Parsing

Life has been in High Gear lately: within the past month I've organized and registrared a 21-student massage therapy workshop with an internationally-renowned instructor, attended a 35-hour acupressure continuing education workshop, sung a weeks-worth of gigs in a remote city, moved my business office to a regional cancer center and set up my new therapy room, moved truckloads of office furniture, participated in no less than five major marketing endeavors, made two public speaking engagements, worked on clients, and have spent a couple of weekends with my husband-elect.

Though things have gone fairly well, I've remarked to myself that a lot of this karma-storm has felt as if I didn't have clarity about my therapy business, about who exactly I want to attract to it, how I want to incorporate my shamanic skills, etc.  I've been needing time to just sit down, think and examine, put things on paper.

As sometimes happens, my honey-to-be had a dream that perfectly expressed what it was that I needed (our dreams often have bearing on each others' lives, and are always vivid when we sleep together.  We were 136 miles apart last night when this one came through):

... had interesting dreams last night. The main part I remember was being on a cruise ship & some tour guide forcing me & you to take an excursion trip on a small boat. We seemed to be in Alaska... someplace wild & beautiful. Made us both take off our shoes thinking this would keep us from running off. What he didn't know was that you & I are both quite comfortable going barefoot, so we were still quite free. We exchanged a laughing look that said "He may think he can control us!" (Not sure what this symbolizes, but it seems to speak of being patient about our eventual living together... that it will happen ... our "barefootedness" indicates we're free even if others may think they control us.)

Another part of the dream took place in a foyer type entrance on the ship. There was an amazing device we'd heard about - something called a "parser" - that improved whatever it was aimed at. I was a airplane pilot looking for work & had a resume book of photos, paintings & writing I wanted parsed & [you] had something too. In the foyer was a water garden in a rectangular pool with plants & lilies in it. As a man wheeled the parser in (it was a large, black, boxy contraption "steam punk" style, with blinking lights. It had a coiled hose part with a wand type instrument with a directable flashlight on its tip), a ship worker was pointing out how the water looked milky & murky, despite his best efforts to keep the pool clean. The parser man said "no problem" & stuck the lit flashlight end into the water & turned knobs on the machine. This in turn adjusted the water's clarity, much as I can adjust color balance & contrast in Photoshop & soon the water looked sparkling clear & beautiful!

"You don't have to change the water," said the man, "just the frequency of the light passing through it." (That statement felt very important & I can think of spiritual metaphors galore...) I then had him pass the light over my resume book & everything in it clarified as well; still in my handwriting, but the words were more precise & descriptive, spell corrected & neat & all the photos & paintings had better composition, vibrant colors & were perfectly exposed. Amazing!

It didn't occur to me to put *myself* into this light until after I'd woken up...

Ah!  Just what I've been needing!  A parser :-)  The statement that you don't have to change the water, just the frequency is bullseye, spot-on.  It's how I'm looking that's most important; the content is already there, just maybe not in the right form yet.

Gosh!  Wish I had a parser in my office all the time!
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