Cont.
I can't quite describe my feelings, it wasn't as if my tree (Holle's tree) was indeed cut down, but almost like it had been replaced by this statue. My sadness wasn't as great as it would have been but it was there. It was a nice sculpture, but not my tree. I started wondering if I could go to the neighbors & request to plant a new apple tree in their woods, as a sort of tribute to Holle to replace the missing tree. I'm painfully shy but I wanted to do it. I was still undecided when the dream ended.
Upon awakening I saw similarities to real-world thoughts. Holle's apple tree. The Irminsul & its fate. I also wondered about Ewiger Jäger as I'd been thinking about him & had just set up his offering on the Irminsul. In the dream, one symbol was replaced by another, & then I was pondering how to do another replacement. A redesign...? Like the Irminsul? Ewiger Jäger & Holle aren't traditionally associated with the Irminsul BUT there are loose, similar connections, especially if you buy the theory that Holle is associated with Frikka & Ewiger Jäger is associated with Wotan, of whom Irmin is supposed to be an aspect. (Urglaawe seems to reject this theory. I'm used to seeing cognates in myths of various cultures, I believe Holle/Frikka & Ewiger Jäger/Wotan likely have a common source but differentiated over time, kind of like how Hathor & Sakhmet from Egyptian myth are different yet sometimes the same.) I also came across a reference to Holle & a rooster in a tree, I believe, I meant to cover it but forgot & will need to try to find it again someday. Anyway that's when I was seeking ties between the Saxon Irminsul & the Norse Yggdrasil, & the Pennsylvania Dutch "tree of life," as I assume they too are connected.
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Anyway that's my brain wondering if I'm being signaled to do something, by Ewiger Jäger or Holle or who, though I'm unsure what. Maybe something about the apple tree or Irminsul.
I'm losing my focus so that's all for now. #spirituality #heathenry