Wow!! Thanks for your assistance. I am going to eagerly consume the thoughts you shared with me and see where they lead me. I feel you are spot on and you have offered me clarity to better analyze this dream. My first thoughts are that this dream was sent to help me on the road to release. I have been dealing with so many emotions in regard to this past relationship and I have been telling myself it is time to release all of the pent up emotions that hold me bound in a very tender and emotional state most of the time. Sometimes the longing is so great I feel consumed by it. I know this emotional state keeps me from giving my "now life" a fighting chance due to the attachment I still have to the past and to him. I know in my heart of hearts that I must move on and release my grip on the past, or should I say the past's grip on me. My neck has been bothering me a great deal for months now and my asthma has been the worst it has ever been. During a recent meditation I received a message from Universe straight into my heart.....I was told that my neck ache is caused by straining to look behind me to see the past, and my lungs are filled with the stale, stagnant air of the past.........Well no wonder this dream occured.

Your thoughts on the two small boys helped a great deal.....I had no idea where to take that part of the dream. I am feeling that if and when I conquer this past attachment I am going soar on wings. If you don't mind I will share some thoughts with you after I review your thoughts and the dream again.....

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Kathy,
I am a bit unorthodox in my use of the animus with most all unnamed/unknown males in a woman's dream {the same holds true for the anima in a man's dream}. But i have had great success using it in this manner. The same hold true when I see an unnamed/unknown child in the first part of a dream. In those instances that child is the dreamer at the age or time frame the child is depicted in the dream. I've tested that application time and again. The last time was this week in Grace's dream where she confirmed by e-mail of an event that corresponded with a child of 7 or 8 {the event happened when she was 7 1/2 years old}.

My impression of your dream was you were seeking to move on from the relationship but it is not easy in doing that. The dream was actually pretty 'matter-of-fact' as I read it. I broke it down by symbol because I thought you would more likely recognize associations to your waking life. And because you did say you had an idea what the dream was about. That seems to have worked.

As for the dream and your relationship. Matters of the heart are always difficult but often easy to interpret in dreams. Because dreams are about the emotions, those which are most 'universal' tend to stand out. Spiritual dreams are also more readable when I analyze them. Anything to do with the heart and soul tend to speak in a language more recognizable in dreams. Getting the past the emotions is the hardest part. What struck me about the dream was it did lay out the emotional conflict in a way that seemed as if it were an going possibility but ended with a recognition it was best to move on {Later he returned to my side but I knew that something had changed"}. The change came at the end of the dream and that was what prompted me to sense you did realize it was time to move on. And that is despite the power of the emotions you have for him and that denied you the of 'masculine' energies that is of the ego {the boys}. I mention the ego because the dream began with 'earthly possessions' and the conflict is as much an outer vs the inner. In the end you are thinking the right thoughts and that is how the dream ended. It would not surprise me if future dreams will show a 'resurrection' of these boys since what you are doing requires a lot of strength and 'masculine' fortitude. When you think psychologically and not emotionally there is always a better outcome.

Jerry

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