Dream Mysteries

24/08/2026

Oneiromancy. What does the serpent symbolise in dreams?

So many things, snakes are the ultimate fluid lifeform. In ancient dream interpretation we can look to the use of the snake/serpent form in hieroglyphs and its employment in particular words - for a hint about the snake 'essence'.

We see the resting serpent hieroglyph (dj) used in the earliest forms of the name Djhuety/Thoth.

Immediately then we can make an association of the serpent with the 'word', with magic, and with healing.

In snake myths we have an association also with Auset/Isis, goddess of magic, healing, and transformation.

In one myth Isis creates a serpent 🐍 out of dust and the sun god Ra's spit, so that she might wound him with his own power. When Isis extracts the God's secret name from him, she then has the power of the very sun, which she transfers onto her divine child.

In the Mysteries with her husband she is the alchemist, drawing life out of death. She is the inventor of the art of embalming, of ressurection. She provides Osiris her lover with a golden phallus (when his severed p***s is eaten by a fish in the Nile). She is Isis Chrysalis, mistress of the golden state, a protector for those going through metamorphosis.

In ancient Egyptian dream interpretation the appearance of a snake in dreams often relates to words spoken or read. It relates to alertness and awareness. The rearing cobra is a symbol often placed at the crown, it represents vigilance, awareness, a fiery protector or eye. It can be sent put into the future, travel over great distances. The serpent is focused thought and attention, it has the power to transform and reveal, its fiery venom is a medicine that can burn through illusion.

The serpent appears throughout ancient Greece too, here it is represented doubled on the cadeuceus of the trickster Hermes, singular twisted up the staff of the divine physician Asklepios, draped and relaxed around shoulders and feeding from the bowl of Hygieia, fierce at the fringe of Athena's aegis.

Serpents writhe in the hair of Medusa, they wind their way up the arms of Demeter and Kore, the ancient snake priestesses of Crete. They appear to wake you up in dreams.

23/08/2026

Kalimera Dreamers!

I am giving an online presentation about the Elefsinian Mystery Cult for the Psychedelic Society on the 1st of September.

Please come along if you are interested. Check my website for tickets.

I am also doing an Elefsinian Dream Mysteries Retreat this Sept -> 16th - 25th September in Ancient Epidavros over the Autumn Equinox, when the final rites would have taken place in antiquity (kykeon supplied - Homeric Hymn recipe).

Rooms in the guest house are huge, so it could be possible to have up to three pals sharing.

DM me for more info or check out my website.

22/08/2026

I love museums.

21/08/2026

Domestic Bliss. 🏡 🍑 🌟

21/08/2026

Next panel topic TIME.

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20/08/2026

Back with some of my favourite people this September in Ancient Epidavros and Elefsis for the Mysteries of Elefsina and Isis.

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20/08/2026

20/08/2026

The Arcadians considered Artemis the first nymph, a divinity of free and wild nature. She was deeply revered across the whole mediterranean, and sanctuaries were built in her honour around flowing springs, marshes, rivers and water-rich meadows.

She still lives wherever the nymphs live, and women come to these holy wet places to appeal for speedy labour and protection for themselves and their children.

Artemis is the Potnia Theron (mistress of animals) - she is one of the most ancient named goddesses that exist. Her name is recorded in the Late Bronze Age (Mycenaean) archives at Pylos in Linear B as (𐀀𐀳𐀖𐀵) a-te-mi-to.

At Vrauvron she had a bear cult 🐻 and little girls came to live within the sacred precinct to play at being bearcubs, to dance in short saffron-dyed robes that mimciked the golden fur of little bears and perhaps wearing bear masks too, and then upon shedding their bearskins, frolic naked in wild abandon, before emerging civilised and tamed in readiness for society and the marital bed. This was considered a blood debt to Artemis.

In Sparta a blood debt was instead collected from young boys who would be whipped over an altar of Artemis as a test of their strength and resilience. Their blood soaked the altar, and a priestess held the cultic wooden statue of the goddess during the test. It was said that the statue would become heavy if the whipping was not done hard enough.

Artemis protects all young animals. There was a myth that a tame bear once lived at the sanctuary and scratched a young girl who teased it, the girl's brothers then killed the bear. As punishment for killing the bear, Artemis cursed the daughters of Athenians by sending a plague. The Oracle of Delphi was consulted and the correct course of action was established, Artemis demanded that every Athenian girl would be send to Vrauvron before marriage to 'play the bear'.

Even at the height of Summer ☀️ her sanctuary at Vrauvron is right now little oasis, populated with tortoises, snakes, butterflies, and dragonflies, lush with reeds, and flowers, the sacred waters still bubbling up powerfully. She is still working.

19/08/2026

Last night I dreamed of a wounded snake in a puddle. I was with a group of people and some of them wanted to kill the snake 🐍- but me and the others said 'No! The snake is Asklepios you must not kill him!' I moved away from the puddle and observed the scene, and in the background I saw a giant, healthy, extremely powerful yellow and black snake speeding through the water towards the group.

I was conscious in the dream and I thought that if only I had the courage to bitten by this snake, the dream venom might prove to be a fantastic panacea, but I lost confidence, the snake's energy hit me like a forceful wave and woke me up.

I have had frequent similar dreams with big cats, in the cat dreams I am able to receive their power and turn it into a feeling of ecstasy, but I have had this dream, or a similar one, several times with snakes and the power of the snake is always so strong it wakes me up.

This dream did feel very medicinal, and I went on to have three extremely fun romantic dreamz, so maybe it still worked. 🐍 Asklepios if you come for me in a dream again, give me a sign that it is safe to receive your dream venom. ✨️

18/08/2026

Even the hornets want the Water of Life.

The Saint Ephraim Monastery in Nea Makri has a sacred spring (agiasma) in the main courtyard area. The waters flow right next to the chapel that encloses the mulberry tree.