Part 2: Desert - Breaking out of overwhelm
A Message from Jaguar
Breaking out of overwhelm
In this next stage of our adventure, we will journey into the desert. The deserts are magical places where mystery and mysticism abound. However, deserts are also places of exhaustion and emptiness. We each have periods in our life where we need to visit the desert. You humans succumb quite easily to overwhelm. It is not your fault for you have created such a complex world around yourselves. If you are feeling this overwhelm, you can use this short journey to pause and reset your tendencies.
Three creatures – desert-dwellers, are here for you. You may choose one of these three as your guide through the desert. Choose intuitively, rather than with your mind. Trust in your every intuitive footfall, that you learned in the jungle. Each of these desert dwellers are here to offer specific and different guidance in how to transform overwhelm into a higher possibility.
If this is your first step with me, you are right where you need to be. But if you feel you need to understand more about this journey, you can always go back and follow my footsteps from the beginning.
Which desert creature are you drawn to work with?
Scorpion, Camel, or Roadrunner? Click their images below to reveal a hidden message for you at this time. The full codex entry is available for these three creatures too, you just need to click on 'View Codex Entry' when the text pops up.
Scorpion speaks to the Fear of Inferiority
"I am Scorpion. I am a repository of many of your fears. Look deeply inside yourself. Where do you harbour the fear that you are not good enough? All fear leads to transformation. Your job is to root out these tendencies and learn to massage yourself back to wholeness. You are not lacking. You have great creative power and passion locked inside you. Try letting it out! In this, you may need to re-route your current direction. You may need to close certain behaviours down. Which behaviours rob you of your precious life force? Learn to protect your own heart at the same time as revelling in your passions."
The Sensitivity and Subtlety of Camel
"I am Camel. Out of so many creatures you and I have come together now. How countless are the mysteries of life! For I guard a rarely trodden path – the path of higher initiation. Are you ready to tread such a path? Only time will tell. The Dream Arc Bridge opens up to subtle regions beyond the lower mind. I can offer you the great gift of sensitivity to these higher realms. I can carry you across this great divide, but you must also step carefully. You will have to leave all your maps behind and cross the great inner expanse armed only with the intuition of your heart."
Roadrunner shares the Vision of Passionate Ecstasy
"I am the Roadrunner. I come to teach you the wonders and passions of being a human. I love to eat scorpions, rattlesnakes and other poisonous and toxic creatures. I am not afraid of them. You too must not be afraid of life – of emotions, of messiness, of the fears and projections of others. Like the samurai, you must run directly towards your challenges, rather than away from them. Wherever your life is messy right now, be ok with it. It too is a part of the greater plan. Do not wish it gone. Just wish others well."
Journey with Your Animal
Now that you have chosen your desert Guide...
Expand your familiarity with this animal and its significance for you and your life.
Google it. Read about it. Invite it into your dreams before you sleep. Notice any synchronicities.
How can your growing understanding of this animal help you better understand yourself or others around you?
How might this creature help you to transform overwhelm into something beautiful, and what might that be?
Resources for Deeper Dreaming
Enjoy these stories from the wonderful world of the Dream Arc as a source of inspiration for your journey...
Richard Rudd guides you quickly and simply to the core of the main issue that is overwhelming you right now.
Rosy Aronson offers you an invitation to seek wise counsel during your times of overwhelm.
Rosy Aronson offers some suggestions for how we can come into deeper communion with the earth, so that we can both be nourished by it and so that we may in turn be of service to it.
Listen to the meditation of resilience
I am Camel, the portal creature of resilience. I hold the key to traversing the many varying inner landscapes of the Dreamtime and specifically the Middle World. Many are the trials we meet. Deep are the wounds we carry. Many times we think of giving up and returning to our sleeping state of denial or distraction. I lend each voyager the inner strength to surmount all obstacles and stay the course of transformation.
