Newborn Fawns
November 8, 2025. DREAM. Shasta was with me in a public park. In the grass yard at the edge of the woods, a doe ventured out and gave birth to two fawns. Shasta was curious and went over to sniff the newborns. I held on to her collar to maintain control, but of course she was gentle and not aggressive at all. Later, we were in a general hardware store. As I got ready to leave, I called to her, “Shasta, come on.” I awoke as she came over to join me.
Interpretation: The two newborn fawns are the key symbols. As with previous dreams of Shasta, the theme is one of new birth; that is, an ongoing spiritual rejuvenation on the astral planes after her transition last August. Deer are gentle creatures within the animal kingdom; as
newborns, the fawns are helpless and completely dependent upon their mother. In this case, the two fawns also represent a balance of two polarities, positive-male and negative-female, as were the German Shepherd puppies in my dream of September 4th. Shasta is curious and gentle, “sniffing” out her new life, exploring her world, and is not in need of my direct control (holding on to her collar).
Astral Veterinary Clinic
November 26, 2025. DREAM. Working at a veterinary clinic, I was responsible for reuniting individuals with their pet dogs when the animals were well enough to be released from our care. When the owner would come to pick up his or her dog, I would go get the dog and bring it out to the entrance foyer to effect the happy reunion. I performed this service three times before I awoke.
Interpretation: The veterinary clinic may represent an animal healing center on the astral planes, where sick canines who have made the transition are cared for and restored to health before being released to others on the astral who will take charge of their spiritual evolution. We know from Nada-Yolanda’s intunements, for example, that astral healing hospitals care for human souls who have made the transition and are in need of karmic rebalancing and rejuvenation as they adjust to their new life on the astral planes. It is not far-fetched to think that specialized healing centers also would assist animals, especially those of higher evolvement who have a close social interaction with humans.
In the dream, perhaps the reunion of owner and dog also represents a dynamic energy exchange of healing that occurs at a soul-astral level between the dog spirit and its previous physical human companion. The transition of a beloved animal companion, just as with humans, requires a mental-emotional adjustment of the two spirits on both sides of the veil. If so, the “entrance foyer” could symbolize the thin veil, or crossover point, between the two planes, where the human soul and the animal spirit can easily reunite in consciousness during the healing cycle. I effected three such reunions; that is, a trinity of actions inculcated this healing within mind, body and soul.
In this vein, my own dream encounters with Shasta, since her transition, are key moments of emotional healing and realignment within my own consciousness, and possibly within hers as she too adjusts to the new reality of our interdimensional exchange beyond the physical. Ours is a spiritual demonstration of human-animal energy exchange that helps set a universal pattern of healing for others in mass consciousness. To paraphrase Jesus, “We, as we are lifted up, will lift all others unto us.” That is our function as light workers, including in our interkingdom partnerships with our beloved animal companions.
Astral Encounters
November 28, 2025. DREAMS. In the morning, I went outside to look around. Shasta suddenly appeared in the yard fifteen feet away. She was full-grown. I called to her: “Shasta, what are you doing outside?” She stays inside with me, and I knew I hadn’t let her out during the night. She happily followed me back inside the house.
In a second dream, Shasta was inside the house with me. She was a lively puppy, several months old. Gleefully we romped together, absorbed in our play.
In a third dream, Shasta was again full-grown. She followed me everywhere I went, both inside the house and outside on the property grounds. We had a great time together. Both of us enjoyed me rubbing her belly!
In another dream, I went alone to see Dr. Mike, my veterinarian who had taken care of Shasta. In his office, I consulted with him about preparing to obtain a new dog.
In a fifth and final dream, El Morya/Mark and I, with Shasta, went to a pet store to pick up a few things. As we left, Shasta accompanied us out the door.
Interpretation: This series of five dreams, one after the other, appears to indicate an extended inner plane encounter with Shasta. Perhaps she actually visited me overnight in her astral form, and the energy exchange became translated in my subconscious as these different dream scenarios. At any rate, the encounters filled my heart with joy and stimulated many happy memories.
