Journey 71 - Two Dreams (Harrier/Doll)

7/23/04: A journey to investigate, for the first time, the meaning of two of my Dreams of last night. In the first, I saw a large Northern Harrier swoop in over me after calling to get my attention skyward. The Harrier landed on the middle of a street, about 30 feet away from me. It then curled its wings up as if in a power gesture. I saw a Crow then soaring straight down toward it, and just before the Crow met up with the Harrier, the dream ended. In the second Dream, I was ascending the steps of some sort of apartment building and spotted a small box with a clear plastic cover, within which was a doll. I stooped to look at this plastic doll, and suddenly her eyes moved toward me. I took the lid off, and the doll became more and more animated. Soon she was alive, and I picked her up, treating her as an abandoned baby. I called the police on my cell phone, telling them to bring some milk. As I turned, I saw my wife and my own kids (at their current ages), and the doll-baby, now suddenly in a diaper, was teetering on the edge of the platform, age of about 3 years with long brown hair. I told my wife to watch her before she fell.. Suddenly, we were in the kitchen of a house, years later..not my kitchen. The doll-baby was now a teenager, and I was rubbing her shoulders from behind. She looked totally white, but as she turned to face me I saw she had a light brown coloring across her forehead..two-toned like me! She had a wide smile on her face and stared right at me..end of dream. So off I went on my Journey. I was very small in the Grass outside the bedroom window as I began. Blades of Grass were towering over me, and the Weed Sprigs looked like Trees. I saw Owl flying in from the west, and because of my size, he appeared huge! He landed next to me, and I realized I had taken on the Robe of the Ant! I clamber onto his leg and we fly up onto a Tree Branch. Owl then eats me, and from within I can still see clearly outside. We then take off and fly straight up, into a Tunnel in the Sky that resembles water pouring down the sides of a cylinder..but it’s Air pouring down instead. We punch through the exit into a dimly lit Tree beneath a very dark Sky. We land on a Branch, and the first Dream re-engages. I see Crow fly straight down onto Harrier, and the two merge..and become a Peace Eagle! The PE then walks right over to me and begins talking. He has a warning..drink alcohol only on social occasions, or I will surely cut short my Shamanic Walk. I will find more Joy in the certain Knowledge I have of my Shamanic Skills and Experiences in Healing and Fathoming. It would be a shame to cut short this Gift through habit. That ended that Dream Extension, and it was onto Dream #2. The girl with the brown coloring across her forehead is none other than my own Female Self..my feminine half or side. She told me now that she truly appreciates my caring for the Feminine in life, for honoring it, even in the fullness of my relations with my wife. In the Dream, my caring for the Doll who came to life when a baby and a little girl on the platform were examples of my instinctual, Spirit-based caring. She told me this respect for my feminine side was very healthy, to keep it up! At this point, the Drums called me back. I am now finding that the 10-minute Drum Journey is the ideal time for me..I come back with the knowledge I was seeking, yet am not so drained that I can not do another Journey right afterward.