Two very interesting dreams over the last few days. I've been put on beta-blockers by my doctor for anxiety, and reading the blurb they are supposed to be mildly hallucinogenic - which is probably why I asked for them in the first place as the best hallucinogens which also allow the psychic or spiritual person to keep a modicum of control over their development and mind expansion are often drugs that relax the mind and body rather than produce the halluncinations themselves. To that end cold/flu capsules or Nytol also help, particularly if you then have a strong coffee to offset the drowsiness they cause. A proper mystic should not be forced to take these kind of drugs to gain relaxation, but for those whose life does not allow the possibility of a complete retreat into nature, it can be a way to release tension and fear which shut us off to the Other World.
1 - European election results - Conservatives get approximately 30 seats, with Labour increasing their total at the expense of UKIP.
Quickie spread for this:
Imagery in the dream. King of Wands. The imagery of the dream was mainly just numbers appearing on a screen, like a lot of my dreams about direct election results, but the King of Wands represents direct control over the actions and reactions that drive events. Events themselves still have importance, but the King has a certain mastery and direction and can manipulate and use events for his own ends. This is imagery - it does not represent any one party - but it means that there is a control that the two parties have over this election that was missing in 2004 when UKIP staged a good insurgent campaign and largely destroyed Michael Howard in the process.
Meaning of the imagery. II Wands. Decisions that will lead to the results as pictured here have still to be taken and the election currently rests in the lap of Fate itself. There is still largely a balance of probabilities which will be used over the next six weeks to direct the game-plan unfolding. It also may predict a balanced result - something of a disappointment to the Conservatives who no doubt dream of a wipeout for Labour. Having got Glenrothes so wrong, I don't want to bet anything on the actual outcome, but the II suggests measured balance, free choice and structured change rather than a decisive battle that forces any one particular result.
Meaning in waking life. VII Swords. Cunning, stealth and using/abusing insider knowledge to manipulate events or people in your own favour. As I said in a previous article, now that negative spin is so discredited, the battleground for this election and the general will be fought on policy, not politics. Labour's dirty tricks cannot be used to the effectiveness that they were in 2005 with the destruction of Tory credibility on public spending through outright lies (the poster incident with Nick Robinson replayed on last night's Budget news programme) or the ruin of Howard Flight's career via a strategically placed mole.
Which means the rug will be pulled out from under someone's feet using stealth - using, for example, policy programmes rather than spin. Now that really would be a cunning stunt.
Outcome. VIII Coins. Building and construction work, and solid progress towards a future goal. The true winner of these elections will be the party which manages to keep focussed on actual constructive policies and solid foundations in the real world. Given the desultory result for the Tories in yesterday's Independent survey in their Budget supplement - where none of the people questioned backed Cameron's party positively, and, although some questioned were still undecided, more of the people queried still supported Labour than anyone else - I would say there is more point to the Conservatives actually now saying what they would do and trying to poach people positively rather than messing around with negative spin and trying to detach people from Labour that way.
Either way, it will provide the basis for next year's election result and propel the eventual winner significantly towards their goal.
2 - Politics in metaphor as football in the FA Cup final between Everton and Chelsea. Although I am a female, over the last few months through the hours of a rather boring job at the local newsagent I have begun reading - nay, eviscerating - the Sunday papers to stave off boredom, sleep, and perhaps even death. I've begun to read the football and rugby pages, mostly in order to have something to talk about with the endless stream of men coming for their papers. Football has a lot in common with politics - the people sometimes become more important than the game itself. I'm also glad to see Brown and Smith trying to repair their street cred by reopening the Hillsborough files.
In the dream, Chelsea were nicknamed "the Tories"; I got a running commentary from someone else in the dream that of course that wasn't really true (as often happens; this was the same presence that told me John Major was the Soviet Premier before he took up the same position in Britain in 1990; he has obviously stopped the BS and is getting back on-message) but that for the purposes of the dream that was what Chelsea represented, and that they seemed to be the team of choice for the Tories IRL, so to speak. (New Labour would be represented by Manchester United; just about keeping ahead of the game despite stronger competition this season from Liverpool.)
The match, scheduled for 30 May, was abandoned just after kick-off. All right, there were people reportedly saying that they had dreamed that the 2008 American Election was similarly called off, but it may represent some fundamental change happening between now and 4 June.
Again, a small four-card reading for this dream.
Imagery in the dream. The Lovers. In this card, we are not only provided with the image of love, passion and romance but also the element of making a choice and sticking to it. Both meanings are appropriate here; the voice in the dream is personal to me so the image is of perhaps a future mate or soul-mate, but the mundane elements suggest the choice made between the two teams involved. Again, this echoes the meaning of the imagery of dream 1 - which suggests there is still an element of choice involved in the forthcoming elections - but also demonstrates the need for that choice to be made fairly soon and for the choice to be one that lasts for a long time. The choice is also made with the full information available, which means that the playing field is also a level one and one that has provided both parties with equal opportunity to make their case, whether or not they have taken advantage of that time. The fierce struggle of 2004, with one party able to dominate and manipulate the agenda to destroy the other, is no more.
Meaning of the imagery. Page of Swords. The parties having this choice and ability does not mean they will make it adequately or will use the time available wisely. The Page is lightweight and preoccupied with superficial realities and treats the seriousness of the situation like a silly game. He takes oppportunities but misuses them and runs out of time to prove himself up to the challenge.
Meaning in waking life. III Wands. The III is where adventure starts and progress is made towards the goal the querent is aiming for. They leave the comfort zone inherent in the IV of Wands and begin to develop their momentum towards the target. However the energy is not yet at critical mass and will not generate the speed needed to overtake an obstacle; in this case, it has been left far too late to overcome and overwhelm and only if significant progress is made quickly will the seemingly dominant side begin to set the agenda for the seats they need at this election.
Outcome. Wheel of Fortune. As I suggested in a recent post to this blog politics now belongs to the events and their direction of the outcome - neither party can really plan for power in 2010 because both parties have been shaken up by recent events where they both thought that they could sleepwalk into a safe win next year. This event suggests that neither party can plan for any specific outcome - witness Brown's desire before Christmas to have the Tories trailing in the polls by now; he made the fatal error of thinking he could control and dictate events to his own satisfaction when the point in the electoral cycle has been reached that the Government must slog uphill even if it can still win the approaching general election (and I still believe they can and will, because of a lack of positive alternatives presented by the Cameroons and the time they are wasting in the naive belief that anti-Tory spin is worse than the anti-Labour spin they encourage from their pet bloggers like Guido Fawkes). No-one can take anything for granted and although there is little likelihood of an abandonment, there is always the possibility of an upset either from an insurgent or from a resurgent.
