The Settler

The Symbols

House Boat, Labradoodle Dog, Whale, Stars, Ocean

Might Mean

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, satisfaction, loyalty, memory, grounding, nostalgia, baggage, immobility, stagnation

Depth: soul-searching, wisdom, guidance, planning, 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 moment seizes us – Boyhood

A settled life (better with a co-pilot) – Up in the Air

Letting go of memories – Up (and the story behind it)
The Persistence of Memory – Salvador Dali,
Life Changes & Memory Loss – What They Had

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

Podcasts:
Two Heartbeats a Minute (Invisibilia),
Unlocking the Mysteries of Time, Animal Minds (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

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, Soul, Contemplation, Flow State, Nirvana,
Time Perception, Self-Control, Security, Central Nervous System,
Vagus Nerve, Sleep, Relaxation, Balance, Resilience, Sedentism,
Nostos, Astronomy, Recall, Long-Term Memory, Imprinting

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

"There's a Polynesian saying... standing on a whale, fishing for minnows... We are standing on a whale, the ground of being is the ground of our being. And outward turned we see all these little problems here, but inward we are the source of them all. That's the big mystical teaching."

– Joseph Campbell, Power of Myth

Literature:
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)