ability to find cohesion in seemingly disparate narratives, or between contrary symbols.

“My poems (in the beginning) are like a table on which one places interesting things one has found on one’s walks: a pebble, a rusty nail, a strangely shaped root, the corner of a torn photograph, etc., ... where after months of looking at them and thinking about them daily, certain surprising relationships, which hint at meanings, begin to

If you already have an image or object that has come through your dreams, place it on your altar. If you are wanting to summon dreams about a certain question or longing you have in your life, start by articulating for yourself what you are most missing or aching for and find or create an object symbolic of that longing.

These two streams of attention—surface and depth—are always running simultaneously and, at any given moment, we can choose to focus on either or both.

If you know the figure in your dream from waking-life, you can ask yourself, “What are their most defining qualities?” If you don’t know them, ask yourself, “Who do they remind me of?” or “What do I like or dislike about them?”

As you follow The Dreaming Way, may your life open to a multiplicity of benevolent relations both in your imaginal and material worlds, creating a broader sense of belonging in your life.

This is the comfort Wisdom offers. She says, keep going. Not only is there more to your story beyond this anguish, but one day your story will be the starlight for another to follow out of their own darkness.

longing is a divine inclination,

Rehearsal: