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Post by seaoffeeling on May 18, 2004 21:46:59 GMT -5
Hi, I've been having vivid dreams every night, and lately several of these dreams are sexual and involve women. I am female and I know I am heterosexual, so this is quite confusing! I'm wondering if there is a spiritual meaning or message to these dreams, but am clueless as to what it could be. Any ideas? Thanks! -SeaofFeeling
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Post by Sowelu on May 18, 2004 22:15:36 GMT -5
Hiya SeaofFeeling!
Not to worry!
Sex in dreams is often used to depict the merging of aspects of self. Integration through new understanding, pretty much.
There's far more to our own, individual feminine energetic aspects than most have realized, maybe for a very long time. Not only do we work to integrate and understand the emotional and feeling energies that have been repressed here for so long, but there is a "higher" version of our feminine nature that is being discovered, revealed and integrated too.
This aspect is expressed in daily life through our intuition, psychic skills, and heart-based knowing, etc. She is the WISDOM aspect of our Higher Self, as distinct from KNOWLEDGE alone. Wisdom is the natural and proper application of knowledge, which we finally tap as a result of our growth through many lessons clearing what blocked it.
If we have repressed emotions in the past, even during childhood, those emotions can be represented by females in dreams when they come up finally for acknowledgement, understanding, healing and integration. When we intimately understand a lesson, or are being asked to do so, a female representative of the emotions of that lesson can become an intimate sexual partner in a dream.
Sex is also a symbol of the degree of intimate awareness and harmonious relating we do with various aspects of self and life (is the encounter filled with arousal and loving feelings, or is it more mechanical, filled with anger, confusion, etc.?).
When a partner has a face we recognize, the person's image used usually is the best symbolic match for the feeling/emotion we are working on integrating. If it's someone from the past, it can be a symbolic depiction of our finally integrating the circumstances of that past event with love and new understanding.
If the image is of a famous person or celebrity, it often indicates that the dreamer is merging with a higher aspect, though it can also indicate a merger or integration with an aspect of one's "persona" (false self projection into the world, as a mask or protection), rather than true self.
Hope that helps some! Blessings to you in discovering the life meaning in your dream messages!
(((Hugs))) ~Sowelu
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Post by seaoffeeling on May 21, 2004 1:04:01 GMT -5
Hi Sowelu, Thank you for your thoughtful interpretation. It does make sense that feminine energy would come to me in dream form as I become more attuned and aware - i.e. my true feminine goddess qualities come to light. As for repression, I'll have to give some thought to what emotions I might be repressing. I also wonder if this is related to the upcoming Venus transit as well. Thanks again, Sowelu, this was very thought-provoking and revealing. Love, -SeaofFeeling
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Post by Sowelu on May 21, 2004 2:02:23 GMT -5
Hi again, SeaofFeeling
In my own experience, "repressed" can simply mean feminine energy that has not come to conscious light thus far in our lives. The feminine, from the grandest Divine levels to the minutest physical levels, is the "starter fluid" of life, so to speak. It is the pool of potential for every idea...
So there may well be circumstances in a person's life where they simply never got near certain aspects of their feminine energies, and as they progress in their growth, these parts of the wholeness equation finally make their way up to the light of consciousness.
I brought this up just because so often we see the word "repressed" and think we consciously chose to put aside a feeling or emotion, when that doesn't necessarily have to be the case.
This world's design might well be cause enough for certain aspects of the feminine energetic to lie "repressed" in us from birth until we start to awaken.
Much love, Sowelu
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Post by ADMIN on May 22, 2004 20:18:50 GMT -5
Sowelu, You have brought up a good topic, the feimine energy. What is your take on why these energy has been supressed in our times? In ancient times the feminine energy was free to express, any inputs are highly appreciated. I see that the masculine energy rules the new world, when in ancient times the feminine energy was honored . Are we returning to this state again or will it be a balance of both energies?
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Post by Sowelu on May 22, 2004 22:58:43 GMT -5
Hi MirRA!
You ask excellent questions! Since I read your questions I've been attempting to come up with a simple answer, something that isn't a book.
Bottom line: In my understanding, things are the way they are in this time due to natural progression of the cycle of learning from ignorance to truth.
For those who care to read more, here goes:
We have been in this cycle of exploration for eons, and are now nearing the end.
What you refer to as a time when the feminine ruled, was not a balanced or true state of existence, either, which is why it ended in disaster. The feminine dominated, which squashed the masculine.
We're all pretty much aware of the time of Atlantis, too, where the masculine ruled to an extreme and the result was disaster.
These were both natural progressions of experiencing life, as The One explores Truth-through-ignorance.
Each of these extreme experiences taught The One much. Ignorance was lessened, awareness grew. From that experiential knowledge, another phase of exploration commenced, which we're in now.
We know that the truth is not realized when either the feminine or the masculine dominates its counterpart. Both of these growth phases ended in disaster and destruction.
And these domination scenarios don't work because the feminine and masculine ARE NOT TRULY SEPARATE. They are one, and must work in unison, together in cooperation, in order for anything to manifest.
