(Saturday, February 18, 2017)
Long, complex vision of the dream conference:
I arrive in the registration lobby. Under my right arm I carry the doll-sculpture I call Edie. She is created not by me but by the great ceramicist Akio Takamori (who passed away unexpectedly last month). Rather than the rough, textured surface of my actual piece, the dream doll has the smooth, graceful, raw surface famous to Takamori. Beautiful!
From registration I move to the gallery, where I have volunteered. I am not well-received. I don’t fit in. I don’t exhibit the standard, middle-class academic sensibility that is desired here. But there is a set of mounting tools needed by the gallery that I am able to fire, to temper, so that they are strengthened and made more useful.
I move through other rooms in the conference, rooms full of people. Out of the corner of my right eye a transparent tarot reading appears, floating in the air above the heads of the dreamers. It is hard to decipher the cards because they are not fully manifest. They arrive from the spirit realm. I think The Fool is at the top of the spread but I can’t be sure. All cards seem to be from the major arcana.
It is time for the dream hike. I head out with the group but am diverted. Off the beaten path go I, walking alone up a dirt road to the top of a hill where I lie down, nestling in the soft warm sand. I love the smell of the moist earth. A black crow flies low, fluttering his wings over my body and laughing loudly, crow-style. We are kindred spirits.
I rejoin the hikers. They have reached a large, rectangular reservoir. Richard W. and another man push through a wire gate and dive into the pool of water. This makes me happy. I appreciate their playfulness and sense of physical freedom. Bravo!
Day notes:
Crow is shape-shifter, trickster. Protector of the Akashic/Ogallah. “All things are born of women” is signified by Crow. Crow lives in the void with no sense of time. Crow sees past, present and future. Crow’s eye is the gateway to the supernatural. Walk your talk and speak your truth.
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