Waking Dream: Jill And Cynthia

(Saturday, October 21, 2017)

Preparing for our dream retreat next weekend, I went on Jill Purce’s website to find a video that would summarize my chanting and mandala experience in Glastonbury. I noticed a video created in San Francisco in 2015. Jill is being interviewed in a cathedral by two Jungians. When I clicked on the video, I was greatly startled to see that Cynthia Cavalli was one of the interviewers. Bonnie and I attended her Synchronicity workshop this summer at the IASD conference. Cynthia is East Indian. Tonight I am going to see my friend Suchi’s East Indian dance company Kala Vandanam perform at O’Shaughnessy.

Danish Rest Home

(Thursday, October 19, 2017) new moon Libra / tarot Crone of Pentacles

Astrologers say Neptune is in Scorpio, causing deep dreaming. Certainly true for me.

I am the Observer, in a nursing home. Chris occupies a room, lying on a bed in a coma. He has been in this state for years. A mature woman (me!) and a young man (Cullan!) are his caregivers. Cullan can’t take the strain any longer and departs.

The Observer me glides in my spirit body along the corridors. I find fresh blood staining the door trim of several rooms in the facility. It is Chris’ blood. His consciousness rises slightly from the coma state at times, and he sleep walks. Then he falls, injuring his head and different parts of his body. I lucidly understand that he metaphorically entered the coma state after his brain tumor surgery. Craniotomy. He is not fully conscious. I see flashes of his old self, but they are rare.

The dream shifts to the entrance of the home. I am still the Observer. I walk down a hallway decorated with exquisite Danish and Scandinavian wood carvings, painted in beautiful pastel colors. I am astonished by the perfection of the craftsmanship. At the end of the hallway, where the corridor makes a ninety-degree turn, sits an ancient Danish woman with thick white hair. Powerful Scandinavian matriarch. She looks directly at me with her pale, crystal blue eyes. Is it Mama Kay? Curiously, I cannot access Chris’ room from this part of the building.

Day notes:

Chris’ ancestry is Danish and Norwegian. Cullan was blown away by the culture of design genius in Copenhagen.

I will be away next weekend, so of course I worry Chris will fall.

Yesterday our VP of marketing flew down to a nursing home in Louisville where we had donated a large amount of healthcare products.

Paradise Peak

(Tuesday, October 17, 2017) waning crescent Libra / tarot Maiden of Pentacles

This dream is the opposite of Paradise Valley. My father drives our family up a mountainside to a resort on the peak. We all lie down in our rented room to rest from our long journey. Everyone but me falls asleep. I am wide awake. I am waiting for a package to arrive, so I go to the hotel parcel delivery room. Through spacious lobby windows I notice amazing homes and castles built on the very tips of surrounding mountain tops. I am mesmerized. I cannot begin to fathom such a miraculous construction process. Like the eternal mystery of Machu Picchu.

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