Slip Sliding Away

The dream this time has some very interesting literal elements going on. I saw fire and water. To begin, I am in a distant unknown city, I drove there to vacation with some friends. My car is my old gold 2000 Saturn. She was the longest lived and most reliable car I ever owned. The engine in it burned up in 2012. Twelve years is a long time in used car years.

I park my car near the amusement park and I meet my friends at the water park slide. This thing is huge and must be about a mile or two long. It undulates out over the ocean.  I get on the slide with a couple of my friends children and we slide the length of it. It is a fast ride going up and down. The ride seems to defy physics as it is mostly a horizontal ride and how we maintain our momentum to reach the very end is a mystery to me, but we do.

I look around after the ride and I cannot find my friends, or their children anywhere. I seem to have lost them or they have deserted me. I spend many hours trying to find them and eventually give up and I leave to go find my car. I wander about the city streets for hours and when I think I have found the location where I parked my car she is not there. I am either not in the right location or I am hopelessly lost. So I continue to wander about the city. I weigh in my mind what has happened to my friends and what am I going to do? I keep walking.

The sun is going down, it is going to be dark in a couple of hours. I need to decide what I am going to do. I am in a far way city wandering around in only a swim suit. I apparently do not have my wallet and I am on my own in a desperate situation. I look everywhere for my friends. I walk the streets and enter in and out of buildings looking for them.

At dusk I continue walking along until I come to be under a highway overpass in a industrial park area. Suddenly, I see a gasoline hauling  semi-trailer tanker truck speeding toward us. The truck is swerving from side-to-side as it snakes it's way down the street. When it is exactly under the bridge it crashes on it's left side onto the pavement and collides with a support pillar, and bursts into flames! I hear several women off to my left scream and come running toward the accident. We watch in horror as it bursts into flames.

Then after about a minute I see a man and a woman rise up out the right side passenger door! They are burning up so badly that their flesh is melting. They are screaming loudly in pain. The woman is trying to lift the man out of the cab by his right arm. They both die being consumed by the flames. It was such a traumatic sight that it physically shook me back into an awake consciousness state.

Man! What a dream! We go from being in the water to being lost and watching a dramatic fire horribly consume two people in ghastly vivid detail. There is a lot of content here to get at the bottom of.

The huge water slide is surely a metaphor of life. Life can often feel like it is an amusement park ride and we all are being swept along by it by the life giving fluid from the time we leave the womb to the time when we die. Friends come in and out of our lives just like in this dream. Sometimes we connect briefly or sometimes it is for a lifetime. Sooner or later the ride ends.

It is interesting that there are children again in my dream. It is becoming a reoccurring theme. I have often thought about having them or rediscovering and healing the wounded little boy within myself. Interesting too, that I am lost again in a strange place and looking for the way to safety, and home. I have not had that sense of security of a place of my own ever.

My witnessing of the horrible demise of the truckers really gets to me. It highlights the fragility of life and how unexpected events can happen in a life and that these can change the course everything on a dime.

There is a swirl of emotions that are coming out as I review all these symbols. The water is very important one to take note of this week. There is a rare astrological event called the grand water trine that is active for July 2013. There is a configuration of three planets dividing the night sky into three equal parts. Now this is a grand water trine because the planets in question happen to be in water signs. Water is the element of fluidity and emotion. It connects to the divine femininity and the healing process that impacts our emotional experience as human beings.

So a grand water trine is going to be a very emotional period to navigate through by nature. The energetic nature of all trines, this circular relationship pattern of 120 degree points, is very harmonious and it implies flow. A good analogy would be like turning on both hot and cold water faucets in a sink fully on and getting a big heavy flow of perfectly delightfully warm water. That is the general nature of a trine. The two major planets that are anchoring this water trine are Neptune in Pisces and Saturn in Scorpio. Interesting that Scorpio is my personal sun sign and Saturn was the car I was driving! They have been activating this grand trine for months now and they met up in October 2012. July is the third grand trine moment that makes up this current cycle. The second was in June 2013. The close timing of these movements make them very prominent and powerful. Now all the fast moving planets will be swerving into the sign of Cancer in the coming weeks and months, which is also a water sign, its all of those planets hitting the five degrees of Cancer points that make this a grand trine and that's the third element of the triangle that makes this overall configuration that we all are going to feel emotionally in a pretty powerful way.

