Dream interpretation, using the tool of astrology, is a wonderful gift many may know very little about. My clients understand they can come to me with any dream that ruffles their feather quilts, and I can help them sleep on smooth sheets again.
Of course, before you seek counsel, I’d advise to first begin a practice of strengthening your dream recall. It’s handy to keep a notebook by the bed and record what feels like a potent sleep adventure at any time it may present itself. Distilling the important dreams from the common ones is an art that does take a bit of practice for many. But in time, you’ll know when a dream has value, as opposed to what my teacher, Nina Gryphon, would label “a spicy pizza dream,” which is like a passing movie reel that has more to do with what you ate the night before than a dream that has the potential to manifest in your life.
In the ancient past, there used to be dream incubation temples that required the patient to first fast and purify themselves before a God or an Avatar would show up to interpret their dream. Now, all that is required is an astrological chart, either an event chart of the moment you actually experienced the dream, or you can use a horary chart, the easier approach to astro dream interpretation, deriving from the moment you feel compelled to pose your dream question to a skilled astrologer.
All dreams traditionally arrive from two gates: The Clear Gate of Horn, those dreams that stem from a divine source, and from The Opaque Gate of Ivory, those muddled transmissions we can never translate, otherwise known as, “spicy pizza dreams.”
The horn dreams are the more important, because when you work horn thin, it becomes like a material that turns to glass, clear and easy to see, whereas ivory is a material when worked on, it becomes milky and represents dreams that are like allegorical riddles that may, in fact, never be solved.
So, for our purposes here, you get the horn without messing with the bull, and we’ll leave the ivory at home, for now. As your friendly neighborhood skilled astrologer, there are methods at my disposal to separate the horn from the ivory. Just by looking at the chart, and particularly the 9th house, where dreams are contained, I’ll check to see where the ruler of that house is located and any planets in that house, for further description. If the dream lord resides in the 9th or 10th house, we’ve really got a good one on the line, a fish that can supply you with a nutritious meal for the future. But if the dream significator is in the 6th, 8th, or 12th house, not so much here folks but wasted calories. The advice would then be to lay off the spicy pizza!
But if we do have the horn as opposed to the ivory, I’ll analyze the planets in their signs and houses to elaborate on the flavor and mood of your dream, we’ll observe the modes of the planets to ascertain the feel of your dream, and I’ll determine how helpful or harmful the dream may be through that dream significator (9th house ruler) and its aspects. You’ll be told where to find assistance or rescue through the benefic planets of Venus and Jupiter, and where there may be danger or harm through the malefic planets of Mars and Jupiter.
I’ll also checkout the moon’s sign to determine the affect the dream has on your life. A helpful understanding of all the planets and their meanings, including the outers of Pluto, Neptune and Saturn, and even the nodes, which are not actually bodies but points that may lend very specific meanings to the dream. Mercury would be a message or movement of some sort, children or a dream’s reliability; mars may indicate a violent dream or a warning; venus, enjoyment or pleasure; Jupiter could indicate wealth or a prophecy…and so on.
The horn of plenty yields untold gifts that a trained dream astrologer can offer a client. So, in the immortal words of Aerosmith, Dream On and consult the stars for your answers!