The consultation with Dr. Mike may be an indication that energy patterns and preparations are in motion for me to obtain a new dog. He might also represent an actual animal healer or trainer on the higher astral planes — one who is connected with the protective Astral K9 Unit — who is helping to manipulate the proper energy patterns around my force field that would attract the right dog spirit into my life. Given my present circumstances, though, I have no conscious plans to proceed just yet. God’s will and timing be done in this matter, as in all things.
It is interesting to note that in the last dream El Morya/Mark was with us. Obviously, the ascended masters are well aware of the adjustment I’ve been undergoing since Shasta’s transition last August.
Shasta’s Puppy
December 5, 2025. DREAM. In the countryside, I was cycling on the Interstate. Shasta was joyously keeping up with me; sometimes running right behind my bicycle, sometimes bounding ahead. Also with us was Shasta’s little female Black Lab puppy! Although she was just two to three months old, she also was keeping up with us, eager to be on an adventure. Shasta and her puppy occasionally would pause briefly to romp happily with one another as they ran beside me. They exhibited a close bond of love.
All the while, there was no other traffic on the Interstate. Then, far back in the distance, I saw a car approaching in our lane. For safety’s sake, I moved off to the side of the highway and quickly corralled the two dogs in my arms. As I took hold of the puppy’s collar to keep her still, I suddenly realized she hadn’t yet been named. I resolved to myself, “I’ve got to give her a name.” Protectively, I drew Shasta and the puppy close to me, awaiting the car to pass.
Interpretation: This dream of Shasta introduces an entirely new element: her own female puppy. In real life, Shasta never had any offspring. The symbolism of new life, new birth, new regeneration for Shasta in the astral realms is repeated once again. Mother and puppy are healthy, vigorous, well adjusted, and happy to be with their human companion. My heart, too, is full.
The female Black Lab puppy is perhaps three months old, which places her within the cycle since Shasta’s passing last August. The puppy has no name, but I announce my intention to give her one. This indicates that new spiritual manifestation or bonding is in the process of being crystallized, formulated in consciousness.
I am reminded of the Bible verse in Genesis 2:19: “Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.” It addresses our spiritual dominion over and great responsibility to the animal kingdom. We are charged to care for them, to protect them, and to help guide their spiritual evolution on this Earth.
Whether this dream also signifies that a real puppy is to materialize in my life, I don’t know. All must unfold naturally according to Spirit’s will and timing.
Supplementary Reading:
Photos: (1) Shasta, November 2015, Mark-Age Archives. (2) Phillel & Shasta (three months old), February 2014, the day after I adopted her at the animal shelter; Mark-Age Archives.
In a final dream segment, I was at my family home in Lufkin, Texas. Jonathan and others of the family also were there. Tremendous rains poured down and there was great flooding. The house and all of us were washed downstream in the flood, but everyone remained safe. I wondered what had become of Shasta.
accompanied me. Also, while I talked with the shopkeeper, my former dog Cheyenne appeared. The shopkeeper went back inside to check his stock, but I remained outside. Happily, I petted and interacted lovingly with both my dogs. (In the dream, I had no awareness that Shasta recently had made the transition, yet I knew that Cheyenne had been my former dog.) Two other large dogs, apparently the shopkeeper’s, also came on the scene.
downstairs apartment. Periodically he or she would go stand in front of the door, expecting to be let in, then would walk around to the side and lie down by the stairs, under the balcony. The dog did this maneuver two or three times as I continued to walk toward the house.
August 15, 2025. This afternoon just after two o’clock, my beloved dog Shasta was put to sleep, after bouts of illness over the past month. A Black Lab/Great Dane mix, she was eleven years old (she would have turned twelve on October 30th). She rebounded well initially in July, but recently fell ill again and stopped eating finally. Last April at her annual exam she weighed a normal 91 pounds. This week she was down to 75, skin and bones, and was losing also her mobility with her back legs.
