The title of this presentation, The Dream and Soul Making, is intended to link the experience of dreaming with the verb making soul. No longer is soul an entity, a noun, it is now a particular experience that enhances daily living and one that we humans are able to engage with, be in relationship with.

Remember this next time you drive past a hospital or clinic and see the symbol of the snake wrapped around a staff. That’s the Rod of Asclepius. The mythic roots of western medicine go back to this moment. His temples were the western world’s first prototype for a hospital. They were always built nearby a sacred spring and surrounded by abundant nature. Asclepius, after all, was a personification of the miraculous healing powers of the natural world.

In the last article I explored the ever revolving discussion about the Zodiac and where it ‘is’. We can see that the constellations are drifting backwards from the earth’s perspective 1° every 72 years. By making the key distinction between ‘constellations’ and ‘signs’ we can start to appreciate the signs of the zodiac as an invisible band around the earth that was discovered (and imagined) by our ancestors, and their constellations as the patterns of stars that act as symbols on the doors that lead into the signs.

Observing every night, generation after generation, with no light or air pollution, try to imagine just how spectacular the theater of the night sky truly was to our ancestors. Those of you fortunate enough to have visited the more remote parts of the earth will have better access to this cellular, ancestral memory. But truly, I don’t think any of us today can really fathom the sky they saw.

Let’s start with the change of sign, since it ruffles the most feathers because it threatens people’s sense of identity (when you reduce yourself to just a ‘star sign’). This claim stems from an ignorance about the fact that there are two separate and distinct forms of astrology: the Tropical and Sidereal systems.

The telescope amplified our sight but blinded our vision. When we looked into the universe and saw so much empty space and nothingness we took it as evidence that we are alone, with no gods to help us. As above, so below, when we turned to the inner world after witnessing the nothingness in space we saw no soul, no invisible force that moves us. The more we expanded on our five senses through technology the more the evidence piled up that this place is nothing but a mechanical, meaningless place for us to use as we see fit, for our own ends and nothing more.

But it was just a mistake. A transgression of the measurable sciences into the invisible worlds.