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Thanks for sharing. Just to clarify, you're asking us to interpret / comment on your dream, and not a Yi casting, correct? Thanks.DREAM
DREAM - I go to a public screening of a film I recently created with my 9-year old daughter ....
One traditional association for trigram Thunder is with the direct East, and also with early morning and the beginning of the new year - early Spring in the traditional Chinese reckoning. So, perhaps this is a 'sign' pointing you in a new direction - to the potential for a new or fresh way of seeing and being.I Ging -- East.
I know very little about Tarot. However, Bradford Hatcher's "Tarot as a Counseling Language" webpage gives some ideas about the Tower which I found interesting:The Tower
First step for me when wanting to understand a dream is to locate where in your current waking life you feel/have felt the feelings in the dream.
Hi Trojina,First step for me when wanting to understand a dream is to locate where in your current waking life you feel/have felt the feelings in the dream.
There doesn't seem to be many feelings/reports of feelings in the dream? Will reread to see if I missed those.
Hi Liselle,Another thing I noticed was how you thought the coin was special and shouldn't be used in a gumball machine, but then you changed your mind.
This is probably silly, but it's something that occasionally comes up here and it reminds me of something Hilary has addressed from time to time. Is there any way in which you feel you have to use a lot of ritual with your divination practices? That is perfectly fine, a lot of people find it helpful, but if anything you do along those lines feels like it gets in the way, or you're doing it because it's "a rule" or something - it's okay to stop, just like it was okay to buy a gumball with the coin.
Hi dfreed,A few thoughts:
One option for you would be to do a reading about your actual dream (and not just a reading about the outcome of posting your dream on this forum). You could post this to Shared Readings if you want people's interpretations and ideas.
Here's an example where I did a reading on a dream I had (though it's within a thread that's more broadly about our 'experience regarding dreams').
I think that doing readings about our dreams can yield interesting and insightful results; I've even done this with dreams I hardly remember or only have remember snippets of.
About some specific parts of your dream:
One traditional association for trigram Thunder is with the direct East, and also with early morning and the beginning of the new year - early Spring in the traditional Chinese reckoning. So, perhaps this is a 'sign' pointing you in a new direction - to the potential for a new or fresh way of seeing and being.
I know very little about Tarot. However, Bradford Hatcher's "Tarot as a Counseling Language" webpage gives some ideas about the Tower which I found interesting:
One of his associations - or 'correspondences' with this card is with trigram Thunder.Also, I gleaned from his take on this card a sense of the meanings for, and 'definitions' of:The convergent or Thunder-like, and the divergent or Wind-like paths or ways of being for: Thunder is sudden and forceful, whereas Wind is more gentle and long-lasting, (With trigram Thunder and Wind being the opposite of each other, with all of their solid and broken lines switched)
Though not really 'opposites', this reminds me of the 'paths' your daughter and you took in the dream: you each decided to do different things, but in the end you came back together to share coins and snow globes - and you leave together and you "leave the theatre with a deep sense of serenity and ease".
For me, all of the trigrams - as well as the hexagrams, etc. - have both positive and negative (balanced / unbalanced; opportune / challenging, etc.) aspects to them, though in your dream I sense more of the 'positive' aspects. On another Tarot website, I read these ideas associated with the 'thunder-lightning' aspect of this card, and not so much the Tower:
* Lightning breaks existing templates to create opportunities for new things (Me: perhaps new ways of thinking and perceiving).* Lightning as a sudden feeling of inspiration that breaks through ignorance.* Sudden changes of perception that can (might) ... turn all of our previous thoughts upside down.* 'Unbalanced' thunder arouses anxiety (e.g. thunder, broken boulders) – which is not welcomed by those who does not like change.* Sudden change might sometimes feels that it is happening too fast and suddenly.
Best, D
"5. God comes forth in the sign of the Arousing. All living things come forth in the sign of the Arousing. The Arousing stands in the east."
Not being an academic, nor a Tarot reader myself, and remembering that this is your dream - and not mine - one thing that strikes me is the idea that your daughter went off on her own, but then you two came back together. It made me wonder, if this is a new phase in your relationship - a sign of her increasing independence, and a sign you're okay with it? It brings to mind the idea of the young princess being freed from an (or her) ivory tower. But that's just me ruminating some about your dream.an academic philosopher
Another thing I noticed was how you thought the coin was special and shouldn't be used in a gumball machine, but then you changed your mind.
This is probably silly, but it's something that occasionally comes up here and it reminds me of something Hilary has addressed from time to time. Is there any way in which you feel you have to use a lot of ritual with your divination practices? That is perfectly fine, a lot of people find it helpful, but if anything you do along those lines feels like it gets in the way, or you're doing it because it's "a rule" or something - it's okay to stop, just like it was okay to buy a gumball with the coin.
Felt like adding this much more:First step for me when wanting to understand a dream is to locate where in your current waking life you feel/have felt the feelings in the dream.
There doesn't seem to be many feelings/reports of feelings in the dream? Will reread to see if I missed those.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).