ALL DAILY DREAMKU POSTED IN SEPTEMBER 2007
"Return to Anahata," Tarot Dream Card Collage, by Patricia Kelly
I just did the Tarot Dream Card Collage above Friday as part of an online Tarot workshop led by Lauren Schneider (in the International Association of the Study of Dreams/Psiber Dreaming & The Arts Conference). In one of the exercises she suggests we design our own Tarot card referencing a dream. Mine above is about the last dreamku in the dream series listed below for September 25th, which also has some explanation. (By the way, I presented my dreamku workshop at the conference on Sunday, September 30th. More on that in the future.)
Okay, this month seems to have a lot of religious/spiritual symbols, including my power animals – horse and tiger. Yes, I’d say matters of the spirit have been more apparent than usual. And I wrote my first dream tanka – see September 13th. The Pope is in it. Ain’t that a hoot for this old agnostic solitary Pagan? Of course, my Tarotologist’s mind goes right to the fact that The Hierophant/High Priest in The Tarot is also often called The Pope. But I’d say the Catholic Pope was also intended by that dream, as he was celebrating the Mass. Lastly with respect to this issue: I was raised Catholic. So it’s a many layered image, as the vast majority of all dream images tend to be.
ALL DAILY DREAMKU POSTED IN SEPTEMBER 2007
September 1, 2007
THE KISS
I sit by the door
while prom-goers play sports
no kiss yet
not my hope, but fun
he kisses my living
black and white photo
September 2, 2007
ESCALATING
broken escalator
the dirty guy waits for help
to fix it
she and I walk off
the stalled escalator
flights of stairs loom
echoing staircase
I try to follow but she's
too far ahead
September 3, 2007
the cat cannot birth
the last two fears
greed and happiness
September 4, 2007
I look to see if
she’s still following along
she’s turned off
September 5, 2007
I assemble
the white log cabin model
missing links
September 6, 2007
BEACHED
again and again
she does not respond to me
pushed over the ledge
stuck down on the beach
with the tide coming in
a boy goes for help
will they be able
to heft me up the sand ledge
weighty issue
September 7, 2007
long ride home
my deceased mother
points out the way
September 8, 2007
the horse falls in
a cat scrambles out
dirty fur
September 9, 2007
she needs to believe
Xena is her baby’s sire
highway rest stop
September 10, 2007
there’s no letter C
on her chocolate cell phone
I leave to fix it
September 11, 2007
IN MEMORY*
a path of rubble
the familiar man
teaches us a hymn
*I shared this dreamku last year on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the Tiwn Towers here in New York City. I post it here this year also in memory and in the hope that those far more deeply affected by this tragedy than I (who was fortunate not to lose anyone, just my job) are finding healing.
September 12, 2007
ON GESTATION*
expectant
tiger stripes on her large
finger tip nipples
in a horse costume
with milk-heavy teats
living history
* From a dream of 9/11/07; Tiger and Horse are my two "Power Animals."
September 13, 2007
[my first dream tanka]
Mass is celebrated
behind the blank white wall
I kneel before it
from a speaker near my head
the Pope's voice
September 14, 2007
the chocolate bus
do I have to go gambling
to ride it?
September 15, 2007
the devil child
comes through the closet
where’s mama?
September 16, 2007
falling out
of the plane wheel assembly
a toddler boy
September 17, 2007
many small mogul-like
bumps on the bar wall
a nazi in one
September 18, 2007
her star-shaped keys his mishandling
[one-liner; where possible it's effective and fun to make a sort of pivot between the two sections, making it read two different ways. E.g, in this one it can be read: her star-shaped keys//his mishandling, or her star-shaped//keys his mishandling. I've certainly not fully developed this little twist in one-liners, but it seems to be emerging slowly. :-)]
September 19, 2007
embraced from behind his hand on my heart
[another one-liner]
September 20, 2007
at the ACM
to buy our protection
her intense envy
September 21, 2007
belittled
my white pearl/red rose/unknown
poem-earring
September 22, 2007
the female pilot
rushes to her star-fighter
actresses at war
September 23, 2007
murder and disease
in the small chapel
is caring worth it?
September 24, 2007
A NEW DANCE*
city-wide disaster
they teach blind folk
how to get around
black screen
only the newscaster's voice
they fumble along
in the dark T.V. station
determined staff
blind punk
she resists but learns new steps
lone drummer
a blind man starts
an hispanic dance
Chandler** moves aside
the blind man dances forward
*a sort of renga, in that it's written in alternating verses of 3 and 2 lines
**on waking I was immediately struck by the fact that this name means "candle maker"
September 25, 2007
THE THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM
he asks for a hug
but keeps it short and distant
my frustration
he's irritated
I can't take notes faster
"Now I've lost the words!"
I find the Irish beach
tape he wants me to view
Anahata* Castle
* This is what the castle in the distance on a beach was called in the dream. Until I googled it on waking I did not recall it's the name for the Heart Chakra. I learned for the first time today though that in Sanskrit "anahata" is said to mean "sound made without two things striking."
September 26, 2007
CHOICES
I did the same work
before she was even born
possible new boss
the male worker
clearly cannot stand me
all too familiar
the files are a mess
and crammed into the drawers
her bright red dress
she expects me
to be at her beck and call
do I want this job
September 27, 2007
nude and unconcerned
on the archipelago
it’s their problem
September 28, 2007
wooden poor box
I pick up dimes and pennies
but leave the quarters
September 29, 2007
a new morning
"the wheat of beast-tide
beside me"*
*words in quotes were in my mind as I woke
September 30, 2007
invited in the dream
to join a women’s club
awake, asked again*
*This is an appropriate end for this month’s dreamku. It’s a psi dream [predicted a future event] and I’m currently participating in the PsiberDreaming Conference 2007.
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‘til next time, keep dreaming,
Roswila
[aka: Patricia Kelly]
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