Blooming Wand
Blooming Wand
Emily O'Neal
The Dream Caravan: A Sufi teaching, a tarot card, and the question of when to leave
22 minutes Posted Jun 14, 2026 at 1:00 pm.
Why The Leaving Question Matters
The Dream Caravan Feeling
Sufism And The Caravan Path
Seven Of Swords As A Threshold
Journaling Exercise With Symbolic Imagery
Closing Questions To Sit With
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Send us Fan Mail What does it mean to leave the caravan? In this episode, Emily explores a Sufi teaching that stopped her in her tracks: the dream-caravan. Rooted in a fourteenth-century couplet by Bahaudin Naqshband, this teaching asks us to look honestly at the inherited paths we travel — and what it means when something in us starts pulling away from them. After enrolling in a mysticism course offered through Brit Hartley of No Nonsense Spirituality and her Sufi teacher David, Emily unpack...