Eagles Flying Over Open Ocean Dream

[hooo]

as if seen passing through the held frame of a movie camera.

the first bald eagle flies into, across and through frame, left to right, over open water, like an ocean, coastal mountains in the distance. slate grey-blue skies almost matching the water.

a moment or three, then the next bald eagle flies into, across and through frame, same flight pattern (it would seem), but the second eagle is carrying something in its talons - perhaps a fish, i'm not entirely certain, one could presume so but at any rate, this eagle - the following eagle - has something in its talons that the first eagle did not.

(fish? fruit? food? sustenance? simply something one must carry along? regardless, it has some weight and i suspect it does relate to some responsibility that probably pertains to something in possession.)

so, these two eagles fly through separately but, it seems, together. one, for a moment, is not in the picture. (but the picture seems to present itself almost proclaiming, yes, but i''m larger (beyond the margins/frame). at any rate, "timing" and togetherness/separateness seem pertinent themes.

As does the understanding that bald eagles mate for life.

to the hexagrams.

i asked what the dream was about.

14.1.6. to 32.

Awarness of probably difficulties along the flight - a long flight - but committment to "bigger picture," perhaps some time apart. Lots there, it seems. Something about the weight of what is in one's talons accounting for the following aspect. A lot of nuances in the imagery.

What do you think about these two eagles flying probably a long distance over open sea, the "second" eagle in possession of what the "first" is not (though the first may be leading the way)?

 

[meng]

Cool.

The only eagles I've ever seen with something in their talons carried food, for eaglets or itself or the whole family. Generally, surface fish are feeding fish, and 'eagle sized fish' are themselves high on the food chain: big trout, salmon, bass. You don't usually see them digging in the shallows for crayfish or various smaller sunfish. I think you're intuiting it being a big fish is significant. Eagle too, in their domain, are the top of the food chain.

I got the feeling you were surprised by the second eagle coming into the scene. This fits with my experience of 14. I usually get 14 when my self esteem is low. That's no coincidence. Why not when I feel full of myself?

Inspiring dream. Thanks for sharing it.

 

[meng]

Also, it is a fact that life lives on life and the fruits of life. Eagles love big, tender fish. If it's true, then life has a shadowy side, to say the least. To see it in truth, life has a horrible side to it, because to go on burning fuel (30), something else must be consumed. But the continuance of life (32) depends on it.

 

[hooo]

yes, surprised (at the second) but then not, like "but of course."

and the dream might as well have an audiotrack with a voice saying "wait for it, wait for it" before the second eagle entered the picture. a calculated pause, for some effect.

 

[ginnie]

Eagles fly high. My dream book connects dreams of eagles with lofty ambitions ...

 

[meng]

One of the fine mysteries in life: how is it possible to be surprised in your own dream, created within your own mind?

 

[rodaki]

My first thought when I first read your dream was that it wasn't two different eagles at all, it was the same, flying in circles . . almost like it was one's (higher?) self or maybe it was a central core part watching your thoughts, or mind, making its rounds, sometimes 'getting it', sometimes not.

I think there is a yin yang element in this too (empty/full) . . what's interesting is that when empty one has the most potential of catching something, when full one just needs to be careful about keeping it (somehow, this reminds me of 61.1: holding to inner truth is good, going for more is unsettling)


Not sure what you mean by

Something about the weight of what is in one's talons accounting for the following aspect.

but I 'd think that if the dream continued with that imagery, you might have seen the eagle empty, then full, empty/full, on and on .. it's the cycle of life, like night and day, darkness and light - very much a 32 kind of thing . .

my two cents in this

 

[hooo]

Something about the weight of what is in one's talons accounting for the following aspect.

Should have said simply that the weight might account for slower flight, but it's but one thought about it and not the one that most resonates. I sense what's in its talons is sustenance of some sort and that it is somehow the responsibility of the second eagle to have it "in its hands" as opposed to it being in possession of the first eagle through.

i think (and feel) that it is representative of a marriage of sorts, certainly union and commitment.

one aspect of the dream i love so much, as with most dreams that stay in the mental logbook, is that while vivid and clear and in some ways obvious, there is much that remains nuanced and maybe even indecipherable, but because you "know" they're specific parts with some purpose, some place in the picture, they remain good to chew on; sometimes life later makes sense of the puzzle piece.

 

[rodaki]

. . obviously . .

 

[hooo]

i'm certainly over-obvious over-enough.

show me the eagles.

six of cups.

 

[meng]

Maybe there was one eagle, but two of you, two ways of seeing the eagle. While carrying a large trout or salmon is no big thing for a fully grown eagle, you repeatedly have placed emphasis on it weight, its heaviness, its burden. It reminds me a bit of is the glass half full or half empty; again, bottom and top lines of 14 represented here.

Do you view your possessions or your family or job as a burden?

 

[hooo]

intuitively, i would settle on not heaviness or burden but responsibility - its role - and sense that what is in its talons is what is in the boy's possession (but not for long) in the six of cups i mentioned.


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and no to each, neither family nor job as burden; i'm happy and fortunate to have them.

 

[meng]

Well then if that's it, you said it already in your very first post.

The responsibility is heavy but you can carry it, you can endure with it, or possibly because of it.

(fish? fruit? food? sustenance? simply something one must carry along? regardless, it has some weight and i suspect it does relate to some responsibility that probably pertains to something in possession.)

Good luck.

 

[hooo]

Thank you, and I'm not closed to the notion of two elements being one of me, for example, or even two birds being one stone.

I appreciate everyone's input.

 

[jilt]

The Laika shamans from the Peruvian Andes have the eagle as metaphor of the overseeing aspect of the soul. Their soul-organizations is hierarchical, first snake, for all the ego-things (what do you need, want, fear, desire), then jaguar for the more caring and protective aspects, then the kolibri for higher love and putting things in perspective, and then the aspect of the eagle that integrates and oversees the whole.

Anyway, my first thought by reading your dream: this person will find/have an equal partner and their'e both magnificent. 32 is about durable relations and caring for each other. The fish might very well be part of a courting-act: feed each other.