Sword Options

There's a swordsman who challenges be to a duel. I didn't have a weapon so I'm in this temple rock garden. I pick up this rock which apparently is suppose to be forged into a sword. My dream skips how the sword was made, but what I get is this extremely flimpsy blade. To describe it, it was like it was thin like paper almost transparent, but could fold like cloth. When I start to wield it, the blade vibrated bluish and settled into a rigid form. This swordsman's sword was cut clean with one strike.

My simplist answer would be confronting a situation, emotions, memories or desires you are not ready to face or are not yet well equiped enough to handle.

Swords are also associated with the penis and masculinity. Thus dreaming yourself to have a flimsy sword while being challenged by another can show feeling jealous or emmasculated towards another male in your life you feel inferior towards (not necessarily even sexually, like your brother or father). Under this context the sword might also represent feeling sexually inadaquet, or feeling inferior as a male in general.

Combine that last suggestion with a more Freudian approach, this clash of swords (or in Freud's world, penises) can be related to feeling opressed by your father, or feeling that you are not living up to his standards or that you are not otherwise replicating a life that respects his values.

Finally, the last thing relavent about swords that pops into mind, is that the guy who is challenging you, is yourself as you wish to be, but you with the flimsy sword, is how you actually see yourself on some level. Thus this challenger may embody qualities like confidence, strength, power, dominance, maybe sexual abilities and so on. You, with the lesser sword, feel as though you do not have these qualities, or that you know you have them (I mean you do at least have a sword right?) but do not know how to really embrace them to give them substance (hence the "flimsy" substainceless sword) within your life.

The temple garden and the rock symbolize peace, tranquility and innovation (the rock changes into a sword), but your approach is flawed, its why you do not know how the rock became a sword (if you did, you'd know why your sword did not match the challenger) and ultimately your approach is not putting you in a position to match the challenger of your dream.

A more mystical interpretation of the challenger is that is not actually your enemy, but rather a guide from an alternate plane attempting to show you the way to gain the qualities it represents. Or rather challenge you in a way that stimulates your mind to find the correct answer that leads you to be able to overcome the challenger and gain his abilities.

If you have a tarot deck I would suggest you meditate over the meaning of the "king of swords" card.

This post has been edited by Acid09: Feb 18 2008, 07:26 PM