Monday, April 29, 2013

I’ll be your Silver, I’ll be your Gold

When I see silver things, no matter what they are, I know them to be beautiful, precious, brilliant, luminous, and strong. Silver in dreams can refer to our eternal soul, our spirit, precious relationships, or loved ones. It is a very important color and material, really signaling important messages pertaining to our life journey and wellbeing.
 

Friendship and Love


Silver, gold and other metals can often represent the value we place in our relationships with those we hold dear. Isn’t love silver? Isn’t it gold? Twenty fifth wedding anniversaries are called Silver Anniversaries, and the 50th wedding anniversary is called Gold, strong, valuable, and enduring.

            ' I’ll be your platinum, I’ll be your silver, I’ll be your gold'
             Justin Bieber, As Long as You Love Me


Silver and gold can also be the colors of friendship, as in the old song
 
Make new friends, but keep the old.
             One is silver and the other’s gold.

Silver Chains


Silver chains can represent our precious and fragile links to people we love. The silver chain links us to each of our loved one, little connections to one another. Are the chains heavy or light? Is it  necklace or restraint? Hopefully, they are light and beautiful, and we wear them with pride.

photograph of two silver chains
Silver Chains - of the Heart?
 
'My love is an anchor tied to you, tied with a silver chain'

Southern Cross, Crosby, Stills and Nash

 What about Silver Coins?


What about an old silver coin? An old coin like a silver dollar, can be precious because of its historical value, its pure silver content, or its unique place in history. Because it is rounded, it can represent perfect wholeness, the search for wholeness, the completion of a stage of learning. Maybe it is something with lasting value that you should keep, and not trade easily for something newer.

Photograph of the front of a Liberty silver dollar
 
Silver coins and pennies can also be an offering or a wish, like coins thrown in a fountain. They may represent either hopes or dreams, or possibly past remembrances.

Change


You might find yourself sorting change (coins) or trying to make change with coins in a dream. This can often be a symbol for making changes in our lives. Sometimes we need to take the initiate and be decisive. That message can be delivered by the conversion of money or coins. In your dream if you cannot make proper change, are trying to pay too much, or no one can break a large bill, you might be having some trouble making needed changes in your waking life. Been there!

Silver Cask or container


A floating silver container is of the air, or the Spirit. It can represent the spiritual forces, or angels, that are with you, though you may not be aware of them. If it is behind you, it may be that there is a spiritual force behind the events in your life, whether a guardian angel, God, or a higher power.

 Silver Keys and Charms


Silver keys are for unlocking spiritual or eternal truths and allowing you to move forward. Silver keys on a chain or belt show you that you are the keeper of the keys. You have access to whatever you need - any room, anything stored away, any treasure.

 

 Silver Charms


When little silver charms appear, you might pay attention to your blessings, good fortune, remembrances, maybe even luck, as in lucky charms.
 
I hope your dreams are filled with silver – whether it means love, the Spirit working, or changes. They are all good.






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Monday, April 22, 2013

Shot Through the Heart - Who's to Blame?

Seeing or experiencing gunfire in a dream certainly catches my attention. It is so completely foreign to my world that it really startles me and I can't help but take a very close look at that dream. Two times, I've had this imagery come into my dream world - both times, it was important.

The Warning Shot


In this first dream, I was driving and noticed I was pursued by a woman in a vehicle. I pulled my car over to talk to her. She got out of her car and started firing gun at me! In the dream I was shocked.

At first I focused on the shooter but that was a dead end. She did not remind me of anyone I know, and she had not striking characteristics. I spent some time thinking about whether anyone I knew had reason to be offended. That did not lead anywhere either.

Then I realized anything can happen in a dream. So, if she were firing at me and missed, then she wasn't shooting to kill. I was not actually in danger so it must be a warning shot! As it turned out, my dream was issuing a ‘wake-up’ call that I was in danger or putting myself into a dangerous situation and I needed to realize it and change direction, like right now.

Shot in the Back


The Warning Shot dream was in sharp contrast to a later dream involving a shooting. In the second dream, a cousin of mine was shot at the mall unexpectedly. He was weak and sank to the ground, leaning against a wall. When I put my arm around him, I found the back of his jacket was soaked in blood where he had been shot in the back. 

So here was my cousin (me probably) experiencing pain, weakness, and fainting from blood loss. Because he had been shot in the back he did not see it coming. This speaks to an unexpected, shocking injury which I was not prepared for. Dream emotions come from true feelings that spill over from our waking lives into the dream life, as we try and cope with them.

The song that comes to mind is ‘Shot Though the Heart’ by Bon Jovi, but with a twist.


art showing a red heart that is broken in jagged lines down the middle.
A Broken Heart
 

What to do? What to learn?

 
In the dream, I embraced the wounded person, myself. It is so important to acknowledge how we actually feel. It is a very simple gift we can give ourselves. I think it is so unhelpful to deny pain or suffering, or to blame ourselves for it. Yet, how many times to we say ... I should have known better.  I should have expected this. I deserve this.?

Instead, could we be a friend? Offer some support? Give ourselves a kind word? Still love ourselves and confirm our own value and goodness?

How many times was Jesus betrayed and wounded by his friends - Peter, Judas, all the silent onlookers? And did he say - I should have expected this. I should have known. Why did I love them so much? That would have been very human and very typical. But he knew his friends and knows us now - that is what makes his actions and example so amazing.

Can I be so forgiving? Forget to count up the wrongs? I'm not sure. But in the face of disappointments and unkind words and actions, I can give myself that hug. Maybe I can forget to keep score because I know God understands all of it.

What to do with Suffering?

And I wonder if there is a purpose in the pain? I think the answer is yes. Just two final thoughts from two women who inspire me.

My mother would say, 'Offer it up.'

And Sree Chakravarti says, 'Then I remember that pain is the hammer of God which chisels us into greatness.'



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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Ah to be French!

First, I will note that dreams are not respectors of people.

But as Jung would note, the Unconscious is often policially incorrect, and works with associations to deliver a message. Its not concerned with anything except delivering a message using a symbol and the person's own associatiations with that symbolic object. The Unconscious will use rude language and images. It is blunt. It may be inpolite. I accept that.

In a recent dream, I was puzzled by an actress going undercover as a spy, pretending to be French. How am I to take that? What French association works here?

Does it have to do wiht my sense of style?

What undercover work is going on?

Should I travel more?


And as I puzzeled over the image, I remembered recently reading mystery story where the English police needed help from the French police. They lamented that it would probably take a long time, especially since ....'They always pretend like they can't understand you.'

And I thought, 'How funny! That the French are famous for pretending not to understand people's French!'

My grandmother told that story - when she visited France in 1913 she ordered bread and the waiter pretended to not understand her. They've been doing it for so long, they are now known for their little joke. And what a quirky people, that this would be part of their national personality!

Back to the dream....So, here I am (because of course that actress is me) pretending that I am French, that I don't understand something, which of course I understand. It was a funny little dream with a serious message.

So my dream took that little vignette and said, 'Ah, that is like you, Ruth. Sometimes you pretend you don't understand when of course you do. It is just your little game! N'est-ce pas?'

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