Tony Crisp Interpretation:
sphere, ball Wholeness; an “all round” view or a rounded character. Ball: interaction between two people, sexual and otherwise—the “ball” is in your court—in that throwing the ball may show someone trying to get one’s attention and response. Ball games, being thrown a ball: challenges, prowess, competition in the game of life; having and letting go; sex play; masturbation; a man’s “balls”; wholeness. idioms: have a ball; ball at one’s feet; one’s eye on the ball; start the ball rolling; new ball game; play ball with someone; he has/hasn’t the balls. See the self under . spiral Things we repeat over and over like habits; movement toward greater awareness or insight. Example: “We walk around, go upstairs, and I notice a staircase leading to a room or rooms. The stairs are painted in green too, and they go up square, about eight steps in a flight, but round and round —spiral. I am scared by them, don’t want to go up, but am curious. We move in and nobody but myself has really taken any notice of the stairs. Nobody has been up. Halfway up I can see there is a glass roof, the wooden frames painted green. I am terrified but have to go on. Then I wake. Next dream I got up there. It smelt very musty. Lots of draw sheets covering things. I bent to lift a sheet. It was raining. I could hear it thrashing on the glass. Then I woke.” (Nadine T.) In this example we have the spiral and the square combined in the stairs. In this way the dream manages to combine many different ideas, such as climbing to the unknown, spiraling or circling something, and the squareness or down-to-earth nature of what is being discovered. There are things we have learned, yet not realized consciously. Like a jigsaw puzzle, we have all the pieces, and we sense the connection, but we have never formed it into a conscious thought or verbal idea. It therefore remains as a feeling sense or hunch, but not a rational idea. Nadine is spiraling toward, or circling around, such a realization. She is frightened because it may be difficult—one may realize that all the years of marriage point to having been used as a doormat. square Down-to-earth; reality; the physical experience; stability; the materializing of an idea, feeling, or plan. Leonardo da Vinci’s diagram of the man in the circle within the square represents a complete balance of the various aspects of human nature—as he may have achieved himself. See mandala above. star Aspiration; the transcendent aspect of self. Six-pointed: personal harmony between physical, mental, and transcendent. Five-pointed: one’s body, oneself, and one’s sensed kinship with all life.