About dreams interpretation in my book DREAM WITCHERY and why I didn't give so much space to this topic.
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When I was writing my book 'Dream Witchery: Folk Magic, Recipes & Spells from South America for Witches & Brujas' years ago my focus was essentially two things:
1~ Dream's Sorcery & Spellwork from its basics to advanced.
2~ Folklore from South American indigenous people surrounding the topic.
I did this book essentially for two reasons; 1st honor my people - as native person myself - born in Guainía, Amazonas. And 2nd; teach that Spellwork through dreams and sleep time is equally effective and traditional, but you don't know it cuz no white author wanted to talk about it 🙄🤌🏼
Most books on WitchCraft barely grasp dreams magic from a very distant perspective. Half of those books just teach you to put charms under your pillow, and the other half just see everything dreams related as a form of *spontaneous premonition* never encouraging you to explore deeper.
In South America, especially in Brazil and Venezuela, we used to work with visitors from all parts of the world coming to try Ayahuasca, Cacao rituals, our popular tobacco ceremonies, and limpias in the river. We teach a lot about herbs, ancestry, and dreams, including functional Spellwork on this.
Anyway, when we focus on dream interpretation, our focus doesn't go deeper. As many native indigenous priests will tell you very respectfully; western culture spends too much to try to 'understand' dreams, when the problem is; you're trying to understand it, to control it. And what you should try; Is not looking for understanding dreams as a generic thing, but as a deeper and individual spiritual language of your own, if instead to try to control it, you surround yourself to it, and you accept the fact that these *visions* are more than what a book says, you'll find power in them.
The western perspective on dreams - from a magical perspective - Is that dreams are essentially just visions of the future.
In our traditions, and I know this is a wide statement cause there are many different aboriginal tribes in Amazonas, but widely; we consider dreams as something more personal.
When you go with a dream interpreter of my original wayúu tribe, or with the guaranis, the dream interpreter will never limit itself to say "this means this and that", guiding itself from a book. And I'm not saying that it does not work, but I clearly think it is a very limited vision.
Why are dreams interpretations the smallest chapter in my book 'Dream Witchery'?
~ Cause if I wanted to write about dreams interpretations, and I have tried before, I couldn't give you a simple chapter, this would be more like an entire book, not a boring long 200k words encyclopedia, but a small book
Will definitely be a book on how you, taking the work of a dream interpreter, a serious priest of the visions, take the time to surrender to know that you know nothing.
Basically because of two things:
1st. to make an interpretation we make a serious preparation, meditation, deep long sounds, prepare an especial incense formula, different for every client/person, and we even consider the hours of the day to make the interpretation right. And we always ask for written notes from the dreamer.
2nd. To make an interpretation we always start asking the person - cause CONTEXT IS KING - what these symbols represent for this person, not for us.
And context is seriously important in an interpretation, let me tell you why.
Every mind is a different world, every person coming to you is a different world of experiences, dreams, memories, ancestry, legacy, fears, frustrations, nightmares, ideas, lessons.
Every customer comes to you with giant equipment in their minds.
Again; CONTEXT IS KING, because context is everything
Every person coming to you descends from a different background, culture, history, and family, what for me represents the water, for you is probably not the same.
And as a Witch/Brujo who have taking so multiple different initiations in the past, I can tell you; Practically every tradition of witchcraft approaches everything in a different way, from the way to work with the elements to the way to summon or interact with different spirits or to work with your ancestors. And with dreams, the same, approach is different.
The two examples I always do here are the next; weddings and insects you can see in your dreams. There significance is incredibly different, and you can't just jump to conclusions about it when you're doing a reading about it for a customer, let me tell you how different they are:
As I think I mentioned in my book dream witchery; cause living in the Amazonas you literally interact every day with many different persons from different tribes and from different cities from Colombia, Peru, Brazil, and Venezuela. When someone comes telling you they dream with a wedding 💍
In certain parts of Colombia; dreaming with a wedding simply means marriage, but also Abundance, an effective finalization of a cycle.
While in Venezuela, many times a wedding is a bad omen, considered (and many times results true) death.
In Venezuela, especially outside of the Capital, if you dream of a wedding, that essentially means 'lady death' or 'mother death' (la flaquita) is coming to kiss you and take you to her kingdom. While in the capital, Caracas, which is heavily culturally influenced by Spaniards and Portuguese people.
