Hi Clytemnestra,
Although your dream looks basically simple and straight forward on the surface, it is actually a very important one which you should probably carefully preserve because it’s one that you would likely gain something from revisiting every once in a while.
It likely has appeared at this time mostly because you are approaching your eighteenth birthday which is often seen as an important transitional time in general where a person begins to move into adult life.
Such as dream is called by one school of psychology “archetypal” since it appears from the deepest layers of the psyche at important transitional periods in a person’s life or when central events such as birth, marriage and death etc. etc. occur.
At such times, it’s as if an inner wisdom tries to communicate what is best for the dreamer overall in her or his unique circumstances.
But instead of going into a lot of detail, I think it’s best to follow the advice of the boy in the dream, that is, “not to think about it too much, and just accept it and let it be”.
Therefore, without a lot of background explanation, the following ideas might seem to be very arbitrary and not very convincing overall, but I think you’ll find that over time, they will gradually tend to ring true.
For example, the cave where you find yourself would usually symbolize a deep, unusual, rarely visited part of your psyche.
There you find stones with magical symbols on them. Such stones would tend to symbolize an individual’s most central identity, so it looks like the theme of the dream is the importance of carefully sorting through various alternatives to find out what your true identity is as you move into adult life where you will probably be faced with a bewildering number of possible choices as presented by society as a whole.
Especially since the idea of “sorting” and “choosing” appears, the boy as a dream image would lean toward symbolizing your ability to focus, think, reflect and make your own decisions based on facts rather than perhaps routinely accepting general opinions in your milieu and the broad western society that you are a part of.
The teal colour, which is defined as “blue/green” adds to this idea of thinking since blue is often related to thought and reflection. Green often symbolizes the five senses and three-dimensional reality.
Taken together, it’s possible that since it’s the boy who presents the stones to you (that is, a sort of “inner opposite” to the way you normally orientate yourself), you might not normally use thinking about sensations in order to make your decisions, perhaps preferring instead a more intuitive and values-orientated approach.
In this take on his image, the boy would symbolize a potential “helpmate” who will be there for you if thinking and sensation are gradually developed at least to a reasonable level in the years to come.
The image of the centre (centre of palm, images on centre of stones) also relates to the basic identity and wholeness of a person.
The dream is likely pointing out the important truth that an ongoing feeling of “energy” as well as overall “peace” and ultimate contentment can come only from finding the true central part of your personhood (the goddess) and bringing it out as much as possible by gradual persistent work as the years go by, that is, by continually working at the unique mix of abilities, talents, etc. etc. which make up your overall personality.
It looks like basic contentment will mainly come from being true to your essential feminine nature (the goddess and the strongly “feminine” approach of “don’t think about it, accept it, let it be”) whereas the more “masculine” side of thinking can only assist this process in an important but secondary way.
Being true to your feminine centre is hard to do in a basically masculine, patriarchal society. You might like analyst Marion Woodman’s approach to this dilemma which can be sampled in a book of interviews with her called “Conscious Femininity”, and you could visit www.mwoodman.org to see if something clicks with you about her ideas overall.
In order to continue to explore your dreams in a reliable way, you would probably find useful Robert Johnson’s “Inner Work”. Since the image of a goddess showed up in your dream, Jean Shinoda Bolen’s “Goddesses in Everywoman” might be fun to read.
If you go to www.innercitybooks.net and browse by books on Dream Interpretation, some other valuable books on the subject can be found. Many of those mentioned there can also be found on www.amazon.uk.co if it’s more convenient to order from that site if you would like to try some of them out, and the books mentioned above can also be found on the latter site.
Anyway, I hope that these ideas will help to make some sense of your important dream.
|
|
Bookmarks