Intuition Illuminated through Dreams

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Suppose you’ve stepped into a part of life where you have a sense of drying up. It seems your creativity and your equilibrium have gone into hiding and remain frustratingly just beyond your reach. You may be unhappy as you cling to life patterns that no longer work yet there’s a glimmer that something more is awakening.

Today is February 1, Imbolc. It’s a seasonal time when the first brush of renewal begins. It’s also a full moon. Again, nature is showing us what greater illumination and clarity look like.

Dreams help us expand illumination and clarity too. I believe exploring your dreams brings a deeper knowledge of how your inner wisdom, or the collective, or the imaginal likes to communicate with you. This understanding gives you a clearer vision of how dreams attempt to penetrate your personal barriers and how your particular intuitive sense is interconnecting.

Dreams help us cope by bringing both focused and expanded clarity. Often they offer us resolutions. Intuition is another word for this expanded clarity that we all seek.

Clarifying Intuition

Your dreams, waking visions or insights are a means of tapping into your intuition. These are ways that your inner guidance system is speaking to you. It doesn’t matter how often you dream, how prolific they are, or how insightful your mind “thinks” your dreams are. Some dreamers have told me that unless their dream has some perceived archetypal importance they believe them to be insignificant. The illuminated side of this limiting belief is all of us have a unique inner pulse, a special vibrational rhythm, that wants to be seen and heard just as it is.

How do we connect with our intuition, this elusive inner wisdom, which holds such powerful insight, a power that we carry in and around ourselves.

I just listened to a lecture where the presenter quoted astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson who famously said, “We are a part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.”

If you take that in for a minute…the universe is in us. It says to me that we are the universe. If true then it’s possible we are striving excessively to “try” to remember dreams or to “yearn” for intuitive insights – as if they are external messages bestowed upon us. What if we don’t “have” dreams or “get” insights but we “are” an embodiment of intuitive awareness.

DeGrasse Tyson’s idea of universe turns us away from a mental egoic exercise toward another understanding. That is, our beings inhabit temporary bodies which assist us through their physicality to detect the expanded nature of our humanity.

Tapping Intuition in Dreams

How does this work in a dream circle or in 1:1 dream exploration. Experiencing our dreams in a way that allows them to communicate with us happens through our inner GPS, aka our bodies. What are we seeing in the dreamscape? What descriptions do we give dream figures and how are we feeling about those interactions? What part of our body is activated in the dream share.

To get us started I open the circle of dreamers by asking … How are you feeling today? Where do you feel this in your body? If you were to describe the energy in you and around you what would that be? The precious time that we spend focusing on the body helps us begin the descent into our sensual experience of the imaginal. It opens us to what is beyond our thinking mind. We are asking our bodies – not our mind – to help us sense what our present moment feels like.

Spending time to ground into the present moment through breath is another important way to ask the body to awaken. Deep breaths enable our overthinking to relax and allow the body to lead the way.

Listening to poetry is another way to awaken our other senses. The poet offers us a portal through their imaginal descriptions to experience the universe within us. Creatives model for us how to open our peripheral vision to see what is hidden in the shadows of the dreamscape.

In the spirit of Imbolc and with respect to the full moon which shines a way toward renewal and new beginnings, I am offering several new opportunities to explore illumination through dreams.

What’s Coming Soon

One, I am offering a shorter 4-session Spring Dream Circle beginning Sunday, March 22. In my area of the world the approaching warmer weather and longer days encourage other types of exploration. Thus, the Spring Dream Circle series is four sessions with March through May dates. Like the longer Dream Circle series, the sessions are scheduled every 3 weeks, 1.5 hours per session. Lots of time in-between sessions to remember and record your type of dream experiences. More information here. Or, to register for the Dream Circle click here.

Next, I am launching a new monthly free Dream Conversation – beginning Sunday, March 15. For one hour each month I will offer thoughts on various dream topics. In March we’ll talk about…When I don’t remember dreams how else does my intuitive inner wisdom communicate? In addition, I’ll suggest ideas on how to go deeper into dream exploration and then I’ll open the zoom call to everyone for a conversation. (I arranged these conversations on Saturday or Sunday at specific times. In this way different times zones and various work schedules will be accommodated. You can find the latest dates and times here on my website. Or register directly for the next dream conversation.)

I hope you will join for one or both of these opportunities. Here’s a link to find out more details.

Happy St. Brigid’s Day.