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The symbolist standpoint considers life to be a living book of symbols, a sacred text that can be decoded. Through applying the proper key, the patterns of the world reveal hidden resonances and levels of information overlooked in our contemporary preoccupation with literal meanings and surface interpretations.
Ray Grasse, The Waking Dream
This blog is my refuge, where I can turn my sight inwards and marvel at the universal unconscious patterns that are shaping the lives of our souls. I hold degrees in English and Psychology but these days I devote most of my time and effort to astrology, Jungian psychology, mythology and archetypal symbolism.
Gustave Moreau, Venice
symbolreader 
Love your blog~ You should add a Email Follow button. 🙂
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Sindy
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I love your blog too and glad you met Sindy. She has been very supportive as I learn the WordPress terrain. You might like Karen Kubicko as well. A sweet person who blogs about reincarnation and such.
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(Love you too Linda!!!)
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Thank you! I always look forward to your posts and I am really excited to have discovered this blogging community. Why did it take me so long?
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Hi, thank you for visiting my blog, so I could come and find yours 🙂
Beatuiful!
Blessings be
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I really appreciate your introduction, and we seem like kindred spirits, so I am looking forward to browsing your stuff! Thanks for your visit to my blog.
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Hello – thank you for finding me as it let me find you as well. We have some shared ideas, studies and understandings of the world and the human psyche. 🙂 Robert
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Hello, I am going to spend hours reading your blog!
All my best.
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Hi there Symbol Reader… I’ve nominated you for the MomentMattersAward. Follow this link for the rules etc. http://runningfather.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/best-moment-award-mar-2013/
best wishes, Jim, the RFB
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Thank you, Jim. I am truly honoured and amazed but I feel I do not deserve it right now, as my blog is so new and fresh. I want to give it some time to develop.
But I really appreciate this with all my heart.
Monika
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You are very welcome. It will come back around your way when you are ready. Isn’t that how it works? 😉 Peace and keep up the writing!
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Hello and many thanks for following my blog, Its nice to meet another fellow ‘lightworker’ you have a wonderful informative blog.. I will be back. 🙂
Blessings
Sue
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oh, i love that jung quote. how could i not have heard it till now? must be divine timing… ; ) namaste.
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Thanks for dropping by. I love that quote very much.
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On another blog you said, “I would just like to remark that according to Jung, also archetypes were dynamic and not fixed.” That’s true, they are living multidimensional in nature.
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Exactly, they are real, vibrant, alive, and not some abstract fixed idea of the mind.
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I am so glad you wandered over to my blog, Thank You I appreciate your time and thoughts…
This will be a wonderful cross-road meeting….and that is one of my favorite quotes too…
Take care…
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ladyblue
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I visited you because I was drawn to the comment you made on Pisces blog. You have some stunning visuals in your blog. Thank you for your presence here.
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I made a reply to yours, but think it did not go through. You will see that there is a follow up on the same theme in my blog. The subject is inexhaustible. ‘Woman’ is Creation – what more to say?
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I did not see your reply. Thank you for getting back to me here.
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This is the 3rd time I try to reply, simply to say that, as you will see, there is more to come, since the subject is inexhaustible. The theme is womanhood and the mystery of Creation. Today or tomorrow i will post an enlarged version of ‘Tristan und Isolde’.
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I am looking forward to it. WordPress tends to have some glitches, for example my comment is not visible on your blog or maybe only I do not see it.
Nevermind, I will be waiting for Tristan and Isolde.
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Thanks for the follow on my blog. I share your interests in archetypes, psychology and mythology and was for many years a student of astrology. You may also be interested in another blog on spirituality – http://www.sacredgate.wordpress.com. Thanks again.
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Thank you. I found your voice deep and enlightening.
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Hello 🙂 Thank you for coming by my blog and following it! I came across your blog and it seemed interesting…so followed it so I can come back and read your posts well before commenting 🙂
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Hello, I always look for blogs I can learn new things from. I got very interested in your analysis of Our Father prayer.
My best,
Monika
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Hi! Thank you for dropping by 🙂 To be honest, I got that from a book I was reading 🙂 And thought I’d share it! I’m glad you found it interesting!!
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Nice blog. I too am fascinated with Jung. I want to know what’s going on and what is possible at the boundaries. Christof Koch in his book Consciousness… turned me on to Haruki Murakami with his (Murakami) comment about opening doors in the labyrinth of the subconscious. I think you might enjoy Murakami and widen and deepen your path.
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Thank you very much. Actually, I am a fan of Murakami, I mentioned him in some posts, for example Birds on My Mind and I Love You, My Secret Raven. I will look at your blog after my holiday. Thanks for visiting.
