I don't remember this one as well as I would like. It started out as a dream and then, at some point, I became lucid.
The part where I begin to remember is that where there is a saber toothed (panther) leopard (yep...a leopard with big teeth sticking out), and I'm running away from it. We are in a house and I run out the door. I 'trick' the leopard to follow me out, and then I go back inside and lock him out (what is it I do not want to face right now?). Anyway, it is somewhere at this point where I realize I'm dreaming and I can easily go into astral, and so I do. We are in a library. There is someone with me, although I'm not sure who, I am comfortable with them, a guide. I ask them who they are, and he answers "Dodd." But then it occurs to me that I need to ask him ?What are you? And he answers "the animus." :)
Trying to outrun a power animal means trying to outrun your own power. The Animus is the inner masculine. I too have 'escaped' many power situations in dreams only because I had the ability to choose to do so. I used to think of this as a real gift, but lately, I'm thinking of it as just another defense/escape mechanism on a deeper level. What if the next time you were chased by saber-toothed panther type creature, instead of tricking it or outrunning it, you faced it and befriended it. It would likely gift you your own power to take ownership of.
ReplyDeleteI know... easier said than done. ;)
xoxo Kristy
Thank you Kristy! I have been battling back and forth with accepting my own power and then rejecting it too...this is a big theme with me right now. The 'panther' first showed up when I was receiving Reiki from Jill :) so I was asking and hoping to see him again.
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