the timboucher experience

During my recent travels, I ended up getting very stoned with a couple of friends one night, and was launched into an enormous series of revelations and quasi-visions. Most of them I was unable to remember the next day, save for the general outlines and themes of what was being uncovered by me. One of the ones I remember very vividly though was this whole thing about me being a farmer.

I don’t know if it was supposed to be some weird archetypal center that I was touching on, or if it was some kind of past life recollection, or just a projection to a strange mental place. But in this vision, I had the distinct impression that I was standing in the midst of a vast golden field of wheat, and I was harvesting it with this enormous wooden scythe. I can see it very clearly, and know the kinds of weird old-timey clothes I was wearing, and can feel the wood and the weight of the scythe, and the way my body turned while I was using it. Also during the whole thing, I had the distinct feeling that this image was somehow an image of my “true self” or me as I really am, whatever that means. And that knowledge was altogether heartening.

The location itself was very familiar also. The fields lay at the foot of a mountain, all of which I’ve seen before or visited somehow in dreams. I have several locations like that. Places I know I’ve never been but which I return to again and again. Places that if I ever do find them in real life, I’ll know that I’m “home” somehow.

Symbolically, the scythe is related to Death, harvester of souls, whose image comes from Saturn/Cronos in mythology. Father Time is the other manifestation of Saturn, and Saturn rules Capricorn, my birth sign. Also during this vision, I got into thinking about the shape of the sickle moon, and imagined myself holding that as well, and using it as an implement in my work. A dream dictionary site says that to dream of a scythe in use forecasts an increase in material wealth. Apparently the Freemasons also use the scythe as a symbol:

The scythe is often associated with destruction. However, upon deeper reflection, the scythe cuts the old to make way for the new - and thus the cycle of life repeats itself. For example, in order to gather the harvest (grain, which feeds life) the giver (in this case the plant) must be killed. Until the fifteenth century, it was not the scythe, but the sickle that was portrayed in similar ways the scythe is today. This probably reflects the changing implements used in farming. It should be noted, that the 13th Major Arcana Card in the Tarot, Death, depicts a scythe not cutting down life, but the wordily illusions. This also corresponds with its meaning, which is not the end, but the beginning of a cycle. In this case, the scythe is a positive tool - one that opens the door to the realm of the true and invisible reality.

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