Night Mare

astrology of the week ahead and the year of the horse 🐴

UPCOMING THINGS:

DREAM SCHOOL 2026 [next up: Freud’s dream of Irma’s injection]

One left in February & a few in March:

SATURN SESSIONS: deep dives into Saturn in your chart and transiting Saturn, who has just entered Aries and conjoined with Neptune.

ECLIPSE SEASON READINGS: we’re halfway thru eclipse season // eclipses are fate’s strange portals

MARCH 7th: WE MUST NOT TALK ASTROLOGY, via Vanessa Sinclair’s Rendering Unconscious Center for Psychoanalysis. In her recounting of her analysis with Freud, the poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) finds herself musing about the zodiacal signs and even compares Freud’s dog to a Leo, as he looks like a little lion. She then writes: “but we must not talk astrology!” noting that on this point, her father and Freud agree. In this class, we’re delving into H.D.’s TRIBUTE TO FREUD, with an eye on astrology as the unconscious or the unspeakable of psychoanalysis…

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“One spends one’s time dreaming, one doesn’t only dream when asleep.” – Lacan

The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli, 1781

In dream school yesterday, a wild and wide-ranging discussion about Wuthering Heights, focusing on its dream sequences, and dreaminess, even when awake. Its nightmares and hauntings. We began with Fuseli’s epic painting, “The Nightmare,” wherein a sleep demon sits on the chest of a sleeping (heaving? traumatized? ecstatic?) woman. A horse hovers in the black distance—visually punning—a night mare. The bringer/keeper of the bad dream is a female horse. The night mare, with its freaky bulging eyes, makes a zone of ecstatic fright as she gazes and spits into the face of the age of Reason. Dreams, and ones that cross over the edge into