I was in a room together with my son and daughter and my former in-laws. They were all years younger than their actual age. Suddenly, a male angel dressed in white flew in on a gust of wind, landed in front of me and said, "It's time." My children and I started to cry. I took my rings off my fingers and pressed them into the hands of my son and daughter. The angel then placed a strange brown-haired child (approximately three years old) into my arms, and then the angel, this child and I became airborne. We ascended into the heavens, escorted by flocks of birds.

I asked the angel, "What about Henri?" (a man I am currently in a relationship with). I heard the answer "He will know" come at me from somewhere. After some time, we set down to rest on a concrete slab in the middle of a large body of water. We took flight again after a while, and finally I landed, together with the child, near a beautiful forest, and there was a large house covered in yellow, orange and red roses. The angel was gone! I could hear children singing in this house and two little girls came out of the forest carrying little baskets with pieces of bread. I had reached my destination.

I woke up from the dream crying, and I remember that I felt as if I had to fight my way through thick blankets of fog, back to consciousness, in order to wake up. I got out of bed and sat in the living room and cried for a while, wondering what to make of this. I felt that something powerful had just happened to me. After I went back up to my bedroom, the hairs on my arms and back of my neck stood up, almost as if there was a presence in my room.

Background information: At the time of this dream I had been separated from my husband (an alcoholic and gambler, who almost destroyed our lives) for just over three years, and was in a relationship (and I still am) with a man named "Henri", who is very intelligent, ambitious, kind and sensitive. I know he cares for me very deeply. I know I love him, but feel somewhat insecure in our relationship. When I first went to bed that night, I asked the divine power what direction my relationship with Henri was going to take? I know the answer was in my dream, but I'm not certain how to interpret it.

—Anonymous, age 49, separated, CANADA

Hi Anonymous—

It's little wonder that you are curious about the meaning of this dream, especially since it appears to be divinely inspired. It's not every night we are visited by angels!

The angel's arrival at the beginning of the dream -- ambiguously announcing "It's time" (time to die and go to heaven, or just time for a decision?) -- signals the advent of change. It is significant that you are with your children, and that you remove your rings and press them into their hands. You are about to leave on a journey, but before you can go, there's something you have to leave behind. This "something" is your relationship -- symbolized by the wedding rings -- with your first husband. In real life, leaving this relationship behind no doubt is complicated by the presence of your two children. It is important to note, however, that in the dream both children give you their blessing to take this journey: They accept the rings that you press into their hands.

Up, up, and away you soar, like a bird into the sky. The journey is so long that you need to rest along the way. After a second period of flying, you finally arrive at your destination, and heavenly it is. A house decorated in yellow, orange, and red roses awaits you. Inside the house, you hear the voices of children singing. Outside, strolling in the garden, two girls appear carrying baskets of bread. It is a vision of passion, rebirth, and abundance.

Dreams rarely "tell" us the future, perhaps because the future, genuinely, is ours to create. But they often do tell us what steps we need to take if we wish to arrive at a particular destination in our lives. Three years before you had this dream, you made the decision to extricate yourself from a dangerous and unhealthy relationship. At this point in time, you gave birth to a new identity for yourself: you, apart from your husband. Today's dream suggests that this transition to your new self, symbolized by the three-year-old child whom you carry with you in the dream, is not yet complete. Are you reluctant to leave your husband, i.e., divorce him, out of concern for your children? If so, your dream appears to be encouraging you to recognize that your children will understand, and support, your decision. Perhaps this is the answer which you intuitively know is in this dream.

Before you went to sleep, you asked the divine power for guidance as to what direction your relationship with Henri was going to take. The dream does not answer this question directly, though I am tempted to suggest that he sounds like an island of stability (perhaps made of concrete?) in the midst of deep emotional waters. Your dream, on the other hand, appears to have answered a much more important and central question. "It's time," now, for the second part of your journey. You have the blessings of your children, and Henri will understand. May you continue to be divinely inspired along the way.