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Subject: Ancient Beginnings

Aneo

19:19 11/06/2002 

The scene was an Australian Outback Oasis, complete with the tallowed cool waters that sprung from hidden cracks between the grey slated old rocks that seemed to be a monument in honour of the now extinct volcano that once ruled this land long ago.

Now it was semi-lush, yet still sparse in places, the trees not tall and reaching for the sun space. Smaller compact bushes stood squat in sandy soil.

The mountain of rock cast its shadow in the late noon day dance, and a group of natives, Aborigines, were all gathered there. Families of children played near the water’s edge and some were climbing the bare cold rocks to find a high position to dive and play into the cool waters below.

I stood at a distance watching this and felt a presence of dark shadow next to me. We both watched and observed the scene unfold.

A young strong and brave adolescent boy was already swimming with long drawn out strokes across the length of the natural pool.

Another young adolescent a girl was standing high on a big rock and was about to jump in. I felt concern for this young girl or woman, but she managed to jump in and swim after the stronger boy man.

Halfway across the lagoon there was a row of weeds or reeds and the girl seemed to get stuck in amongst them. She was struggling, panicking, but she kept on trying.

Next the scene changed to the other end of the pool and an elderly man of shamanic sights was standing hip high in the water. Beneath him, under the water, was the girl, laid out like a star pattern.

Next to the Elder stood the brave boy. The Elder explained to the boy what to do. Next the boy is under the water also, and has laid himself opposite her, and crossed his ankles with hers, so now it looks like a double X or the rune 'Ing' symbol.

I felt a little sad for the girl.

But then as I looked up to the Elder, he smiled and gave me a sign with his right hand, in the knowledge that all was "okay". A rabbit sign of sorts with pointer and thumb making a circle. I knew then that all would be alright.

I awoke to feel a little curious but fine.

Dream edited for easier reading - JT, 2005

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Jane Teresa Anderson

15:13 13/06/2002 

Hi Aneo,

Such poetic dreaming.

I also see the xx as the chromosomes of a female, fitting in with your title, 'Ancient Beginnings':

The girl (feminine) is born (xx) or re-born through an initiation rite (swimming - blending with water: emotions?). The birth symbol is repeated in the focus on the Elder's hips.

I like the monument to the extinct volcano - the solid rock honouring past explosions or pressure releases (emotional releases) now providing the fissures from which the water flows (birth symbolism again). Water, often being a symbol of emotion, could be seen as your now clear-flowing (un-pressured, unrepressed) emotions - an aspect of the feminine again perhaps.

Unless you have a specific connection or association with Aboriginal people, the appearance of an Aboriginal setting or Elder often symbolises an 'original' (as in Latin, ab - out of - the original) emotion, event, experience or memory to which the dreamer has returned. Revisiting and healing an original event in a dream is extremely powerful and life-changing. It brings a kind of domino event.

The Elder is then also your own inner wisdom, signing to you that what may seem fearful is, in fact, a healing - a death of the old and a birth of a new way of being. An initiation - a new beginning that is as ancient as it is new.

What does the Ing rune symbol mean to you?

There is so much in this dream.

Has anything shifted in your life since this dream? Does anything feel changed?

Jane Teresa Anderson

Aneo

17:29 13/06/2002 

The 'ing' rune means nothing to me, in except that it is my choice to choose the nothing I want to experience. But I wonder if the 'ing' rune is also the two 'x's joined together. Also I get a feeling the X by two is the G rune, the gift perhaps.

Yes I had an accident and over a period of a few weeks, my knowledge increased so much that I had to knock myself out to get peace from the literature that came in reams of never ending myths. But thats my story.

And my mission or so it seems.

My dreams are slowing up, to just about nil, only now it is more like conversations and music I hear, even nursery rhymes play strange parts in the 'teachings', that this is what I gather is happening.

It will all come togather as a garment does when action is applied to the finishing of the purpose or mission.

I wish truely that it be lovely, and shows all the wonderful stories in all their shapes and forms just like a hand made quilt that keeps our loved ones warm and loved always.

Thank you kindly...

Jane Teresa Anderson

11:31 14/06/2002 

Aneo,

I like the 'to gather' in the 'together'.

Beautiful.

I have been taught in dreams to remember details by rhyme, "Remember it this way, with rhyme and rhythm, like a child's song..."

Jane Teresa

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