february- I was playing my new song 'the 13th rose,' a sort of darker toned song, to a group of supportive friends. at the end of the song a friend asked 'can you play the song you wrote at the womb workshop?
'womb workshop' i thought.... 'oh yeah, that thing rainbow jaguar keeps trying to get me to go to...... maybe i should go after all......
meanwhile, several weeks after the dream, i did infact go to the womb workshop, had a fully expansive initiation into the mysteries of the womb, and have since then written a litter of songs for the loop pedal with just voice and loop- a whole new world of songwriting opening before my ears
starting with this one.....
awaken ishtar
rise from the depths
you've traveled so far
enough blood has been shed
awaken ishtar
steward of heaven
stand tall as the queen you are
guide our ascension
from the underworld you've journeyed
through the seven gates of the ancient womb
to meet the shadow goddess
mother of the sacred tomb
awake
mother ishtar
sisters rivers rise
to loves all knowing star
http://www.youtube.com/user/mandakinimoon#p/u/9/UG-FP94Q5Qk
Ishtar is pictured in many Western images and books of magic, as well
as in esoteric thought, with a ring in her left hand and a cup or chalice in her right;
or else armed like Minerva. These attributes denote the continuity of life, the
power of invigorating liquids such as water, milk, blood and soma (related to the
draught which Isolde gives to Tristan to drink), and the hardships of existence.
Her weapons announce quite clearly that Ishtar loves the hero and despises the
coward (59).
To dream that you are still in the womb, suggests that you are regressing into a period of time when you were safe and completely dependent. You may be trying to escape from the demands of your daily life.
To see the womb in your dream, represents creation, childbirth, fertility and new beginnings The dream is also symbolic of fresh new ideas.
Hearing or write songs in your dream indicates that you are looking at things from a spiritual viewpoint. Your future path is a happy one with good health and much wealth. Consider the words to the song that you are dreaming about for additional messages.
To see workshops in your dreams, foretells that you will use extraordinary schemes to undermine your enemies.
To see a workshop in you dream, represents the development of your skills. You are trying to understand your Self and find out who you are.
Seeing a workshop in you dream, represents the development of your skills. You are trying to understand your Self and find out who you are.
To awaken in your dream, represents a spiritual rebirth. You may be acknowledging and embracing both your feminine and masculine aspects of Self. You are utilizing your fullest potential. Consider also who or what awakened you. This is an indication of what is lacking or missing in your life.
To dream that you awaken someone up, suggests that you are acknowledging core aspects of that person within your own self.
Mother-symbols are characterized by an interesting ambivalence:
the mother sometimes appears as the image of nature, and vice-versa; but the
Terrible Mother is a figure signifying death (31). For this reason, Hermetic doctrine held that to ‘return to the mother’ was equivalent to dying. For the Egyptians, the vulture was a mother-symbol, probably because it devours corpses
(19); it also stood for the means whereby Hammamit (the universal soul) was
split up into separate parts to form individual souls (19). For the same reason, the
maternal sentiment has been said to be closely bound up with the nostalgic
longing of the spirit for things material (18), or with the subjection of the spirit to
the unformulated but implacable law of destiny. Jung mentions that in Jean
Thenaud’s Traité de la Cabale (of the 16th century) there is a mother-figure
actually represented in the form of a god of destiny (32). He mentions further that
the Terrible Mother is the counterpart of the Pietà, representing not only death
but also the cruel side of nature—its indifference towards human suffering (31).
Jung also notes that the mother is symbolic of the collective unconscious, of the
left and nocturnal side of existence—the source of the Water of Life. It is the
mother, he argues, who is the first to bear that image of the anima which the man
must project upon Woman passing from the mother to the sister and finally to the
beloved (32). A predominantly maternal social pattern—a matriarchal society—
is characterized, according to Bachofen, by special emphasis upon blood relationships, telluric allegiances, and the passive acceptance of natural phenomena.
Patriarchies are distinguished by a respect for man-made laws, the favouring of
works of art and craft, and obedience to the hierarchy (23). Even now that
matriarchal societies, sociologically speaking, no longer exist in the West, psychologically man is nevertheless passing through a phase when he is in all essentials dominated by the feminine principle. To come triumphantly through this
stage and to reinstate the masculine principle as the guiding-rule of life—bringing
to the fore the characteristically patriarchal qualities noted above—would signify
an achievement of the kind that was once symbolized by the transformation of
the ‘lunar work’ into the solar, or by the transmutation of mercury into sulphur.
To quote Evola: ‘Symbols of the earth-mother are: water, the mother of the waters, stone, the cave, the maternal home, night, the house of depth, and the
house of strength or of wisdom.’
