A symbol came to me in a dream... with a message attached.

vida · 2017-07-03T19:26:11Z

I was on vacation last week with family, when I had one particularly restless night. I was in the middle of a peculiar dream the first time my youngest woke me up, in which a good friend of mine made an appearance in order to hand me a piece of paper, upon which was scrawled a symbol:IMAGE #1Let me take this opportunity to say that I have NEVER seen this symbol before. But every time I got back to sleep after my son woke me up, I would return to dreaming... and the symbol would reappear in a different form: scrawled in sand, etched in stone, printed in a book. I remember examining the symbol in my dream state trying to figure out what it could mean. Is it an ancient icon for the 10 Commandments? Is it a hieroglyph? When I finally woke for the day, I ran over to the pad of paper to draw what I'd seen and showed it to my sister (she's an Ancient Egypt enthusiast and a hell of a researcher) and she immediately told me it wasn't a hieroglyph. She and I both squeezed in some research while the kids got ready for the pool to see if there was anything to this image or if it was just a construct of my imagination.Suddenly, she found something. "I think it's a trigram." She pushed her iPad in my direction to show me an image of the Trigram chart for the I Ching, something I hadn't seen since taking Eastern Religions class in college."See, look at the top," she explained. "The arc and the wave. It's a deconstructed Yin/Yang."IMAGE #2"Now look at the small lines," she said, and pointed to the trigram chart. "That's earth."IMAGE #3She tilted my paper to the side and pointed to the three longer lines running perpendicular to the small lines. "And these long ones... that's heaven." IMAGE #4My response: "Holy sh*t."Together, my sister and I had deciphered the major part of this clue, but the whole thing wouldn't make sense until I'd gotten home and had a chance to open up my I Ching to see if it translated into anything. If you're not familiar with the I Ching, just think of it as an Ancient Chinese divination tool. (More here:here's what I did last night. The first thing you have to do when you have two trigrams is figure out what's on top. I used the left to right of the yin/yang curves to tell me that the long (yang) lines took priority, and therefore stacked up on top, which produced the hexagram linked below:IMAGE #5Then, I opened the book up to the chapter in which Heaven and Earth are stacked one above the other.It brought me to the chapter titled "Obstruction." (Note: The I Ching is very heady stuff, so I won't provide the literal translation because it's very abstract, but the edition I own breaks it down in terms much easier to understand. Small lines are referred to as "yin" while the longer lines are referred to as "yang." It unpacks the meanings of each row from bottom to top.)Here's what it said, paraphrased:Tranquility cannot last forever. The pattern of things is to come and go. This is why obstruction follows. Whatever is born between heaven and earth is the Way of humanity. Obstruction negates, or blocks the Way of developed (or enlightened) people, giving free passage to petty, misguided, or "small" people. The course of action of petty people grows. The course of action of developed people wanes. FIRST YIN: In a time characterized by obstruction, enlightened people are kept behind while petty people move ahead. It is the task of enlightened people to extend their own enlightenment and avoid disaster while the petty people have the power. 2 YIN: Great people in times of obstruction will manage themselves by following the Way. They will not be obedient to the petty people above them. They will preserve themselves and their hearts while the chaos flurries around them. 3 YIN: The petty people in charge are subject to extremes and impasses. "Inside them is craft and deviousness, which knows no limits." (Trump?)4 YANG: This line represents those close to positions of leadership who might have the ability to resolve obstruction. If they can exert influence, they can resolve it. If the leaders themselves are being blocked, resentment and blame ensue. (Democratic party??)5 YANG: When great people are in a position to stop obstruction and therefore restore tranquility, they are not still free from obstruction. This means it will not do to be complacent. "It is necessary to think deeply and be aware of the long view, always watching out for the return of obstruction." Stability is necessary for a change to take hold.TOP YANG: After obstruction is joy. The top yang represents the end of obstruction, when things come to a peak and finally reverse course. Tranquility returns. ***I've always had an inclination toward this kind of thing, but it appears as though my life is becoming more and more like a Harry Potter book. I can't tell if I'm scared or enthralled. But there it is, and I invite you to ruminate on what else the hexagram might be saying.

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Jeanne Mayell

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07/19/2017 11:13 pm

Vida, that would be lovely. So nice that you have a little one to nurse!

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07/19/2017 11:49 pm

Vida, another big wow from me. Thank you so much for sharing your extraordinary visions. Like Jeanne, I love the mystery and puzzle, too, and especially that the energy of obstruction eventually dissolves. Your beautiful writing is the icing on the cake.

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