Outgrowing a Dream
I am writing on this glorious day of the Summer Solstice, New Moon, and as an added bonus an Eclipse. I am in deep gratitude for the life I have built, the abundance and love I have received and that which is yet to come. I am really in gratitude for a shower..we remodeled our shower house at our ranch and it took a bit longer than expected. Sometimes it's the smallest conveniences that we take for granted and miss the most when we don't have them. So I am considering my hot shower as part of my Solstice ritual.
But really what I have been musing on is dreams and their longevity. Some dreams are meant for a lifetime and some meant for a blip in time. But regardless of how long a dream is held and sustained there is a deep gratitude for all the dreams that see the light of day (and some that don't), no matter how big or small.
I have been notorious for realizing a dream, and immediately asking "what's next?" As opposed to celebrating and then nurturing a dream into its next or new version. Always asking the question, have I outgrown my dream by the time I bring it into form? Has the journey itself been enough and then I am ready to create something new? And is it new or is it just version 2.0...or 10.0? Is my life just a long series of dreams realized (and sometimes not) or is it a continuous destruction and creation cycle. I suspect the answer is yes, both. Because really there is no ending and no beginning, just a spiral, or an Ouroboros eating its own tail, and birthing itself anew, over and over again.
What dreams are you creating, or re-creating, or outgrowing because it is no longer what you visioned? AND do you let it go completely or re-invent it?
Collectively, we are for certain looking at the "dream" and realizing it has not been so dreamy for so many people. And I for one am looking at how my dreams of impacting more people in the world include guiding others to realize their dreams in a sustainable, inclusive and coherent way. And while my dreams have always included serving the sacred and serving others, I had to serve self first..and now I am moving from the personal to the transpersonal (and transcendent) and really sitting with what that looks like.
Do you have dreams that are morphing beyond self and immediate circle to a much larger part of the collective?
When I opened the studio, I thought the "opening" was the realization of the dream, and part of it was. It was the culmination of an almost 20-year vision of having a physical space for women to gather, self-express, and be in safe and sacred space together to be witnessed and most importantly to create a community....within my community. But that was only the beginning, then I had to gather the women. And I spent 2.5 years doing that. And then Co-VID came, and the dream is taking on a new and bigger form, one in which I am still in the mystery on. For once I didn't realize a dream and move on to the next thing, but I nurtured it, but now I must look at what else is possible. Perhaps the Corona has made me realize I have outgrown the dream of physical space and it's time to expand beyond into the quantum fields. A hybrid if you will. I always knew the space was temporal, as everything in life is. And that I did not need a building in order to hold safe and sacred space. And yet I will continue that part of the dream as it wants to evolve, and then grow into a new skin, a new version, one that I hope impacts even more people. One that goes way beyond the time and space of where I am now and who I am now, as well as, how I want to serve. And as the cycle goes there must be dissolution before there is revolution and evolution, and that is where I am now...the spaces in between all of that.
Where are you in your dream cycle? I would love to hear. And if you don't know, use this energy of the Solstice to be with what you have outgrown and what you are growing into.
Blessed Solstice,
Dina