The Wolf Whisperer
We can seek guidance and healing within our journals and our dreams.
Have you ever wondered why familiar hurts and beliefs (like not enoughness/did it wrong/shameful) are repeatedly triggered? Without over analysing, I wonder why we need to revisit these places despite years of healing work? Within my journal, I pray for guidance, healing, and understanding of this (as I often do).
A dream came to me in response to this prayer.
I am in an ancient, lush green, Celtic land with stone buildings. Water chimes over a rock-lined channel for drinking. I need to take a bowel movement and do so in a stone lavatory.
After finishing my business, I go outside and see water flowing from under the lavatory. The water flushes my excrement down a grassy hill sheeted with water. Half-way down the hill the poo transforms into a two-foot, oblong-shaped, polished, turquoise stone of great beauty (with a few smaller stones). The precious stone rolls to a stop near me.
Suddenly, the exquisite stone - coveted a moment ago - now shockingly transforms into a huge Wild Wolf. Terror ripples through the people watching. I tremble facing this fierce beast baring fangs at me. Seeing he could easily kill me; I ask for my life.
The Wild Wolf stands down. I am relieved and astonished. Someone calls me “The Wolf Whisperer.” I see my mother (long deceased) standing nearby with my 4-year-old granddaughter – both, happy for me. I awaken in awe.
After writing my dream in the morning I sit with it. Next, I circle all the symbols and in my journal margins, write associations to each circled symbol (without censoring). Then, I reread the dream and the associations (continuing this process over several days). Threads of connection, meaning, and deep guidance emerge – their truth pinging within me as I listen within.
I realize the so-called “sh**t” we revisit repeatedly in our lives is not something wrong with us or something we should be over by now.
Through observing what is within our bodies, our feelings, thoughts, images, and past narratives/patterns/beliefs - without judgement – we digest, release, and transform. Acceptance, wholeness, and true self…the precious stone…emerges. But wait, it does not stop here.
We must face the Wild Wolf and ask for our life back.
“Wolves in dreams invite us to claim our own power, to run freely and live our most authentic life possible, without fear, shackles or shame,” (Wellbeing Magazine).
The Wild Wolf wants us to ask for, to reclaim our life (often hidden in fear of judgement or shame). The Wild Wolf is calling us to howl our truth, talents, wisdom and worth in the world.
In this, not only do we free ourselves from past trauma but heal past and future generations (and the world around us). The truth of this came to me seeing my dear mother (gone for 24 years now) standing with our 4-year-old granddaughter – joyful for me in this profoundly poignant Wolf Whisperer dream.
