Stories from the Arc

Community reflections on experience in the Dream Arc

UniFieRS

Experience the Unifiers and their profound impact on the journeys of many of our Dream Arc community members. Whether they show up in dreams, in waking reality or all of the magical spaces in-between, the Unifiers have their way of touching our hearts and opening our minds.

As you work with the Unifiers you may have your own experiences of what they have brought to you. How have the invitations impacted you? What synchronicities have you experienced? Has any new creativity poured forth?

OctopuS

This week I had a potent dream about an Octopus and found my way here in my morning tea contemplations. My Butterfly Guardian has kept me inspired while it seems many blessed things in my life go through a great death process. This month in particular I have plunged deep into the sea of the unknown to face some intense new initiations.

And that feeling of being tossed in the seemingly uncaring arms of the infinite. As I’ve been grappling with finding my own healthy orientation to this initiation, I dreamt of a long hallway. At the end of the hallway, from the shadows beyond my sight, came an octopus.

It’s body filled the whole hallway and it’s tentacles propelled it at me with terrifying speed. I gasped and it leapt directly into my mouth!

I had to swallow the octopus and know that the only way out was through… My initiation isn’t over but I am grateful for the wisdom of the octopus being injected directly to me.

Elijah Parker

Bees

I had an experience around 2018 listening to a didgeridoo CD a friend gave me. Completely by surprise i found myself shape-shifted into a bee flying towards a flower. When I arrived and began to enter the flowerI had an amazing erotic and ecstatic experience. It changed my relationship with Bee totally after that and my perception of what goes on when they go about doing their pollinating and gathering pollen. I’m feeling the dream arc is an ideal opportunity to explore this more.

My vocation has been as a propagator of native plants. Around that time I was quite involved in growing pollinator plants for insects as well as for habitat for Monarch butterflies. I don’t know if being engaged in this work had anything to do with the beautiful experience I was given. Retired now I continue to embellish the land I steward with plants that provide pollen for the pollinators and food for the Monarchs.

Early this morning I finished reading for the second time an amazing book, the Shamanic Way of the Bee. I highly recommend it to anyone to whom Bee is calling. I was weeping when I got to the end. It’s the account of a man, Simon Buxton who was led into the Path of Pollen and initiated into this little known and amazing tradition that has been quietly passed down for millenia through an oral tradition.

Thanks for reading this. May what I have shared provide a little nectar for your soul to contemplate.

Many Blessings,

Siskiyew Kraemer

CoW

It has been a profound experience for me to have them around, showing me what sacred nourishment truly means. What being a MOTHER (to oneself first and then for others) truly means. Constantly eating and filling up their cup, so they can share… not only their milk, but later on… their flesh.

When I read about the cow, the sacred pact and the necessity for us humans to be grateful and aware of their sacrifice, I cried and I still cry out of love for them, whenever I pass by. I mean… they give everything of themselves to us. This is the divine feminine. This is the earth mother. The least we can do is be grateful and respect these incredible creatures.

I had one very special moment with a Cow, where we looked into each other’s eyes and communicated.

And I knew I had to bow down in front of her. She received me by nodding her head with such humbleness. And she saw me too.. with such loving eyes … and she was grateful. We truly SAW each other.

I am lucky, to get to see them as free as they can be up here in the mountains. And I am grateful to receive their nourishment, just by being in their presence.

Thank you, Cow. I love you.
I will be forever grateful and not take anything that you give for granted, ever again.

Love, Kat

CormoRant

I am fortunate to have my Dream Arc yurt by a large pond so I can contemplate the water and its inhabitants with the seasons.

It is Spring and the Cormorant has been visiting.

I so love to see the strength of this beauty as it dives deep down to search for eels or is sitting patiently on a fallen tree, or drying its wings in the Sun.

As I write, I happen to see an eel in the Cormorant’s mouth. It was then lost into the depths, but I just now see the Cormorant on the other side of the bank swallowing the eel whole.

It seems to be a very shy bird of prey, but very content in aloneness. And very determined.

Seeing this beauty guides mye Radiance Sphere (see below for insights) which I look back on now, and it’s exactly what I am feeling at this time, which is the need for aloneness. I need a lot of physical space to refresh and recharge as well as dream and unwind so that I can bring nourishing energy back to the company I share. It’s hard to claim this for myself, so Cormorant is a very important teacher.

Cormorant flew off, thank you for this space in time to remember.

Caz Johnston

Pig

I have just connected to Pig as my next companion guide. And with that connection has come the wonderful realisation of the Goddess Ceridwen by my side. In September 2022 I connected with Ceridwen in a ceremony in Glastonbury.

Just over a year later I realise that I have spent the year being guided by her wonderful creatures – crow, buzzard, toad and finally the great white sow. I didn’t put it together until I recognised the creatures I have been journeying with in a painting of her.

I asked Ceridwen to tip me into her cauldron of transformation in that ceremony in 2022 and since then it has been a journey of just that. Being with toad was a very difficult time, so many fears came to haunt me which I had not known were there. I thought I had lost my path.

Buzzard connected me with seven generations of grandmother on my mother’s line. And in another wonderful synchronicity I discovered that five generations back from my grandmother all my older grandmothers were born and lived in the hills of the Shropshire / Wales border. Ceridwen is a Welsh Goddess and is calling me home.

So now as I move into a relationship with pig I feel very humbled to be with a creature who gives so much to we humans. As the great white sow she will take anything that we lay on her feasting table and gobble it up for transmutation. Hers is a fast powerful transformative power, hers is an all encompassing deep deep love. I feel very blessed to be journeying with you dearest Pig.

Holly Gentle Breeze