The Curator

The Symbols

Squirrel, Owl, Owl Behavior, Apple, Golden Apple, Apple Tree, Dusk

Might Mean

Organization: de-cluttering, perfectionism, quality over quantity, creating curated collections or meals, harmony, clarity, cleanliness, picking out the essential, compartmentalizing, differentiation, variety

Restraint: setting limits or feeling limited, setting preferences, uniqueness, minimalist lifestyle, going on a diet, scarcity, experiencing lack, oversight, not saying a lot or keeping secrets, "need to know" basis, silence, leaving the past behind

Compression: taking less room, becoming smaller, compaction, condensation, density, cramming a lot in a small space, making more with less

For Example

Movie Clips & Videos:

Owl watching the gold miner - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Owl symbolism in a mythological dream - Joseph Campbell

Fear of flying - Animated Short Film

Negative Space - Animated Short Film

A Mother's Heart (compartmentalizing one's feelings),
How To Process Your Emotions

Podcasts:
Right To Be Forgotten,
Weeding is Fundamental

Writings:
To Boost Higher-Order Thinking, Try Curation,
Compartmentalizing, The Secret Behind Successful Entrepreneurs,
Putting Your Feelings Where They Belong, Compartmentalization,
Filter Bubble, Simple Living, Cleanliness, Condensation, Compression

"Compartment psychology is a very widespread phenomenon, we find it in perfectly 'normal' people. It is not in itself a sign of pathology. Jung pointed out it is largely the result of conventional morality. We have so many opinions about how we ought to be, and we lie, as a rule, so far from what we actually are, that a situation easily arises in which one is induced to form compartments." – Barbarah Hannah, The Animus vol. 2 (p. 241)

Mythology:
Sophrosyne (a goddess of moderation and self-control),
Hesperides (nymphs of the evening guarding the golden apples),
Persephone (goddess of the underworld),
Ratatoskr (Norse mythological squirrel)