Dancing to the tune of a different drummer

Music, dancing, actually any movement seemed to awaken our souls; especially mine.  There are the witches of fairy tales who dance and chant around their pot, or cauldron, which could represent the vessel we are ourselves.  The cauldron is an image in the I Ching of our own vessel which needs protection and care.  The witches dancing feel protective to me.  When I had cancer and was undergoing chemotherapy, I had a dream in which the medicine was boiling in a pot, and I was told to infuse loving kindness into the chemotherapy medicine.  After that dream, the treatments seemed less toxic, and I was able to bring the opposites together through this wise message from my unconscious.

Walking in circles may also be some protective measure for my psyche while I am so introspective right now.  Concentrating so much of my energy on my inner work certainly challenges my ego which wants me to be active in the outer world rather than so introspective.  I am following where my process leads me which right now happens to be studying in detail the images of my dreams.  Rhythm, dancing, and music are my guides right now.

rhythms

Today I am focused on rhythm.  I had a dream in which a young boy was rocking in a window ledge.  And the rocking sensation touched a place of how we can put ourselves into a trance by performing a rhythmic movement.  This has happened forever:  we did it as little babies, as young children, and still do it today.  Notice it in yourself.  Native Americans have many ways of creating rhythms through drumming, dancing, or any repetitive movement which transfers energy from our bodies to mother earth.

And...then there is the rhythm of our lives, our dreams, and how those interact.  Our daily lives have a rhythm of their own which most often we do without being aware.  And certainly our dreams have their own rhythm which if we look at and study reveals some interesting patterns.  As I have been recording my dreams, I am seeing some dreams now that reflect earlier dreams that I could not understand.  In other words, I am seeing patterns and rhythms.  These rhythms may be the order than underlies the disorder in most of our activities:  at a deep level, I mean.  More to contemplate.  It also leaves room for the possibility of synchronicity.