Life's Way Station

 

The dream today has me in the oddest place. I am in the Vancouver train station in Canada. I have never been here in person, but I have been to Vancouver. I am with two of my co-workers from Walmart: Aiko and Ryan. We had travelled to Vancouver by car ferry and now we are in the lobby of the train station and we are preparing to take the second leg of an important journey. What our ultimate destination is, or the purpose of our trip, is a mystery to me.  This is where the dream ends and the implied adventure begins.

 

When I left work with Aiko, last week, I remember that she and Ryan were having a heart-to-heart discussion about how he was being unfairly treated at work. I had offered a bit of advice to him to not take the unpleasantness at work too seriously, but to do his job to the best he could and look forward to that pay check every two weeks. This life is too short to be upset over work place politics. I hope my advice was of some comfort to him. Ryan is a kind hearted excellent person and does not deserve their abuse of his good nature.

 

I came home with a sense of camaraderie with my downtrodden friends. This, I am sure, was made manifest in this dream. We are on a shared journey in the work place. I think it would be nice if it were carried over into life outside work. I think I could not find two better traveling companions as these two dear souls.

 

The train station is the primary symbol in this dream.  A dream that I am at a train station represents that I am at a transitional period in my life. I need to take a short break to reassess my situation and determine my path and goals.

 

The new year of 2015 is fast approaching and my life as undergone a lot of chaotic change. I have a vision of where I want to go to, but I get the unpleasant feeling it is going to be another year of dog-eat-dog tactics and hardscrabble survival to get to that "happy place" if I ever get there.

 

Perhaps, I need to embrace the motto: "It's not about the destination, it's about the journey." There must be better strategy to make the journey more pleasant? I am tired of living life like it all must be endless chores. All this change I have had to endure under the Saturn transit must be taking me somewhere better, right? I don't know. We shall see. Saturn is leaving Scorpio on December 24, 2014. I am hoping to graduate from this cycle to something better, or at least, something not so harsh.