The Centaur
I had this experience during a dream on the night of my birthday which was last week. I’ll summarize the main parts of the dream.
It was sunset in a place with vast fields and I was speaking to an older woman. She was bringing over an old horse to the fence where I was on one side. She wasn’t mean to the horse, but just explained that it was old and tired, like it was losing its purpose.
As it drew closer to the fence, I could see that it wasn’t a horse, but a man. A Centaur. The woman only saw it as a horse. It appeared as an older man and was entirely colored in a deep inky-blue, all its hair, body, skin, face, eyes all the same color. The woman left.
It had kind eyes and I attempted to engage it in conversation. It seemed to enjoy this, however at first he appeared disabled or mentally challenged and could not converse with me like a normal person. I struggled to understand, but I wanted to listen to his story as he continued.
He seemed very kind and I genuinely wanted to communicate and listen. I remember feeling a lot of emotion and sympathy as he seemed to be trying to find his Son. I placed a hand on his back in kindness and reassurance, as I told him, since I could see him I could try to help him find his Son.
The creature became suddenly more intelligent and sophisticated, as if he had been hiding his true nature from me until I revealed my true nature to him. He became a magnificent creature.
He came across with a wise smirk and twinkle in his eye as he spoke to me with wisdom that seemed beyond my concept of ancient.
Gleaning in me that there is much depth hidden within that which appears misunderstood by judgement and true intent within our nature must be revealed to self before it reveals another. To know one’s own inner truth of self at its core, reveals what nature exists outside of oneself.
The dream then shifted to a sunrise. I stood along another fence on the left instead of the right. I had a feeling of time change, that this was in the past. A few people were nearby and a young man. People perceived him as a young man, but I saw him as a Centaur.
He could speak normally and seemed light-hearted in nature. He explained that he was looking for his Father. I was bestowed with the understanding in that moment that they were one and the same. The dream ended.
What I took away from this experience is that it has a lot of layered meanings. Derived from perception, from the color of the being, the symbol of the Centaur, to judgement, truth, inner-self and Time.
The duality of the Centaur represents itself as the complexity of human thought vs. nature from what I understand.
My understanding is that this also involved Time itself. Being able to view both the past(Son/Sunrise) and future(Father/sunset)-that I represented the present because I could view both. Balanced by both.
This reminded me of how some people have the ability of pre-cog. That they are able to connect with/access this future energy within their consciousness. That perhaps we have lost our interaction or purpose of using it, as a guide for our present, as the past guides us through learning, the future guides us through discovery.
This did not conform with me as a being/NHI, but felt more like an Element, or property of an element, that perhaps our consciousness can access this knowledge (like a flowing library) without having it be “brought”/delivered to us-but simply accessed because it is there. It exists, somewhere our consciousness can connect to. (Or maybe it was a being/NHI-not sure)
I feel this is in some way connected further to the constellation Centaurus as well, but I am unfamiliar with what that may be.
Thought this was interesting and wanted to share my dream experience.