Banish Fear With The Power Of The Heart

I woke up from a powerful dream this morning. I was on the top floor of a high-rise building that had been struck by lightning. The building slowly started to move, to quake. I could see from the window neighboring structures being destroyed, and I sensed my own building’s collapse was imminent…with me inside it!

Could I make it down the stairs in time? I was about to try, but my exit was delayed by a pair of sparkling opal earrings that I simply had to take with me! But I could not manage to hold onto them for long. They kept slipping out of my hand, while the apocalypse was happening all around me.

I just had to bring the blingy earbobs – I am a Taurus, after all.

Then, as I gazed at the two little treasures, a stark truth hit me. I suddenly realized these material things do not matter in life and it shouldn’t delay me further. I also understood for some reason that the earrings now belonged to someone else and would bring them much joy in future. So, I returned the jewelry to the table where I found it…just before my building finally came crashing down.

Certainly, a lot to unpack. Temptation, ownership, materialism, impermanence, spiritual values, mortality, life goals.

But let’s get back to the dream.

Somehow, incredulously, like in a Marvel Comics adventure, I landed outside, unharmed. Then I found myself on a raft, with my immediate family all suddenly with me. We were rapidly floating together down a river.

Then it was time for us to get off, before we got hurt, but we were reluctant to do so. Suddenly, there was a friendly tribe of indigenous people on the bank of the river, expectantly waiting for us by a wall. So, we felt safe to dive off the raft, and we did so. The tribe members showed us the way through a hidden opening in the wall, and we all made it out safely to someplace new!

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death ~ James F. Byrnes

It was intense dream. Stressful and exhausting. It reminded me of The Tower Card in the Tarot – of self-limiting psychological structures I had built up in my mind that no longer serves me; of the status quo being changed, abruptly, but ultimately for my own good; and advancement toward some personal evolution and expansion.

But I am a Taurus, and we despise abrupt, unexpected changes of any sort!

I awoke anxious yet accepting of some drastic change that seemed clearly fated for me. Remembering however that my family’s journey ended in a safe escape towards the end of my dream, I decided I should immediately work on banishing my fear and worry. In the end all change is a good thing, no matter how stressful or traumatic it might seem at first.

So, I did a very simple exercise I learned from a fellow astrologer. I breathed in and out deeply, picturing my heart as a lung, opening up the pathways to love’s calming, peaceful energies that raises vibrations and banishes negative energies of fear to a new level of illumination and expansion of consciousness.  It worked wonders to restore my equilibrium, because it empowers the heart to send out more information and energy to the mind, than the mind sends out to the body. The mind will sometimes take us to very dark places. It is often best to follow our heart when fear looms.

And sometimes it is wise to leave the earrings behind.