My dreams have always been very vivid and lucid. I used to write them down every morning and pay close attention to the messages my unconscious mind might have to share. I have several books on dreams and symbols and when a I notice numbers, colors, animals, buildings, surroundings or people of significance, I spend some time processing those images and messages.
For the past year my dreams have taken on a new dimension. In fact, the other night I dreamt that I was living in a beautiful hotel penthouse. I had been living there for quite some time and was very comfortable there. It was very familiar. At one point I was looking around to see if I needed to straighten up things because I was having a special dinner for a couple of friends. I walked into the hallway and saw a set of double doors I had forgotten about. I said to myself, "I forgot all about this part of my house." I opened the doors and there was another wing to my penthouse. There were several more rooms including a beautiful hearth room, family room with more bedrooms and other spaces beyond it. That is very symbolic for me. My work is taking on new dimensions and I am expanding spiritually in new ways and stretching my healing abilities with the work I am doing with my grandchildren and with my mother. She is beginning to fade and I am healing energies around her. Her eyes are failing and her memory is not holding well. I will be with her, of course, as she continues her journey into the next dimension, whenever that may be.
This week I had a dream with a Badger. I looked up Badger in my Animal Medicine Book. Here is what it said:
Badger----------AGGRESSIVENESS
Badger is vicious, and attacks with powerful aggression. Badger is quick to anger and guicker to pounce. The power of Badger's medicine is aggressiveness and the willingness to fight for what it wants.
The very thought of facing Badger makes other animals run for cover. Like Skunk, Badger's reputation precedes it. Its hissing fangs will tear less aggressive opponents to shreds.
Badger is the medicine of many powerful medicine women, for Badger is also the keeper of the medicine roots. Badger sees all the roots of Mother Earth's healing herbs hanging in its burrow home. These roots are a key to aggressive healing.
Roots can ground negative energy into the Earth by allowing illness to pass through a body into the ground as neutral energy. Badger medicine people are quick to act in a crisis, and they do not panic.
If Badger is a part of your medicine, hyou are quick to express your feelings, and you do not care what the consequences are. Badger people oftentimes insist on carrying the ball for the touchdown. This attitude, however, does not endear them to their teammates.
Badger medicine may also point to the aggressive healer who will have the courage to use unconventional means to exact a cure. Like the mother who sits for days nursing a child with high fever, Badger is willing to persist.
Badger people can be vicious gossips, or may exhibit a "chip on the shoulder" syndrome if they are out of balance. You can be sure that people with Badger medicine will be aggressive enough to make it to the tops of their chosen fields, because they do not give up. They are also the finest healers, because they will use any and all methods to ensure healing, and will not give up on the critically ill.
A Badger person is often the "boss" and the one that everyone fears. That same boss will surely keep any company afloat. Badger gets the job accomplished. Badger's certainty is a source of strength.
If Badger pushed its way into your cards today, it may be telling you that you have been too meek in trying to reach some goal. Badger asks you how long you are willing to sit and wait for the world to deliver your silver spoon.
In this medicine, the key is to become aggressive enough to do something about your present state of affairs. Badger is teaching you to get angry in a creative way and say, "I won't take it anymore." You must follow-upby keeping your eye on the goal. Honor the healing process as your express those inner feelings.
Be aggressive, but don't cut others to ribbons on the way - that is too much aggression. Use your anger to stop your lolling around, so that your doldrums of apathy are a thing of the past. Badger is a powerful medicine when properly used for self-improvement.
Remember that Badger may be signalling a time when you can use your healing abilities to push ahead in life. Heal yourself by aggressively removing the barriers that don't "grow corn". Cut away the dead wood and use Badger's aggression to seek new levels of expression. Use Badger's medicine roots to keep grounded and centered in the process.
