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Goats!

What do goats bring to mind for you?

they are fiesty and eat tin cans.

they eat all sorts of things. people rent out their goats to clear land. they eat blackberries, brambles, ivy.

goats kick. they have a particular smell. people raise them for milk and cheese production, and for meat.

there are the three billy goats gruff who encounter a troll who lives under a bridge.

goats are amazing jumpers.

please feel free to comment on goats, your associations, what they mean to you in dreams, dreams with goats you may have had, or experiences of goats. are they a guide or power animal for you? what about a favorite goat story. post it!

perhaps you detest goats mightily. tell us why. what is it about them?

There are at least three ways to look at an image in a dream.

1. Pay specific attention to the image in the dream. What is it doing specifically? How do you feel watching it? How does it seem to be feeling? What is it up to and who or what else in the dream is it in relation to?
2. What is the behavior of the dream figure in the waking world. If its a biological being, what is its nature? How does it function in nature? What are its skills, attributes, qualities?
3. What are the mythic resonances of this image? This incudes cross cultural, but also your own associations. What do you think about when you think of this image? What stories come to mind?

bees, the honey makers.

oracles at the mouth of the cave of night, where the oracle informs phanes, the shining one, and creator of the world all that is happening.

bees, love, sweetness, oracular knowledge.

erotic life. birds and bees.

collective living, co-operation, hive mentality.

stingers.

then there are wasps, who are builders extraordinaire.

wasps are also vicious, angry, and protective.