Dreaming of a wedding is considered an omen of abundance, union, expansion of a business of a family, is commonly listened to in any family reunion when someone mentioned to dream with a wedding; that a woman is pregnant and the wedding is coming (for obvious reasons).
Now the contrary example; if you dream with funerals or any form of funerary rituals ⚱️ and coming from a country where (different to USA) the indigenous community is so well blended with everybody else culturally; we are talking about +200 different ways of traditional indigenous funerary rituals.
Dreams associated with funerals usually means two things, and not of these things are death.
One, is ancestry, your ancestors are desperately looking for ways to contact you. And 2nd; initiation, that's the meaning for regional brujos and espiritistas, literally means 'is your time to ascend'.
When a spiritual worker ( #espiritista) or a folk witch ( #brujo) dreams with funerals, usually means this person needs Initiation know, and many times this dream present itself to people who refuses to take initiation for personal reasons. So it is many times considered a warning for the priests.
I mentioned it was a second example after the wedding example.
Dreaming with cockroaches.
And I'm talking about the insects, not about awful people who constantly support and proudly endorse white people making money through appropriation of other cultures for money.. even if they are similar 🥴🫢🤷🏼♂️
Dreaming with cockroaches has many different interpretations for every culture, but I like (at least on this one) stay in my line and just approach this kind of disgusting vision from the perspective of my own culture (s) and tradition(s).
I remember the few times I visited Brazilian communities, this dream was always considered an omen of illness and possibly death. Which has a certain logic, after all; we are talking about insects that cause a neurological reaction of fear and disgust in many people. Anyway...
In Venezuela, and also many parts of Colombia, and I said this very confident based on my innumerable interactions with Colombian spiritual workers through the years.
We come from countries with a socially difficult political structure, we overcame financial adversity and also survived extremely long governments staying in power illegally, which get us back to the concept of imperialism, the Spain, Italian, and Portuguese Monarchy, etc...
While cockroaches can look disgusting, they also represent excess, excess of food and garbage... And I talked about this in a recent interview.
I think it was my talk w/ Aly Kravetz from the podcast 'Good Witch' (is on YouTube I think), for countries like ours (Venezuela, Peru, Colombia) where the population is so divided by money more than for politics like in the USA.
Cockroaches are associated with abundance and excess.
Cause the rich used to sent their drivers very long way to throw their garbage in the poor towns or small cities. So culturally, dreaming with this insects actually is actually an impactful good omen, means the Abundance and Prosperity are driving in your way to take it, practically knocking; Any native Venezuelan #brujos will tell you that if you dream with this insects, you need to shower with love oils and keep a magnet on your pocket, cause money is coming to you and you want *money* loves you and fall magnetized by you.
Anyway, if an American person (for example) comes to me asking for an interpretation, and this is what they dream of, I will start asking (ok, please write down what this means for you, according to you), and after that, to avoid any bias, I'll tell them what means in my culture, just x reference.
When we talk about the Art of Dreams Interpretation (oh my, that should be a perfect title if one day I do the book, lol), remember, CONTEXT IS KING, and always ask for written notes from the dreamer/customer cause during the day their minds will start filling blank spaces and modify their OG vision.
That's why it is so important, and underrated?, keeping a dream journal next to your bed. Of course, you possibly think you don't need it cause you don't have dreams so often. But when you have them, especially if you are a witch, a healer, or any form of magical/spiritual worker, is key to have it.
Cause your mind and your practice will enhance your visions and dreams to another level, another level for which nobody is giving you instructions, cause your experiences will be unique for you, and if your deities or ancestors are looking to communicate with you, using the dreams path for that.
They're gonna design and manufacture each #dream and vision especially for you, using elements you and just you can recognize, not someone else.
I didn't want to focus my book on dreams magic into this path, cause if I tried, I'll end writing an entire book on the topic, and that was not my goal.
Anyway, if you grab a copy of Dream Witchery, you'll find practical and effective exercises to enhance your visions, instructions to create a different #dreamjournal, many different #dreampillows, and also multiple combinations of herbal #incense to empower your ability to read dreams.
The idea was not 'hey, here is another book encyclopedia on dreams signs' but 'hey, this gonna help you to enhance your own way to dream, and understand your own way to read your dreams', but also to master an old magical art of communication with your ancestors through #dreamsmagic and sorcery.
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