A little girl in pink, a box with a dark omen

[Rasselas]

Maybe someone will have insight on this. I dreamed that I was taking care of a little cousin or something. Through the dream she went from a baby to a little girl. She was smiling at me but I always felt like she might be lying to me with her cheerfulness. I was cuddling with her but I wasn't sure she really liked it, or just encouraged me to keep me around. During the dream which was quite disconnected, someone had thrown a little ring box through the window into the room where I was. It contained a stone, which I knew was a bad artifact of some sort, like a death sentence or a grave omen. I grabbed it and threw it back through the window. I think the box was green, and the stone/omen was an off-cream with a black smoky aura surrounding it. I saw this without needing to open the box. Then I'd put the little baby girl to sleep, I think she was wearing pink. She was under the covers and I'd gone to do something else. I found myself kneeling on the same bed she was, and worrying if I'd trampled her, but I didn't. I went to cradle her in my arms but she seemed a bit uncomfortable. Then I heard a whirring sound above my head, like a toy helicopter or the flapping of wings. I looked up to see something flying into the room through the window, and the same green box dropped before me. It was carried by a completely invisible bird-creature that flew away, I only knew it from the sound of wings flapping. I felt a sense of dread and horror and wanted to throw the box back through the window as I'd done before, but now there was a green mosquito net on the window and I knew I couldn't. I wasn't sure if it was for me or the little girl, but it seemed like it was for me after all.

[Burned up]

Two symbols - the "divine child" and the "bad omen". The child seems to be independent and hard to get to know. I find in this kind of dream the symbolism can be distracting. I'd fix on the emotions - the frustration you're sensing with the girl and wanting to kind of connect with her. The fear of handling the stone. I'm left feeling that you really need to take that stone and overcome the adversity. Whatever fear is represented by it seems to also be the block to relating with the girl. In the dream they're two different symbols but... I wonder. Do you sense a fear you might need to overcome to feel more integrated? (I know that sounds a bit vague and wierd, but this is what my emotions seem to be telling me)

[Rasselas]

Thank you, this was exactly the kind of insight that I was hoping for. I'm still uncertain how it might relate to my current life situation. You are right, there are things I need to face head-first. It didn't occur to me that the girl and the stone might symbolize aspects of the same thing, quite a good suggestion. I can't reveal too much on a public forum, but let's say I have two choices at the moment. Continue working towards a career that I want which is at present fruitless, but might become very lucrative in a couple of months; or grab anything else that would bring money sooner. The thing with my dreams lately is, I can never tell which of these two they might be pointing at! It is so frustrating. It's clear to me which one I want, but it feels like an indulgent, irresponsible choice and it fills me with guilt.

[Burned up]

Thank you, this was exactly the kind of insight that I was hoping for. I'm still uncertain how it might relate to my current life situation. You are right, there are things I need to face head-first. It didn't occur to me that the girl and the stone might symbolize aspects of the same thing, quite a good suggestion. I can't reveal too much on a public forum, but let's say I have two choices at the moment. Continue working towards a career that I want which is at present fruitless, but might become very lucrative in a couple of months; or grab anything else that would bring money sooner. The thing with my dreams lately is, I can never tell which of these two they might be pointing at! It is so frustrating. It's clear to me which one I want, but it feels like an indulgent, irresponsible choice and it fills me with guilt. Sounds like you can see positives and negatives in both choices. I don't think the dream can tell you which will work out best. But it might help you find your faculties to make a choice. Grab that stone (whatever it's a metaphor for) and then choose.