(Monday, New Year’s Day, 2018) super moon Cancer / tarot Lovers
If this dream is an omen for the coming year, it is hard to decipher. Yesterday’s dream was more clear. The number one lucky hatsuyume dream for the Japanese is about Mount Fuji. This dream does have a mountain:
I stand close to the top of a steep brown peak that rises at the edge of the ocean. The atmosphere is the grey void. Two rows of humans bob up out of the sea and climb the crag, side-by-side. I find it miraculous that they are able to ascend the wet clay soil of the mountain.
At the midpoint of the elevation the people enter two tunnels which guide them higher, to the inside of two square, brown adobe structures. The adobe rooms are connected internally by an open doorway, and each room also has a portal to the outside world. I wait at this opening of the building on the left, escorting people out who have finished their vertical pilgrimage.
Unexpectedly, I receive an oral alert from the nearby pine forest. It is my turn to enter the adobes.
I assume that the interior space will have a sacred, oracular environment like Delphi, but above ground, not below ground. There is a warm, orange hearth burning, and a simple wooden table, probably made of oak. On the earthen floor, next to the table, lays a huge chocolate cake, the exact size of the tabletop. I think this is surprising and funny. It’s a giant, moist fudge brownie. Some people have scooped out tiny bits to eat but others have jumped into the middle of the cake, as if crushing grapes with their feet or playing in the mud with their galoshes.
Day notes:
Brown: earthiness, worldliness, physical comfort, roots, excrement. The clay I work with is red-brown. A brownie is a household elf, a sprite or hobgoblin. Fudge: an instance of faking or ambiguity.
Tunnel: birth, entrance to the unconscious, our deeper selves. These remind me of the two energy channels Buddhists describe that follow the spinal column, one yin, one yang.
Mountain: attainments achieved by facing the difficulties of life; ascent is associated with purification or refinement.
Hearth: nuturance, security, gathering, contemplation, our sacred muse.
Cake: sweetness, love, high-energy food, “have your cake and eat it too,” “that takes the cake.”
Two: balance, yin & yang, service, soul purpose.
Table: awareness of options, social unity, “off the table: no more discussions, let it go!”
What a lovely dream. I like that you first are watching the others and then get the message from the pine forest that it is your turn! I love the huge chocolate cake. It feels like a childhood celebration and people are like children jumping onto the cake and eating it. What are you going to do?