This might sound familiar to some, because I posted a text about these dreams a couple of days ago, but took it down since it somehow felt a bit off to me.

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I had two memorable dreams on the nights of May 1st and 2nd.

What I recall from May 1st is the vision of a grey triangle, or a pyramid. On it is a mouth, a nose and an eye, and the structure looks like it is carved out of stone. A long thin ribbon is snaking out from underneath the eyelid and lifting in the air. There’s a distant landscape behind it. I remember the awareness of another person outside of the vision. Their face and figure is obscured to me but I know they’re smiling as they are aware that I see this vision.

Later the next day I realise that I had dreamt about one of Salvador Dali’s paintings. A couple of google searches lead me to his  ”Apparition of the visage of Aphrodite of Cnidos in a landscape”. I had dreamt about it with near perfect recall.

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On the night of May the 2nd, I dream that I’m performing a ritual. There’s a labyrinth like path on the ground, with individual steps. Each step contains an embroidered picture, which signifies a part of the being that is the labyrinth. The labyrinth-being is a giant snake. In the dream I’m walking and dancing the path of the labyrinth, and by doing so I become and embody more and more of the snake. Some of the steps are not yet filled out, and I know that this is what I don’t have access to yet. In the dream I know that by dancing the path of the snake, I will eventually have access to all the steps and the whole of the labyrinth which is more than the sum of its parts.

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These dreams confounded and fascinated me with their vivid detail. I’m actually not one who necessarily must find meaning in dreams (the other night for example, I dreamt about jalapeños...) but when they are this clear, colourful and kind of imposing for lack of a better word, you tend to mull over what all that was about anyway.

The first one confused me, but the evident snake theme of the second one did remind me of the Stellar nations of the serpents, although it was quite a while ago that I had read those books. The dreams were different from each other, but  I still felt intuitively that they were a set and that one gave the other.

So when I a bit belatedly watched the last Quantum Compass, I was of course intrigued to hear about the fact that we just entered the Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation in the beginning of May, as well as the fact that this upcoming full moon in Scorpio on the 12th is conjunct Unukalhai, one of the important stars of the Stellar nations of the Serpents, the female line.

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A few evenings later, again belatedly I watched Heather Ensworths show, talking about the full moon on May 12. She brought up another aspect that I found interesting. This is not an exact transcript, but slightly summarised:

”What is also significant at the time of this full moon is that Uranus is at 26 degrees of Taurus, which is in alignment with the star Algol. Algol is associated in the myth of Perseus with the head of the Medusa. Many astrologers see Algol as the demon star. Let’s talk about the greek myth of Perseus and Medusa.

Let’s start with the earlier tale of Medusa. Medusa was a beautiful maiden who had taken a vow of chastity in order to be a priestess who served in Athenas temple. However, Poseidon lusts after Medusa and rapes her in Athenas temple. Athena is outraged by this, and what does Athena do? She punishes the victim, turning her from this beautiful maiden into a monster. Medusa now is a gorgon with living serpents in her hair, and her stare would turn anyone who looks at her into stone. So she has been raped and now banished from Athenas temple and made into a monster. The story of Perseus in this dynamic, is that Perseus has been tasked with slaying Medusa as a part of his hero’s journey. He finds a way to cut off her head without being killed by her stare, and he brings the head back with him as proof of his conquest. While on his way back, he sees Andromeda who has been chained to the rocks and is endangered of being devoured by a sea monster. Perseus then uses the head of Medusa to kill the sea-monster and is able to rescue Andromeda.

If we go deeper into the roots of this story, Cetus the whale is not a sea-monster, it’s been seen across the ancient cultures as the whale. And what do we know about wales?

If you have swam with whales as I or study them as others, you know that whales are these beings of high frequency, that hold the memories of the sea and sing songs of harmony in order to help us to remember who we truly are.

What is the deeper root of Medusa? There is a lot of research, by Maria Gimbutas in particular, that the image of the gorgon with the serpents, traces back to much more Ancient understandings, of the serpent as one of the most ancient and powerful images of the great goddess. The serpent is this image of being in rhythm, being in relationship with the earth, the capacity to go through, life, death, rebirth, as the serpent sheds its skin to move into a new form. The serpent is a symbol of fertility of the power of the great goddess. It most likely come from the ancient Libyan goddess culture dating back into pre-historic times. Interestingly enough, in 7th century bc the Greeks came and colonised that area in North Africa, and absorbed a lot of the culture from the ancient Libyans, but morphed it into what was aligned to their own culture. Remember, the greek and roman mythology is steeped in the mythology and beliefs and paradigms of the age of Aries, where the greeks and romans where in perpetual conquest of other city-states, to colonise them and take their resources but to then dominate and assert their power. In the story of Perseus, what is slain, if not the more ancient image of the great goddess.

What we have here is Greek mythology absorbing something from this more ancient Goddess culture, that they’ve now colonised and dominated, and we see the suppression of the sacred feminine, the distortion of these more ancient images of the sacred feminine wisdom, and the wisdom of the great goddess, now being demonised, devalued, destroyed, and turned into something monstrous. — sacred feminine symbols used to destroy and suppress each other.”

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I have tried to find something written about Salvador Dali’s ”Apparition of the visage of Aphrodite of Cnidos in a landscape” to see if I could make sense of why it ended up in my dream so clearly, but there’s little of interest on the Internet. Aphrodite of Cnidos however, the motif in Salvador’s painting, seems to be the first sculpture that the Ancient Greeks created of the female form as a nude (much less the Goddess as nude). It was said that one man became so besotted in the sculpture that he tried to copulate with it, defiling the temple and ending in shame. It’s not so hard to see similarities to some of the darker themes of the Stellar Nations of the Serpents female line as well as the origin story of Medusa.

Salvador Dali’s painting shows this sexualised goddess from a very different perspective and  I’m tempted to interpret the two dreams as a call to do just that. Together with the dream of walking the serpent labyrinth, it feels like an invitation to balance what has been unbalanced, to reclaim what has been forgotten, and to respect and value what has been wrongfully vilified. In a way it also feels like a promise of becoming.

I took three cards for another question, but I honestly felt that it was about this theme.

Footnote: I had the idea to google Salvador Dalis birthday and glyph, because why not? Turns out he was born on May 11th in 1904, which would make him a Blue Overtone Night born during the the Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation. As for myself, my glyph is the Blue Lunar Night.