Bealtaine - Dream Illuminations Workshop
Replay and Resources
Hello lovelies,
Thanks a million to all who could join our Bealtaine retreat, where in the energy of the solstice we explored dreams as our sacred illuminators at the apex of this season. If you are catching the replay, I hope it brings you some dream magic. ✨
‘It [the dream] requires no special knowledge—even if knowledge of symbols can help culturally to enrichen the image, and knowledge of idioms and vocabulary can help hear further into the image. By letting the image itself speak, we are suggesting that words and their arrangements (syntax) are soul mines. But mining doesn’t require modern technical tools. (If it did, no one would ever have understood a dream or an image until modern psychology came along!) What does help mining is an eye attuned to the dark.’
James Hillman, A Blue Fire
Here’s a preview of the dreamscape we traversed:
Summer Solstice as the apex of Bealtaine’s illuminating energy
Who is the Dream-maker? Who makes the dreams?
Types of dreams—from processing dreams to archetypal dreams—and the unique gifts each offers us.
Dream incubation in the ancient Irish tradition.
Dream interpretation through the lens of Irish mythology.
Dream illnesses and their cures.
Dreams as pathways to the soul.
Dreams and their intimate closeness to death.
How dreams, the Otherworld, and death flow together in our tradition.
How to use fairytale interpretation as a powerful methodology for capturing dreams and, most importantly, following their living energy.
Please note: we pressed pause during the dream sharing to honour the sanctity of the dreams.
This is the collective dream guidance that emerged from dream titles:
‘Possession
Resting in new love
I’m wandering
Reclamation versus fear.’
Which, as was so wisely reflected upon, could symbolise the path toward becoming. The dream-maker, our wayshower.❤️🔥