Dreams as Portals
The concept of dreamwork has been circling back into my field of view over the last couple years so much so that I have heeded the message and integrated it into my offerings for the 3rd year in a row now.
The first dream that impacted me in a way that felt important enough to write it down, came to me when I was about 14. In the dream, I recall tending to crops that grew as if by magic while a red and purple storm was brewing off in the distance. What shook me to my core was that this dream just felt different that the others and so I had to write it down. My whole life my dreams have been consistently vivid—I even remember the cardinal direction I am facing in the dream based on the quality of light or direction of the sun. I often visit new towns, neighborhoods, houses, and don’t get me started on bathrooms! IYKYK
In college, I created and hosted a website for a few years called The Dream Scribe, where I blogged my dreams, added a dream symbol library and hosted a forum where others could share their dreams and ask for interpretation. Funny thing is, I was studying web design, not esoterica. I should’ve seen the signs much earlier that this is the line of work I was destined to be in 😅
So when I learned of the dreamwork practice called 13 Holy Nights, I felt a tug from the Universe in that direction. For those of you who don’t know, 13 Holy Nights is a sacred container centered around what you dream for 13 nights, starting on the Winter Solstice. It has Pagan, Norse and Germanic roots but the dates correspond closely to the 12 Days of Christmas (historical appropriation at its finest). During these 13 nights, one would engage in sacred rites around cleansing/clearing energy from the previous year so that they could be energetically open to receiving the divine guidance, or prophecy, of what the next trip around the sun holds for the individual and the collective.
This practice is so powerful because we start during the shortest/darkest day of the year—The Winter Solstice—where the sun seemingly stands still before starting a new cycle of bringing us just a little more light each day. The Winter Solstice is the midnight of the year, and as someone born at 12:25am, this speaks to me on a soul level. When we engage with the dark, as in what is behind the curtain, or the veil so to speak, there is a wealth of information our guides, our ancestors and our higher selves are just waiting for us to tap into. This information is not communicated transparently like this blog for example, but rather it is delivered primarily through our dreams, our intuition, meditation. Stillness is required to truly hear what they are communicating because their messages can often arrive as quiet as snowfall.
If you would like to explore this practice with me, you can learn more about 13 Holy Nights here or jump to the next blog post to see an example of how my dreams at the end of 2024 communicated what energies would be coming through for me in 2025.
