I finish another Oracle dream painting
based on my Journey Oracle deck.
In 1996 I asked for a dream for each Journey Oracle card--a dream, please, that contains a question. 47 dreams later, the questions became part of each Journey Oracle reading, but the dreams were put away and forgotten. Until February past when I decided to paint an image based on each dream. And this recent painting has led to a conversation in my head with James Hillman and his book, Dream Animals. The passages in italics are his, the rest is mine.
The dream is there and not there. Just as this might be a ceiling,
or just as easily a floor.
The imagination is itself a great animal, or an ark of images that are all alive and move independently. The imagination requires the absence of orderliness, of sensible goings on. It demands de-formation on its own terms.
We get obsessed with the literal facts that can block the imagination. What is this need that wants to explain? Why try to get under it?
The secret of the imagination is the disappearance of the actual.
The invisible is as important as the visible.
...now you have a crow to live with,
and you need to keep an eye on each other.
