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What is success? The Poppy – Success – Do you dream of adulation? Applause? Doesn’t the Poppy, source of lifesaving modern analgesic morphine, represent eternal sleep and endless dreaming? Greeks and Romans used these orange and red flowers as offerings to the dead – Westerners emblazon them on tombstones. Could it be that the very…

What’s “enlightenment”? The Daffodil – Enlightenment – We are all born in a condition of yearning. As children, we try desperately to understand the world we find ourselves in. This quest for enlightenment is the very reason we need to decipher our dreams! We know there is a message out there for us, we also…

3 Dec 2022 The Rose – Vulnerability – Do you have nightmares? Are you helpless in your dreams? Do you dream of children, of your own childhood? In DreamTarot, the rose represents the soft evanescence of youth when the merest thumbprint of emphasis leaves an eternal impression. As the emblem of beauty, the Rose warns…

Ladyslipper – Singularity – Do you dream of feeling alone in a crowd? Are you always walking in a different direction? Do you feel ganged up on, bullied? The Ladyslipper card represents all that Uniqueness out there, and because there are so many of us, there is a lot of singularity! If you doubt it,…

Foxglove – Medicine – Do you dream of hospitals? Doctors? Shamen? Magic pills? One of society’s proudest boasts is our seemingly magical ability to cure illness, or at least palliate its effects. Your dreams say you yearn for healing, that you recognize you need help. Challenge – How do we develop the confidence to choose…

No One Stands Alone – The truth is, we’re all in this together. Billionaires, leaders, CEO’s, all actually need more support than we do. So it’s time to divest of pointless shame and acknowledge the truth that humans are, for good and ill, social creatures. Challenge – The more we cling to a fantasy of…

Hummingbird – The Soul – Do you dream of hummingbirds? The impossible flight of the bumblebee? According to C.S. Lewis, we are not a Body with a Sou, we are a Soul with a Body. Our body may be very mutable, but our soul is immortal. Do you dream of past lives? See yourself in…

Wildflowers – Beauty – Are your dreams so beautiful you regret waking up? Do you dream of possessing great beauty yourself, caressing gorgeous flesh, or having a gorgeous lover turn those diamond eyes on you? Do you dream of beautiful places, caverns, waterfalls, chapels – that are spectacular in their glamor? We are all visual…

Sunflowers – Spirituality – Do you dream of other-worldly events? Parapsychological and out of body experiences? Like flying and breathing underwater, these are freedom dreams that tell us much about who we are. In DreamTarot, the sunflower represents our spirituality – a reaching out for connection with something others might insist is not there. But…

Birdsong – Art – Birds gotta sing. It’s who they are. Do you dream of artistic products – paintings, sculpture, film -or artistic endeavor such as performance and construction? Do you get ideas for fresh pieces and nonconformist thinking that seem to evaporate upon waking? Art is our poetic confrontation with the world, it is…