I must say that I don’t take these dreams at face value.  Some people come to this blog looking for dreams of earth changes.  For whatever reason, earth changes and upheaval in the sky have been common themes in my dreams ever since I was a child.  Maybe for you, too.  In this case, the latter two dreams might seem suggestive of earth changes, but I can easily trace them to concerns of my conscious mind.  Taking them one through three, they are progressively more cataclysmic in theme, but they are also progressively more rooted in my conscious mind, as opposed to the subconscious. 

The conscious mind reasons, worries, rationalizes and speculates.  It fears and desires.  The subconscious, on the other hand, is connected to something deeper than ego and personality.  It might actually have a clue.  I don’t think my subconscious was speaking up about coming earth changes in these dreams.  I see something else at work. 

Here are some thoughts on the three dreams, in reverse order:

Third Dream

I had this dream right before the Fourth of July.  I had been reading about North Korea’s plan to fire test missiles in Hawaii’s direction on America’s ‘big day.’  Clearly this dream picked up and dramatized those conscious concerns.  The beach = Hawaii.  A tailgating atmosphere and mindless cheering = Fourth of July.  The unacknowledged shadow crossing us = the crisis of global capitalism while the mainstream is still looking for signs of “recovery.”  

To me the most interesting detail is looking in the mirror and seeing another person as my reflection.  You could say that I saw myself as an Asian woman as a loose connection to the North Korean situation.  Maybe that’s all there is to it.  But as far as I can remember, this is a new phenomenon in my dreams – looking into a mirror and seeing someone else – a stranger – looking back at me and matching my every move. 

Another interesting detail is having too many bags.  The bags are attachments.  They slow me down and make me less nimble in a crisis, represented by the fiery wound in the sky.

Second Dream

A pale blue mountain turns molten red.  A volcano eruption, right?  Maybe, but I see that dream mountain as standing for something other than an actual mountain.   As I mentioned in Book of Tokens, I have been meditating upon the Tarot Keys every day.  The craggy mountain is right out of the Tarot. 

Free associating, I connect Atlantis with lost civilizations and thus with lost wisdom and ultimately with ancient Ageless Wisdom.  Therefore, “Atlantis rising in a surprising location” represents attaining higher consciousness within the mundane world.  So then it is not surprising I painted a long ridge leading up a craggy mountain.  The long ridge is the Path and the mountain is the Great Work.

First Dream

This dream is the least rooted in my conscious mind.  I can’t say that I’ve ever dreamed of beetles before or thought much about them, metaphorically or literally. They have not been a meaningful part of my experience or symbolic vocabulary to this point.  But they are indeed most important in ancient Egyptian iconography.  In that system, they are associated with resurrection or rebirth. 

And since colors are emphasized in these dreams, I will take it a step further: blue is related to Memory in the Tarot.  Memory beyond the boundaries of the current personality.  In my dream, however, the blue beetle has something in its eyes, like a spider web.  It is trying to wipe it away, presumably so it could see   So I wonder — maybe the blue beetle represents Memory of lives beyond this one – Memory that for me is currently obscured by the veil across my eyes.   I sort of helped shoo the veil from the beetle’s eyes, just like I sort of want to Remember.  But when the beetle came at me blinking, I screamed. 

Ultimately, Memory is blocked by my own fear of seeing.