Dreams & Astrology: Class Materials
Keep this open on your own device while we talk. The dream journal below saves to your browser as you type, stamps each dream with the Moon's sign and phase, and builds a record you can compare against your chart over time.
Dream journal
Everything you type stays in this browser on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere. Use Save to my dream log to keep a dream, then start the next one.
Which planets showed up as figures, places or events? Tap any that fit. Tap a planet name in the reference table further down for ideas.
Which houses does the setting belong to?
My dream log
My dream signature
Fill in from your birth chart. Leave anything blank you are unsure of. This saves too.
Planetary archetypes in dreams
Correspondences to test, not definitions. Tap a row to see the question that planet asks of a dream.
| Planet | Figures | Places | Experiences |
|---|
Dreams & Astrology: Handout
The three dream planets
- Moon, the container: sleep, night, emotional memory, the body's rhythms, home
- Neptune, the image: dissolution, imagination, merging, the uncanny
- Mercury, the messenger: recall, narration, translating image into words
The four houses of the night
- 4th: roots, home, ancestry; the IC is the chart's midnight point
- 8th: the underworld; death, inheritance, the hidden and shared
- 9th: traditionally dreams and divination; meaning and guidance
- 12th: the unseen; retreat, confinement, the personal unconscious
Traditions at a glance
| Egypt, c. 1275 BCE | Chester Beatty Papyrus III: dream image paired with a verdict and an outcome |
| Greece | Incubation at the Asclepieion of Epidaurus; Homer's gates of horn (true) and ivory (false) |
| 2nd century CE | Artemidorus: the enhypnion (from the day's state) versus the oneiros (points ahead) |
| About 400 CE | Macrobius: enigmatic dream, prophetic vision, oracle, nightmare, apparition |
| 20th century | Jung: compensation, archetypes, shadow, subjective and objective levels, amplification |
What research supports
- REM sleep identified in 1953; vivid dreams most common in REM, not exclusive to it
- Cycles of about 90 minutes; REM lengthens toward morning
- Dream content tends to continue waking concerns
- Lucid dreaming verified in the lab with eye-movement signals
- Imagery rehearsal therapy helps chronic nightmares
The three-lens method
- Psychological: every figure as a part of you; what is being balanced?
- Mythological: what story does it rhyme with?
- Astrological: which planets and houses, and what is transiting them?
Ask the figure what it wants instead of asking what it means.
The sky on class night (US Pacific)
| When | Event | Position |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Nov 8 · 11:02 PM | New Moon in Scorpio | 16°53′ ♏︎ |
| Fri Nov 13 · morning | Mercury stations direct | 5°02′ ♏︎ |
| Fri Nov 13 · afternoon | Venus stations direct | 22°51′ ♎︎ |
| Sat Nov 14 · 5:00 PM | Class. Moon in its crescent phase in Capricorn | ☽︎ 25°51′ ♑︎ |
| Sun Nov 15 · 1:20 AM | Moon enters Aquarius | 0°00′ ♒︎ |
| Sun Nov 15 · night | Mars conjunct Jupiter | 25°52′ ♌︎ |
| Tue Nov 17 · 3:48 AM | First Quarter Moon | 25°08′ ♒︎ |
| Sat Nov 21 · 11:23 PM | Sun enters Sagittarius | 0°00′ ♐︎ |
| Tue Nov 24 · 6:54 AM | Full Moon in Gemini | 2°20′ ♊︎ |
| Sat Dec 12 | Neptune stations direct | 1°36′ ♈︎ |
Dreams & Astrology: Worksheet
1 · My dream signature
2 · A dream I want to work with
3 · Three lenses
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto
House of the setting: 4th 8th 9th 12th other ______
Psychological: which part of me is each figure?
Mythological: what story does it rhyme with?
Astrological: where are those planets in my chart, and what is transiting them?
4 · My incubation question for tonight
Positions computed from an ephemeris (geocentric, tropical) and given in US Pacific time. The journal's Moon calculation is accurate to within a few arcminutes; when the Moon is near a sign boundary it says so. This class is educational and reflective, not medical or psychological advice. © Adventures in Astrology & Higher Education.