(Saturday, October 18, 2014) Waning crescent moon in Virgo / three of cups reversed
In the middle of the night I dream I am a man in ancient Rome. I am the teacher of small boys.
Toward morning I have several dreams that seem to be detritus from the previous day. Then just before awakening I have this dream: I meet Bonnie in the lobby of a large, modern hotel. To my surprise Sabine Lucas is there too. She has come to meet our dream group and make a presentation. I don’t remember asking her to come. I know her finances are limited and I’m not sure the Dreamsters even accept the concept of past-life dreams (Sabine says memories).
The three of us go to the next level of the hotel and enter another large lobby. A group is waiting for us but I don’t recognize anyone. It’s not The Dreamsters Union. Sabine makes her presentation while Bonnie and I listen. The group has trouble following Sabine. They are not as experienced at dream work as The Dreamsters. They are polite but a bit disengaged. Their questions are off-target. One man leaves in exasperation.
The dream shifts. I am sitting around a bonfire in the woods in the dark with The Dreamsters and Sabine. I decide to walk away for a moment from the circle of friends. I stand in the deep blackness and turn back to look at the blazing fire. Suddenly I see a rocketship shoot up into the sky from behind the bonfire. It climbs a few hundred feet, then begins to crash back to earth. As it descends it breaks up into cylindrical sections. In terror I realize the trajectory of the metal debris is arcing toward me. I run backward, frightened, but also fascinated by the emblems and writing on the side of the rocket. It’s a very old rocket, from the time of my childhood. Maybe Russian. A huge piece hits the ground right next to me. But I am unhurt.
My friends rush to my side. I tell Sabine about my dream from that morning: I dream I am sitting in an open convertible. In my dream I have a waking vision of an old rocketship crashing to earth, nearly hitting me. I find this dream as shocking as the “actual” event. I am grateful to have someone with whom I can share these shamanic dreams.
Day notes:
I will be curious to see if this dream has precognitive elements. I anticipate we will have a bonfire at Jeanne’s cabin Halloween weekend. Sabine is doing a one-day dream workshop in Boulder next month. Something shocking and dangerous will happen during the time of our retreat?
Open convertible = open vehicle (body). Transformational vehicle.
Don Juan tells Carlos Castaneda to practice dreaming within dreams.
UPDATE: a rocket crashed on the launchpad today (October 28), just like this dream!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/28/rocket-explosion-antares_n_6064572.html
The Guardian, October 29: “The launch phase of the Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket relied on two AJ-26 engines that were originally produced in the 1970s for a failed Soviet moon programme and later modernised for US space flights. Speculation quickly centred on the Soviet-based engines, which have failed in tests, when the rocket exploded in a giant fireball after takeoff on Tuesday night.”