So my recent update is more along the lines of my dreams and how they may relate to my focus on the Amano tarot.
Now, I have a history of having some pretty lengthy dreams. People describe their dreams as vivid and are able to recall everything and anything, even down to the scent or how they felt, etc. I've always just had really LOOOOOOOOOONG dreams, not detailed. They felt like a true story that has its twists and turns, but never quite directly related to what's in my life. Whenever I want to tell anyone about it, I end up having to only tell a tiny part of it- truncate it so I don't go on and on about what went on since it's just TOO LONG.
Anyway, I don't have dreams that often, but when I do they're extra-super-long and I remember a lot of it, but not many specific details if any at all.
On the nights when I end up falling asleep looking at my tarot cards, I've had more and more dreams in general. At first I didn't really notice, but now it's starting to make me pay attention. The content of my dreams is starting to be way more realistic instead of abstract- situations coming up, people I dealt with during that SPECIFIC day--- things I'm concerned about and did readings about recently. The dreams aren't nearly as long, but they seem more compact with more real-life details.
For example, I did a single card draw on a work meeting I was to attend with my manager and a supervisor and that same night I dreamed of the trip to that meeting. I can even remember details down to the aroma of the food that was being served to us at the meeting ((lemon-chicken and rice, btw!!)).
Now, being the practical Virgo that I am, I TOTALLY blew it off. Didn't really see a connection AT ALL and didn't think twice on the issue. It wasn't until I was making my bed this morning and the Judgement card popped out of the blankets that I even thought about it. I had meditated on the Judgement card right before sleeping and the dream last night was a mixture of lessons of my relationship with my responsibilities and well, the Judgement card of the Amano Tarot kind of made things click in my head.
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