The dream this morning almost slipped completely away from my memory. I have retained the key aspects of the story this time and I want to give this dream it's due diligence and considered study. So let's try to reconstruct it and deconstruct it all in one go.
I see the ISS, the International Space Station, in orbit over earth. Below it is night on earth and the city lights are visible. There are two female astronauts on board ISS. One woman is the commander and the other a low ranking scientist. The commander is one flaky bitch. She bullies the crew and at the same time has a fake smile and insincerely wants to pretend to be everyone's friend. She has an unstable personality and should never have been appointed commander.
Off in the distance, high above the earth, I see what looks to be a comet blazing across space from left to right. The object is a white blur with seven fragments seeming to fly along within it. The junior astronaut-scientist on board is studying it. The woman has some small device that is critical for collecting data about the phenomenon, but the crazy commander orders her to jettison the device, or else! The poor scientist tearfully does as she is told and walks to a sliding glass window and tosses it into space.
Yes, I know, the actual space station does not have a sliding glass door. Sometimes dreams will defy logic and disregard physics, dreams are often symbolic, and metaphorical, so I am not surprised by this little error, and I just accept it for what it is without scientific scrutiny or judgment.
The junior scientist, as discoverer, does get the honor of naming the object and she names it after the Greek goddess Artemis. She was the goddess of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth and virginity. Artemis had seven wood nymphs as her entourage, "The Seven Sisters". The myth states that she turned them into doves in order to let them escape from a determined pursuing admirer. Zeus, then turned them, into the stars known as the Pleiades to eternally preserve, and protect them at Artemis' request. The scientist noted the seven fragments within the object and thought the name an appropriate one. Although, not sure this strictly conforms with the established rules of naming a new celestial object. So this is the point at which I wake up.
Interesting that this dream is filled with female themes and imagery. I had it on the night of a full moon too. The female commander reminds me of one of my bosses at work. The personality and physical appearance are too similar to be a coincidence. The woman scientist, however, seems to be a compilation of many woman I have known or currently know. The theme seems to be ugly lady boss up against everything I know to be beautiful and feminine. Dragon lady boss might temporarily have her way, but she is not going to win this war against all things loving, kind and beautiful.
The lady boss in my waking life has just returned from a month long leave of absence to care for her ailing husband apparently. The woman has always given me the creeps with her fake smiles and her constant bullying. I want to go screaming and run away every time I see her. What an annoying woman! I don't want to be dreaming any aspect of her. She must be, symbolically, some kind of feminine shadow aspect of me. That is disturbing!
The comet, as a symbol, is another sign of sudden coming changes. I will have troubles of an unexpected nature beset me. This is a continuation of a theme I have been seeing with my dreams, tarot and my horoscopes of late. Saturn is briefly returning to my sign of Scorpio this month to once again kick my ass and teach me hard lessons. It will be in retrograde this time so this suggests that it will be to address anything I have left undone since Saturn last visited my sign. Sigh! Please God I am so weary of all this! I so want to get things fixed and just get on with living.
The hunter goddess aspect to all this suggests I am embodying, perhaps, some of her qualities and her concerns. Artemis only desired to be out in nature and to protect it. I definitely need to reconnect with nature to nourish my soul. It is summer now and I am longing to feel the grass under my feet and breath fresh air. The wife and I need to get out of town for sure.
The dream is reminding me to roll with the cosmic changes and get in touch the good feminine things in life. This is my positive take on it. I'd rather not think about all the unknown uncomfortable crap I might have to deal with this month. Hopefully, being forewarned will equate with being forearmed and I will be able to cope with what I know is coming. That being more awful crap! Ugh! Such is life.
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