Dreaming Soul (Yulu Way)

Corresponds to INFP in Western frameworks – but with our own cultural lens.

Overview

The Dreaming Soul walks gently but carries great inner strength. You are someone who feels deeply — about people, Country, culture, and the unseen. You’re often guided by inner visions and sacred truths that connect you to the past, present, and future. Your dreaming is not just imagination; it’s ancestral knowing, a spiritual compass that informs how you see the world and your place in it.

You may not always be the loudest voice in the room, but your words and actions often carry profound meaning. People may describe you as a “deep thinker” or “old soul,” and they wouldn’t be wrong — you carry stories and emotions that stretch far beyond your years.

Your power lies in your ability to dream, to feel, to hold space for others. In many communities, you are the unspoken backbone of healing, quietly nurturing others, holding hope, and weaving emotional and spiritual strength into the lives of those around you.

Strengths

  • Creative Expression: Whether through art, music, poetry, or quiet creation, you express what others often struggle to put into words. Your work often touches others in ways they didn’t expect.

  • Empathy and Emotional Insight: You feel other people — their struggles, their joys, their unspoken stories. You can sit with someone in silence and still understand them deeply.

  • Reflective and Introspective: You think carefully before acting or speaking. Your decisions are often guided by a strong moral compass and deep cultural or spiritual values.

  • Purpose-Driven: You’re not here for the shallow things. You seek meaning in everything you do and are most fulfilled when your work contributes to healing, justice, and cultural renewal.

  • Gentle Leadership: You don’t seek control, but your presence often inspires calm, clarity, and care in others. You model a way of being that prioritises depth over dominance.

Mob Vibe

In mob settings, you might be the one off to the side, watching, listening, noticing the little things no one else picks up on. You see patterns, feelings, energies — even in the land and sky. You might be more connected to dreams, visions, or your old people who visit you in subtle ways.

You’re often the person others come to when they need comfort or someone who truly gets them. While you value connection, you also need time on your own to recharge and reflect. Large crowds or fast-paced environments can feel overwhelming — you thrive in quieter, more meaningful spaces.

Cultural Contribution

The Dreaming Soul plays an essential role in cultural and emotional wellbeing. You are the artist, the healer, the story keeper, the one who helps mob slow down and reconnect to spirit. You often remind others — without forcing — that rest is resistance, that gentleness is powerful, and that healing takes time.

You might not be on the frontlines shouting in protest, but your work — through creative outlets, one-on-one yarns, or spiritual practices — sustains the soul of movements and communities. You hold the sacred dreaming and remind us not to lose it in the noise of colonisation, capitalism, or burnout.

You often help others:

  • Make meaning of grief, loss, or trauma

  • Reconnect to culture through creativity

  • See beauty in places they’ve been taught to ignore

  • Sit with uncomfortable emotions and grow from them

Ideal Pathways

Because of your intuitive, creative, and emotionally intelligent spirit, you tend to flourish in roles where you can help, express, and guide without being boxed in.

You might find your calling in:

  • Creative Arts: painting, music, poetry, dance, film — your art tells truths that need to be heard

  • Writing and Storytelling: cultural storytelling, memoirs, language revival projects, writing to keep history and identity strong

  • Mental Health and Healing Work: counselling, youth support, trauma healing, wellbeing programs that centre culture and compassion

  • Cultural Education: developing resources, sharing traditional knowledge, creating safe spaces for mob to learn and heal

  • Spiritual Work: ceremony, yarning circles, bush medicine, ancestral healing practices

  • Youth and Community Support: one-on-one mentoring, cultural camps, supporting others to reconnect with who they are

If This Is You…

Know that your softness is not weakness — it is your gift. You hold the energy of the Dreaming in your spirit, and in a world that often moves too fast, you remind people to slow down and feel.

You’re not meant to “fit in” with systems that have never seen the power of quiet leadership. You are here to bring emotional and spiritual truth into the spaces that need it most — whether that’s a community centre, an art studio, or the sacred stillness of Country.

You carry the medicine of story, heart, and hope.