A short dream this morning had me consulting with a woman tarot card reader. The woman looks very much like the woman in the photo above. I see her open a fresh pack of tarot cards to do a reading for me. The pack is shrink wrapped in clear plastic and I watch closely with fascination as she tears open the pack. The deck has what looks like the U.S. Air Force flag on it's face. Now that is odd! I have no connections with the Air Force. I served in the Army and the Coast Guard.
The woman lays out the cards and makes her reading about what the future holds. It seems I will be given a set of bongo drums. Ok,the universe wants me to study music. I see my future self playing with a band. I have many different types of drums. I have a collection of drums from many different cultures. Some drums I carry in my hands and others I carry with straps. This is very interesting because it is a theme lately in my dreams. I do have a desire to have more music in my life but I have no understanding or any natural talent for making music. The dream concludes here.
We have basically two major symbols here. The tarot cards and the drums. The tarot cards are not much of a surprise. I look at them online every day to see what the energies for the day or the week have in store for me. I definitely have had a long fascination with them. They are esoteric tools with a mysterious history. Why they should have the Air Force flag on them is a curious thing. My old housemate Angelo was retired Air Force. He left some items with Air Force emblems on them when he moved out. It must be an image imprinted into my unconscious. It could represent some impulse to fly high and fly strong, perhaps?
The standard interpretation of dreaming about drumming is that I am, as the dreamer, strong willed and I am progressing through life by my own terms. I am fixated on completing my goals. Drums are symbolic of the rhythm of life. Drumming is primal and like beating of a heart.
Drumming requires perfect timing. The few times I tried it I could never maintain a sense of rhythm for very long. My life has long been like this. I have trouble keeping a beat. I become out of step with everything going on around me. Sometimes this is good and sometimes this is bad. It depends on the circumstances or the situation I find myself in.
In this dream the other musicians are following my lead. I am the strong willed one driving the others in one general direction. Are we making music or a just a whole lot of noise? It seems like music to me.
So what is the take away from this dream? Maybe I should study music. It seems my unconscious self is hungry for it. It could be very satisfying. I have no talent for it. A music teacher kicked me out of class when I was a kid because I was such a slow learner. I cannot read music or play an instrument, but just the same, I love music, of all sorts.
I am forced to consider what the dream seems to suggest and that is I should look into learning music and playing an instrument. My soul seems to want this even as my intellectual self argues against. This is a difficult position to be in! Who wants to argue with what the soul wants? I will contemplate a good while with how to reconcile these opposing forces. I need to find a compromise of some sort if I am to make myself happy inside and out. Hmmmm, what to do?
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