Pluto 4: Dream Speak 💭
wandering stars, indirection
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*This is the fourth post in an ongoing series on PLUTO, astrological planet and lord of the underworld, in culture and the cosmos, who will move into Aquarius on November 19th after sixteen years in Capricorn. Today: wandering dream readings, and more—-
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“…if the soul wanders from the body in sleep, then our way of letting the soul return to concrete life must follow the same wandering course, an indirect meandering, a reflective puzzling, a method that never translates the madness but speaks with it in its dream language.” — James Hillman, The Dream and the Underworld
Before novels, TV, and streaming, there were the dramas of planets: moving images. Just as the dream wanders, so too the planets. Dubbed WANDERING STARS by our forebears, their movements play out against the sky frenetic and cyclical scenes in many different qualities of time. Reading planets, their placement in chart and sky, is similar to reading poetry or dreams. They have their own logic, and to extract a daylight message is to make bland their trippy transmissions…