DREAM: I am painting an image of myself for my mentor. I've been to many doors and there's one who tried to shoot me before. This time she comes to the door with her gun, but it only makes it popping sound, no bullet. She's in love with me. Glittery, puffy-black, gazing. I'm to paint an image of myself as an offering? I am to show my daughter, teach her that she has a gift. That this is her calling. Making this art. The old woman is at the door. She is waiting. There's a sense of danger as I make her wait. I paint around my eyes, close up, but maybe it's like I'm painting on Margot? I am drawing thick, drippy, black ink around the outline of my own image, face and bangs, but when I get close up to the eyes, it looks more like Margot's eyes. So erotically charged, the young woman had thought me a lover. I have one half of this painted self like a big golden butterfly nearly done. The art is coming in - then I'm with Margot, bringing her and her friend through the streets to show them, they can do this, this is their path.

Taylor offers a spontaneous transmission about a powerful dream while sitting in the dirt in an old rocking chair under a pomegranate tree.

In this episode, I explore my process with writing a memoir over many years, connecting my story to the Bluebeard myth, and learning to identify the inner origins of self-sabotage to ultimately free the creative feminine voice from a self-imposed silence.

This is my first episode of a brand new podcast devoted to explorations of my voice. As a former English teacher who stepped away from the profession this past May after 15 years in the classroom, I am launching a new solo-preneurship venture as a nightly dreamworker. Yep, I'm interested in talking to people about their nocturnal dreams. I hope this new podcast will attract like-minded spiritual seekers who are also exploring their voices in this time of intense culture shift and chaos as the old systems, institutions, and oppressive ways of being give way to the new and hopeful more vital ways of a future world where creative, revolutionary voices lead the way.

I created this intro without a script, feeling intuitively into what I wanted to say, and relying on my prior experiences as both a volunteer radio deejay for a local Tucson radio station and a teacher who constantly had to think on my feet and inspire and entertain my easily bored and distracted students during discussions of writing and literature.

I discuss what it was like to brave through the years of teaching during the pandemic, as well as why I walked away from teaching fulltime, as well as why it's so important for me to share my voice. I invite listeners to pitch me their ideas for show topics or volunteer to appear on the show as a guest. I'm looking forward to publishing a podcast at least once a week, and maybe more often if I get inspired!

Come with me on this journey. Check out my website at symbodythedream.com to book a one-on-one dreamwork session with me!