And somebody spoke and I went into a dream.
— from “A Day In the Life” by Lennon/McCartney
Venus is flowing further down Scorpio’s stream into a water trine with Jupiter’s course through Cancer at 5:01 pm EDT Thursday. Stereotypically, the combination of Venus, Jupiter and a trine is a dream come true. That’s because Venus, Jupiter and trines (an aspect connecting signs that share the same element) have the reputation of being ‘good’. In the context of everything else going on, however, the indicated dynamic is of dreams finding a place, or not.
Because Venus will move on quickly, leaving Jupiter practically in place, the implied best use of their impending trine is to sort out your dreams and their place in both your life, and in the world.
Dreams are the indicated subject because of Neptune. Even barely into its Pisces realm, astrology’s emblem of dreams is already nothing if not pervasive, especially as regards to the other two water signs, Cancer and Scorpio.
Dynamic is the implied model of interpretation because a dream’s place can be interpreted, and experienced, more than one way. It may be a dream prudently placed, regulated and balanced by reality with pragmatic planning.
Alternatively, a dream in place could also be moving in place, as though treading water. Then again, the image might entail the potential of water behind a dam, capable of either production or destruction depending how it is managed, if it is managed at all. Other models may apply as well.
Sorting out how dream and place applies to you makes sense right now. Going into and through the weekend just past, a powerful Pisces Full Moon spilled over Pluto’s return to direct motion flowing into a Libra equinox for the ages. Nearly everybody with a pulse felt something sweep through their stream of consciousness during that time in the form of dreams provoked while sleeping, awake or both.
Now, as Venus moves to flow in trine with Jupiter, streams of consciousness seem ready to converge somehow, with the dreams they carry coming together. Assuming the validity of that scenario, it would appear important to avoid being swept away in the confluence.
In order to avoid being swept away, the first imperative is to identify your dreams and know them as your own. Following that, it will be equally advisable to know the place each of your dreams has inside you, so as to be aware of their relative importance for your life. Finally, it would be useful to at least be conscious of where and how your dreams might find a place of acceptance, expression and manifestation in the world.
That may seem like a lot of work if you are accustomed to letting dreams drift in and out of your life, a phenomenon which has made the captioned lyric resonant for nearly everybody.
Nevertheless, yours is a time when dreams are taking form as never before because Neptune, Jupiter and Saturn (with a longer voyage through Scorpio than Venus) are relating as never before for longer than ever before, through the elemental water of astrology.
Therefore, if it is not your dreams that find a place in you and the world, you and your world will surely end up finding a place in another’s dream — and you may not find that agreeable.
So, stick up for your dreams and give them a place, at least in your life while the ‘good’ of Venus contributes to an unprecedented flow around the zodiac and, by implication, the world. If you can do just that, your dreams will have ceased to drift, and will have found a place on the way to, and possibly as part of, the future.
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The day of this Trine from Venus and Jupiter, I did one exit with OVS, very popular in France which is a social network of outlets and friendly meetings. I saw that there was a News York, but Los Angeles, Montreal, but not as important as in France. It’s nice to spend good time and share the joy of living and good mood with new meetings or reunion… All tastes are in nature…
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Good surfing 🙂
“We are the stuff dreams are made of”…Right? Hey, Who Said That? Hmmmmmm.
Astute as always, and useful. Thank you, Len.
“and then Len Wallick spoke and I dove into my dreams………” ;>) Yes.
Thank you so much Strawberry and Len. I pulled out my Thomas the Tank Engine record….just today only. Hugs back!!
Geoff, that image just made my day. Oh. My. God. 🙂
Oh Len, you’ve got me reading Wallace Stevens now, what a compliment, I am tearing up and speechless…
Thank you, mmr, for displaying the universes perfect timing. I was just taking care of myself as self-care is so very important one just has to make the time. It’s made me a little hot though, so this inspired splash is received with gratitude and appreciation.
Chief Niwots Son: love your line about all dreams not having to be lived out. Sometimes you have the dream but then someone else lives it out. So many times I have thought about a project, a vision, a product, a workshop topic but was not able to bring it to fruition because of there only being so many hours in the day. Then, all of a sudden, it seems as if many other people are living out my dreams. For this, I thank the universe for responding in such a gratuitous way to my thoughts. So have big dreams!
