This card has shown up to remind you that your dream guide is always with you, supporting and protecting you on your nightly journeys. 

Ask for guidance. Journal what your guide shows and teaches you, and where you are taken during your dream time.

This card guides you to pay attention to the dreams you have, both when you sleep and during your waking hours.

They are your connection to your true, fearless Indigo soul and your highest potential.

One of the most common experiences people have with spirits is visitation dreams. While many people are quick to brush off any visitation dream as the result of the grieving process and not an actual communication from a departed soul, we tend to think otherwise. Visitation dreams occur more than you may realize. There are several common traits to visitation dreams that greatly differ than your average dream of showing up to work or school without pants.

This story takes place about 15 years ago. My husband and I were living in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. This is the only time I can remember having a psychic dream.

The dream started out with "me" facing a 20-something-year-old woman and she said defiantly, "I'm not afraid of you." She was sitting on a couch in a living room looking straight at me. I realize I'm seeing this whole thing through the intruder's eyes.

Tarot and Dreams: Interpreting the Symbols of the Soul The Language of Symbols Symbols are a silent and potent language which reaches our conscious awareness through the agency of subconsciousness, rising on wings of spirit from the deepest parts of our being as messengers from our soul. The common denominator of Tarot and dreams is transmission of knowledge and understanding through the agency of subconsciousness and the mechanism of pictorial symbolism. It is a natural marriage to combine Tarot and dreams to deepen and enhance the understanding of dream symbols and to expand our understanding of Tarot.

A Deck of Dreams

Collect images that strike you from photographs, greeting cards, magazines and catalogs. Cut and paste them onto colored construction paper or poster paper and assemble your own Tarot deck. By "bridging" the dream images into the waking dimension you strengthen you intuition. These images can be used to create your own personal Tarot deck, literally a "deck of dreams" to be used for personal and individual interpretation. (These cannot be reproduced for other than your personal individual use). Draw the dream, or make a collage or a dream mosaic, using your collection of images.

Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors

After his brothers sold him into slavery Joseph ended up in Pharaoh's jail where he established a reputation for interpreting dreams. One night Pharaoh dreamed of seven fat cows entering the Nile, emerging as seven lean cows. Joseph interpreted the dream as a warning that seven years of plenty would be followed by seven years of famine, and counseled the king to take heed and fill the larders (Genesis 41:17-27). The Pharaoh followed Joseph's advice, and Joseph rose to the important position of advisor to pharaoh and became perhaps the most famous interpreter of dreams.

Recurring Dreams

Recurring dreams can be extremely informative and important to decipher. Your subconscious mind has gone to a great deal of trouble to send the same "dream telegram" several times, and it will generally continue to do so until you recognize the insight being offered, or outgrow the issue being addressed. Often these dreams recur for a discrete period of time, such as during childhood, adolescence, college years, or during a specific relationship or period of employment. If you outgrow or move away from a certain lifestyle you may stop having the recurring dream, unless something in your current situation strikes a similar emotional chord from your past; then the dream may resurface, like an emotional "home movie" of certain feelings and moods. 

In transformational dream work knowledge of dreams and the skill to interpret them are only two skills among important others. In transformational dream work one further learns: how to enter the sleep and dream states; how to gradually and progressively over time work within the dream state while dreaming; how to emerge from the dream and sleep state; and how to reenter for greater dream memory and understanding. Sage in future correspondences will explore and present many of these tools.
ENTERING SLEEP
To enter sleep and dreams one should not be too exhausted. One should be relaxed and stress free. If not take a short gentle walk, listen to relaxing music or do deep breathing and relaxation exercises. When in bed continue relaxing and practicing gentle, slow, even breathing. Let your body melt into the mattress as if it were a warm wet rag. Ideally, the body should become so relaxed in bed, you are not aware of it. There are various ideal postures, but for now let's keep it simple. Sleep on your back or on your right side. (Don't' sleep on your stomach, though).
In later issues of Sage, elaboration on working with the breath and focusing the mind will also be introduced. For now, one can enter sleep and dreams by meditating through watching the breath while becoming absorbed in its sound, and the awareness of being aware - that one is pure consciousness, the inner Self. Let the in-breath and out-breath be of equal length - five seconds or longer each way. One should particularly note the space between the in breath and out breath, in which the breath stills and stops for a spell. Let this stillness at both ends of the breath be of equal length, and rest in this "space." This is when one easily experiences the inner Self.
One who has learned the currently popular Christian meditation called the Prayer of the Heart - focusing on the breath and spiritual heart center while repeating a short prayer or name of God - can integrate this practice here as entering sleep.
As one meditates in this way, one eventually enters a protected and sacred "sleep" and experiences and passes through higher dreams, or by-passes most dreams and enters a deep rejuvenating dreamless sleep in a higher state of consciousness. One may or may not remember these deeper experiences of the night, but one may feel the effects on awakening from the feelings of greater peace and rest.
In an ancient Eastern text, the Yogavasistha, there is the story of Bhusunda a sage in the form of a crow who lives in a wish-fulfilling tree. He has lived longer than any on earth has ever lived. When questioned by the sage Vasistha how he lived so long, Bhusunda attributed his longevity to his contemplation (meditation) on the life-force (prana) centered in his heart. He tells Vasistha that through constantly watching his breath and the movement of the life force with it, he has achieved a state of purity and an unshakable state of mind - "total equanimity" - which he does not lose "whether I am awake, asleep or dreaming." The Concise Yoga Vasistha {Swami Venkatesananda, 285, 1984}.
AWAKENING FROM SLEEP AND DREAMS
On awakening in the morning it is important to remain perfectly still before arising. If one doesn't move a muscle and keeps the mind quiet, one can more easily keep a continuity of consciousness with the dream state and thus more readily remember one's dreams.
While keeping the body perfectly still in the position you began to awaken, trace back in your mind any dream impressions. At first these may be fleeting. Just go back in your memory to whatever images or impressions you were aware of. It may have just been a feeling or thought, a color or simple form; a part of a dream or a whole dream. Whatever it is, trace it back from the last part of it that occurred back in time to earlier parts, if possible. Then, gently arise and immediately write it down. If you remember or trace back a whole dream experience, go to its beginning and then trace back further to see if the time before it, leads you into an earlier dream. You may remember the ending first, but no matter - trace it back until you recall as much as possible. Always look to see if there was an earlier dream or some other faint impression after finishing recalling all or parts of a dream.
When immediately writing these down after arising, write in the order they occur in your mind. You may find they occur in the order you were recalling them in bed. After writing one dream or those segments remembered, always look inside your memory for recollections, no matter how faint of another. Thus, you will trace back in time while writing as you did while in bed. You may even recall dream segments or whole dreams as you write which you did not recall in bed. Over time you may even begin to have spontaneous insights into the meaning g and nature of the dream. It is important to know both the nature of the dream and the meaning of the dream.