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I've been having a recurring dream lately. There is a row of shops on a street. I keep entering this one book shop/ homeopathy shop. I There are book shelves and drawers full of candles, books, herbs, and other religiously affiliated things. In the back corner, there is a door that leads into a very sacred tarot reading room. I usually just go in, and pick up a book and read a few sentences, or talk to the people, or gather herbs or candles. I can't figure out what it means, but it develops more each time.

Anyone have any advice on what it could mean?

P.S. I'll give you a small basis on my pagan background. I used to live with my mother, near a town called merchantville (which has streets with rows of shops, kind of exactly like my dream.) I used to practice and study with a few of my friends and one of their mothers, who was a priestess. I went through rough times with my mother, and had to move in with my father. I've been raised in a christian house hold. I started having these dreams a few months ago, and I believe the Goddess is calling me back.

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I forgot to Specify. When I talk about "The Goddess" I mean the mother Goddess. My beliefs are that there is one god and one goddess, who show up in different forms, like pan and venus.

Oh! I'm sorry. I forgot to Specify. When I talk about "The Goddess" I mean the mother Goddess. My beliefs are that there is one god and one goddess, who show up in different forms, like pan and venus.

Spiritual wibblies?

Thank you so much!

I believe that they are phases of receding faith in each God, and are merely representations.

How do you reconcile that when it's not the case?

Urg... soft polytheism. sweatdrop

It sounds like, for some reason, you're redreaming your life. I'm not a dream expert; I barely can comprehend my own. In my experience, when gods call one, they do not do so through dreams. They tend, instead, to do so through waking visions which are qualitatively different than dreams. It sounds more like your subconscious is wishing you to return to an environment of the past which you enjoyed, which is your choice, of course, than any sort of divine call.


I'm afraid I'm not qualified to speak to soft polytheism in any way or shape, especially when - for some reason - gender is considered the only possibly characteristic by which godheads are differentiated. This is largely due to a bias against it; it makes me feel oooky. Just the idea of trying to say Kali and Freya are the same goddesses - not to mention the problems when one does (as so many pagans do) claim the god is associated with the sun and the goddess with the moon, and thus somehow Sunna is a moon goddess and Mani a sun god despite their being the exact opposite... just ick.

A lot of times, people who try to convince me of soft polytheism come off from the point of view that they feel the need to fit my religious experiences within their somehow larger and more expansive ones, thus setting their religion and experiences superior to mine. I've had everyone from Hindus to Jews do it, and it never fails to make me not want to discuss religion with them.

I'm trying hard to understand this- could explain how a Christian Folk Dance reflects the life of actual deities?

While I understand an image of a shift in seasons- the Saint George and the Turkish Knight battle reflected in the Oak King Holly King mythos doesn't explain the hatred and torture reflected in other traditions.