"I CRY WOLF"

I had the craziest dream last night. I was walking in the open forest - I knew I had a destination - and noticed a wolfpack coming towards me..I thought I could sneak passed them, but they were a hungry bunch - (Insert Marky Mark joke here). I immediately turned around and noticed a house with a yard and in the yard was a medium sized dog. the dog was inside a large circle cage with the fence being about 8 feet high (thats tall in marti standards) I dashed towards it and the wolf pack was about to cut me off and most likely devour me. I climbed the fence and sat on top while the wolf pack nipped at my feet.




All the while I am trying to fight off the dog inside the cage and hoping that someone from inside the house comes out to help me (nobody came) So what seemed like forever of these wolves attempting to attack me, they grow tired. There is a dominant male in the bunch and he kind of grows bored - I jump down thinking I can escape...they get angry but don't attack. They come towards me, the medium sized dog escapes the fence and jumps in my arms. I put him back and walk out towards the openess with the wolfpack. I swear the dominant male was talking to me - something about ____________________ & __________________________. They watched me as I walked away, coming back from where I started. Not to my destination.



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So I looked up what this could mean online (dork)

"The Romans and Egyptians saw the wolf as a creature representing valor, and made the wolf a guardian of many sacred temples. Joseph Campbell points out that these guardians serve a universal function around the world of protecting the unprepared from entering the sacred temenos or space. In this sense, the sacred space is that area reserved for what Rudolph Otto calls the "Numinous" or the powerfully Holy, and it is terrible for those who are not ready, but a great transformational place for those who have been prepared. In modern civilization we don't make people enter these transformational places unless there is a good reason.

Alcoholics & drug addicts, for example, enter via therapy to gain the power to change their habits. The therapists, like the Guardian at the Gate, are often seen as monsters who ask us horrible questions we don't want to talk about. However, after undertaking the journey, we see the wolves (and the therapists) as allies and supporters of our newly gained awareness.

There is a book out that is fairly popular called The Women Who Run With Wolves. It is an example of a new movement in feminism that ties in with ecology and earth based neo-paganism. I mention this here not only because of the delightful wolf and goddess symbolism that make up the book, but also the idea of recovery of the feminine animal. Too often it is the man that is seen as having all the beast characteristics and energies. In the Goddess movement, there is an attempt to recover the natural and animal in the feminine

Which is so bizarre because I have been thinking of attempting to stop drinking. Or going and checking out an AA meeting. I know, I know its all the rage these days.



and

To see a wolf in your dream, symbolizes beauty, solitude, mystery, self-confidence and pride. You are a loner by choice."


I just love the loner part.


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"I CRY WOLF" title taken from "WOLF" written by Louise Post.