Face Changed

[Patrice]

Hi i had a dream that i was sitting down and a guy that i know was sitting beside me because he liked me. He was about 10 years younger than me
then his faced changed to someone else i know. They look alike but this guy is about 10 years older than me. He was sitting beside me because he liked
me. My cousin was there and she has red hair in my dream and in real life.
My cousin was the mother of the first guy. The next day i went to church
and a man came up to me and asked me if he could sit beside me because he
liked me so much. Is that weird? HE didn't look like the guy in the dream.
I really didn't understand this? In church the priest said that this man reads
the bible out loud on the alter.

[mythopoet]

Hi Patrice-

You have a very interesting dream. In tending the images of your dream, I want to reaffirm that our dream images possess a life of their own and this irrational zone plays itself through out our own dreams.

What fascinates me about your dream is the composite nature of its image of man, which also may be your actual question, "Isn't that weird?" Isn't that weird that we possess a mortal mind supported by an immortal one? What is the nature of this other immortal life (mind?) that you should happen upon it in your dream, Patrice? The nature of such a question requires you to dream through it(!) In other words, what is the likeness of this like when it imitates in you? You will need a musing life, a time to daydream or wonder-time to take this composite nature on. It belongs to what is called irrational soul. The irrational is that upon which the rational ordering principles are founded.

Your dream paints its musing life (blueprint) like Micheangelo painted -right on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. To explore this you must begin with the soul of numbers and something about Pythagoras, an ancient Greek philosopher who believed the cosmos itself was built upon the energy or "soul life" of numbers.

Pythagoras reasoned that the entire universe could be expressed numerically, creating a mystical system of order. What is the 'power' of ten? How is it making-up the symbolic order in various systems of order throughout time and times and just now in your own "time" frame?

Your dreamtime makes-up a composite space bringing together Greek notions for "ten" and Hebrew ones. Both Greek and Hebrew ideas saw "ten' as a perfect number. Pythagoras considered it comprehends all arithmetic and harmonic proportions, and, like God, is tireless. The dream places you "in attendance" or attened while " in a ten-dance.

The letters of the Hebrew alphabet are based on numbers. You can muse here to develop your own ideas regarding this dream. The merits of this notion are what develops numerology and later, in the 13thC gematria, a mystic numerical interpretation of the Scriptures. Doing this kind of dream work would associate and allow a way to amplify the images of this dream, so if you do this, be sure and create something. That is what Carl Jung did with his images of the irrational in order to hold them here in this world.

In closing I want to share with you a picturing from Egyptian mythological life that is grounded in ten through the image of a seba, a five pointed star. Five is midway between zero and ten and alights just as does your own location in the dream. Where you are in the dream is seba-like.


Star
(seba), a seastar

Appearance: The Egyptians had extended knowledge of the night sky and the stars above. The circumpolar stars (the set of stars that seemed to "orbit" the North Star through the course of the night and thus never dipped below the horizon) were called the "Imperishable Ones". Most of the brighter stars were named by the Egyptians and they named thirty-eight constellations. These constellations were used to divide the night sky into "decans" (from the Greek word for "Ten"). The decans were called "the thirty-six gods of heaven and each ruled for ten-days each year.

Every Egyptian temple was a complex model of the cosmos as is our present day churches reflective of our own cosmic notions of deity. Many images of the stars, constellations and stellar deities grace Egyptian temple ceilings as do the images of Jesus, Mary, & saints in catholic churches & images of creation, the flood, the Nativity etc do in Christian churches, seasonally and as does the myth of the Pale Man grace the mythical nightmare scene in the movie Pan's Labyrinth. (If you've seen the movie, those were St Lucy eyes on the plate, btw!) It was believed that the stars did not just inhabit this world, but in the Duat (land of the afterlife) as well. This zone is comparable to the House of Hades in Greek thought. The sea star is a duat, a metaphorical representation for a journey into the underworld, a soul that can, when well-attended in both its mortal and immortal natures, like the Egyptian Ba-soul, ascend to the heavens.

Bless,
mythopoet