The entire reading is the path to the final phrase: your secret wish is...
A swinging from pro and con and back again, hence the last phrase is point-blank. The outcome does not present you with a certain desire or image, but the wish is the desire's and image's source.
We use the Dondorf's Lenormand for our readings.
1. Your secret wish - Bear.
2. I heart it - Garden.
3. I dislike it - House.
4. restraint - Tower.
5. fulfillment - Fox
Your secret wish is the Bear. The Bear as a symbol in dreams describes a boisterous strength that should be used cautiously, and assertiveness which will be helpful to cope with difficult situations.
The Bear represents the desire to encounter with the power of your own creativity. In the european culture, the Bear is often associated with the female forces of nature. The image of mother bear is an image of motherhood, the protecting power of the 'Great Mother' (C.G. Jung).
The Garden is how you like your wish. In dreams, the Garden commonly symbolizes the inner life, especially the range of emotions. Garden symbolises ideas which take some time for developing. You cherish and care for something special in life that begins to grow slowly. The dream garden may also symbolise your own safety or long-term protection.
The cultivated Garden lacks the wild force of the overgrown Garden, but it is the place of love and seduction. The image of the cultivated garden denotes timidity: a bit of nature is allowed, too much of it is but of evil!
It could become too wild. The Garden expresses the fear for the endangered life, where one feels exposed to the cycles of nature. So man creates the image of the garden as an image of paradise.
The Garden likes the Bear because of its similarity. The Bear controls its strength, the Bear does not use its strength to destroy. In both, nature is strong but 'under will'. The Bear's fury does not boil over, the Garden does not become overgrown.
The House is how you dislike your wish. In a dream, the House is a feminine symbol of security and protection.
The House reflects views and experiences, which are familiar. The views and beliefs about situations are already firmly integrated into daily lives.
The House does not like the Bear. The Bear is too wild. The House is made from stone, it may grow old. One needs to take care of the Garden, or else it overgrows. An unkempt House falls apart and falls into a ruin. The unkempt Garden intertwines. The House is build against the forces of nature, it should protect against nature and locks it out, while the Garden is well-kempt and cultivated nature. The Garden is fertile, it is ongoing creating. The House is not a mother's womb. It does not give birth, but it grants protection.
The House is against the nature of the Bear. The House may symbolise the mother, but it is not motherly. The Garden is mother's love: growing things need care and attention. In the House, one grows up. One becomes grown-up and leaves childhood behind. One becomes a civilised, well-mannered adult. One is not the Garden, one is the gardener.
Motherliness helps to grow up, the House makes one grow up. The House says: One needs to be a grown-up to leave the house and build a new one. One leaves the house of their own childhood to build a new house for the own children to come. The Bear offers protection and care, and one day, its cubs are free to go when they have grown strong enough so they may watch themselves.
The well-kempt Garden is security within nature: nature does not take back the garden, and you feel safe outside under the open sky.
The House does not like the Bear because the Bear gives a different bonding. The House is cultivated mother's love, the Bear is charming and possessive mother's love.
Cutting cords with the Bear is simple: after some months, the cubs are grown-up and go their seperate ways. Latest time would be when they are sexually mature. The House demands to subtilize sexuality by cultivating sexuality. It supports fertility and motherliness but it suppresses the passion. The passion is the savagery of the Bear.
The Tower is the restraint. Outside factors you cannot control. On one side the Tower embodies the feminine aspect, as it offers protection, on the other hand due to its shape represents the masculine. In dreams, the Tower represents the protective mechanism that the dreamer has built in the course of their life. This may affect both an inner attitude and outer circumstances. The Tower signifies the new House, one moves in after one left childhood's house behind. Living on top of the Tower means further distance from mother nature, and one is deeper inside the own mind.
The Tower also watches and dominates what's underneath and below. Underneath the mind is nature. The Tower is visibly for everybody, the Tower thinks of others and has regards for them.
The Bear does not make it up to the top of the Tower. The Bear remains out of doors. It may knock at the doors as long as it pleases, they won't open for the Bear.
The Tower is a House on hindlegs, the Bear standing on hindlegs is a danger. The Tower is a cultivated power, it is not aggressive. It considers facts, it is sovereign and reflects upon measures. The Tower is above it all.
The Fox fulfills the wish. The Fox stands for good survival instincts. The fox as a demon of fertility, is attributed with strong sexually impulsiveness. The Fox is not seen as feminine and motherly, but as male procreativeness. The Fox wants to father and impregnate. The Fox does not want to conceive. The Fox says: I fertilize!
We said about the first image: The Bear represents the desire to encounter with the power of your own creativity. Creativity is a making, making handles and executes something. Pregnancy is generated.
The Fox impregnates creativity. The own creativity does not wait patiently for impulses coming from outside, it does not wait for permission, instead it fertilises itself.
Your secret wish is: to wake up your inner Bear, which is your creative power. You don't want to receive, you don't just want to mother new impulses. You also wish to father your projects, your own creations, your own works.
Every decent garden wishes to run wild. The GArden wants to enjoy its own abundance of colours, smells and growth. It recreates itself for it is both father and mother. That's why your Garden loves the Bear.
Hope this resonates with you!
