Dream Interpretation

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May 18, 2017

Today features the biggest transit of the year, and I’m more interested in writing about Venus and the completion of her retrograde cycle! In some ways, Venus’s journey IS more interesting. Or certainly more important to our individual experiences of being part of this one, unified whole that we are navigating at an alarming rate these days. Seen in this light, the alarming rate I speak of is the Trine between Saturn and Uranus (exact today), and our navigation of that is how we relate to Venus and her movement this year.

Remember that the planets do not influence us, they ARE us. Venus IS our Heart Center. Last February, she moved out of Pisces where she is extremely happy and where it is easy and natural to feel One with everything. This Oneness is our Truth, and when we can live in that non-intellectual sensation of connection, we are at our most powerful. But as she crossed over into Aries, she hit the wall of fire that says that everything is duality. The first sign of the zodiac knows only individuality, which translates to separation. This ingress took her right out of her comfort zone. In Aries, Venus is tested with remaining in a loving posture when faced with decidedly unloving circumstances. So, a month later, on March 4th, she turned around and said, “Forget this, I’m going back to where the Love is,” and began a retrograde journey back into Pisces. This was by design; to teach us how to open our Hearts so much, that even when faced with challenges to staying open, we will learn how to do so more effectively than we ever have before.

This was one of the great lessons of the spring. She went direct on April 14th, but needed till now to wrap things up and present us each with opportunities (in the form of circumstances and relational issues) to allow us to Love in a new way. As of today, this process is done, for a few years at any rate (2020 in Gemini). By Saturday, Mercury will complete his latest cycle and the Heart/Mind connection will be completely reset. The heavy lifting is over for the time being, and things may begin to smooth out a bit in the next few months.

The Grand Fire Trine that accompanies this year peaks today with Saturn and Uranus Trining each other from the fire signs of Sagittarius and Aries respectively. The North Node in Leo is what makes up the third corner of this powerful, open, burst of flame. Fire transforms. The North Node guides and directs. Saturn builds structure and Uranus provides sudden advancement, change, possibility and inspiration. Thankfully, we take our newly opened Heart and freshly aligned Mind/Heart connection with us wherever we are taken courtesy of this thrust of fire. This transit reminds me of the burst of flames that emerge out of the bottom of a rocket as it drops its load as the booster propels it further on its journey. That’s where we are today, so I hope you have your seat belts on.

The Uranian influence lasts about a month, for that is how long the North Node and Uranus will stay in this triangular pattern. What this means is that for the next four weeks, absolutely anything can happen and probably will. Allow for tons of flexibility as you navigate the time between now and June 6th, because the velocity that has been building over the past weeks leading up to Saturn and Uranus Trining continues through then. Beyond June, Uranus leaves the immediate picture and we are less likely to be caught off guard, but Saturn and the North Node continue their triangular dance through October 8th. That means that we are learning lessons and being called up to higher levels of responsibility around how to navigate our vision in ways that may be difficult for the next five months.

We use the same word to describe the mystical phenomenon that happens during sleep and the aspirations that we hold for our unfolding lives. I had a dream. I have a dream. Additionally, we are told of a spiritual principle that invites us to view life itself as a dream, unfolding magnificently in a way that reflects the notion that anything can happen and probably will.

I have noticed that the idea of lucid dreaming is gaining more traction out there in the zeitgeist. When we become more consciously aware of our dreaming experience while we are sleeping, the more we can bring that conscious awareness to our dream-like waking life and the aspirations that we hold dear as we create our magnificent futures. I feel quite blessed to have devoted my practice to holding the dream as sacred and powerful. And never before has it been quite so clear that we must treat all three of these dream states with the exact same reverence.

There is a mystical text that most people in the Western world are quite familiar, even if they don’t recognize it as a mystical text. I committed it to memory when I was about three years old. It goes like this: “Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream!” This may sound like I am trying to be funny or clever, but truly, this is a piece of wisdom that we all learned at a very young age and everything you need to know about how life works is held within these four lines.

As you might imagine, it is the last line that interests me the most, as life is indeed but a dream we are dreaming up as we go along our way. However, the entire piece can be interpreted to both understand the journey on a deep and profound level. At the same time, doing so can offer insight into the principles of interpretation that inform all of the work that I do in my own spiritual practice and that which I teach to others.

One of the most powerful tools in interpreting a symbol is the principle of implication. Much like a detective surveying a scene for clues, the landscape of an image offers an enormous amount of information. Firstly, we recognize that we are on a journey as represented by being in a boat on a stream. This is symbolic of how we are to move through life. It is, ultimately, a navigation of emotional territory for water represents the emotional body and a stream is a small current, individual-sized flowing of water, much like our individual selves. When we connected in large numbers, we form a river and we are all heading toward the ocean of the collective. When examined more closely, we are part of the ne3ver-ending cycle of water flowing, evaporating, being redistributed to flow again. The stream is the fluctuating path that our life is to take and the boat we are in connects to our individuated sense of self.

We are given an instruction right off the bat. We are to row. We do the rowing and we are to row our own boat. Not each other’s. Not someone else’s boat; just your own. Row YOUR boat. And there is going to be some effort involved. How do we know this? The instruction is repeated three times. Clearly, there is going to be some effort involved.

Now just in case we are overwhelmed by all that rowing, we are given a powerful qualification. Several in fact. The first one I’ll point out is that we are moving down stream. It won’t always feel like it, but we are to know that even when the going is the most strenuous, we are still going down stream. To me, this is akin to the principle that consciousness is always expanding and that everything that occurs happens for your benefit. Even when it looks like anything but this, the truth still remains. We are expanding at every moment of the journey. And it’s a gentle ride, which is a very clear suggestion to lighten up and go with the flow. Row gently. Stop fighting. Resistance is pointless. When it doubt, choose the gentle path.

