A couple of weeks ago I asked some friends for suggestions of dream symbols they’d like to see me discuss here. One of the most unusual was “An eggplant as a guardian angel.” Often when I hear a dream my mind goes to word play, so one of the first things I thought of was “egg plant,” or a plant that grows eggs. Eggs in dreams often represent wholeness, potential, new projects, and new ideas. So when I imagine dreaming of an egg plant as my guardian angel, I understand that I’m protected by my own potential, by my own wholeness, and by my ability to create and be inspired by new ideas.
As my friend mentioned when she suggested the symbol, whenever a dream shows a specific food in a favorable light (and what could be more favorable than a guardian angel?) it’s a good idea to consider adding that food to my diet. Eggplant is a good source of antioxidants and vitamins (read more here and here) , and so my dream might be telling me I need more of those in my diet.
Since the French word for eggplant, aubergine, is also the name of the purple color of the skin of many varieties of the eggplant, I would look for ways to bring that color into my life, to remind me of my potential and my creativity.
6 thoughts on “Guardian Angel Eggplant”
Thanks, Laura for considering my dream symbol as your topic. The obvious (a plant that produces eggs) never occurred to me, wouldn’t you know! LOL! – This is the subject matter for my next dream painting and so I am emerging myself into all things purple, ideas, other new projects (Like…”The Power of the Image” , which I hope will be a class a book and road show one day)
One interesting thing is that the eggplant was the guardian of my 2 year old grandson in the dream. How are these two symbols tied together I’ve wondered. One day I had a huge aha while reflecting on this!
The announcement of his birth was quite a shock for poor old grandma, who worried constantly about his mother who could barely take care of his older brother and was now pregnant again. The birth and delivery was a difficult one, and I almost fainted while I held my daughter as she received her epidural. I am not the fainting type and wondered why I got so whoozy standing up. Two years later, (t the time of the dream) I discovered I had high blood pressure causing dizziness. So, I began to wonder if I may have had high blood pressure for the past two years, since my grandson’s birth, and could “eggplant” help me? I researched eggplant and I was shocked eggplant is great in treating high blood pressure and also good for nerves! My unconscious knew just what I needed! Once again it’s reinforced how we know everything on a very deep level, at that level where we are all connected, in the collective unconscious!
I would love to hear anything others can say to deepen my appreciation of this symbol!
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Hi Laura and Brenda: What an amazing thing, Brenda, for the dream to give you such a specific clue to your physical health! And, Laura, I love the “plant that makes eggs” that has never occurred to me! One other level to the dream in my version might be, is it possible that I have a special soul connection with my grandson? (i.e., from other lives, other incarnations) I’m currently listening to the audio book, “Journey of Souls” which is a book I read many years ago. Fascinating though to delve back into the material again. One woman tells a story of how she was deeply connected with another soul in an ancient life, a man she considered her teacher and guide and she realizes during the regression session that her guide chose to reincarnate as her son. I would wonder then, imagining myself in this scenario, that high blood pressure notwithstanding, do I feel faint and dizzy due to the sheer intensity of a soul I’m deeply connected with that is returning to earth, incarnated as my grandson? There are also a number of stories about soul’s sharing different bodies simultaneously, which is so difficult for us to grasp as we usually thing so linearly! If it were me, I would pay close attention to any other physical clues and body sensations I might feel when with my grandson. Love your painting by the way!
Just saw this comment after all these years. Today’s date is 1-15-2023! Interesting thoughts Billie! I wonder if it is so too. Thanks. I feel this old body and soul can’t take too much more intensity. LOL. However, whatever and whomever needs my protection and interaction, I’m here for.
I’m finally finishing the painting of this dream and maybe I will bring it to the next Dream Retreat. <3
I get an aha from Billie’s projection that there’s a deep soul connection between myself (imagining myself as the dreamer) and my grandson. When I imagine the eggplant as his guardian angel, and the eggplant clearly has physical health benefits for me, I wonder if the dream is suggesting that I need to be his guardian angel in some way. In particular, if it were me, in protecting his creative potential, in nurturing whatever artistic expression he may have. If I’m a little kid born into a family that is already stressed, that creative expression may be one of the first things I suppress as I try to fit in and not cause too many problems. So if I had a grandma who could give me room for that, what a blessing that would be.
Wow! In response to both Billie and Laura, I think you are on to something, because in the last portion of the dream it’s as though I am the eggplant picking ants off his legs. The ants are not biting, or stinging yet, still they pose a possible threat of danger, and so I pick them off.
Love the re-incarnation piece! Guess this dream will continue to unfold in meaning, like so many others?! Thanks to you both. I’m sure my negative reaction to the news of his coming birth has many levels of meaning. Will he be a challenge to my expression, or an angel, or both?
Love Dreams!
Guess I did see your comment above, Billie and forgot. LOL. Anyway, I think I needed to revisit. Ha. 😉