The search for meaning in cultural, artistic and dream imagery
Iconic fashion designer Edith Head once said, “You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.” While I don’t think Head’s sentiment is true for most of us, I do think it serves as a reminder that we humans place a lot more value on clothes than simple utilitarian protection from the [...]
Baring teeth and protruding tongues have long been displays of aggression and dominance in the human and animal kingdoms.
Along with their self-protective power, teeth can also symbolize vitality because they are crucial in helping us break down and consume food. Teeth are also associated with sexual potency. Various species bite their mates during sex.
In dreams, [...]
I’ve been sitting here in my home office this morning trying to decide what I want to post on my blog. As I was waiting for my brain fog to clear, I lit a candle. I go through a lot of candles. I need the light.
Often, when I’m meditating on a dream I had, or when I’m asking the [...]
It’s very windy in my part of the world today. The just-budding bushes and trees are knocking at my windows letting me know they’re awake and spring is moving in.
Wind is the world pushing forward, changing, ending and beginning. It stops long enough to pick up and carry off whatever is in its path — from the smallest dirt [...]
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 lot [...]
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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