I had a very vivid dream once while I was living on Kauai. I ‘awakened’ in my dream and found myself floating face down in a fetal position in the middle of the ocean without any ship or lifejacket, yet I was peaceful.

This felt totally real–vivid color, coldness of the water, the wind, the sky, the whole works. An endless period of time passed and it seemed I was just waiting for something. Then at some point something opened in my heart and I asked for some help from the universe from the bottom of my soul.

Instantaneously, something emerged from the depths of the ocean. Simultaneously a giant pair of hands enfolded my entire body in its cupped ladle and the head of a giant woman appeared 30 yards away in the water, towering over me.

A pair of pale blue eyes each larger than the size of my head gazed at me with so much love, reflecting the gentle ripples of ocean. Her hair spun in wavy curls down way past her shoulders into an unknown depth into the water, seemingly light brown with reddish highlights at the same time unless the red sky of a sunset was deceiving me. This giant woman picked me up out of the ocean and stood up, making the ocean seem like a bath tub to her naked body, barely covering her waist. She held my body near to her collar like I was a doll or figuring and filled me with the deepest and most healing love I had ever experienced. “Who are you?” I asked without words. “I am Ishtar,” she replied. That was the end of the dream, yet it has stayed with me my whole life.

The amazing thing was I had never heard that name before. About a week later on a friends coffee table a book was placed in my path that entitled, “Gods and Goddesses Throughout History.” I looked up Ishtar just for fun and found the entry read, to my utter surprise: “Mesopatamian Goddess of Fertility, wife of Tammuz. Also known as Isis in Roman(?) and later civilizations.” This dream happened at a time in my life when I really needed healing. This dream absolutely became an unforgettable anchor for the ongoing recovery into wholeness and balance into a being of love. I’d love to paint this image someday.

Peace b with u,
Oren