be prescient as I have the design of a clay project ready to go once I finish some outdoor house painting projects.

In the early part of the dream I am lying in my bed, waking up, and people are near me are working on tasks with their own agendas.

There is much more to the dream but I slept so long and sound last night it has trickled away.

Day notes:

Jo and I have recently been conversing a lot more than we have in the past. That feels good, but many of the discussions are about my father. He was in the hospital again last week and is definitely on decline. My brother and his partner are planning a big 90th birthday party for our dad. Jo and I feel that is a mistake. He’s not really up for it.

In the third week of June, 2023, I had two nearly identical dreams.

I am in a community space that is unlimited. Membership in our community is also unlimited. I have no plot or agenda in the dreams. Neither do any of our community. I have no sense of being the focus of the dream or even the observer. We are all equal. The dream is about our eternal, universal connection to each other and manifested dimensions. At least that is my take based on Thich Nhat Hanh’s discussion about the nature of existence in his book “No Death, No Fear.”