Azarial
I am starting this thread to discuss the Sacred Days of Yule Spread for those who are doing it. The spread can be found here, http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art26918.asp if anyone else is interested in participating.
Whitestar said:For last night I picked the 4 of swords...
But my dream (nightmare) was very upsetting!!!!!!
I have 2 sons, 3 years apart, aged 6 and 9.
In my dream, a woman who was my mom's friend when I was little came to my house and took my oldest son from me and said she was adopting him. A week later she brought him by to visit and I refused to let him go, pleading with her that my sons are twins (they aren't) and they can't be separated, and that he is MY SON and she can't take him!!!
It was really distressing!!!!!!
Whitestar
Indigo Rose said:I can’t remember my dreams last night, but your dream speaks to me. The woman in the dream, in waking life did she take something from you or your mother? I see her as a symbol, for which I will describe in a moment.
The fact your oldest son is the one who was taken is significant. Your son's age stands out. At 9, he is at the end of the first 9 year cycle of his life. At 10 he starts his next 9 year cycle. It is this cycle which will move your son from boy to man. You were being shown this to prepare you for the coming years. The fact that he returns a week later, communicates that through the changes he will go back and forth between boy to man, man to boy...until finally he moves into the fullness of his manhood. In your heart, you take him back beside his brother where he can be the "little boy" again...his twin. This is the natural pull of the Mother's soul. Letting go of our children is like letting go of a part of our own body; there is an ache which defies explanation…but every mother knows this pain. It is the bittersweetness of Motherhood.
As for the woman in the dream, she is an archetypal figure here I feel for the woman or person who will replace you. Not as a mother in the real sense, but as the nurturer of your adult son…his future partner.
That’s what came to me.
What deck did you use for the reading? The imagery that popped into my head was the Llewlyn Tarot’s 4 of Swords. She is laying down dreaming…it is a beautiful card.