Was the Scorpion in My Dream Good or Bad?
What happens when my dreams stop giving me helpful information? I count on my dreams for inspiration and guidance. However, over the last several months my dreams have been very dark. It is hard for me to understand how much of this is normal subconscious stuff (does not feel like it), what is going in the world or what is going on with me.
To give you an example, before we learned about the underground tunnels in places like Gaza, I saw one of these tunnels in my dreams (not in Gaza but in the UK) and it is definitely not a nice space. In my dream, there were dark rituals and harvesting of energies in various disturbing ways (I hope it is okay but I would rather not go into too much detail here but you can use your imagination). There were elite people in these spaces, not just unknown terrorist characters.
I have been slow to wake up spiritually. It is still a work in progress. The gift of prophecy or sight seems to be more my thing. However, I do not think of it as seeing what is going to happen. It feels more like a spiritual war, fighting for timelines, dark possibilities for humanity compared with more empowering possibilities where humanity has a greater chance of learning lessons of sovereignty and spiritual embodiment.
If there was one positive in these darker dreams, it is that I have noticed a pattern lately of feeling less fear. I face the people causing the problems directly and do not run from them. In the example above, I faced some very evil characters and started to destroy their machines and harvesting rooms. I kept thinking to myself in the dream “I am a sovereign being and I do not consent.”
It is hard sometimes to see such evil confrontations in a positive way, but I am finding I am so much stronger than I ever knew. I also realize that witnessing some of these dark occult rituals provides clarity that I need. Some things in my life and the world make so little sense until these dreams explain what is going on. I have an opportunity to take action to help myself and learn what are the ways I can help others. One of the nuances here is the shadow work. My shadow work process has been long and extensive. However, if I let myself believe some of the trickster beings in these dreams, I would blame myself for everything and never stop.
I have slowly learned to trust myself. That is no small thing. I have received many negative comments from well meaning spiritual people over the years that think they know better than I do about what is going on with me. I mean no disrespect to spiritual healers, but no one really knows better than you do about what is going on with you. The light within your own heart is the only guide you really need. I have spent so much money on healings and guidance and almost nothing has worked better for me than my own meditations, walks in the woods, journaling about my dreams, eating right, automatic talking, and learning to be present in my own life.
Perhaps I have turned the corner with the dark dreams. Last night I had a dream I was visiting an old town where I used to live and I was looking for a gift to buy a friend. I was in a store owned by a woman. She offered to make me lunch and I explained to her how much I miss that town. Then I left the woman and walked in the other room and saw a man sitting at a table eating a piece of pepperoni pizza. I saw a stick with a big black bug on it and I was startled and dropped the stick on the floor and told the man about the bug. He stood up and was about to help me get rid of the black bug when the bug turned into a scorpion and he was terrified and walked away. I woke up after that. I was not sure when I woke up what was really going on in that dream.
When I am confused after one of my dreams, I usually use my Tarot cards to explain the dream symbolism. I just play and I am no expert, but they are quite helpful. I was expecting some devil card or similar explanation for the scorpion (Note to self: do not look on the internet for dream explanations on the scorpion as you will not like what you see). I was afraid it was another negative dream with dark warnings about some horrible thing coming in my life. However, the tarot cards were largely positive. What it seems like is that it was a message to me that there will be signs from spirit when I meet new people whether I can trust them or not (this has been an ongoing and difficult problem for me). That man was not on the trust list!
What we perceive as negative can be the very thing that saves us, so be careful about your assumptions. The dark has important gifts and lessons for us as well, but we need to pay attention.
(Originally Published April 3, 2024…I reposted some of my older blogs that I took down on an internet break)
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