Now Neptune is the frequency we experience in spiritual pursuits. When every time we pray, meditate or simply close our eyes and feel the subtle energies in the invisible realms you are connecting with Neptune.  Pisces is the archetype of the undercurrent of the collective consciousness. These are they ways in which we are all connected to each other. We are all like fish that swim in the ocean of this collective consciousness. This summarizes the character of the archetype of Pisces. This configuration at this time implies what is possible to achieve in the very highest heights in the spiritual realms.

Saturn in Scorpio in trine with Neptune in Pisces is what makes this time more a responsible moment that it is. Saturn is the teacher and the taskmaster. It is an odd synchronicity that in my dream I have lost my vehicle called a Saturn. Weird, huh? Now Saturn the taskmaster/teacher is saying you have got all the tools you need now. It is time to walk your talk and he is not giving us anymore free passes at the waterpark of life. Saturn in the sign of Scorpio is saying you now have got alchemy at your disposal. You've got the mystery at your disposal. You've got the principal of transmutation at your disposal. Now use them! The interaction with Neptune says you can reach higher spiritual heights. This whole scenario sets the stage to make this a very fertile month for going deeper and higher in spiritual consciousness.

The really delicious part of the trine are all the fast moving planets coming into Cancer. Thus when you then have Cancer, Pisces and Scorpio, all water signs, working together it is making up what is called a grand water trine. What becomes possible in this moment is that emotional issues are going to well up. These are obviously present in my dream. The opportunity here is to objectively look that them and heal by being made aware of where my emotional wounds are still inhibiting me. This allows me, as I heal these deep old wounds that may be generational or childhood wounds, to access my heart's intelligence more profoundly then I normally do. This is the opportunity that is currently up for me. Luckily, the first planet that activated this grand trine is Mercury. Mercury rules the mind and the intellect. He is the messenger and since he led this grand trine off he can bring clarity and awareness to exactly what emotional issues I am dealing with to be healed. A thorough look at this dream has given me some great insights on what is on tap for me to go deeper to process and heal.

Another aspect to note is that Venus came into 5 degrees of Cancer creating a real heart felt sense of the power of this grand water trine and expanding even more what is possible on the inner realms. This has set up, essentially, to utilize the new moon energy to heal old wounds. Understanding this dream in context with the astrological influences has given me, as always, a much deeper insight into what needs to be healed next and what are the core emotional issues that my psyche needs to break through. There is a window of opportunity this month to go deep and get spiritually higher at the same time. I can shed some light into the dark waters of my emotional unconscious self and perhaps really make some significant spiritual progress at the same time.

Jupiter's role in Cancer needs to be acknowledged in all this, as well, at the end of July. Jupiter is the abundance and prosperity planet which will make the lay of the land even more expansive then ever before. My fortunes have been really tight all this year so far. A major turn around would be welcome. Life has been pretty damn rough, lean and hard this year. I could use some abundance and pray I have the sense to not squander it. I have learned some hard lessons on how to live with less. I would love to learn more about loving to live with too much right now.

Well, the one thing that is certain this month is that anything I can use as a tool, be it astrology, or getting at the deeper understanding of my dreams is going to have a lot of power behind it. I'm getting married in a couple of months. My life is going to transform in a myriad of unforeseen ways. Now seems like an opportune time for healing and taking an active role in achieving the best transformation possible. This process can be like putting on a diving suit with fins and air tanks or it can go like a skinny dipping exercise and getting swept away by a riptide. I have to believe anything that might help is going to be a good thing.