Daniel – My mum always maintained that being pooped on by any bird was a sign of good luck. Unless, I suppose, it was by an ostrich that was sitting on your face.
starrynight3: Thank you for sharing the good news of a dream in common made possible by community.
Chief Niwots Son: To know my service was useful to you is a great joy. Thank you in return for the supportive insight you provide other commenters.
aword: Thanks to you (and your cat) for sharing your own insightful moments with us.
Strawberry: Congratulations, and thank you for sharing the sweet fruit of your personal evolution (and for your supportive encouragement to other commenters).
Daniel: You are such a generous person, and that is every bit as appreciated as your sensitive perceptions and artful expressions. Thank you so very much for participating in exchange with the other commenters as well.
Susy: Thank you for the sublime poetry which has moved me (and which is making Wallace Stevens smile somewhere, i’m sure). My thanks, and my heart, go out to you in return.
nilou: For your expressions of support to other commenters, and for your own mastery of poetry (which never ceases to amaze, and even scare me), please accept my thanks as well.
Jann: It seem as though you have captured it all with your lyrical selection. Thank you for your tasteful synopsis (which finds a very deep soft spot within me).
Chief Niwots Son, I didn’t mean to leave you out! Finding & following the dream that carries the momentum of our soul’s desire is indeed a goal all its own. All my best to you.
(((Hugs, Daniel!!))) I know how real that fear feels. In my experience, owning the fear itself is the scariest part; the change is just bringing you closer to who you are, closer to the person inside that makes you feel like it’s worth being alive. Hang in there, baby. You’ve got this, I know you do. And thank you for all your encouragement — knowing we’re not alone makes a huge difference.
nilou, your poetry is a joy. Thank you!
zerosity, thank you for the Impossible Dream! The metaphor of tilting with windmills has very much been present with me over this past week. The fragile, dauntless courage of Peter O’Toole’s characterization has always moved me.
susyc, aword: thank you for your honest & bold presence, always.
Chief Niwots Son, thanks for that. I will admit very much that I’m scared. Scared of change that I am not prepared for. Scared that people will see me as an inexperienced disconnected and naive person that lies on the outside of peoples lives rather than participate in them. And scared that I don’t have a clue who I am. I will say that I embrace change, that every experience has shaped me and given me wisdom and that I share this with others, and that in this recognition, I know myself better than ever. But sometimes that is just a show to convince others that I’ve got my shit together.
Daniel: It was JL Seagull, and he had a message for you. With the current astrological hijinks dancing on your natal chart you have a rare opportunity to re-create yourself right down to the core.
Strawberrylaughter: No pain?! You are so awesome!
susyc & nilou: Thanks for the beautiful and touching poetry.
From 1965 or 1972 (Broadway and film respectively), from “The Man of La Mancha”. . .from that time of the Uranus-Pluto conjunction in Virgo. Now seems like a good time to remember “The Impossible Dream”
To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star
This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far
To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell
For a heavenly cause
And I know if I’ll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I’m laid to my rest
And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star
And I’ll reach the impossible dream,
And I’ll reach the unreachable,
The unreachable stars!
Music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion; sung by Richard Kiley from the 1965 Broadway cast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmX3TzWwDyU
JannKinz
What an interesting exercise, Len. When I first dug into it, I didn’t know what you meant by “place.” But as I began listing & sorting them I realized I had Power Source dreams, & Buoyancy dreams, & Real-World, Practical dreams. And some of them were in a place where they were being defeated — where they had something of a “retreating goal posts” syndrome, out of fear that if they became fulfilled, I’d lose my motivation to keep with this work which seems so vital right now.
For someone with so much water, it’s fascinating to get all organiz-ey about what has always felt so ungovernable. Maybe I can be friends with Saturn after all.
Len: Just amazing, to the point of being quite scary – in a nice way.
Chief Niwots Son: Multiple dream syndrome! I too will be bringing focus to the dream that matters. Good courage!
awordedgewise: I love this image of an old booster falling away once its purpose is fulfilled.
Strawberrylaughter: No pain! How wonderful, how joyful. That Neptune’s quite a one. Hugs.
Daniel: Do you remember that post about the sun no-one wants to have. I can’t forget it because I have a Scorpio sun and Scorpio son [he’s just decided to ‘phone – Scorpio’s can be like that – that too is quite funny].
susyc: So beautiful.
