"Four swans were nesting on a tree above a tombstone" - a dream interpretation about repressed femininity

Excerpt: An interpretation of a young woman's dream. She took a journey to another world where she encountered a wiser part of herself that revealed her suppressed femininity. The dream reflects the process that the dreamer has undergone over the past year for personal and feminine empowerment.

The Dream

I had a strange dream with interesting signs and must share with you. The dream takes place when I'm outdoors on a bright day. I am standing next to a flower called a bird of paradise (it is an orange flower with a long, thick, pliable stem that resembles the bird's beak). To my surprise, the flower is as tall as a tree, and although it retains its elasticity, it is almost 3 meters high. When I look up, I see that on each of the stems of the flower there is a bird's nest, a total of four huge nests, with a large white swan sitting in each nest. In the dream, I am surprised by the fact that the flexible flower tree holds such huge bird nests with swans laying in them.

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Suddenly one of the nests fell to the ground as the swan remained curled up inside. The very fall made me look down just to see that under the strange tree there was a tombstone. I look at its condition and discover that this is a young man whose identity I do not know. Suddenly someone calls my name, I turn around and find out that this is a young man who congratulates me on being pregnant. I look down at my body and see that I am very, very thin (in reality I am a fat woman) and have an impressive and round pregnancy belly. The same acquaintance points out that I am pregnant at 24 weeks.

At that moment I woke up to attend to my son who had made a noise in the other room. After a moment I fell asleep again and returned to the dream. Instantly, a woman of about 40 (older than me) arrived at the strange tree. The woman was a beautiful blonde with curls but looks older than her age. She told me that the tombstone covered her husband's grave from which she had one child. She also told me that she had married and had another child from her new husband. At that moment I woke up completely.

I must point out to you the animals in the dream. The bright, almost white day. The four swans that amazed me with their size and the fact that they were sitting in a nest on the tree.

I am 35 years old, a mother of two and happily married for 8 years.

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My Interpretation

Your dream has two main layers.

• One is the symbolic layer in which the flower, the swans, the nests and the tombstone are related to your sexuality as a woman.
• The other layer is a very real dream in which you have visited another reality where you met with other parts of your soul. This is something that happens quite a lot to adults.

Of course, the two layers were mixed up, that is, you "used" the visit to the other dimension in order to convey a message to help you in reality here. That message is related to the feminine energy within you. The dream "asks" you to assimilate more feminine energy. For some reason you have rejected it so far, you have not allowed all of you to be a woman and the masculine aspect of you has been, so far, over-dominant.

This may sound strange to you since after all you are married, have two children and raised a family, but that is the feeling that comes to me when reading your dream. It is important to understand that when talking about "feminine energy," this refers not to physicality ("the Barbie model") or to characteristics that ostensibly characterize women in our current society (passivity, submission). It refers to the qualities of acceptance, containment, compassion, intuition, etc. Is it possible that you are an overly rational person? That you think and worry too much?

I smile happily to read your interpretation. In the past year, everything has been secondary to work. Including me as a wife, woman and mother. As a very sensitive person, I find myself hardening positions and repressing emotions to be able to continue my daily routine. A beautiful interpretation that has been consistent with my mental state in the past year.

You have allowed yourself to convey to yourself such an important and powerful message, and doing so in such a delicate and experiential way.

Good Luck!