We learned that when the feminine was dominant, the masculine was repressed.
We learned that when the masculine was dominant, the feminine was repressed.
What many are now aware is that each force of our nature, the feminine and masculine, are distorted IN EQUAL DEGREES.
If the feminine is repressed, the masculine is dominant to the exact degree the feminine is repressed. From this we see that they do indeed work together! They must, because they are one.
So,, whether we realize it or not, THIS time we have been hard at work eliminating the ignorance and suppression of the feminine WITH the mind/masculine.
Any of you doing the work have experienced your feelings, allowed them to rise and be expressed, and then used your mental faculties to explore and understand "her".
While doing this exporation of the feminine with your masculine, you also noticed thought patterns, beliefs and attitudes (masculine aspects) that you carried as a result of the feelings that had been lying in suppression.
As you honored their existence and released your feelings, your mind became free of the linking thought patterns and beliefs attached to those feelings. The mind expands - benefits - from the freeing of the feminine. They both become freer and freer as they work together correcting distortions.
You have been literally choosing to allow your own feminine and masculine to work together to heal each other, or unify and become the wholeness you truly are at essence.
Since all begins with the feminine, we are most keenly aware that "the feminine is repressed" in this era. But the masculine hasn't had a fair shake either, frankly.
The masculine is BOUND to think in distorted ways as long as the feminine fueling it is still in distortion!
So again, this is the very reason so many of us have been focused so intensely on "lessons" in this life, feeling our feelings, expressing them, and learning from that.
Each time we learn from this process, we let go of yet another way in which the feminine has been victimized, and the masculine has preyed/dominated.
In this way, we are creating the balanced resolution of the separation and duality illusion that has existed within us for so long.
Bear in mind, too, that there is much not mentioned in this simple view. Namely the heart. Each time we heal through the cooperative efforts of our masculine and feminine, we rise to the heart in that issue, where our masc/fem are One. We can then "come from the heart" whenever that particular flavor of energies is presented to us, emanating a UNIFIED EXPRESSION of energies, or TRUTH. Prior to our cooperative healing, we faced that issue through our distorted feelings and beliefs, and acted accordingly (we see a lot of that happening the world over at this time).
My simplified and partial view, as it stands at the moment. Take or leave as you see fit, of course! ((((Hugs))))
Much love, Sowelu
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Post by ADMIN on May 22, 2004 23:37:18 GMT -5
Sowelu, Thanks for sharing that! I imagine that our members would enjoy this topic very much! Now, when exactly did separation happen? As we can see there seems to be that when the Genesis became, was when the separation of the sexes manifested as our GOD (?) made them male and female? Hehehe! This makes one believe that before Adam and Eve, we were one, not separated. Give me a take on this as I am sure others would like to hear different perspectives regarding the female made from Adams rib!
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Post by Sowelu on May 22, 2004 23:53:14 GMT -5
Hahaha! I KNEW that question would come up! LOL!
The grander answer is that the separation is always happening, and never happened. LOL!
It seems to me that at the moment of choosing to forget any portion of truth, separation begins.
As I see it, "separation" is not a sin, nor an evil thing. It was a Blessed Choice, a Divine Inspiration! We happen to be at the exhaustive end times of the playing out of this sacred decision (at this, the densest and harshest level) and it feels incredibly painful to our physical selves. (((Hugs to us all!!))) But that doesn't make it any less sacred.
In my sense of things, "the time of Adam and Eve", as a metaphor, does not take us to before there was separation. In the story itself, there are already many players.
As for Genesis, I must admit I'm no expert on the bible, so it's difficult to comment. It feels to me to be a metaphor for the creation of this particular paradigm, not All That Is in its entirety. And if this is so, then it too comes after separation has already occurred.
And the making of Eve from Adam's rib, to me, is a metaphor indicative of the creation of the belief in limitation, of a "lesser" feminine, or suppressed feminine. Instilling that belief in this paradigm was paramount, necessary, to the portion of the natural cycle we've experienced since. It is "the set-up", or a portion thereof, that generates the specific flavor of life in this paradigm that we've been cycling through for a while now.
Again, all part of natural cycles of growth.
Or so it seems to me at this writing. There's always more to learn, however, so this view may change, as I do. ;D
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Post by Lunaria on May 23, 2004 10:48:34 GMT -5
May I poke my nose in here and tell you another variation of the separation? Well it seems that before Lemuria we were androgynous.(sp) Then it was decided that to learn, the male and female parts of us were to be separated. It was very painful and the feeling of loss was great. Every so often down through the lifetimes we have lived we encounter our other half. Sometimes it is a brother, a sister, a mother, a father, a daughter, a son, even a husband and a wife. Eventualy we will go back together and be one. Now for the matter of the book of Genesis. There is a story that some may believe and some may not. You may discern this for yourselves. But the book of Genesis was written by the Nibiruans. In fact the whole old testement was. And It is all in code. It cannot be understood by the letter of the word.
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