Thank you to all, and lots of love, nilou.
Bitterness and soured memoried candied ideas they were – now no longer
chained or hooked or leaving trails of sand
to the blossoming Hawthorne once considered cindered.
No-one weeps there at acts or thoughts spoken in haste.
No cast aside part of knowing remains
at any junction
packed in a trade yard
for a hostaged destination.
Now whatever is
is sweetened with the pressed juice of a new desire.
Begotten regrets gone,
Life sings devotion – nameless;
and redundant callings fallen away,
sweet words flow together
on my tongue –
a delight
in my mouth.
I’m loving all these dreams you all are having! No dreams here, but a seagull pooped on me at lunch today! 🙁
My Sunday Dream
dreamt I was taking
lessons from a Sufi yoga master
dancing with him on
the floor of his classroom
dancing and dancing
he was showing me things
not so patient
with my slowness
finally he somehow took
me on his back, in a way that
we were back to back
but joined skin to skin
and began spinning
spinning and spinning
faster and faster
and then suddenly
we were spinning
and flying
spinning and flying
higher and higher
each of us a wing
of the one bird
spinning faster
and faster
I wondered how
it would be when
we would stop
and decided
there was nothing
to worry about
somehow
he would
catch
me.
Susy Crandall
that’s awesome Strawberry! Wonderful to hear.
Thanks Len for the help on this aspect. I will try my best not to get swept away!
On a slightly self absorbed level:
Venus will trine Jupiter on my natal Scorpio Sun and Taurus Moon exact.
Pluto’s station (all sextile Saturn, Chiron and the NN) is square my ascendant degree in 8 Libra, which is also very close to my natal Pluto at 5 Libra.
…I have tickets to see Les Mis on Thursday. With my dad, of all people.
After 20 years of that relationship being sheer pain, this is more than a dream come true. There are times, in the midst of all this deeply interior evolution work, when doubt & fear take over and it seems it’s all been in my head. That Neptune has walked into my life & swept reality off to a place I’ll never see it again. Today, I’m reminded that as a result of this work and only this work, I have relationship with my father that I’d never even dreamed was possible. We hang out, we laugh, we talk about his girlfriends, there’s no pain. There’s no pain.
Dreams this past week have indeed been strong, and yet different than usual in that hey are all lucid including very clear specific faces of people who must be from lives I cannot remember. The cat has me up around 4:30 every morning, I presume that it’s actually me who is waking her up due to such vivid dreaming (and she thinks it’s time to play) – or perhaps she has taken on the duty of waking me from important insightful moments of my dream such that I will see them in consciousness.
Shifting the conversation to that of dreams in conscious life – that is, plans/goals/insights/ideas, so too, something has awakened (though probably not by the cat) and I feel like there is a moment available within which old paradigms – of what can and can’t “be” – now have an opportunity to morph. Or perhaps old “rules” are finally able to detach and drift away much like a booster falling away from the rocket once it’s fuel is spent and it is no longer useful.
This is a good time indeed, to remember that it is our dreams that propel us forward. Thanks Len, for speaking – and supporting the importance of and opportunity for dreams.
“For this is all a dream we dreamed,
one afternoon,
long ago…”
– Box Of Rain (Robert Hunter/Phil Lesh)
At the balance point of the equinox I recognized that I have been holding multiple dreams within myself, possibilities for future actions, and with this seeing I also had the recognition that not all dreams are to be lived out under the light of the Sun. These words of guidance: “it would be useful to at least be conscious of where and how your dreams might find a place of acceptance, expression and manifestation in the world…” are oh so applicable right now. And finding the courage within myself to follow the dream with more energy behind it, the one that dovetails synergistically with dreams currently being lived out, is the key for me at this time.
Thank you Len for pointing to the important trine coming this week, and for your ever insightful interpretation.
Yesssss! It’s my Jupiter AND Saturn Return and with natal Neptune on my MC near Part of Fortune I have arrived at a crossroad with a lifelong dream to write and have made the commitment to the opportunity presented to me to sign up for a two year “Book Project” an innovative new program at my city’s literary center so it involves not just my dream but others as well. Woot!
Thanks Len for the usual good stuff you bring to the table!