(Wednesday, December 17, 2014) Moon: waning crescent in Libra / Tarot: four of swords
Three dreams, all in the same night, with walls as a unifying element.
Dream 1 (marble walls, wall cloud): I am driving in my car. I see a white tornado coming toward me from the west, my left. The funnel is tightly spinning in a narrow spiral. Almost needle-like. I pull into the parking lot of a community shelter (reminiscent of the old air raid shelters of my childhood), a modern white marble building a few stories tall. Walking across the lot is very difficult. The compression of the vortex is indicative of a wide and powerful storm, the force of which feels like ocean-deep gravity. I can barely lift my legs and feet. The pressure on my entire body is immense. Finally I make it up the white stone staircase into the building and rush about, trying to find a space far away from the huge windows. I can find no shelter from the windows and start to panic. A group of people in the building (all dressed in white) try to calm me. They explain that the windows are made, not of plate glass, but of quartz crystal. I am safe. The building is serene and beautiful.
Dream 2 (attic wall, wallpaper): I am in my grandmother’s attic. Even in my dream, I understand this means I am in a sacred space, the place of the ancestors. I am lying on a single mattress next to the outer wall of the attic, near the eaves, wearing a thin nightgown and covered by a small, light blanket. My bare breasts tumble out of my nightgown. I lie on my right side, turned away from the wall. The bottom of my left foot touches the delicate old wallpaper, caressing it lovingly, as I gaze into the center of the space. Brilliant light is shining into the room, which appears to have no wall opposite me, no boundary. A tall angel is coming toward me with my young sister, holding her protectively by her shoulders.
Dream 3 (wall demolition, white tile): I enter my childhood home through the side door. The kitchen is undergoing demolition, remodeling. An earlier tile wall made of white ceramic (porcelain?) has been uncovered.