And here is my favorite part. It’s supposed to be fun. We are told to do all that we do with a sense of merriment. This is such an important principle it is given a lot of emphasis. It is repeated four times; one more merrily than there are rows. That means no matter how hard it gets, it’s STILL supposed to be more joyful than effortful. It’s supposed to fun, so do everything you can to cultivate joy.

And of course, the best part of all. Life is but a dream. And what are the qualities of a dream? It is a magical landscape in which anything can happen and probably will. It is a time when we are profoundly creative, causing the seemingly impossible to happen just by using the power of our thought. It is a state in which we get to see our blatant humanity while simultaneously becoming acquainted with our precious divinity.

This is one of the biggest weeks, astrologically speaking, of this entire year. If you were to read back over my daily posts posts throughout this time (see Daily Astro Alerts for info about my daily subscription), you would absolutely recognize in my words an enormous sense of hope and delight in the expansion of consciousness that is happening RIGHT NOW.

And then we are asked to do the near-impossible. Our world demands that we incorporate into this idea of things getting bigger and better something so senseless and tragic. How could a world so filled with Good contain something so Evil? Does this terrible act mean that we are wrong to say that consciousness is unfolding toward more Light?

Remember that when the Light increases, the Shadow becomes long, sharp and very very clear. And so here we are, basking in the ever-increasing Light and there is the Shadow, revealing itself with a clarity that grows exponentially. Each of us has a role in moving toward and dissolving that Shadow. I believe that it happens for the Planetary Being at the level of the individual and so I devote my entire life to that process. I do this because I know who I Am.

Your job is to find your way and do it. Do it publically. Or privately. In the classroom, or perhaps at the grocery store. Possibly you usher in Peace for Humanity in the pages of your journal, or maybe you turn your pen toward writing your congressperson. Maybe you are an activist who shouts words of protest at the top of your lungs, or it could be that you are the sensitive empath who stays home and weeps for the pains of a world gone mad.

THERE IS NO ONE WAY TO DO THIS. And there is no escaping your responsibility to find your way and do it with all your might. When in doubt, start right where you are, inside your own consciousness where your Heart and Mind are probably still at war with each other. Find Peace there, and it will reflect out into the world and begin to bring it on a global level; incrementally and irrevocably over time.

The Summer Solstice is coming and this year it is accompanied by a rare second Full Moon in the sign of Sagittarius. If that weren’t enough, there are three MAJOR planetary transits that are exact on the very same day. This is an unprecedented moment in the course of 2016 and it bears taking notice in a very conscious manner.

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March 21, 2016

The Moon is still in Virgo so the perspective that I described yesterday that this archetype is the one responsible for integration of new information and expanding wisdom applies to today as well. In fact, even more so today, because the lunar aspects include a Conjunction to Jupiter and a Trine to Pluto. If you look back to the post for March 16th, you will see how much emphasis this particular passage has by virtue of the connection between these two planets by Trine. That enormous energy is triggered by the Moon which makes today, though otherwise somewhat quiet, fairly important in the scheme of things. We are changing at very deep levels and expanding in hidden ways that will reveal themselves in the months to come. There may be some progress in those narratives for some of us today, whether they are obvious or not (many things right now are happening behind the scenes.

There is another importance to that day through the principle of rulership. Mercury, the planet that is the archetype of the Mind, has rulership over two signs; Gemini and Virgo. What this means is that any time the Moon is in either of these air signs, there is more emphasis placed on what Mercury is doing, if anything. At 5:30pm PDT this evening, Mercury will cross the same birth canal threshold between Pisces and Aries that the Sun traversed yesterday.This passage is an important part of the wormhole that we are in building to Wednesday’s eclipse and it carries even more weight because this change of signs happens under the light of the Virgo Moon. We are giving birth to a new landscape; a new Self, a new world. We all have an enormous responsibility in this to know who we are the gifts that we bring so that we can impact the world at this time of crisis.

Remember that there was a rare configuration of Mercury, the South Node and Chiron, all at the 22nd degree of Pisces back on March 17th. That began a process of diving into the depths (Pisces) for information (Mercury) that is part of our healing (Chiron) and processing the past (South Node) that is leading us toward a great releasing as part of the Full Moon on Wednesday. Mercury is the guidance system and when he moves out of the watery realm of Pisces and into the fiery charge that is Aries, he is likely to be bringing with him some valuable guidance, inspiration and information with him. Starting tonight and tomorrow, look for insights, flashes and material designed to help you do just that.

It’s a big week, with Wednesday being the pinnacle of what has been a pretty intense passage. Let the next few days guide you; keep your eyes and ears wide open.

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Saturn, the Great Teacher and Neptune, the Great Spirit, are forming a Square in the heavens next year, that edgy geometry that causes two energies that want the exact same thing, but bump up against each other because they come from completely different approaches.

Like the floor that constantly tells the wall to lie down and the wall’s response to demand that the floor stand up, any objects interacting from ninety degrees apart create an obstacle from which growth is the ultimate result. The floor and the wall never give in to each other’s mandate, but between them, the room rises up into form. Such is the case when the planet that represents structure and responsibility forces us to reckon with our Spiritual nature. This astrology creates the foundation onto which we will build 2016 and you will want to be as prepared as you can to create the most magnificent year you can.

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