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Subject: Message?

Cherith

08:44 09/01/2003 

I am walking back to my apartment with my son. Our entire building is on fire.

I am devastated because for one, my cat was inside not to mention the entire destruction.

I go to a restaurant across the street to tell them I need a place to sit and have coffee and look through ads for a new place. Because of the fire I have no money on me, but that's ok with them.

Sitting in outside dining, I notice (and others do too) a nebulous pure white form in the shape of a dove. It grows and changes shape and everyone knows it's some sort of special sign. It gets larger and forms into the perfect shape of a Beluga whale and swims through the air towards me.

It enters my chest and as it is disappearing into me I have my hands out to accept it. When it is gone into me, I have an exquisite pendant in my hands. It is frosted glass or some other material with a beautiful clear dark blue stone set in it.

Dream edited for easier reading - JT, 2005

Jane Teresa Anderson

13:43 13/01/2003 

Hi Cherith,

What a beautiful dream!

Fire in a dream can often reflect anger - sometimes anger you're aware of feeling and sometimes anger you've kept unconscious.

When you interpret a dream, look for opposite extremes of a theme. (This is one of many methods!) In your dream you have fire (anger?) which transforms into peace (dove) and then into ... a Beluga whale.

The dove (which most people see as representing peace) seems to confirm the fire as anger - anger that has been released.

There are many ways to release anger. Many people fear anger and so repress it. Expressing or releasing anger does not necessarily mean directing that anger at anyone. Anger can be released in many appropriate, safe and healing ways.

Your dream, Cherith, suggests that anger has been recently released, leaving you feeling more at peace. You may feel as if you've lost a little self-value (lost your money in your dream) in the process, but this may be more a reflection of letting go of values that were inappropriate (such as not admitting feelings of anger).

The transformation from fire to bird evokes the phoenix rising from the ashes: after fire, the regeneration of the new: the necessity for death of the old (clearance) for birth of the new.

Your dove transforms into a whale. For many people the whale represents the unconscious mind (something huge and hidden in the deep). What does a Beluga whale signify for you personally?

The peaceful whale enters your heart, suggesting you embrace (you do, with your arms in the dream) this new quality. The gift this post-anger-release peace brings you is then represented by the pendant.

A pendant is worn around the neck and the neck, in a dream, often represents communication (the source of the voice).

Your dream suggests you have the opportunity to embrace a new way of communicating - more healing than holding onto anger.

If you are familiar with the chakra system, you'll know that the neck is also the fifth chakra and its colour is blue. So your blue pendant is a double emphasis on communication for healing.

Please get back to us, Cherith, on how this fits so far ...

Jane Teresa Anderson

cherith

13:56 24/01/2003 

Hi Jane, I've just checked back in, and seen your response. Thank you for your input. As far as anger goes, I'm very slow to it. I'm a believer that if you are angry it's because you feel that your rights have somehow been violated and I usually try to put things in perspective. Rarely that is the case that I rise to anger. I have a little repressed anger . . . or more frustration toward family for being so closed minded (very religeous -as opposed to spiritual) I'm feeling more comfortable with letting go of all that. ANYway. . . more to the point. I am getting that this dream has been a special gift. Confirming my desire to get in touch with my spiritual side. I've been opening up to this and spending time in meditation and clearing the chackras and I feel that this has been a really personal note to encourage me. The Beluga has never in the past meant anything special to me except for the fact that it is an ocean mammal and I have such a connection with the ocean I've often said I have salt water running through my veins. Since this dream I have had another dream involving contact with a beluga but I don't know whether or not it was another connection or just because I have been giving this dream a lot of thought. Anyway. .. thanks again for your input and I'll pass the ball back to you, Take care, Cherith