Polished, Shining Wood and Heavy, White Snow

(Tuesday, December 27, 2022) waxing crescent moon Pisces / tarot Empress

I am traveling down along the Mississippi, on highway 61, to my former ancestral home. When I come inside, a group of friendly young handymen show me the renovated hardwood floors. “Very nice,” I say, although it is a bit too DIY for my eye. I am ready to move on, because I have a new house, but a cyclone is coming. I suggest moving children to the root cellar. The young residents say the bathroom (that used to be my great-grandparents’ bedroom) is fine. They are probably right, because it is a snow cyclone, like the one that killed so many people in Buffalo.

Day notes:

This makes me think of our Plymouth house. The young couple that bought the house has done a few projects, including the wood floors. I never felt safe in that house during tornado warnings as the lower level faced southwest and had no concrete block wall to protect from the winds.

Old Work Complete, New Work Underway

(Winter Solstice, 2022)

This dream takes place in my universal, unlimited square-footage house. I’m taking a shower, getting dressed and preparing to travel to the office, when I notice the clock. It is five in the afternoon, quitting time. I am done with office work! Now I have time to spend my efforts on my old house. There is a baseboard near the front door covered with wood putty that needs sanding and painting.

I walk back a few rooms. One hallway floor has four kinds of brick and stone. When I wake up, I realize those different cobbles are centuries apart.

There is a back door that is vivid in the dream but now has dimmed in my memory. Through the door window, I see another house, very close. This entryway is next to a large square room with two identical, energetic ceramic sculptures hanging on the wall next to each other, with a window between them. The ceramic is white with colored glazes, in dramatic majolica style. Circular bases, plates, three-feet in diameter, hold large human heads that are mythical, historic in nature, that I can’t quite identify. They remind me of jesters, the blowing North Wind, magicians. The majolica patterns around the plate edges look like the Wheel of Fortune (the tarot card I draw on Christmas Eve day.)

I decide to clean the room’s stone floor, paint the walls white, and turn this open space into a playroom for Wyn and Oona. The dream ends here, but after I wake up I have an early vision from the dream. My tall male spirit guide shows me that the dream goes back immeasurable generations. Perhaps a past life dream.

Day notes:

I babysit Wyn and Oona on Cullan’s 40th birthday.

When I wake up from this dream, I think of the Ben Franklin dream I had years ago: there was a white bust over a fireplace that turned out to exist on the entryway door at Franklin’s birthplace on Milk Street in Boston.

February 28: This is a premonition. I lost my job of 18 years on January 3, 2023.

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