Nightmares two nights in a row - what's happening? Hex 18.2.6 to 15

[merely-labelled]

Hello community,

For two nights in a row I've had disturbing dreams involving first night, sexual violence towards me whilst I was sleeping in a bed (in the dream) and second night, a group of people behind a front door (not my door, unrecognizable door) yelling, threatening violence to which was so disturbing I woke up.

The first night was peculiar as an ex partner was present also, one I don't communicate with at all apart from a fb message maybe once every few years. In the dream I was telling him that I loved him (felt like a platonic gesture, nothing romantic) and we hugged, then I was in a small single bed and this man was there who wanted to sexually violate me but I woke so it didn't actually transpire.

The second dream, points of interest is that I know my mother was 'there' also w me in this unknown room w the door w the violent people behind it which is interesting as Yi
Line 2
'Ancestral mother's corruption,
Does not allow constancy.'

Is this some type of generational karma coming through? Last week I attended a workshop about releasing generational karma with a focus especially on my mother as she has many issues and digressions to which I do not want to inhabit.I feel Hex 15 may be saying if I act with integrity (not like my mother or parents) then I can bypass this generational karma or I won't turn out like them.

Any one have any insights? Happy to provide more info.
Thank you XX

 

[marybluesky]

Hello Merely-labelled! Very interesting thread. Had seen nothing similar on the forum.

What's happening? 18.2.6 to 15
The Corruption is being Repaired (18) so that you regain your Balance (15).
18.2: "Correcting the degeneracy of the mother, it is improper to be righteous." You pointed to the issues caused by your mother. The resolution is in process and takes time. Don't force it.
18.6: " He does not serve the King or the nobles -- what he does is even loftier than that." All this is happening inside & others may not notice- let it be. The inner release that leads to equilibrium is much worthier than the external success.

I think the cast really resonates with your situation. That aside, you can read about your dream's different elements on this website that is based on psychoanalytical interpretation of dreams mostly based on Freud & Jung's work. Good luck!

 

[merely-labelled]

Thank you Mary Blue Sky, you’ve been such a comfort w your response

 

[rosada]

Interesting your mother was there with you in the dream and yet her presence didn't help. That could be 18.2. Did you feel your own mother was somehow inadequate when it came to protecting you? Did she have fears she passed on to you? Did you doubt your own intuition or somehow feel you should "be better"?
But then comes 18.6 and you saved yourself - By waking up!
If that's the case it's a really interesting insight into 18.6 which says "He does not serve the king and nobles but sets himself higher goals." Like, you didn't put more energy into the dream, you effectively said, "Hey, I don't have to perpetuate this myth, this family victim karma. I can just wake up!"
So maybe these dreams are a reflection that there is some healing, some regeneration of your own inner guidance going on.

I think of 18 as representing sleep as it follows 17 which says "At the end of the day the superior man goes to bed."and sleep is when our body "works on what has been spoiled and this leads to healing. So 18.6, the line at the end of the hexagram representing sleep, would mean waking up - which is just what you did.

 

[Freedda]

Good morning merely-labelled,

Some names for Hexagram 18 are 'Detoxifying' and 'Repairing.' I think that these not only name the situation, but also hint at how to address it.

The hexagram image is Wind within Mountain, where wind or air has gotten trapped and is not able to refresh itself - so it begins to become foul and even toxic. I wonder then if your dreams might be showing you an old hurt or wound, or some unfinished business - which has been hidden - but is now revealing itself?

It may be too that these dreams are a wake-up call, or early warning, as if they are saying "it's now time to pay attention here." It reminds me of what the late 'hippie guru' Stephen Gaskin once said: that the universe will usually give you a tap on the shoulder before it kicks your butt.

I don't have a definitive sense of Line 18.2. But maybe along with 'generational karma' it could also be described as 'mother issues' - which of course can be, and often are, felt across generations - or perhaps it's be a bit of both?

Line 18.6 reads: "Not serving sovereign or noble, of higher worth is one's service."

You mentioned both 'generational karma' and sexual violence, so could this be about abuse you've experienced, and also about a less-than-helpful response you may have learned - and that now both the experience and the response are being revealed to you? And perhaps, also, that you don't have to do this for anyone else - that your healing itself serves a higher purpose.

So, moving forward: as I said there is the sense of a shock or a wake-up call here. I think too that there needs to be a sense of gentleness in how you approach all this. Some names for the related hexagram which I think apply here are "Authenticity" and "Adapting to the Flow." Bradford Hatcher says of this hexagram: "Honesty would be a better ... core meaning ... , and "tell it like it is" or "call a spade a spade" a better description .... The objective is to know them (the nightmares? one's demons?) for what they are, to give a fair assessment."

So, perhaps a start to one's healing is a gentle, but fair assessment of what you are facing. Which reminds me of the Buddhist teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh's poem 'Call Me by My True Names':

Please call me by my true names,
so I can hear all my cries and laughs at once,
so I can see that my joy and pain are one.

Please call me by my true names,
so I can wake up,
and so the door of my heart can be left open,
the door of compassion.


I hope that this is of some use to you, David.