Dream Mysteries

15/02/2026

I have been enjoying the Dream Hieroglyphs themysteries.org/online-sessions … course tremendously and I want to say thank you to everyone who has taken part. Thank you for sharing your dreams and inspirations! This has been a wonderful life-affirming experience so far, and we are still only week THREE!

My love for the hieroglyphs as a superb dream script grows and grows! Thanks to everyone for sharing your artwork, dreams, poems, and ideas. I would love to create a virtual gallery/or even better a DREAMZINE of these submissions at the end of the course with your permissions of course.

Last week Aneta got in touch to share some dream musings she had about the Ba bird from our last session and these really inspired me. She wrote about how every Ba bird had a song, and it was our duty to discover our soul’s song - an idea which I love, and also rings true with ancient Egyptian spirituality as I understand it.

The voice, the word, the utterance, is such a vital aspect of life in ancient Egypt. It contains magic, power, and medicine. Ba birds are depicted not just as any old human-headed bird. The human head of a Ba is a copy of the deceased’s head, and upon death we could say that it carries their voice up to Heaven.

Dying well, becoming an effective spirit, is all about discovering your true voice.

In this evening’s session we shall talk about the Akh - the soul bird that is born from your Ba and Ka uniting once your soul is liberated from your mummified body.

We shall of course have to talk about pyramids and horizons here too, so I very much look forward to seeing you there!

Click the link to join us. Zoom room link included, no passcode required.
https://mailchi.mp/1754f3e6a62d/becoming-effective?e=[UNIQID]

Author, researcher, curator, retreat/workshop facilitator and public speaker, Sarah Janes specialises in the ancient history and culture of dreaming and has been an enthusiastic lucid dreamer since childhood. Sarah is passionate about the potential of dreaming for physical, emotional, creative and s...

11/02/2026

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11/01/2026

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09/01/2026

Scribe into Spring - https://mailchi.mp/57c1f03791ea/scribe-into-spring

31/12/2025

The Year of the Horse approaches.

On February the 17th, on the Lunar New Year, the Year of the Fire Horse begins 🔥 🐎

The last Fire Horse Year was 1966 so perhaps we can expect a cultural revolution (Star Trek also premiered). The Fire Horse is wild and dynamic, it craves freedom and movement. In Japan (where it's called hinoe-uma), there's a belief that girls born in this year are strong-willed and domineering, causing a significant drop in births.

Be ready to go with the flow. Show me your Horse pics!

The White Horse has long been a dream symbol for me, and this year I have visited a lot of St. George churches, in Greece, Egypt and Turkey, as well as ancient Corinth - where Bellerophon and Pegasus worked together to defeat the Chimera. For me the Horse is a symbol of the Hero, of the civilising power of mankind, of loyalty and co-operation, of divine freedom and the journey towards liberation.

What does the Fire Horse symbolise for you?

25/08/2025

Pyramid/Myr

Vehicle for the soul.

Pyramid is a word rooted in ancient Greek - πυραμίς, the meaning is not always agreed upon.

One idea is that it relates to fire, from pyro.

Fire was the element associated with pyramidal forms in Platonic geometry. The tetrahedron is a pyramid with a triangular base, the simplest of the regular polyhedra, it is self-dual. Pyramid geometry mirrors fire's power to rise, transform, and bring light to the world, connecting physical and spiritual realms - which is really exactly what the pyramids were designed to do.

Iamblichus tells us that Pythagoras travelled to Egypt and studied there for 22 years. In Egypt, in temples and sacred precincts, he studied astronomy, geometry, and medicine and was initiated into "all the Mysteries of the Gods”.

He was later captured by the Persians and taken to Babylon, but here he simply delighted in finding the Magi and learning from them too. Pythagoras was reputedly the first man to call himself a philosopher ("lover of wisdom”) and he inspired Plato in Athens over one hundred years later.

The Egyptians called the pyramid ‘myr’ - but gave individual names to them too .

For example, what we call the Great Pyramid of Khufu was called ‘Akhet Khufu’ - or Horizon of Khufu.

The Egyptian word akhet 𓈌 means ‘horizon’, the place where the sun rises (or sets) but Khufu's Akhet uses the crested ibis sign for akh 𓅜 - the akh is the 'effective' spirit. It means: be, become a spirit, beneficial, useful, profitable. The horizon is the place of becoming effective.

Also, Akhet is the first of three agricultural seasons: the Inundation. This is when the Nile would flood. It was the ancient Egyptian New Year - Wep Renpet (Wp Rnpt), heralded by the pre-dawn annual reappearance of the star Sopdet/Sothis/Sirius - the Sharp One, which happened this year on August 1st bytheway. People living near the banks of the Nile saw this star on the horizon and knew it was time to pack up and move inland in readiness for the flood. In Sopdet's ancient Egyptian name we have 𓇮 (spdt) - literally 'sharp one' or 'triangle'. She is most often represented with a five-pointed star upon her head.

The pyramid determinative 𓉴 (Gardner sign list O24) is in the word myr, and is also used in the word for the primordial mound of creation - Benben.

Benben was the first emergence from the chaotic primordial waters of Nun. This was Zepi Tepi (zp tpj)- the moment of creation, the first ‘time’.

In the New Kingdom the Bennu bird is depicted as a giant heron. In the Old Kingdom, this bird is a lot smaller. The shape and colour of the bird on wall paintings suggest it might be a kingfisher. Halcyon Day.

Fun fact: Remains of a giant, human-sized heron species, believed to have gone extinct around 1500 BC were discovered in the UAE in 1977. This bird might have been the inspiration for Bennu, so archaeologist Dr. Ella Hoch from the Geological Museum at Copenhagen University named it the Bennu Heron (Ardea bennuides).

Traces of gilding have been found on a pyramidion from the Black Pyramid of Amenemhat III, and we know that the Horizon of Khufu was once encased in fine white limestone blocks - a golden capstone is speculative, although this might explain the really tremendous effort made to remove it from the peak. No one really knows what happened to the capstone or what it was made of, it may have been covered in gold or electrum - which was often used by the ancient Egyptians to coat pyramidions to best catch the first rays of the sun.

It would be very ancient Egyptian magic (heka), to turn the soul of the deceased pharaoh into a star, by creating a brilliant point of light at the apex of his ‘horizon’. This acts to mirror a star and bind the soul to a heavenly portal. Here the gate of the Duat opens up and light becomes light.

18/08/2025

Pineapplew**d 🍍 - wild chamomile. An incredibly fragrant and delicious sleep and dream aid.

Growing everywhere in the UK at the moment - ✨️

Just smell these delicious, juicy flower heads that smell of sweet pineapple and chamomile.

Collect some sprigs to hang on your bedpost for fragrant dreams, or make into a fresh soporific brew.

Just be careful to pick from a clean site, as pineapple w**d loves oily driveways and dog ditches.