#oneiromancy

Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Vilgefortz of Roggeveen/Stefan Skellen Characters: Vilgefortz of Roggeveen, Stefan Skellen, Leo Bonhart, Nimue | Lady of the Lake (The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski), Condwiramurs Tilly, Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon, Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Stygga Castle (The Witcher), Oneiromancy, Allies To Lovers, Crack Treated Seriously, Metafiction, Introspection, Fluff, Humor, Domestic Fluff, Accidental Voyeurism, Being Walked In On, Forced Proximity, Fix-It, Implied Sexual Content, Non-Graphic Smut, underwhelming ending, Oh. OH. | Italicized Oh Moment, Gap Filler, Fast Burn Summary:

“What interests me,” Nimue leaned forward, “is the same thing as always – filling in the gaps in this story. Every possible one, Condwiramurs. To be more precise: what were Skellen and Vilgefortz doing at Stygga Castle from December to March, while Geralt and his company were trudging through the snow?”

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"I'm not tormenting anyone. Scary dreams are great! What I love is when this big 'en chases me..." - Little Sarah

I love this acknowledgment and this approach to divinatory work, even beyond dream interpretation. In my own experience, I think of my work as a rune reader. The runes all have general associations or meanings that are largely agreed upon, but each reader has their own relationship and associations with each rune. My interpretation of ingwaz may read a little differently than it would for someone else. That's not to say either interpretation is more "correct" than the other. It's sort of like speaking with a regional accent. The meaning of the words is the same, it just sounds different coming from people from different regions. Equally, the specific associations the reader has may vary slightly from the querent's understanding of the rune. But the more information we know about someone, the more specific we can get in interpreting the rune's significance in regards to their particular situation. That's not to say our general reading without knowledge of the situation is incorrect or not useful. It just means it's harder to offer a more detailed reading. Though I think dream interpretation, more so than sortilege systems like runes, relies much more heavily on the knowledge of detail for the message to be understood.

Artemidorus also emphasizes the importance of recording the outcomes of interpreted dreams and relying on personal experience to inform your practice, which also very much resonates with my personal practices of divination. I always journal my readings so I can reflect on them and see how things came to pass. I refer to the divination I do for the year frequently because as each month passes, I see just how relevant the cards were to those months. And I build trust that the months ahead will come to pass as predicted. It's that experience that not only informs my continued practice (like certain tarot cards become associated with certain things), but also builds my confidence in my abilities which also helps others to be confident in your abilities, too.

I thought somewhere I'd try to take    // a few things off before I break: The red dress to the forest floor    // I don't want to be this anymore!

So now I'm walking through my forest    // hand in hand, but I'm with you. Yet I live here, and you're my tourist,    // just do what you came to do.

...To dream of dancing for the god, carrying the thyrsus, carrying uprooted trees, or performing any other of the actions in which the god delights, is malign for all except slaves. For all others the dream signifies folly and damage because of the mental aberration and the frenzy, but for slaves it is indicative of freedom, because those they join in the revels are indifferent to their status, and also because of the god's epithet and his kindly nature.