To see your mother in your dream, represents the nurturing aspect of your own character. Mothers offer shelter, comfort, life, guidance and protection. Some people may have problems freeing themselves from their mothers and are thus seeking their own individuality and development.
To dream that you are having a conversation with your mother, denotes a matter that has preoccupied your mind and you are not sure how to deal with it in your waking life. It indicates unresolved problems that need to be worked out with your mother.
To hear your mother call you in our dream, suggests that you have been negligent in your duties and responsibilities. You are pursuing down the wrong path.
If you dream that you see your mother and converse with her, it indicates that you
will have prosperity in life. To dream that you have lost your mother indicates her sickness.
To see your mother in dreams as she appears in the home, signifies pleasing results from any enterprise.
To hold her in conversation, you will soon have good news from interests you are anxious over.
For a woman to dream of mother, signifies pleasant duties and connubial bliss.
To see one's mother emaciated or dead, foretells sadness caused by death or dishonor.
To hear your mother call you, denotes that you are derelict in your duties, and that you are pursuing the wrong course in business.
To hear her cry as if in pain, omens her illness, or some affliction is menacing you.
Seeing your mother in your dream, represents the nurturing aspect of your own character. Mothers offer shelter, comfort, life, guidance and protection. Some people may have problems freeing themselves from their mothers and are thus seeking their own individuality and development. Dreaming that you are having a conversation with your mother indicates a matter that has preoccupied your mind and you are not sure how to deal with it in your waking life. It indicates unresolved problems that still need to be worked out with your mother. Hearing your mother call you in our dream means that you have been negligent in your duties and responsibilities. You are pursuing down the wrong path. Hearing your mother cry in your dream indicates some illness or affliction.
The relationship that we have with our mother is the most psychologically significant relationship of all. Rarely all good or all bad, our mothers always invoke powerful emotions. We may dream about our mothers in many different forms. She may be disguised in our dreams, and it is our job to find her in there. If you are dreaming about your mother, you may be addressing some issues or concerns in your dream, or your dream may be based on a valuable memory. The general image of "mother" in a dream may symbolise a variety of feelings and ideas: caring, nurturing, love, acceptance, hard work, sacrifice, martyrdom, etc. The mother in your dream could also represent the "collective unconscious," the source of the "water of life," and the yin. The woman is that force, or current, inside of you that nudges you on and inspires you. It is your intuition and the knowledge that in not necessarily attached to words. Men, on the other hand, represent the active part of us that use the information received to create the physical reality of our lives. When the two are working together well, we have balance and experience awareness leading to peace and productivity.
To see or dream that you are a guide, indicates that a higher force is guiding you toward your goals. You are on the right path toward personal development or spiritual enlightenment.
Seeing or dreaming that you are a guide indicates that a higher force is guiding you toward your goals. You are on the right path.
Symbolic of the body as matter (57), of transformation and of the
unconscious (56). It is also sometimes a maternal and feminine symbol of a
generic kind.
To dream of seeing tombs, denotes sadness and disappointments in business.
Dilapidated tombs omens death or desperate illness.
To dream of seeing your own tomb, portends your individual sickness or disappointments.
To read the inscription on tombs, foretells unpleasant duties.
To see tombs in your dream, signify aspects of yourself which you have kept hidden and buried away.
To dream that you see your own tomb, indicates that you are about to venture into parts of your personality which have been forgotten or have thought to be dead.
To dream that you are trapped in a tomb, suggests that you are still being held back by past pain and old fears. You are stuck.
Seeing tombs on your dream means aspects of yourself which you have kept hidden and buried away. Dreaming that you see your own tomb indicates that you are about to venture into parts of your personality which have been forgotten or have died.
To see a goddess in your dream, symbolizes your femininity or feminine side. For a man to dream of a goddess, indicates his fears about the female.
As the Sun is the light of the spirit, so shadow is the negative
‘double’ of the body, or the image of its evil and base side. Among primitive
peoples, the notion that the shadow is the àlter ego or soul is firmly established;
it is also reflected in the folklore and literature of some advanced cultures (35). As
Frazer has noted, the primitive often regards his shadow, or his reflection in water or in a mirror, as his soul or as a vital part of himself (21). ‘Shadow’ is the term
given by Jung to the primitive and instinctive side of the individual.
To dream of an ancient theme, symbolizes your sense of foundation. You are well-grounded and are able to learn from your past.
Dreaming of something ancient means that you give matters in life the respect it desereves, and that you are able to look positively at your past and use what you have learned to progress in society.