Dream 20 -
The woman and the sewing machines
This
dream followed closely on the previous recorded one, around June 1988. This time
I was on the upper floors of the familiar hotel, again attending a conference. I
was asked out to an evening entertainment by an old friend in the old style. I
thought there would be no harm in going along, but I had little interest until I
suddenly realised that my first and only girl friend apart from my wife, was in
the hotel. This was Marjorie Gardner. She lived in a room on the floor I was on.
I found the door down a short passage of one of the main corridors, I was about
to ring the bell, when the door slowly opened on its own.
I
then noticed that there were four bell pushes, arranged in a square, so I
assumed that there must be four families living there. The quiet man was there
and he asked what I wanted. I ignored him. On the shelves round the largish room
I found myself in were many artefacts and in particular, garments for all ages,
all made by the woman whom I now saw in the room. There were chairs round the
walls of the room with older people sitting in them, all waiting to be fitted
with new clothes that would suite them.
As
I looked to the left, beyond the door, there was the woman, the Anima, seated at
the exact centre of a large special sewing machine. This was used to make the
garments all at once, the left and the right sides at the same time. She sat in
the centre of the long table with each hand turning a separate sewing machine,
each sewing the left or the right side of the same garment.
But
then I realised that there were in fact four machines because there were two
electric ones underneath also working. She looked at me but did not speak. Her
face was the Moon, the full Moon. The quiet man hovered about, but I continued
to ignore him. My only interest was the women who was creating all in the room,
the artefacts and all the clothes for those who waited patiently. I could not
possess her, but she would help me. The silent conversation continued. I
eventually left and woke up. Then I dozed off again and tried to reenter the
room and retrace my steps. I recreated the room and the woman was there just as
before, only now it was as if I had to hold the images, while before I was led
into them.
So
the keys to this dream are the four bells and the four sewing machines, but all
in the control of the Moon faced woman which I call the Anima. The Moon face
means that she is reflecting the light of the Sun, so she is in touch with
Higher Mind and is transferring its power to lower mind. The garments she is
sewing are the various stages of psychological development. An important factor
is that the left and right hand sides of all the garments are produced together
in balance. So this represents the progressive increase in consciousness of both
the outer and the inner mind resulting in balanced development. The fact that
two of the sewing machines are manual machines while two are electric is also of
significance. The manual machines represent ones own efforts, while the electric
represent help from a higher level.