A friend mentioned that Shasta was a “joyful spiritual companion amidst the sorrows.” How true! This morning, while lying awake in bed before dawn, I was thinking how much Shasta was my “therapy dog” or “support animal,” one could say, helping me with her unconditional love to maintain balance amid all the stresses and vicissitudes of life. She was a daily comfort to me. Our bond of love is eternal.
I continued periodically to turn around my grief by sending Shasta waves of love and light, showering her with blessings. I am so grateful to God for the years Shasta and I enjoyed on this plane. Our eternal bond of love now will be expressed interdimensionally. I trust in Spirit that all is well and is moving forward in the right order.
Prayer for Shasta
visitors or as immigrants, without becoming proper citizens. Any and all of these can be draining your resources, breaking your laws, harming your real citizens, destroying your nation’s assets.




The third state of evolutionary growth of man with man, of society with society, of nation with nation has yet to come. The signs and marks of the age are prevalent in this department as well as in all other departments too. But they have not reached that perfected level as yet. They have not reached the point where man can take the gauge of which I now speak and say to himself most honestly: we are only, in some cases, at the second stage of evolution, and finally must come to the third stage of complete cooperation and coordination. . . .
in contact as you try to transmute them from second stage evolvement to third stage evolvement. Obviously, it is that type of thinking which is willing to come to a truce and to live in a sense of harmony with all others who are differing from them in color, in nationality, in race, in religion and in basic governmental precepts.
The Fifth Ray, which is the Ray of Integration and Unity, obviously is the ray which teaches man and all other life forms and expressions to have a sense of balance, harmony and respect and to begin to unify his vibration, his speciality or function with all others.
But when this condition made manifest an awakening too sudden and not controlled by the higher plane focus or spiritual workers of other planes, and many who had achieved such mastership took the matters into their own hands and aborted the true and higher plan for the sons of men who were in third dimensional frequency, we had to abandon our schedule and to begin again. . . .
Planning until that point is sometimes equivalent to many years, or many lifetimes in some cases, even for a master demonstration. It cannot be measured in mortal terms, nor is it meant to be measured in mortal terms, because it has to do with the plan of Spirit affecting the entire race, and certainly as it is proper for that individual soul in his evolutionary progress and for the part he must play within the masses. So, there is no hindrance or no stigma attached to the fact that in the case of some individuals the raising of the kundalini in a physical body may take several lifetimes. . . .
Since Spirit is in all of these areas and regions, since Spirit creates and controls all life form, Spirit alone knows the hour and the moment for the final full awakening, when any one individual can demonstrate the powers of God, the knowledge of God, the love of God and the beingness of His cocreative life; a son in full-manifested glory. This is the crowning glory of any of the light workers and sons of the realm of Godship. It cannot be premeditated, it cannot be planned, it cannot be proclaimed by man alone. It must be prepared and it must be presented by the Spirit alone.
Man’s questioning concerning his responsibility to love is reflected in the historical dramas of many scriptures. For example, from the beginning to the end of the Holy Bible, from the book of Genesis to the book of Revelation, we have this question: Am I my brother’s keeper? The selfish part of ourselves destroys the unselfish; the mortal tries to murder the immortal. Yet, Jesus, who enacted for us the role of the Christ Self in each one, concluded the entire saga of man on this planet with, “I, if I be lifted up, will raise all men unto me.”
Self-examination on a frequent and regular basis is essential to answering honestly these questions. Repeatedly going within and connecting with your I Am spirit will help you discover your love potential for your fellowmen. The following passage is ideal for spiritual study and regular self-analysis. It is taken from the book Teach Us To Pray by Charles and Cora Fillmore, published by Unity School of Christianity. Charles Fillmore, cofounder of Unity, had incarnated previously as Paul the Apostle, and is now on the etheric planes as Hilarion, Chohan of the Fifth Ray.