My lessons in magick at the moment with one of my teachers involves paying close attention to my dreams. A pleasant task as I have been following the guidance of my dreams since I was in my late teens. However a recent dream had been haunting my waking hours because I felt I had “missed the mark” in my interpretation. The dream was as follows:
June 27th
Jupiter’s Day
I am in my kitchen in my morning robe making a cup of coffee. Shafts of soft early morning light fall across the kitchen island. My attention turns to the live golden turtle beside me on the kitchen floor. I am not startled by the turtle’s presence but am struck by their gleaming and majestic appearance. My admiration is interrupted by the boisterous appearance of a bobcat or lynx (the cat was large, so I am going to go with lynx). The lynx has black-tipped pointy ears, white whiskers and a long and graceful body. Lynx makes it known (somehow) that he wants water. I give him water in a large ceramic bowl.
A large portion of my dreams point to planetary alignments and the Moon’s travels (thanks in part to my 12th House Moon) but for some reason, I didn’t think about the planets or stars when unpacking the symbolism. I thought of Bobcat (Lynx Rufus), beautiful and elusive in the forest behind our house and in the mountains beyond. I wrote pages in my journal about how perhaps I have limited my unconscious and Bobcat/Lynx showed up as a call to rewild my psyche and regrow my creativity.
But as the pen moved across the pages, the clearer I got on what was cooking in my kitchen (so to speak).
Above me - in fact directly above our house - is the Lynx constellation. Introduced in the 17th century by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius, the Lynx constellation fills the gap between the two neighboring constellations, Auriga and Ursa Major.
Hevelius wrote in his Prodromus astronomiae that he named the constellation after the lynx because it is a relatively faint one and that only those who have the sight of a lynx can see it. This fascinates me because I have also been contemplating clarity and perception lately.
Set aside the learned ways of perceiving the world as dead matter for your use and see if you can recover again your actual perception of the world as a community of beings to whom you are meaningfully related. The ecological crisis may be the result of a recent and collective perceptual disorder in our species, a unique form of myopia which it now forces us to correct. - David Abram
In my dream…
Wild animals were in my kitchen. They were indoors. Clearly there was no boundary between “me” and “wilderness”, “me” and “them”.
Culture would have us believe in a split of “in-here” and “out-there”. We see ourselves closed off or separate from the other-than-human. We look up at the sky and we see layers of separation in the form of school textbook images of the atmosphere. Yesterday evening on my way through our small garden to the street for my walk, I blindly, carelessly, walked through webs suspended between wall and bush, bush and tree. The first few minutes of my walk were spent apologizing profusely to the stunned orb spiders on my arms and t-shirt.
We talk about living on earth when in fact we live within a biome.
Psychologists will tell you that the mature self is a fully individuated individual who possesses intact boundaries. I am not interested in maturity or in ‘selfing”. I am not interested in boundaries that will stop me from Ravening and Wolfing…I want to live in empathy with the whole nonhuman world, including the stars.
When I look up at the night sky, a Bear walks beside a Lynx and a Lion. I lift up my ceramic cup and ask for their guidance and wisdom.
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Thursday 11 July
Venus trine Neptune 7:31am
Venus enters Leo 9:18am
VOC 6:55pm
Moon in Libra 7:06pm
The frog turns into a prince. The mermaid grows legs. You fall in love. You fall in love with the world. Everything is beautiful.
Then Venus, still not visible in the night sky, enters the sign of the Lion and you wear gold jewelry. You cast a spell on yourself with the words “I am a Queen. I love and approve of myself.” You bring sunflowers into the house.
The Moon in Libra 🌹
Spells for love and balance. Spells for diplomacy and harmony.
Friday 12 July
Venus in Cancer opposite Pluto in Aquarius 7:11am
Hidden in the dark are the things that make you beautiful. These are your creative gifts.
This aspect (Venus opposite Pluto) translates to eat your shadow.
Here is an excellent article on what that entails.
Pluto unfortunately pushes for consensus in the sign of the Water Bearer. This means unless you are doing what everyone else is doing which means perpetuating sameness you are probably having a hard time getting your work noticed. Don’t let this stop you from living your questions and doing your work. You don’t actually need social media. The future is in blogs and podcasts. You will attract your people by courageously living from the heart.
Saturday 13 July
Moon in Libra
A fun and social day.
First Quarter Moon
The first signs of growth and promise arrive if you set intentions around the time of the New Moon in Cancer.
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