I rarely have dreams that are explicitly Pagan.\u00a0 Even the flying dreams that have so influenced my treatment of dreams in writing draw more heavily on pop culture than on my experience of witchcraft.\u00a0 Last night was a notable exception.<\/p>\n
The dream was set in a place that closely resembled the Lawrence of my youth, except that all the buildings seemed larger (a common feature of my dreamscape) and the houses to either side of my parents were rotting.\u00a0 The trees that lined the streets were taller, too \u2013 wilder \u2013 and the woods through which the train tracks passed were wilder.<\/p>\n
As always, the earliest parts of the dream are the vaguest.\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember what initially drew my attention to the car in front of my parents\u2019 house \u2013 just that I found a lion-headed woman therein.\u00a0 She seemed to appear and disappear, sometimes more lion-like, sometimes more wholly woman.\u00a0 She was tired, drunk, or sleeping, and there was a staff of some kind in the back seat beside her.<\/p>\n
I somehow discerned that she belonged to the house next door, and took the staff to show to them.\u00a0 A woman and a child were on the front porch, and a man coming down to the road.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t seem to trust or believe me, so I threw the staff to them.\u00a0 It became a pitchfork and stuck in their door near the child \u2013 which upset me, but didn\u2019t seem to concern them.<\/p>\n
Back in my parents\u2019 house, other creatures were appearing, and I gathered a group of people \u2013 D, and a half-dozen others that I can\u2019t remember \u2013 to go wandering.\u00a0 We found ourselves along the train tracks, where it was winter and calf-deep in snow.\u00a0 Over in the street, we spy a pair of blue rubber snow boots walking on their own \u2013 each one about six feet tall.\u00a0 I am convinced that there\u2019s an invisible giant in them and that if I touch it I\u2019ll be able to see it, so I climb up the stone wall and tackle-hug it.\u00a0 I\u2019m right \u2013 it\u2019s an invisible giant, we can all see her now, and she can\u2019t decide whether she\u2019s more amused or disturbed.<\/p>\n
My group goes back to my parents rental \u2013 which, as I alluded before \u2013 is three stories tall instead of two, and falling apart.\u00a0 We are all convinced now that All The Rules Have Changed, so we start climbing out of windows, leaping from building to building, and walking across the roof of the rental.\u00a0 My father is seriously disturbed by these events \u2013 the roof-climbing in particular, he\u2019s afraid of heights (true story) \u2013 and my grandfather is in denial; I\u2019m not sure where my mother and sister are at, but my brother is one of the people on the roof.<\/p>\n
The giantess is coming to visit, and I\u2019m very excited.\u00a0 My grandfather is staying at the rental house, and one of his friends comes by.\u00a0 I\u2019m frustrated because I know that they\u2019re going to be rude to the giantess, and because of course he\u2019s going to have a guest if I\u2019m going to.<\/p>\n
About that point, I start waking up.\u00a0 Although I continued the dream \u2013 or new dreams with similar themes \u2013 I cannot remember any of those in detail.\u00a0 One featured the lion-woman again.\u00a0 The two surviving Gorgons made an appearance in another.<\/p>\n
For all that I\u2019ve somewhat fallen off my ritual practice, dreams like this indicate to me that I can\u2019t be as far astray as I sometimes feel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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