In the odd manner of dreams, I became aware of expansion in my heart. I dreamt I had a strange growth on the middle of my chest.
Now don’t get me wrong, in my dream and immediately upon awakening, it was not something I was happy about! I was quite alarmed that I had this strange green pinecone-shaped outcropping (sort of a third breast) sticking out from my body. What would I do? What had caused this? How can I go out in public with this “thing” sticking out in the middle of my chest?
And then, in the dream, I touched the growth and found that it was firm and felt like a satiny artichoke. And it crumbled easily in my fingers and left only some watery substance behind.
I woke up…still feeling alarmed. It was more like a vision than a dream. So real I could still feel the sensation of it.
As one who has worked with recording and interpreting my dreams for over 20 years, I knew this one was a keeper. I have studied the Jungian approach to dream analysis, and also the ways Edgar Cayce gave dream interpretation guidance in his psychic readings as taught by the A.R.E. It was one to chew on and ponder for some time. The next day, with the dream still on my mind, I met with a dear friend. As we shared experiences, I mentioned my dream and she gave me some additional insights about what it could mean. She also kindly loaned me a wonderful little book, Ten Poems to Change Your Life by Roger Housden.
That evening as I started reading the poems, I came to the second poem, “Last Night As I Was Sleeping” by Antonio Machado. The entire poem seemed to be about an experience similar to my dream. This stanza in particular stood out to me:
Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous error!— that I had a beehive here inside my heart.
And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.
I came to see that the “heart growth” in my dream was a physical representation of what must be happening on the emotional and spiritual level as I continue to practice meditation and the HeartMath solutions for emotional and stress management. The pinecone symbolizes the Third Eye, pineal gland, and human enlightenment. Its shape is reminiscent of the shape of the brain and other spirals known to Sacred Geometry.
My heart is finding its own creative way to take all the stressful hurts and perceived failures and process them into the golden honey of life’s sweetness, peace, and enlightenment. I felt relieved and encouraged that I am on the right path to heart coherence and congruence with my life’s ideals and desires.
“Create in me a pure heart, oh, God, and renew your right Spirit within me.”
–Psalm 51, Aramaic Bible in Plain English
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