Dream of St. George
I’ve been having recurring dreams of St. George for 25 years. This artwork is a representation of how his energy appeared to me in one of those dreams a few years ago. St. George is the patron saint of England, and many other countries, groups, and entities. Whenever I need huge doses of courage, St. George shows up in my life.
In the dream I am walking on a sidewalk alongside a red brick building with no windows. I am happy and generally feeling good, minding my own business, and just walking along. Suddenly, just as I get to the end of the brick wall, a hooded male figure in a dark cloak jumps out in front of me and takes a big long knife out from underneath his cloak. Within an instant, he uses the knife to pierce my face cheek-to-cheek side-to-side through each end of my mouth. Interestingly, I feel no pain and there is no blood.
Instantly he turns to leave and walk quickly away from me — no words are exchanged between us and I feel no fear, anger, shock, or danger — in the dream I stand there watching him walk further and further away, his black cloak trailing and rippling behind him in the wind.
In the dream I touch my face and find there is no injury there. And then I wake up.
It took me a long time to figure out that this was St George telling me over and over again that I must learn to slay my fears (just as, in the legend, he had slayed the dragon through its mouth with his sword) — his message was to keep evolving, to keep growing, and to not be afraid of Life in order to reap its treasures.
It took a long time. He visited me often and always with the knife.
In a different dream I felt and saw his energy visit me again — this time he came in the visual that I have tried to capture in this artwork.
Over the years, St. George has serendipitously appeared to me in suburban coin shops, a New York City pub, on European mountaintops, in jewelry, on museum walls in Italy, in Spanish churches, and hotels, movie theaters, and many, many more places and circumstances. I never expect to “see” him but he always shows himself to me when I need him the most.
Dream of St. George | 14 x 17 | Colored Pencils, Paint Pens, Ink & Graphite
