People throughout history have recorded their dreams, and our fascination with them is as great as ever. My own impetus to begin a dream diary came when I crossed the bridge between two halves of my life: until then my experiences had been much the same as most people’s - growing up, marriage, children, a career.

At 41, circumstances conspired to bring me to Pendle, where I was to undergo a transformation to psychic, mystic, white witch and astrologer. It was fortuitous that I began the Dream Diary at this time, as it enhanced and encouraged my spiritual development. In writing it, I was sending a message to my unconscious mind that said - “I am listening, tell me more,” and I was rewarded a hundredfold. The dreams are reproduced here with the minimum of comment, only what is needed to clarify people, places and times.

When I began writing a dream diary, I could not have known that this was exactly the right time to begin it, or that it would chart the progress of my spiritual development. In 1982 I had completely uprooted myself from my old life - astrologers will be interested to note that this was the time that my Progressed Sun contacted Pluto, and was exactly to be expected. This aspect signals the destruction of the old ego and the construction of the new. I had not come to astrology then, but when I did and looked back, I understood everything so much more.

In 1986, just before I met Wolfram Thomé, I saw that Pluto was about to trine my Venus - meaning I was about to meet my one true love, my soul mate. When we met and I looked at his birth chart alongside mine, I saw that our Venuses were exactly opposite - mine at 7 Cancer, his at 7 Capricorn - which meant that we were both destined to meet our Dream Lover! How amazing is that! Not amazing at all, if you believe in astrology. At the same time I saw that his Sun and my Moon were right next to each other - 21-23 Aquarius. The Alchemists knew this as the Hermetic Marriage - the marriage of Sun and Moon, Gold and Silver. This was ideal for our work together in this world and on the astral plane.

You don’t have to be a psychiatrist or a dream researcher to read this book, anyone interested in dreams will enjoy it. 

 Themes are:

time spent in the underworld; encounters with aliens and elementals; transfiguration; mind alteration through psychic encounters; visitors and messages from the spirit world; insight into sexual states and emotions; integrating the four elements; acquiring a spirit guide; spiritual bonding and love beyond the grave.

 Of particular interest to psychiatrists, psychologists, dream researchers, psychics, mystics and supernatural investigators.

 If you like this, you will be interested to read the second part of my autobiography, A Walk on the Blind Side, where many of the themes introduced here are more fully developed.

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Val and Wolf, 1992

C.G. Jung  says that dreams are a means of establishing harmony between the conscious and the unconscious life; and that working on dreams over a period of time brings an enrichment and a broadening of the mental horizon. . . .

     "If we observe a series of dreams running perhaps into hundreds, a phenomenon emerges that is not observable in a single dream. It becomes clear that we are observing a developmental process in the personality itself. Instead of a series of meaningless incidents, a kind of plan emerges. The dreams are seen to be directed towards a common goal, they are not isolated happenings, but are SUCCESSIVE STEPS in an orderly process of development -"

       He goes on to say:  

       “I have called this unconscious process . . . . 

                          the INDIVIDUATION  process”

I hope the reader will be able to see this process in action in the dreams retold here. Although I had little idea of dream analysis when I began the diary, I know now that the Unconscious communicates with us through dreams, and that the mere fact that we start paying attention encourages and stimulates the unconscious process, so that we start to learn even more from our dreams than we had ever hoped or guessed.

Note 1 C G Jung,  “Dreams” (p77)

Note 2 I was sitting in the garden on a lovely sunny day, making these notes from Jung’s book. As I looked at these words, a tiny scrap of blue feather fell from the sky directly onto them, in a symbolic gesture such as often happened to Jung himself.