On dreams and visions...

Buckminster Fuller once commented that "the Universe is talking to us all the time and we must learn to listen." He is right, It is talking to us all the time. It talks to us in symbols and in dreams. As we become "observant" of our lives we note an energy in and around us ever present. This Energy is Spirit. When we listen with our heart and intuition or "gut feeling" we sense the action and direction we are to take.
It speaks to us in our dreams. Here is an example: A client recently told me of a dream where she was peering into a cellar where there were dozens of animals of all variety -- birds, rabbits, dogs, groundhogs, woodchucks, etc. They had been there for a month and many were dead. At first she didn't want to deal with the issue at all. "Someone else would take care of it." Then, she realized no one would take care of it and she had to save the animals that were still living.
The cellar was a place where she buried her issues. This is true for all of us -- we can't see them, they are stored -- out of sight, out of mind. The animals represent her innate nature -- her intuition, her feeling state, the Inner Guidance. She had put all this aside, she stored it, ignored it. The animals (her intutive state) seemed to be uncared for and buried. But recently she decided that she wanted to pay attention to her feelings and let her intutitive voice be her guide. Thus she had to "unbury" her feelings, face them, and nurture them. This was her entering the cellar to save the animals that were left. The dreams was describing her current state of consciousness and her needed action. The Universe was talking to her through her dreams.
The same client would regularly see hawks circling in the sky. Some would pass right in front of her as if to say, "See me, I am communicating with you."
In the Animal Speak book (by Ted Andrews) it states that Hawks symbolize that the Great Spirit (or the Universe) is communicating to "awaken her vision and inspiration to a creative life purpose."
All this fits of course as she has a vision that she has put on hold and the dream seemed to tell her to bring it out of hiding and pursue it.
Thus it is with all of us. We all have dreams and visions and we all are being guided by the Universe to pay attention. "Pay attention and I will guide you with symbols and dreams."
Are you payng attention?