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I’ve nominated you for two awards! See here for details: http://juliannevictoria.com/2013/08/10/a-double-dose-of-thanks/
Namaste _/l\_
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Thank you very much, I am honoured but I am not able to fulfill the requirements. Nevertheless, I am full of appreciation.
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So nice to have found you… wonderful blog, I’ll enjoy popping in and catching up on your journey through life…. Barbara
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Thank you very much, I am grateful.
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Hi Monika
I was drawn to your blog for your interest in symbolism, though for me I am only a spectator of it.
I look forward to reading more of your blog.
Be well.
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Hi Michael, nice to meet you. I also found your subject matter quite appealing. You won me by saying that you read a lot.
My best,
Monika
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Came to this blog via View from the Wheelhouse.
Glad I found it.
Best wishes.
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Thank you for the kind words.
Best wishes,
Monika
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Love your blog. Thank you!
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Thank you! I love your weekly cosmic insights.
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I love your blog. thank you and keep up the great work ❤
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Thank you very much! I have noticed a dramatic spike in my stats in the last few days, I wonder how this happened.
Love,
Monika
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Hi Monika,
I was perusing your updates on your intro, etc and noticed your comment. I have also noticed a dramatic spike. Is is real or an illusion? ( not your stats, mine:)
WordPress always keeps me guessing..
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Hi Linda, no idea, seems like I got a lot of hits directly from facebook. Well, could be a glitch, as you said.
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or we are expanding 🙂
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Hopefully 🙂
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Monika you are a sister of light and love and so It gives me great pleasure in giving you The Sister of the World Blogger Award Love and Blessings
Love and Blessings Sue xxx
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Thank you, dear Sue, this sounds wonderful.
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You are most welcome 🙂
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I love your blog, and have nominated it for the Sunshine Award. Please see details at http://livingawarenessmeditation.net/2013/12/07/the-sunshine-blogger-award/ Peace!
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Thank you, Donna!
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It seems that most wonderful things that could be said by me about your blog have been well covered before me, but I do concur with the multitudes, on all positives. I look forward to pouring over each page. Great stuff! Shalom-Daniel
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Hello Daniel, thank you very much. I am full of appreciation.
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Thank you for stopping by my blog and following. You have an interesting place here and I look forward to poking around and reading! Blessings!
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In honor of Ajay, please celebrate Xmas in August:
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Just wanted to let you know that I nominated you for the One Lovely Blog Award. The main reason for my accepting my own nomination was to recognize some of the very lovely souls and blogs out there, and share them with others. I completely understand if you don’t resonate with following the guidelines, and/or don’t have the time to do so. You’re still someone I want to honor! Much love, Tania http://taniamarieartist.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/one-lovely-blog-award/
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Dear Tania, although I do not do awards I appreciate the spirit they are given in. The reason I do not participate is because I like to stick to the theme of my blog. But I always try to give back to the community as much as I can by reading and occasionally reblogging or commenting on other blogs.
Love
Monika
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completely understand monika! much love to you ❤
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I’ve just discovered your blog and I love it, it’s brilliant!
Thanks,
THC
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Thank you! Such comments always make my day.
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Could you share a few additional thoughts on your interests?
“astrology, Jungian psychology, mythology and archetypal symbolism”
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Hmm, what else should I say? I know my about page is very laconic; maybe because I like to stay in the shadows. The topics you listed are indeed the ones I focus on with an addition of art and literature (I read a lot of poetry). I like the name of your blog because mine could also be called that, actually – I like to ponder on metaphysical questions. I guess the common denominator to my interests would be that I really like to probe deep and always have the Soul in focus – I hope with success at times. I am grateful for your interest in my blog. I hope to watch some of your videos this coming weekend – starting with Plotinus of course.
Best wishes
Monika
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Hello
I have watched your latest video on Plotinus and the intellect, and appreciated it enormously. “Desire and direct, immediate understanding” – that somehow connects to what Jung called intuition. We the moderns have robbed the intellect of fire, passion and feeling. What a pity.
Regarding the question you ask in the last paragraph, I am not sure what you are asking of me… The way I deal with my “stuff” at the moment is through therapy (I am lucky in that respect) and also through reading extensively. I am also planning to spend a considerable time by myself to get a new sense of grounding. I think the answer is always one: look within, rest within your-self. I realize this does not sound very original but it works for me.
Thank you for the considerate comment.
Best wishes
Monika
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Monika, I had you in mind as this video was created. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibnI3y7ot6w
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Loved it. Both art and nature are imitative of archetypes. Thank you!
