Jupiter returns on Thor's day, or Thursday, to my consciousness again. And I do a day-long meditation on what characteristics are present in this day of the week. As I mentioned a few days ago, I am beginning to feel a nice flow of intuition in my magickal associations with reference to this spagyric study and today, I noticed again that I replaced a few of the suggested associations for colors, rocks, and ideas more personal to me.

When my great grandmother, Theodessa (to whom I feel a strong direct genetic heritage), I remember books she had held onto surfacing and being offered to me; "This was your great gramma's - do you want to read it?". Apparently, no one else did. I read them. Books on numerology, books on science and religion, and my favorite; books on dream interpretation. At that time in my teenage life, I had been working successfully with lucid dreaming and out of body experiences, as is quite natural for teen agers to successfully do, and was impressed that my great grandma had at least at one time in her 92 years enjoyed similar subjects.

Perhaps the subject of dream interpretation was still undeveloped at the time of publishing for the book of hers I then held in my hands. Or the author was of a different, more dogmatic, black-and-white consciousness school. But this one book in particular was of the sort that lists a reference like: SNAKE as the dream subject, then suggests a catch-all meaning like: male phallus or something (often Freudian) like that.

But I had already developed a very personal dialogue with my subconscious through dream journaling, group hypnosis and guided out of body meditations and I felt the truth of economics: statistics can predict an entire race's favorite color in the year 2012 with almost unerring accuracy. But economics fails miserably when applied to an individual's favorite color in the year 2012. It is next to impossible to predict, in fact, an individual's favorite color in the year 2012. Generalizations, economics and Freudian dream interpretation books may be the tools of Consciousness, but not the tools of the Subconscious.

I had dreamed of a PURPLE GORILLA ON THE RAMPAGE the nite before, so I thumbed through the book and ... not only was PURPLE GORILLA ON THE RAMPAGE missing entirely, but the simplified GORILLA interpretation was supposed to mean certain "friendship". Now, c'mon. What if I had had a really horrible experience with a gorilla at the Toledo Zoo when I was an infant? Or what if I was a director at the Performing Animal Welfare Society and rescued/rehabilitated gorillas from zoos at my sanctuary like they were my own children? The key to the subconscious, which is where the language of symbol is stored (and I am of the opinion that reality is purely symbols) lies in the axiom, Know ThySelf.

There is no book that knows your subconscious, no doctor that knows your body, no mentor that knows your inner most workings better than you could. Let the books, the doctors, the mentors be starting points, guides and points of reference for your own integral work - vital work - required work to write your own Book of the Law, Book of Shadows, Self-Healing Manual, Dream Interpretation Reference Guide.

So today, I felt that Jupiter was greener than bluer in symbolic color. And more Agate than Optical Selenite in rock energy. I found the Crown chakra to be accurate in relating to the expansive nature of this massive planet's pure gaseous composition. And the alchemic spagyric magestery of Melissa tasted so good underneath my tongue, first thing in the morning, before even a sip of water to break my nite's fast, that I fell back asleep temporarily, contemplating how big Jupiter's Thursday was going to be for me. Holding onto the shape of Jupiter in my subconscious and owning this page of personal interpretation in my record keeping book. People seemed so massive today. As if we all were relating on an archetypal level as Gods and Goddesses to one another. Communication seemed powerful and concise. I negotiated a contract. I accepted a booking. I was offered a ticket to my own screening. I took in gigantic amounts of performance material with ease. And the tempo seemed just right. Like the PURPLE GORILLA ON THE RAMPAGE was whom I was and always wanted to be.

What interpretation book can do this work for me?

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