Okay this is crazy.
A few posts back I mentioned a dream about him cheating and me strolling around a Mediterranean city during a festival with piles of fish offerings for a Goddess every few blocks. I didn't think much of it since I've been doing meditations on the Divine Feminine and have been researching Goddesses, so I figured it was just a fun product of my imagination. Yesterday, out of curiosity I googled it and it turns out:
- There was a festival in the ancient mediterranean held the week of Feb 21. The same week I had the dream. It was a festival for deceased ancestors.
- Apparently, during this festival, fish were left as offerings at road crossings for the Goddess (Dea Tacita, Lara, Larunda, Larunde, Mater Larum, Muta, Hecate, etc.) I did not know this.
- Crossroads were sacred spots for this Goddess, being the meeting of two roads, symbolic of an area where the temporal world and spirit world ‘cross’ over one another. In my dream this is where the altars were situated!
- Funny too, apparently you're supposed to leave fish at the altar and immediately leave and not linger. In my dream I was wondering why I was the only person observing the fish pile when it seemed like people would be surrounding a spectacle that seemed important.
- Even weirder, this Goddess revealed a male's cheating. She told Jupiter‘s wife Juno what he did, Jupiter got mad, cut out Her tongue, and told Mercury to take Her to the Underworld, then Mercury raped her. Then She had some kids called the Lares, invisible household gods, who were silent and speechless like their mother. Then she hid in a cottage in the forest to avoid the male gods. (Sidenote, I had just booked a women-only retreat in the forest.)
I didn't know anything about Mediterranean deities until now. How did I dream it?! The festival and traditions were ancient but the dream was in modern times. Was I in overlapping realities? What city was I in and why and how? Supposedly the same Goddess was also known for her "Oracular" abilities. (Oracular like knowledge appearing to me in a dream???)
Other unrelated coincidence:
Alcoholic II is apparently going nuts without me so he found a job in my city intending to visit while here. Of all the businesses in the entire massively populated urban area I live in, the location he was scheduled to work at is the exact same place Alcoholic I works at.
It's a small business. They're not in the same industry. Alcoholic II lives 80 miles away. Neither have social media connected with me and I didn't even know he worked there until yesterday. What are the chances?! They'll be in the same place at the same time. It weirds me out. But I made up an excuse so I can avoid them both and research Goddesses instead. :) The End.
11:36 a.m. - 2020-03-02