Archived Lunations:
Lift Your Head
Full Moon
May 8, 2009
18 Scorpio 40’
I dreamed that I was saying goodnight to my boss who was leaving for the day. I stepped outside with the door open behind me and a pig dashed in. I noted that the opening was on an angle and that the pig had to acutely judge the angle in order to slip in past the obstacles, which were, some other person, my boss and me.
I went in to get the pig saying that pigs were all right but I didn’t want them in the house because they were so… piggish.
I ended up beside the pig whose head was a square glass vessel. It said, “I’m afraid.” I responded, “Don’t be afraid. Lift your head out of the water.” It responded, “That’s not my head. It’s my tail.” It lifted its tail and I could see that it was indeed a tail. The tail wasn’t corkscrew. It was more like a little trunk.
I am sharing this dream with you because I think it symbolizes a deeper cause for the swine flu scare. I believe that when something happens we often try to sort out the facts and it becomes about what “they” are doing and how “we” or “I” must respond. But deeper and higher than that is the metaphysical cause that serves a higher purpose and if we can attune to that, even unconsciously, we stay above the fray.
I put this dream through a process that I learned from my sister, Deborah. You pick an element of the dream and pen in hand you have it talk to you. It can be alive or it can be an object. For instance, one might say, “I am the umbrella that wouldn’t open.” Then you write what comes to your mind next. You will usually get a stream of consciousness and end up pretty amazed by what you learn about the dream.
Naturally, I figured this pig represented the swine flu. This pig’s voice emanated from its tail and it told me that it was afraid.
The pig speaks: “I am the pig that bolted for the door when your boss left for the day. I wanted inside because I perceived that it was safe. You came to me because you wanted me out, not because you wanted to harm me. Thank you for listening to my tail.
I am swine. I am that which is frowned upon and looked down upon, rejected and considered low. I am the blamed. (Moon in Scorpio)
Individuals have need of the idea of me so that I can be reconciled and redeemed, so that I can receive a truthful cast instead of an outcast.”
Do not cast your pearls before swine—those who deliberately, if foolishly, denigrate the sacred, pooh-pooh the good, call it goody-goody, as if good were weak and stupid. I am that in you who refuses to give you a break, refuses to let you make it, refuses to let you shine forth. Cast your pearls before me and I am going to look down my trunky little nose and say, “Oh really? What is that? It is nothing. Who are you? You are nothing. Get back. Where do you think you are going? Stay down, little oinky. Wallow in the mud. Do not grow toward your own light.
Whenever your boss goes out and no one is in charge, I’m charging in, too fast for you to catch me.
Your inner boss has to stay in charge of you in order for you to keep me out. Otherwise you are likely to be taken over by the fearful swine in you who maligns the wonder that you are and deems you not good enough. This makes you susceptible to death and tragedy because a life of self-denigration is caught up in a disease process.
So you got to keep your boss home on the throne.”
Your boss is that in you which rises above the fray. You may call it your Higher Self. It is the part that stands tall, keeps your head up, has the overview and the plan, carries out, delegates and organizes so that everything works together.