I dreamt I was talking to someone about how much I love sailing, and when they asked, I assured them I could sail a boat without help. To prove it, I stepped into a tiny sailboat with a little sail and started sailing. The boat was like two leaves, one for the hull and one for the sail, and it was just big enough for me to stand in. Once I got a feel for the boat, the sail caught the wind and I was moving really fast across the water. I was laughing and reveling in the speed and feel of the cool wind on my body. I was sailing right on the edge of exhileration and fear of disaster, but I felt so alive. Then I was sailing through a pod of humpback whales that were breaking the surface of the water with their backs, fins and tails. I was overcome with how beautiful they were as I zipped between them. I was also aware that they could destroy my boat if one of them hit it, and it would be like when I step on an ant, unaware that I was even there. So again I was caught between enjoying the singularity of the moment, and fear of disaster.

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I don’t think this dream needs much “interpreting”–I am putting it up for the pure delight of being in it. I know the person who had this dream and that she is starting a new venture, so it is particularly delightful for me to read. To see her, in her inner space, feeling so powerful and excited and free. A perfect animus dream to my way of thinking. Not power over someone else or control, but harnessing the power of the wind to move you along. Being exhilerated by challenges rather than overwhelmed or frozen or hardened by them. Even if fear also is present.
I hope you can enter into this dream and feel it yourself!