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Dear Symbol Reader
I am a fan of your writing and wanted to thank you for sharing your incredible depth of thought 🙂
I have a dream that has been playing on my mind for a while, mainly because I feel it is in some way connected to an earlier dream i had last year. Sort of in the vein of Yeats’ gyres on a smaller scale, I feel like both are symbolic of endings in my life and I am afraid that there is a third, much more sinister dream coming.. I will share the second dream with you before I cloud anything with my own introspective analysis. I will add that i did not take drugs or stimulants prior to this
Second dream
The dream starts with me walking up to the front door of a house in suburbia much like where I live currently, but I get the feeling of being closed in – like I cannot see or reach the street/outside world easily from this path.
There is a baby lying oddly in a stretcher outside the door.. I look closer and I notice the baby looks ill, I start calling out “mother”‘ but then I realise with horror that the baby is part of a trap. I try to run down the path which is now like an alleyway and a woman with a baton overwhelms me and forces me inside the house. The interior is rich and red and eventually we have a struggle where I manage to stab her (with scissors) and escape. Cats and snakes escape with me as I run back down the alley. Then I look down at my feet and see a snake eating its own tail. I feel repulsed and scared
I wake up.
Please let me know if you have any insight into this, I had absolutely no idea what the ouroboros symbol was until researching it after having this dream. I would have seen the infinity symbol somewhere of course but I am alarmed that I would dream something like this that appeared to come out of my own subconscious
I won’t describe the first dream or what I think the third dream might be just yet as the second dream I just described is what I most need your help analysing.. Thank you very much and best wishes
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Hello,
First of all, thank you for lovely words of praise and encouragement. Am I correct in assuming you are a woman? That somehow influences dream analysis, I think. Your comment comes at a very special moment, when I have been reading about Asclepius and dream healing.
Anyway, I am mystified and fascinated by your very alchemical dream – it is so powerful. Altogether, I think as the “I” of the dream you did tremendous work – you were active and effective. The initial thought was about how staying in that house wounds your feminine side. The woman with a baton (a phallic symbol) seems like a sinister figure – Jung would say she is dominated by her masculine animus side, which leaves no room for compassion, kindness and relatedness. It seems to me it is a great idea for you to lave that house – the dream seems to be saying that. The red interior is very telling – I think it is about using your own feminine power, power of the dark goddess of menstruation (blood symbolism https://symbolreader.net/2015/06/28/rose-red-symbolism-of-blood/) to overpower that cruel woman, who does not let you leave. Cats and snakes that escape with you are both connected with feminine energy, too, and though you are repulsed by the ouroboros it is an enormously powerful healing symbol, signaling full rebirth and regeneration. For now, I do not have any further thoughts, for example nothing occurs to me in relation to the baby. Just perhaps something relating to your own fears of your own mothering instinct? Really no idea and I do not want to be presumptuous.
Thank you so much for sharing your dream in the eve of the solar eclipse.
Best wishes
Monika
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Hi monika
Thank you for your great analysis, I am a woman with a desire to be a mother but I do have a lot of fear about birth and raising children.
I really appreciate your thoughtful response and it has cleared up a lot of questions I’ve been pondering
Like I said, this was the second dream in a series of three (I have not had the third dream as I think it will come to me in the future as a part of my life ends or a cycle renews like yeats’ gyres).. So the below is just a theory but I would love to know your thoughts
1. Death of the flesh – last yea I had a dream where the clouds opened and Jesus appeared.. He said nothing but it was a vivid and profound dream. Soon after I tried to adopt Christianity but abandoned this shortly before the second dream
2. Rebirth – the escape from the house that I already described
3. Death of the soul – has not happened yet and the idea of this dream terrifies me as I have not come to terms with oblivion..
Thanks and talk soon
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Hi Monica, with so many things to learn and in demand and so few hours to do it with, I’ve find myself unable to frequent your site. Nevertheless, I am glad to see that you are keeping on top of it. Keep up the good work!
Regards,
JY
https://about.me/jasonyoungman
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Hi Jason,
Good to hear you have been so busy and in such a demand!
Similarly, I have had a lot on my plate, especially connected with private affairs. I hope to return to philosophy and contemplation as soon as I can.
Thank you very much for your visit and a thoughtful comment.
Monika
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Hi, can I ask about priv contact? On ana.lawrynowitz@gmail.com I would love to use your text to my foto book about garden:) Can send you a draft, maybe you will like it and agree to calab 🙂
Thank you!
Anna
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Glad to have discovered your blog on FB when I followed the link at the end of your post about the Animus.
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Thank you for your generosity, Kathleen. It is very much appreciated. I still try to post something new on my blog at least once a month.
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