The search for meaning in cultural, artistic and dream imagery
On a day like today, when there’s a foot of snow outside my door and a cold inside my head, I want comfort food. I want to eat stuff that warms up my insides — soup and chili and lots of hot coffee. Of course, food is basic to our survival, so we attach a [...]
The story goes that on a Chinese New Year long ago, Buddha asked all the animals to meet him. Twelve came — a rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. Buddha declared that each year would be named after one of the animals, rotating in a 12-year cycle. He also [...]
I am always entertained by the ABC show “Lost,” but I was really intrigued this week when I saw the starburst, or spoked wheel illustration during the last few minutes of the season premier. Those of us who watch the series know Ben set the island in motion last season by turning a giant wheel located [...]
I think I’m beginning to better understand the menstrual blood dream I wrote about on January 4. I felt the dream was trying to show me that I (as represented by my female co-workers in the dream) am using or disposing of the creative life within me (the menstrual blood) in the wrong way, in the wrong place [...]
Yesterday we found out our cat Piglet has cancer. It’s an open, oozing, furless sore that’s taking over the left side of her face, at her mouth and jawline. It’s incurable. The vet assures us she’s not in pain, a piece of information I’m leaning toward believing because she’s still enjoying her food and our company. Piglet could undergo the [...]
For many of us, the sight of blood — whether in conscious life or in our dreams — can be a scary thing. It is, after all, our very life energy coursing through our bodies. It is the divine force. To some of us, blood represents our actual individual spirit. If we are drained empty, we [...]
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