The Planner

your way or my way, as long as you're by my side I know we'll get there

Symbols

House Boat, Lotus Tree, Labradoodle Dog, Whale, Stars, Full Moon, Ocean

Keywords

Rest: calm, quiet, peace, relaxation, contemplation, openness, willingness, idleness, sedentary, being a homebody, patience, not rocking the boat, inertia, boredom, passivity

Stillness: stability, balance, settling down, returning home, ancestral roots, loyalty, memory, grounding, nostalgia, baggage, immobility, stagnation

Depth: soul-searching, wisdom, guidance, planning, perseverance, long-term, purpose, focus, moving slowly or cautiously, control, analysis paralysis

For Example

Movie Clips & Videos:

Memory is a strange thing – Arrival (Facing the fear of existence)

The start of a new adventure – Up (and the story behind it)

The life plan (better with a co-pilot) – Up in the Air

The Persistence of Memory – Salvador Dali,
Life Changes & Memory Loss – What They Had,
(Van Gogh) Why Do You Paint? – At Eternity's Gate

How Memories Form and How We Lose Them – Catharine Young,
Heart State and Hormonal Balancing – Christiane Northrup,
The Whale's Belly, Standing on a Whale – Joseph Campbell

Podcasts:
Two Heartbeats a Minute (Invisibilia),
Unlocking the Mysteries of Time, Animal Minds,
The Humpback and the Killer (Radiolab),
New Beginnings (This American Life)

"In psychological terms, he who has attained the realm of the full moon has gained knowledge of the unconscious as past, source, origin; he has power in this present world; and has insight into the realm of the future. He has become in a certain sense timeless, he transcends the limitations of time. He has gained immortality.

The immortality promised by the moon, however, is not a continuation in a state of perfection, but an ever-renewed life like the moon's own, in which diminishing and dying are as essential as becoming."

– M. Esther Harding, Women's Mysteries

The painting that helped ease Van Gogh's most turbulent year

Writings:
Fables of the Dog and the Whale, The Importance of a Siesta,
How To Take It Slow In A Relationship,
Why Nothing Is More Exciting for Romance Than Calm,
Memory involves the whole body. It’s how the self defies amnesia,
Hi, We Found Your Dog on Your Roof (can't make this stuff up!)

Secrets Of People With All The Time In The World,
A Penetrating Field Guide To A Life Of One's Own,
Willful vs Willing, Will and Spirit: A Contemplative Psychology

Unmoved Mover, Flow State, Nirvana, Seven Heavens, Self-Control,
Time Perception, Central Nervous System, Mental Time Travel, Goal,
Vagus Nerve, Sleep, Relaxation, Balance, Resilience, Sedentism,
Nostos, Long-Term Memory, Imprinting, Hyperfocus, Planning, Quest

White Knuckles (and How They Got There) – OK Go

"Even today it is a great shock to the average layman when he realizes he is not the master in his own house, that he must reckon with other wills than the one he identifies with in his own field of behavior."

– Barbara Hannah, The Inner Journey, p.71

Literature:
Baba Yaga,
The Dog and His Master (Aesop),
The Little Prince – Geographer (Saint-Exupéry))

Songs:
This Must Be The Place – Talking Heads,
Stay Gold (First Aid Kit)