Later, I was guiding a number of puppies – perhaps 12 – perhaps beagles – from the house to another location on the hilly, dried grass covered country land. They were super cute and playful and I was anxious about getting them to where they were going while enjoying their playful, vulnerable cuteness.

I once described a dream to a Jungian dream analyst on twitter called @thecarljung. The 140 character (or less) description of the dream was “still lake, dry grasses, bright sun, sex.” The dry grasses and feeling of that dream are very similar to the one I’ve typed up here. The response from @thecarljung was

Your dream paints a picture of a calm sense of self understanding

which was totally awesome and unexpected.

In researching puppies and litters of puppies I’ve interpreted my dream to mean that there’s some new playful energy coming soon that is full of creativity, intuition and self understanding. Yay!

I’m at their house in San Jose. Chuck is fiddling with a technology device and Kathleen says to him “you have to give it up – it’s just something to bind you to Adriene anyway” (in my email telling them I wasn’t going to make it, I had asked if maybe they could skype me in to the crystal bowl concert) I move on and am finding a seat in an area that doesn’t actually exist at their house and Kathleen looks very different from herself. The area is a maze of yellow tweed, high backed benches, like pews in a church but more comfortable because they are upholstered and padded. Kathleen has a straight, chin-length, dirty blonde bob and is sitting very close to one crystal bowl (every detail of which is practically opposite to waking reality).

She says something to me and then I get up because I wonder “how did I get here? I thought I wasn’t coming…” and I leave the room to go outside to see if I drove down. Sure enough, there’s a very interesting looking silver honda element in their driveway with a green zipcar sticker on the side. I’m happy I thought of such a great idea because it probably cost the same as the public transit option because it’s a short ceremony (normally, I go down there for hours at a time so zipcar isn’t cost effective).

I go back inside to my bag and Kathleen, as I’m used to her looking, is then next to me and I said “I made it! But, I didn’t realize I was going to make it so I don’t have a food offering” and she responded positively in some way. Then, we are in her kitchen (as I know it) and looking out the window at the back yard and I notice tattoos on her (she has none). She removes her shirt and her back has the most amazing fire tattoos that have white strokes in the middle of the flames that were made with scarification rather that tattooing – she tells me that it’s a rather painful way to mark oneself and I point out “but it LOOKS AMAZING!” (I wish I could draw better and show you – or just take a screen shot of my dream and post it here – soon enough, soon enough) The fire runs across her right shoulder and down her back diagonally to her left hip but it covers her whole back.

On her right hip and left lower back are big knives. (in researching knives to find out what kind they were, I discover that they are a beautiful flourishing version of juggling knives) I look closely at the knife handles and ask her what the handles are and she says they represent her guide animals. The one on her lower left has a handle made of black monkey hands and I don’t get to see what the other handle is.
(when considering a name for my massage practice, I thought to call it Monkey Fingers because that’s what my dad would call me when I’d be working on a small project)

Then I realize I don’t know for how long I rented the zip car so I get out my ipad to look it up but it’s stuck in some game and the home button isn’t working (<- woah – the analysis of that just comes pouring in). Then I try with my phone to get to the zipcar site and then I start to wake up. The imagery goes away and it fades into my considering driving down there instead of public transit. I do time math in my head and figure “it’s 9 now, i’ll have time to make cookies and leave by 10:15 to get there by 11″ Then I open my eyes, excited for my new idea and, wah wah wah, it’s 10:21.

This was, by far, the most vivid dream I’ve had in months and I’m super glad it was today! Happy 11/11/11 darlings!

Hanuman is known for being courageous, powerful, selfless and very faithful.

Ganesh is one of the most popular Hindu deities. He’s the remover of obstacles and is very sweet.

Here is a great little chart explaining the symbolism present in his depiction.

In researching the symbology, I discovered this amazing photo.

It is not commonly known that the fluttering wings of the hummingbird move in the pattern of an infinity symbol – further solidifying their symbolism of eternity, continuity, and infinity.

And regarding Merkabah:

Merkaba, also spelled Merkabah, is the divine light vehicle allegedly used by ascended masters to connect with and reach those in tune with the higher realms. “Mer” means Light. “Ka” means Spirit. “Ba” means Body. Mer-Ka-Ba means the spirit/body surrounded by counter-rotating fields of light, (wheels within wheels), spirals of energy as in DNA, which transports spirit/body from one dimension to another.

The best part was right before I woke up; I passed by a bread case that was FILLED with beautiful looking, grainy delicious bread – the kind I love to eat.
In waking life, I purchased a loaf of bread yesterday and in my dream I said “oh, look at all this bread. We better freeze that loaf we just bought so we can make all of this bread last”

When I looked up the meaning of seeing bread in dreams I got the following snippets (my dream book is still in storage so I rely on the interwebs and my ability to decide quickly from the myriad options):
- seeing bread in dreams is always positive
- bread represents staff of life
- lots of bread in a dream means your needs will be met

Given that I was let go from my job just over a week ago, I was pleased to have this type of imagery showing up in my dreams. The universe is telling me that I’m going to be A OK! Yay!

ps – I wish I could show you the image of the bread from my dream – it was so luscious looking for bread.

I was sad when I awoke because I still feel a bit too heavy to be able to do this currently and I really need a full body workout that I enjoy doing regularly. I might just have to take up dancing to house music again because that is the closest I’ve ever felt to flying AND, when I was dancing often, I was in great shape.

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Was at some kind of convention – perhaps seeing Amma. Jared was there and was really freaked out. I saw him hiding in a room and went to check on him. He said he couldn’t handle the purifying energy and I suggested that he go for a walk in the woods and really ground his energy in the earth. Some women were coming into the room to do some Vedic chanting – they seemed like Mother Divine women and they thought he needed the chanting to help him. He agreed because they were pretty strong about it so I left feeling that he’d made the wrong choice.

I ended up in the bath with a short haired redheaded girl. I asked her if she was lesbian or bi and she said “why do you want to categorize yourself to everyone” and then told me that seeing me in the bath made her tingle. I felt excited and hesitant.