Awesome idea! The lightweight “shadow work” guides I generally skip. This work is not easy. The guides can certainly point the way to the starting points, which is useful.
I usually get elemental forces, shoes, and houses in my dreams. I’ve had a goddess and liminal visitations from spirits and spirit guides pop up too. Not often, tho. I have abilities, so it comes with that life. Sleeping opens one up.
I hadn't known about placing a Tarot card next to the bed to stimulate a shadow-related dream. I've never had the kinds of dreams that seem to get discussed in books and articles. I don't have mythical figures, gods or goddesses in my dreams - just totally weird stuff that makes no sense at all. I write them down and it seems that most of the time, the dreams are reflections of what is going on in my life at the moment. Archetypal dreams? What are those?? :-)
Archetypal dreams are not so common, actually. Some individuals might be pre-disposed to having more of them. But usually, the images and symbols are rather mundane. Doesn't mean there isn't rich insight to unpack!!
This is a great article. So mush has blown up in the last few years in my "witchy" peeps around Shadow work. All kinds of Tarot peeps also include some sort of shadow work "guide" like its a weekend workshop. I have actually used these sources! yet know there is much, much more. I want to focus on the "golden" side of shadow too and this is a lovely look at how to do that. I record my dreams daily and have delved into Incubation after reading Machiel Klerks book. It never seemed to open up anything for me though. Amongst all my crazy dreams I find it very difficult to suss out the meanings or lessons.
Another great topic would be Ego vs Persona....if you haven't already attacked these labels.
Have you found the resources/guides in those circles to be useful? Or do they seem to be lacking in depth? It makes so much sense for them to be there, in the realms of spirituality and self-development, but I know they don’t always cover what they should.
Do you find dreamwork in general to be difficult or only when attempting to incubate a dream?
Ego vs persona is a great topic idea!! I have not covered that yet.
Awesome idea! The lightweight “shadow work” guides I generally skip. This work is not easy. The guides can certainly point the way to the starting points, which is useful.
I usually get elemental forces, shoes, and houses in my dreams. I’ve had a goddess and liminal visitations from spirits and spirit guides pop up too. Not often, tho. I have abilities, so it comes with that life. Sleeping opens one up.
Sleeping does open one up. And I think it becomes an especially powerful tool to connect once you get intentional about it :)
I hadn't known about placing a Tarot card next to the bed to stimulate a shadow-related dream. I've never had the kinds of dreams that seem to get discussed in books and articles. I don't have mythical figures, gods or goddesses in my dreams - just totally weird stuff that makes no sense at all. I write them down and it seems that most of the time, the dreams are reflections of what is going on in my life at the moment. Archetypal dreams? What are those?? :-)
It's a really interesting practice! The cards can be used to stimulate all sorts of dreams. I wrote it about here (https://www.theartemisian.com/p/ouroboros-the-rhythm-of-creation).
Archetypal dreams are not so common, actually. Some individuals might be pre-disposed to having more of them. But usually, the images and symbols are rather mundane. Doesn't mean there isn't rich insight to unpack!!
This is a great article. So mush has blown up in the last few years in my "witchy" peeps around Shadow work. All kinds of Tarot peeps also include some sort of shadow work "guide" like its a weekend workshop. I have actually used these sources! yet know there is much, much more. I want to focus on the "golden" side of shadow too and this is a lovely look at how to do that. I record my dreams daily and have delved into Incubation after reading Machiel Klerks book. It never seemed to open up anything for me though. Amongst all my crazy dreams I find it very difficult to suss out the meanings or lessons.
Another great topic would be Ego vs Persona....if you haven't already attacked these labels.
thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.
Have you found the resources/guides in those circles to be useful? Or do they seem to be lacking in depth? It makes so much sense for them to be there, in the realms of spirituality and self-development, but I know they don’t always cover what they should.
Do you find dreamwork in general to be difficult or only when attempting to incubate a dream?
Ego vs persona is a great topic idea!! I have not covered that yet.
Thank you for this. The misconceptions in popular culture right now make me batty!
There's so many too!! It was hard to choose just one to focus on for this article.