I had this dream on my mother’s birthday. My sister interprets it here.

A mother and baby deer run together. I see a yellow ribbon circling around their legs like a lasso, swirling around and around as they run. I realize that it will get tangled if they keep running, and that it will bring them down. I go to help them as someone else goes to get scissors. I can’t wait though because time is of the essence. I can’t imagine that they’ll let me get close, and I know deer hooves can be sharp and dangerous. However, they do let me approach them, and I lean down and grab the ribbon and gently begin to pull. And it just starts to unravel, easily slipping off as I keep pulling. No scissors needed. Then they are free, and the mother is very affectionate with me, like I am now part of them. I sit on the ground, and she comes up behind me and stands with her chest against my back, putting her head on top my head. It feels good, comforting, but also a little strange. And I am not sure if I think it feels confining.
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Running is what deers do, but how can they run with a ribbon around their legs? Ribbons are pretty, attached to gifts, worn in young girls’ hair, or given as prizes. Yellow ribbons have become associated with rembrance of lost love, with prisoners of war.
The dreamer wants to help but doubts she can get close to this wildness and fears if she does, she may be injured. But she risks the danger and acts in spite of doubt because she knows that the legs of the deer are at risk. Legs connect to ground, to survival, to freedom and joyful movement. This is worth all risks. The time is right and time is of the essence.
She unravels the tangle, the “pretty” but ultimately crippling bond/cord. Unravelling reminds me of the gentle but persistent process of becoming aware of the me, not me.
The dreamer is literally crowned with the mother deer. I am wondering if this is a way of the dreamer saying to herself “You are loved and loving, mother in the best sense, animal mother.” The image I have is of a native dancer wearing one of those large headdress/masks and becoming the embodiment of the animal/spirit.
The dreamer wonders if this new “crown” will be confining. As with the ribbon, she knows the dangers of connections that restrict and confine. She is asking whether it is possible to receive gratitude and affection , to take on power,and still move freely. This connection is occurring at the top of the head (crown chakra), not at the root chakra like the yellow ribbon. The dreamer has earned this blessing through compassion, risk taking, skill and persistence. It has not, like the yellow ribbon, been thrust on her in unconsciousness. Still, she is right to wait and evaluate. Perhaps there is more to come in terms of full embodiment or integration of the connection that liberates.