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(Thursday, August 21, 2017, Chris’ 62nd birthday) moon waxing crescent Libra / tarot nine of cups, Kuan Yin

I am at a large conference where Jill Purce is holding a workshop. Hundreds of people fill many rooms.

In part of the dream I discuss a famous female artist at a round table with another woman, maybe Karen from Glastonbury. The artist’s name is on the tip of my tongue but I cannot remember it. I say that I will need to go online to find her name. I have great passion for her art. It has inspired me for many years. I am surprised at my forgetfulness. My empty mind.

In a second scene I sit across a round table from Jill. The room is populated, for the most part, by beautiful, highly spiritual women. But there are also egotistical older men from the IASD.

Jill has created an exercise based on the content each participant experienced at the Tantric Red Tara mandala ceremony. She hands me a small piece of manilla paper with writing on it that I am supposed to read back to her. The text is short, a title followed by a paragraph of just a few sentences. I read the headline but am distracted by ruckus in the room. The men are being disruptive and disrespectful. Cynical. I lose the paper I am reading from. I shuffle through a handful of other papers. My panic keeps me from finding the page that I need. I keep looking at Jill, thinking she will step in to help. But that is not how Jill lives or teaches. She silently waits for me to return to my own sense of order and calm.

Day notes:

Yesterday I received an email from a “cyber shamana” named Lorna Liana about the Transpersonal Conference in Prague. The theme is “Beyond Materialism – – Toward Wholeness.” Stan Grof is teaching a worshop and so is Jill Purce! I bought a CD from Jill in Glastonbury that I had not even opened yet. It is a recording of her presenting at the Transpersonal Conference in Prague 25 years ago. So now I am listening to her CD. Her voice makes my heart so full it almost brings me to tears.

Perhaps the artist in this dream is Kiki Smith. Bonnie and I chatted online a little about Kiki.

Unbelievable! I just went to the Transpersonal Conference website and Melinda Powell, formerly Mary Ziemer, is presenting on lucid dreams!

http://www.itcprague2017.org/speakers/melinda-powell

(Friday, August 18, 2017)

I went to see Marlene for a tarot reading. I asked her a lot of work-related questions but I also brought up my recurring dream “Regaining Ownership of my Ancestral Home.”

Immediately she thought of Red Riding Hood. That was an “aha” moment for me. In the dream I travel to my grandmother’s farm along the good red road, and in my first black wolf dream he appears as I am walking near the red road on my grandmother’s land. The same location. I do believe these dreams are connected.

My interpretation of the “Ownership” dream is the opening of my heart chakra and Marlene agreed. She sees that I am at a point in my life where both family and ancestors finally embrace me for who I truly am. Love. Like the love the black wolf Romeo and I share for each other. Personal power. I “met” the black wolf at the Glastonbury Red Tara mandala ceremony. Red Tara is Kali. Marlene and I both honor Kali. She told me about a room at the Louvre she visited that is filled with sculptures of Kali.

For many years I have owned and cherished a book about my favorite artist Kiki Smith’s Red Riding Hood sculptures and drawings. I was fortunate to see her exhibit at the old Walker Art Center. I now feel a need to research this fairy tale’s Jungian aspects. Maybe reread “Women Who Run With The Wolves” by Clarissa Pinkola Estes.

Kiki’s drawing “Lying With The Wolf”:

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/global-contemporary/a/kiki-smith-lying-with-the-wolf

The mundane aspect of this dream is important too. I told Marlene I am worried about the economy crashing and that I have been thinking of moving a big chunk of money out of mutual funds. The cards agreed with my concern. I wonder if this recurring dream is directing me to buy some land.

(Friday, August 18, 2017) moon waning crescent Cancer / tarot queen of swords reversed

Last night Lola was lying in bed with me. All four of her paws embraced my left hand. She began to have a powerful dream that caused her paws to rapidly twitch and her voice to chatter. Her eyelids fluttered. Out of the corner of my left eye I saw what appeared to be smoke curl away from her body and disperse into the air. I turned my head to view with both of my eyes. The vapor lasted two or three seconds, then disappeared. Only the second time I have ever seen an aura, if that is what it was.