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Feeding a pet I often dream that I’m talking to friends or doing something round the house, when I realise I've forgotten to feed my pet (I don’t own one but in the dream it's usually a ginger cat). Or I may be returning from holiday and the same thought strikes me. I'm filled with a feeling of dread because I know I'm going to find it dead. Sometimes I wake up at this point, at other times I dream I am actually faced with a skinny ginger corpse. Elizabeth, Blackheath Dear Elizabeth, Because they can see in the dark, cats are often associated with intuitive, feminine wisdom. They are also associated with fertility. Ginger is as near as a cat gets to being gold, the colour which symbolises great value. I wonder whether this dream is about your instincts, your true worth, the extent of your power - or all three. You mention in your letter that you work in a competitive industry where deadlines are a way of life. You have successfully adapted to this thrusting, goal-oriented and therefore essentially masculine environment. I suspect that your dream is trying to alert you to the needs of your inmost feminine nature. The ‘inner woman’ does not thrive on a diet of high achievement and suffers when you make your masculine side a priority. Notice that you remember the cat only when you are ‘off-duty’. This implies that the key to reviving that starving moggy is a relaxed attitude. Cats do not feel the need to prove their worth. They live in the present and accept themselves as they are. Your dream is encouraging you to embody more of these feline qualities. In your letter you ask if this is a common dream. It is – and men have it too. This reflects a concern that we are losing touch with our feminine values. Are we forgetting how to enjoy life for its own sake?  (Sun Taurus, Moon Scorpio)
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