This is a reality I witness a lot of people struggle against. Wanting a straightforward path to follow their hearts. A clear step-by-step A to Z process. They feel confused and disappointed in search of their hearts in this way.
Over the years I’ve been asked the same question in different forms. The essence of this question is how does the spirit world connect to our practical everyday life? And recently someone asked me this question about plant spirits.
When I follow the thread of when poisonous plants showed up in my life, I continue to discover that they called me much sooner than I consciously recognized. In fact, every few months they show me another moment in time when they called me and I wasn't quite ready to say yes. For example, recently my husband started reading a book that I read not quite a decade ago. And guess who stars in the first chapters of the book? Poisonous plants :)
From the impact of childhood traumas to the ancestral burdens we carry, there is wisdom in the poison of our wounding.
Recently I was catching up with a dear spiritual friend of mine that I haven’t spoken to for quite some time. But we’ve had deep spiritual conversations and attended retreats together on and off for the last eight years.
Bridgekeeper. This is a title I heard given to me from the Spirit world many years ago on retreat. It’s a word that keeps returning time and time again. During meditations. During dreams. Synchronicities. And during sacred reflection time.
As I’ve turned this word over in my mind, heart, and soul, I’ve come to know that part of my sacred work in the world centers on bridge keeping. Which of course makes me a bridgekeeper.
Brushing these dreams off as unimportant and irrelevant. And pushing them aside when we cannot find a purpose for the past showing up in the present.
But this is a mistake. Because there are reasons the past haunts our dreams. What are they?
An ethereal feeling dream left her waking up with a sense of urgency to figure something out… But what? She felt irritated.
I was attending a sound bath. Something I had done many times before. But this sound bath was unlike any other. Because it opened me to remembering my childhood sexual abuse for the first time.
Once opened, memories continued to emerge for weeks. And nightmares became a regular occurrence.
Podcast listener Kelly had a transcendent feeling dream that left her with many questions.
“My dream takes place on a ship. And it is nighttime and pretty dark… I’m watching over the scene more than actively participating in it...” what happens next captured her attention.
One character takes out their anger on another woman in the dream on a plank. In avoiding the anger thrown literally by an ax, the woman on the plank dives off the side of the ship.
For years I dreamed of mountains. Dreams of:
Driving into the mountains.
Looking up at the mountains.
Spending time with mountains.
In other words, mountains were calling me.
Podcast listener Leslie had a big dream recently. “I knew this dream was a solid message.” The kind that sticks with you for life.
She’s been slowly opening up to her ancestors. Feeling the call strongly as she’s back on the land of some of her ancestors in Colombia.
If I were to sit down with you right now how would you answer the following question: where do dreams come from?
Would you have an answer or be stumped? Would you tell me that dreams are your brain firing randomly? Or would you tell me that your soul leaves your body to travel to different realms?
This topic is often contested by many. My experience is that people tend to fall into almost dogmatic camps. Digging their heels in the ground and adamant that dreams can only be one thing.
The veils between the worlds start to thin as winter draws nearer.
Daylight shortens and nighttime lengthens.
And the botanical world around us begins to turn energy and focus inward.
So it’s no surprise that so many people I’ve spoken to in the last two weeks are having more dreams. And vivid ones. It’s literally the season for dreaming.
When I first started exploring my dreams, internet searching was my go-to for meanings. The problem was, the meaning didn't always fit.
For example, I’d dream about an animal. But when I searched for the meaning online I’d find patchy results. In rare cases, a website's musing on the animal felt spot on. But more often than not, I sat there scratching my head wondering...am I missing something?
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