Yesterday as I lay offerings of chicken soup dinner at one of the altars, I asked my ancestors, Orisha, and Spirit for guidance by way of a dream. I asked if it would be in my best interest to revive a certain relationship. When I woke up I remembered a voice telling me “When you wake up, all you have to remember is strawberries cut in half.” This is what was revealed to me:
- Signals a need to explore an alternative way of life. You need to refocus your attention on more important matters. Good will come out of your issues. Your dreams stand for emotions that you have repressed but are ready to confront. Liberating an aspect of self that’s been suppressed/unexpressed.
- Cutting Strawberries: the need to get to the truth/core of something. You want to start anew. Your dream signifies the introspective aspect of self. You are feeling helpless.
- Cut: repressed aggression and anger. You are doing your best to clear through some emotional turmoil. Represents concerns about the condition of your house. Working through a problem/issue that’s been troubling you.
- This dream: is a metaphor for your daily anxieties/worries. Over-analyzing a situation. Trying to escape from a dangerous relationship/situation. Points to the quest to get ahead in life. Overlooked an urgent matter/situation.
- Strawberry: Rising above an unpleasant situation or issue. Time for introspection and solace. A hint for a refuge or protection from your emotions. You or someone in your life may be a pushover.
- This dream: denotes prosperity, hard work, and your efforts. You are trying to escape from some current situation. Feeling stifled. Stands for the union of masculine and feminine aspects of yourself. Perhaps you need to tell someone that you love them.
- “Cut” and “Strawberry” are clues for health issues, illnesses, or drug use. Some information presented may need to be deciphered and dissected in order to be understood. Hint for a lack of understanding. Too proud to ask for help. Premonition for an image that you want to portray. Time to make a new start. You need to keep your life in order. A hint for self restrictions. You need to make some drastic changes in your life.
Ask the Universe for a little and you get a lot. There’s so much for me to unload personally with this. it was basically a reading. For so many days I have noticed anxiety in the form of me not wanting to do anything. Poor diet decisions, a bubbly stomach, and rapid heart palpitations. Not sure why or where it was coming from. There was nothing triggering me in the physical world, but it wasn’t the physical. It was my emotional body having the anxiety attack. Six days ago I tweeted “It is mandatory that I be gentle with myself these next few weeks. I can sense a shift in my emotional body.” And here we are…hmmm. Repressed anger and aggression? I can see that. I rarely get angry and when I do, I shut down entirely instead of engaging through any kind of outlet. Suppressed/unexpressed emotion? Once again, I can resonate with that. Introspect and solace? Refuge and protection? In micro ways, these all make sense to me. I’m not surprised to find out that there are even more aspects of a buried self to uncover and heal through. Will it ever end? Probably not. We’re talking generations upon generations. A lot of things I find I have to heal from numerous times. But mindful awareness brought me here even before I showed up at the doorsteps. Noticing a slight shift in my mindset, my behaviors, and my approaches. Routine and ritual made me aware of how I showed up for my tasks, or if I showed up at all. Were my heart, mind, and body engulfed in the present moment? Mindful. Or was I thinking of something else? Stalling? Ignoring? Aware. Spirituality taught me to connect the dots. From mindfulness to awareness, to the offering, to asking, to receiving, and innderstanding Now I’m here, ready to move forward in healing with guidance that I didn’t note before, brought to me by the support of the Universe in and around self. All I can do is give thankhs!
