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I subscribe to Barefoot Doctor’s Supercharged Taoist website and get the occasional e-mail from him. The last one suggested a Good Friday ritual to release old stuff no longer needed, given that this is a day of death heralding rebirth. So on Good Friday I made a list of all those habits I wanted to release, wrote them down on some lovely Chinese wishing paper a friend gave me, and burned the paper. It went up like Mt St Helens, very fast, and burned down to ashes really quickly..
Just before I woke up on Easter Saturday I had a most amazing dream which seems to have really given a clear indication that old crap has really been cleared out.
In the dream, I’m standing in front of a modern shop. A woman comes out with a couple of suitcases, kisses the little child by the front door, then takes off for somewhere else. I go into the shop just as the owner does and ask him if there’s a vacancy.. He says yes, I immediately apply and he takes me on. I go to the back of the shop and fill out an application form in which I am incredibly positive about my life experience.
As I wander to the front of the shop, which is filled with records, crystals and other lovely stuff, a lady appears who offers me a cup of coffee and tells me they’ll hire a pick-up truck so that I and my friend (whom I’ve left outside) can go to markets on a Friday, as that’s when it’s really busy. I’m thrilled and tell her I love markets as I enjoy talking to people. I walk outside to tell my friend, an old boyfriend from my early ‘twenties who is wrapped in a blanket and shivering, that I’ve been employed and he is really pleased for me.
When I woke up I could feel the energy of that dream coursing through me – light, joyous, confident, thrilled, energised, and much, much lighter as if a huge burden has fallen off my shoulders and I feel really, really free. It’s hard to describe but it’s as if I’ve set out on a completely new part of my life
The woman leaving with the baggage is obviously that part of me that’s been weighed down with old crap from the past finally taking her leave. And in so doing, her kiss has bestowed a blessing on my inner child who has been freed from the burden of past injustices. The shop is brand new, spacious and filled with lovely things which indicates a whole new arena opening up in my life. And the episode with my friend, a boyfriend from my early ‘twenties, indicated to me that I’d rehabilitated him in my memory as the super-hurt he’d dealt me had finally been eradicated and cleared out.
I continue to be bowled over by the power of ritual and the messages of our inner, wise selves. I don’t know about anybody else, but I have been dreaming non-stop since Neptune entered Pisces. I don’t remember all the dreams but I’ve woken quite knackered after nights full of dreams that have left me half-awake until I’ve fallen asleep again to embark on a new set of dreams.
This afternoon, Easter Sunday which is symbolic of rebirth, I’m going to simply ask the Universe to gift my life with whatever I need, rather than ask for specifics. I was going to get down to the nitty-gritty of individual wishes, but on this occasion I feel so enthralled by my dream that I’ve decided to be open to what I need rather than what I want.
