Last year during one of my Metamorphic Practice workshops, one of my lovely participants had this dream, which she shared on the second morning. I share it here with her kind permission.
“Last night I kept dreaming that we were moving house. Every house we moved into burnt down. Finally we came to this last house, which also went up in flames. All that was left was the central part, which had four chambers. It couldn’t be burned down because it was built out of stone.”
As I heard this, I thought “ the heart has four chambers!”
Last year during one of my Metamorphic Practice workshops, one of my lovely participants had this dream, which she shared on the second morning. I share it here with her kind permission.
“Last night I kept dreaming that we were moving house. Every house we moved into burnt down. Finally we came to this last house, which also went up in flames. All that was left was the central part, which had four chambers. It couldn’t be burned down because it was built out of stone.”
As I heard this, I thought “ the heart has four chambers!”
Fire is a universal symbol for transformation – In fact we talk of ‘the fire of transformation’. It is a symbol of raging intensity which burns away the dross to reveal what is essential, our essence. Fire consumes us, transforms us and lifts us out of limitation.
Central to this movement is the heart. It both initiates this movement of transformation, by calling us home, and welcomes us into its loving embrace when all else is burnt away. Ultimately, it is all that remains.
