I dreamt several months ago of finding myself at the South Pole and it being the place of spiritual home.

In the present dream, I meet Helen – she is walking home from church.  She is a churchgoer, I am not, but I had attended Midnight mass at her church the night before this dream. I know in the dream that she has recently joined AA after a big change in her life which has to do with the initiation of women, and maybe death or revelation. There is a sense that I speak to her about this before meeting her. She is veiled softly, a pale blue or grey veil draped over her hair and framing her face. She has a necklace showing on her chest. She is pushing a pram, and her little girl and her husband and other children are walking a short distance behind her. She has an aura of stillness.

I speak to her in the first part of the dream about AA – but I cannot remember the words – I comment that it is clever for her to go to this church, which is a long way from the neighbourhood we live in, because it means she gets a long walk home.

The road is South Access Road, which in reality is the site of the municipal rubbish dump in our area.