Have you ever gone to a party in a dream? How did you feel in the swirl of laughing people and constant movement? I have had to put aside my work on the
Journey Oracle divination deck to organize with my partner John, the
oyster festival here on Cortes: SEAFEST 2013. What a party! It was just like a good dream of everything flowing smoothly, and yet also flowing beyond our control--which is also what happens in a party in a dream.
Having the opportunity to organize such a fun experience for so many people feels like lucid dreaming. During the first hour before the cooks started cooking and the line started moving, everything had a dream-like confusion. It was hard to find where to be, just like in those dreams when we can't find our class at school or our car in the parking lot. And then one cook begins, and so everyone begins cooking, and suddenly the party moves beyond us. Now the festival day takes it's own form, and all we can do is watch in amazement at what unfolds.
I think the meaning of a party in a dream is asking us to let go into what we can affect but cannot control. We are being asked to see that we are part of a larger force of energy, and that while particular faces and moments may emerge to our awareness, the whole is so much bigger than the plans that originated it.
Like the layers of vibration in a great booming
shamanic journey drum--SEAFEST 2013 created a harmonic islanders are still talking about. What a humbling gift to be the drum maker!
