*Rudra* A classification of dreams - 3 All such illustrations are, of course, quite inadequate; they can only hint at the character of a process which cannot be accurately translated in terms of conscious experiences alone. Astrology may add another dimension to our analysis of the dream processes by making us differentiate dreams into three basic categories: Uranian, Neptunian and Plutonian. Plutonian Dreams Plutonian dreams are rarer. They can be quite destructive of the integration of the total personality — strange nightmares leaving a ghastly feeling of fear, foreboding, death. In more spiritual individuals, they may be the projections and symbols of profound experiences of self-renewal and of expansion of the very essence of the self. Uranian dreams are heralds of what might be; they show the way ahead, they inspire to go on, they rouse the ego-bound soul to new possibilities. Plutonian dreams may be the reflection upon the waking consciousness of real steps taken in inner unfoldment and soul growth — or, negatively, they reveal the pain or despair of the soul who has (at least temporarily) failed and perhaps the abyss ahead and the dark presences that fill those abysmal depths. If, as is probable, there is at least one more planet beyond Pluto, such a planet should refer to even more real and definite inner experiences in the souls who have become, at least to some extent, integral parts of the vast community of godlike souls — of which the galaxy is the astrological symbol. C. G. Jung, the psychologist, said that there are levels upon levels of collective unconscious. It is so inasmuch as there is a vast hierarchy of levels upon which individuals can act consciously and creatively. The galaxy, too, I repeat, is but one among the myriad of spiral nebulae which constitute a universe; and universes may be parts in a far vaster cosmos. There is no conceivable end to the possibility of becoming a conscious individual at ever more inclusive, more cosmic levels. Yet any individual — unless he be the all-inclusive Godhead — is but an active center within a larger whole, a collectivity. Between this individual and this collectivity, there must always be a relationship operating in alternating phases. We human beings know such alternating phases as waking consciousness and sleep, embodied existence and death. But these terms have meaning only in terms of our human experience. The Hindu philosophers spoke of the Days and Nights of Brahma, the Creator of universes in which consciousness unfolds and of conditions of absolute non-being in which nothing exists. Yet, to the sage, there is beyond those cosmic days and nights, beyond consciousness and unconsciousness, that which contains both. The Hindus named that symbolically the Great Breath, exhaling the world into being, inhaling it into immense peace. Thus, we experience our conscious ego being exhaled into the world of day activity as we wake up and inhaled into sleep as we lie down for rest. In a sense, we are both conditions, conscious and unconscious; we are also that which includes both. The planets from the Sun to Saturn drive us to conscious activity; but the planets beyond Saturn — when the day is over — lead us to the vast spaces of the galaxy, where we know our greater self, the stars that we are. When the alternative rhythm brings us back to day consciousness, then Uranus, Neptune and Pluto ever seek to make us remember that we are not only a Saturn-bound, Sun-centered individual self, but that we belong to the greater community of the stars as well. by Dane Rudhyar
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 15:16:25 +0000
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