Urban Shamanism

The continuous tale

I had a dream today that I know was important but I don't remember many details. I know I was there as a Shaman and that I had to accompany some people during difficult situations, but the majority is concealed by the Neptunian fog of the subconscious. Bits and pieces may reemerge during the day. I keep a record of all the dreams that I can remember for later review, most of it in my mind, but also written, especially this year. I've found that writing down the dreams and rereading them later is a good way to train our awareness to pull the subconscious into the conscious.

Dreams also contribute to the Narrative of our dual reality, but their scope is much richer and broader than anything we experience in the waking world. When we dream, we connect with both our individual and the collective unconscious. The space of the Dream is the same that we access through meditation and the consumption of mind-altering substances such as St. Mary or Ayahuasca, we increase our vibration to such an extent that we can shut down bodily perception and go much deeper, even to the roots of our ancestry. When we explore dreams from a narrative point of view, they start making a lot more sense because the symbols repeat themselves like nodes connecting many experiences into a single thread. If we train to be lucid dreamers, these symbols eventually become much sharper and easier to relate to one another.

When you wake up from a significant dream, the feelings and sensations that you experienced in it stay with you the whole day and you return to it even weeks or months after the original night in which you dreamt it. If you see the dream as something more than just a collection of images in a nebulous environment, and seek to extract information from it, then you start seeing the keys and symbols in the waking world too because all of dual reality, however tangible to our physical senses, is a dream as well. Exploring dreams helps a lot in understanding that quintessential nature of our existence in this Universe.

I use dreams like I use everything else I experience: I observe the images, recall any conversations and numbers that I might see in them, and then establish the connections with memories, emotions and ideas that I've had. It wasn't always so fluid, but right now, I don't have to think about it, it just happens. For instance, I've been seeing cats in my dreams this whole year, not every night, but it's been a recurrent vision. I realized at some point that the cats were both literal and an expression of female power, which allowed me to see the relationships that I needed. You can do that too, every day of your life is filled with a wealth of data both in alertness and in sleep. Make sure that you keep an open mind to the messages that you get, though, and avoid rational interpretations. Reason, logic, intellect... they're great tools for specific things, but if you truly want to understand the Universe and the reality around and within you, they just won't do. Emotion and Intuition are much more effective.

Night Rune: Nauthiz

I accompany various people in profound processes, I get involved as needed but in general, I observe.

Daylight Rune: Jera

Recognition, reconciliation. The reparation of offenses opens the way for a cleaner and more candid era, offer the necessary apologies, pay the required prices. The Key is always in your hand, slide it into the lock, turn it, open the door willingly or it shall open on its own all the same, with other consequences. You have more tools and fertile land than you think, open your Heart and work with your emotions. The Heart is the Forge of all your wishes and dreams, in its fire all separation is amended. Take the first step, collect, reunite, reconnect; Compassion heals all wounds. You are called to understand the humanity of the aggressor, to the full integration of the experiences lived. The mightiest manifestation demands the most intense energy.