{"id":13764,"date":"2017-05-01T01:10:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T06:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=14441"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:01:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T00:01:17","slug":"fox-dreaming-family-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2017\/05\/01\/fox-dreaming-family-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Dreaming: Family Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-14442\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/fox2.jpg\" alt=\"fox2\" width=\"562\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t<!--\n\t\t@page { margin: 0.79in }\n\t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.08in }\n\t\tA:link { so-language: zxx }\n\t-->\n\t<\/style>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">On Easter Monday 2017 I had a long and rather complex dream about a fox costume. (I had this dream during the night following the day where I had been running around a snowy forest in my bear suit while my husband filmed me, eating snow and sleeping in my cave. This actually happened, in ordinary reality! <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>(The footage is part of an art film I am currently working on).<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">However, in my dream I had a very beautiful and realistic fox costume. The head was separate and fitted my head perfectly, like a helmet. It was also very life-like. I really BECAME A FOX wearing it. I decided to walk from the forest behind our house to the nearest town and enjoy the spring sunshine. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">As I was strolling around a small market by the harbour, I got so hot that I took the fox costume off and put it down for a moment. Next thing I knew one of the stall holders was offering it for sale on her trestle table. I found myself faced with a dilemma: confront her? Buy my own costume back?! &#8211; At that point I woke up.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">My husband served me a cup of tea in bed and I told him the dream. He makes daily phone calls to his elderly mother who lives about 400 km south of where I had the dream (in Sweden). Lo and behold : that day she too insisted on telling him her dream from the night before she lives in a small town (in real life) where she was running a market stall and looking for things to sell (something she does not do in real life!)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-14443\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/fox1.jpg\" alt=\"fox1\" width=\"628\" height=\"471\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">My husband said: \u201cAHA! So now we can find out what happened to Imelda\u2019s Fox Costume! Was there a fox costume for sale on your table? She said: \u201cYes there was, but it didn\u2019t sell so Imelda can have it back!!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">To me this Family Magic! It is not just living with a husband who tolerates my \u201cwyrd ways\u201d (pun intended!) or raising three natural born shamans (which became the title of my first book). It is bringing a playful awareness to all we do. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It is setting out dinner plates for invisible but \u201cnot-so-imaginary\u201d friends and companions. It is offering some food and drink to the ancestors as well on special occasions. It is asking the Spirit of our House to help all of us in our everyday endeavours and to provide safe space for all we do. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It is sharing our dreams over breakfast (and many days there is not much to share or we have more urgent thing to discuss, such as: did anyone borrow my calculator? I have a physics exam this morning!!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But sometimes we hit the jackpot!!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Imelda Almqvist<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14444\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/fox3.jpg\" alt=\"fox3\" width=\"509\" height=\"662\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>***<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>About the author<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Imelda Almqvist\u2019s book\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i><strong>Natural Born Shamans: A Spiritual Toolkit For Life<\/strong> (Using shamanism creatively with young people of all ages)<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0was published by Moon Books in August 2016. \u00a0She is based in London,UK and teaches shamanism and sacred art internationally.\u00a0 She was a presenter on the Shamanism Global Summit in July 2016.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaman-healer-painter.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #185e15;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">www.shaman-healer-painter.co.uk<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imeldaalmqvist.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #185e15;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">https:\/\/imeldaalmqvist.wordpress.com\/<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shamanismsummit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #185e15;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">http:\/\/shamanismsummit.com\/<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Easter Monday 2017 I had a long and rather complex dream about a fox costume. (I had this dream during the night following the day where I had been running around a snowy forest in my bear suit while my husband filmed me, eating snow and sleeping in my cave. This actually happened, in ordinary reality! (The footage is part of an art film I am currently working on). However, in my dream I had a very beautiful and realistic fox costume. The head was separate and fitted my head perfectly, like a helmet. It was also very life-like. I really BECAME A FOX wearing it. I decided to walk from the forest behind our house to the nearest town and enjoy the spring sunshine. As I was strolling around a small market by the harbour, I got so hot that I took the fox costume off and put it down for a moment. Next thing I knew one of the stall holders was offering it for sale on her trestle table. I found myself faced with a dilemma: confront her? Buy my own costume back?! &#8211; At that point I woke up. My husband served me a cup of tea in bed and I told him the dream. He makes daily phone calls to his elderly mother who lives about 400 km south of where I had the dream (in Sweden). Lo and behold : that day she too insisted on telling him her dream from the night before she lives in a small town (in real life) where she was running a market stall and looking for things to sell (something she does not do in real life!) &nbsp; &nbsp; My husband said: \u201cAHA! So now we can find out what happened to Imelda\u2019s Fox Costume! Was there a fox costume for sale on your table? She said: \u201cYes there was, but it didn\u2019t sell so Imelda can have it back!!\u201d To me this Family Magic! It is not just living with a husband who tolerates my \u201cwyrd ways\u201d (pun intended!) or raising three natural born shamans (which became the title of my first book). It is bringing a playful awareness to all we do. It is setting out dinner plates for invisible but \u201cnot-so-imaginary\u201d friends and companions. It is offering some food and drink to the ancestors as well on special occasions. It is asking the Spirit of our House to help all of us in our everyday endeavours and to provide safe space for all we do. It is sharing our dreams over breakfast (and many days there is not much to share or we have more urgent thing to discuss, such as: did anyone borrow my calculator? I have a physics exam this morning!! But sometimes we hit the jackpot!! Imelda Almqvist &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; *** About the author Imelda Almqvist\u2019s book\u00a0Natural Born Shamans: A Spiritual Toolkit For Life (Using shamanism creatively with young people of all ages)\u00a0was published by Moon Books in August 2016. \u00a0She is based in London,UK and teaches shamanism and sacred art internationally.\u00a0 She was a presenter on the Shamanism Global Summit in July 2016. www.shaman-healer-painter.co.uk https:\/\/imeldaalmqvist.wordpress.com\/ http:\/\/shamanismsummit.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}