...wow.

Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. This is the most detailed and exhaustive interpretation of a dream I've ever received, needless to say. Usually I have these incredibly vivid and strangely negatively charged dreams and I live with the images in my mind for a long while after. But this helped make sense of those images, both individually as individual themes and also in conjunction with one another.

A lot of what you've said is also similar to what my therapist and I were discussing the day before. Or, a lot of your interpretations sort of ... bolster those ideas we were having. Namely, with regard to my anger, which is ... quite an issue, she suggested that in some senses I have divided my self into that which is visible and permissible, and that which is real, and which I keep on the inside, the huge and almost inadmissible amount of rage... which is uncontrollable sometimes and can be extremely destructive. Since my split with my ex (12 days back) I've been unable to really feel anything on the outside, but I have these bouts of intense rage and anger, or debilitating sorrow, and in some cases weird anxiety about random crap. So I guess that would explain to a great extent the "evil" and probably relatively "feminine" energies that are plotting to take over?

The conflict I believe does have to do with my ex and whatnot. I'm not sure why my subconscious perceives this as a looming tragedy. Perhaps because getting over an ex is almost like being bereaved and my subconscious is relatively traumatised in that department. This was indeed a ... difficult decision for me to come to, to accept breaking up as the alternative. It was mutual, but if he hadn't completely given up on the relationship, I would have kept trying. Which perhaps fits into the being unsure of staying or going, the being torn in half... perhaps also being stuck in a rut stuff. I can see the bridge as a connection clearly - also because that has too been a fear in the last few days, of cutting myself off from people and being unable to connect with them again.

There is one question I have. The masculine side - are we talking animus or a more subjective sort of interpretation of one's own masculine side? I'm not too sure what that is, along with the feminine.

Again, thank you so much for taking this much time out. I'm really grateful. I was needing a lot of clarity and also connection, and this really meets my needs for such.

Many many hugs!