Ballerina
Ballet dancer, Ballet, Music box ballerina
A ballerina makes the impossible look effortless: spinning on the tip of a toe, leaping as if gravity were optional. Behind that lightness are years of discipline, sore feet and endless repetition, and the dream often holds both sides. It may express admiration for grace under pressure, or a wish to move through life with more poise. If you were the ballerina, you might be working very hard to make something look easy, perhaps hiding what it costs you. The tiny ballerina in a music box, turning to the same tune, belongs to childhood, and to the feeling of going around in a pleasant but fixed routine.
Dream variations
- Becoming a ballerinaYou long for elegance and to be admired for your skill. Practice the basics; poise grows from them.
- A ballerina fallingYou're afraid one slip will spoil a performance you've worked hard on. Mistakes happen in every rehearsal; get up and finish the dance.
- A music box ballerinaA sweet memory is turning round and round in your mind. Savor it, then wind up something new.
- Taking ballet lessons as an adultIt's not too late to learn something graceful and demanding. Start where you are, at the barre.
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