If you’re in the Hudson Valley, come plant dream seeds with me for the upcoming Equinox (March 19). This ceremony will be a form of manifestation: calling in the dream into the soil of ourselves.
Notes on dreaming:
Dreams require a bridge to walk to reality. We cannot just usher in a dream overnight. When calling in a dream, we need to tolerate the in-between space when we are partially still where we were, but walking towards where we will be. This can take a long time. I have been on a dream bridge now for 6 years, but the edge of the next reality appears. Have faith and keep walking.
Day-dreaming and night-dreaming are both important parts of calling in the dream. Working with both as potent communication channels to the unconscious helps to shape our reality in the image of our dreams. “That’s not realistic/reality” is one of the great killers of dreams, most often wielded by those who have had to kill a dream. A dream is killed for many reasons. Mostly because there wasn’t the support for the necessary bridge, or because a bad thing happened. In extinguishing a dream, a crack in the heart appears and a bad, old idea (here: that there is only one reality and it is more miserable and more contained and more meh than anything our heart may have originally wanted) is allowed in. Bad, old ideas are like ether-viruses that will be passed from person to person and require spiritual immunity (found in heart healing) to defend against.
Killing dreams is not actually a thing. A dream will wait, patiently, for its time to come. It may be buried, deep within the psyche, blocked off by walls and walls. Those walls are things that did have to be killed: perhaps desire, perhaps hope, perhaps confidence, perhaps feeling. Something that is required for the dream to enter will need to be eliminated so as to prevent the path. Walking the bridge to the dream is about removing those walls, bringing back what was dead and gone from the ashes. This is a heart bridge, and feeling the heartbreak of the lost dream is a deep sorrow that must be allowed in. The ashes are the pavement on the (opalescent rainbow) road to connecting to a dream and having it walk on into reality.
Dreams, once real, can look totally different than they did in dream-space. Do not be too attached to the aesthetics of your dream, but anchor in the feeling-center… does your heart recognize it?
The real is always being shaped by dreams, or lack thereof. The real is not a fixed state we are contained in, but rather a tapestry we are always weaving with our consciousness - individual and collective. Many of you reading this are gifted dream weavers: for yourselves and others. Weave your dreams into reality, and you weave them here for us all to inhabit.
More from me on Dreams:
My recorded FlowForm session (#2) with Jo-Anne Suriel discusses the power of opening up to the dream.
This Flower Essence of mine.
Herbal dream ally: mugwort (do not take if pregnant) - as tea, tincture, or simply a sprig under the pillow.
Nighttime ritual: clear your mind from screens, human drama, and whatever else is in your psyche so you go to bed with the space for your unconscious to speak to you. Half of dreams are just your mind being flushed, but this can be done ahead of time to allow for the wisdom to come through. Record your dreams by voice or by writing. Making the agreement to pay attention to your dreams allies your conscious mind with your unconscious. You can ask your guides to show them to you in a language that is clear for you to understand. You can ask to be shown specific things. Working with them over time, you can begin to see repeat symbolism, until you know exactly what it means when a clock appears. Most of the time, everyone in your dream (including humans) are a reflection of part of your own psyche. Ask yourself, ‘what does this person represent for me?’ when decoding why someone is doing something in your dream. Lucid dreaming / dream visitations from loved ones on the other side are a different kind of dream. Astral travel / past life visitation is another kind of dream. Learning to discern our dreams is a way to familiarize ourselves with our own psyche.
Once again: Dreaming ceremony in Red Hook on the 19th!
Dream well tonight,
xxx
Saga
So magical, beautiful, and if honey could surround me like an honored wrap of love ✨💛🤗 thank you so much, Saga!