Tales of the Unexpected – Tarot – Dream Follow Up

March 12, 2026March 12, 2026 ~ quantumdreamer ~ Leave a comment

I first knowingly came across tarot in this lifetime in the UK TV series “Tales of the Unexpected”. It was one of the programmes we watched as a family when I was a teenager. We changed the title to “Tales of the Fairly Predictable” because it was usually possible to guess the endings / twist before the denouement. The cards appeared in the titles.

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As a rule of thumb I am less scared of witchy and occult things than most people. I used to buy 18+ horror comics when I was around 12. It did result in one recurring nightmare in which I was gobbled up by a tree and trapped therein for ever after. As a greasy and acne faced teenager the librarian at the local library was very happy to help me source books on witchcraft and witch finders. I read a great deal. I like a good occult / exorcism / demonic possession type of film. Story telling is best done without too many special effects and with good music. CGI looks like CGI and spoils things. Just mentioning the word exorcism can give some people the heebie-jeebies. I am not bad at telling stories and we used to scare the house servant when he was baby-sitting us in Zambia. I would talk of an evil magic-man rumoured to be walking the housing estate. Usually my dad would give him a lift home to the township. Which is more scary a magic-man or six pints of lager behind the wheel?

It is at least to me interesting how much the Easterly Jewel forbearance has played in my life. Time and again I have been asked to practice forbearance. Śāntideva in the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra has a whole chapter devoted to this spiritual virtue. I have on occasion been described as patient. This was not something I exhibited in my late twenties and early thirties, it was before then and is since.

In terms of Le Pendu, tarot 12, when there is nothing you can do to influence things all you can do is hang out and maybe whistle a merry tune. If it is a “not my monkeys, not my circus” scenario there is no point in sticking your nose in. Unsolicited advice is less popular than a dose of penicillin resistant gonorrhoea. Even solicited advice is rarely popular.

Over the years it has become clear to me that I have a predilection for the clarity of the East and the process of time. After dreaming it is my second preference.

This morning’s dream is pointing at not rushing…

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It is evoking many of the Jewels of the East, a sense of measuring and decision, paring anything unnecessary looking at only that which is written in the book of fate. It is about taking time… measuring.

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“According to the Anthology of the Patriarchal Hall, Bodhidharma left the Liang court in 527 and relocated to Mount Song near Luoyang and the Shaolin Monastery, where he “faced a wall for nine years, not speaking for the entire time”, his date of death can have been no earlier than 536. Moreover, his encounter with the Wei official indicates a date of death no later than 554, three years before the fall of the Western Wei.”

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Patience is a supposed root of the Zen patriarch Bodhidharma. We arrived here early 2019 maybe there are a few more years before I am ready to leave my cave.

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Forbearance – Engine Rebuild – Dream 12-03-2026

March 12, 2026March 12, 2026 ~ quantumdreamer ~ Leave a comment

Here is this morning’s dream the day after the visit to the orthopaedic surgeon. The date is also noted.

The dream opens with a close up view of a professional metal ruler the divisions of which have been precisely inlaid. The ruler is rounded at one end with a hanging hole and right angle flat at the other. The markings have been both cut into the ruler and are inked in black. It is a thing of beauty and precision. It smacks of engineering. The rule is a twelve inch ruler. With the twelve being the end of the hanging hole. I can see the rest of the numbers but the dream specifically zooms in to the twelve. I know that twelve is the jewel of forbearance and corresponds to the tarot “le pendu”. In the dream I hear that I must be very careful about what I may or may not get myself into. If I do get myself into to anything I must measure accurately my way in and accurately a way out. It is by way of a warning about getting into unnecessary things. I must exercise forbearance and measure.

I am now in a shed or garage. Up on a table is an engine. It is bigger than normal car engines and I sense that it is high performance. I am looking at the engine and note a cut-away in the top through which I can get my hands and an engineering endoscope. Only I can see into the engine. I place my hand into the fibre optic endoscope illuminated interior. I can touch a thin cream-white 1cm thick woven tape which runs from one side of the compartment to the other. It is near the rocker valves. Every time I touch the tape and press it lightly against the engine manifold I hear faint music. It sound likes harps and harpsichords, early Bach. I play a little starting and stopping the music. I ask the others in the workshop if they can hear the beautiful music. They cannot. They are unaware of the subtle sound. They do not know that sound is a key marker of a good working engine. The others in the workshop have given up on the engine and it is only me who can repair it and get it purring again. In the dream I am unsure as to whether the engine refers to me or something much wider. I look down at my hands and despite the engine being oily they have remained clean. I once again press down on the tape at the phrase aeolian harp springs to mind. I sense tides and flow.

The dream returns to the precision metal ruler and a subsequent image of le pendu..

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The dream ends

Easterly Stalkers – Tarot 12 – Dream – 01-08-2025

August 1, 2025 ~ quantumdreamer ~ Leave a comment

Here is last night’s short dream.

The dream brings to mind the images of two tall women whom I have never met in real life yet who are public figures of different degrees. Their images are known. They hold positions of power, of different type. They are both based in London for their professional activities.

I see them in turn and know that they are both Easterly Stalkers. I have a knowing in the dream that I may meet them one day. One is more likely than the other.

I know this dream to be about time and the stalker’s in and of time.

The image of Tarot 12 comes to the fore. I know that this is again about forbearance. When things cannot be changed and are outside one’s ability or sphere of influence one must forebear. This is the jewel of the Easterly Stalker.

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The dream suggests that things sophisticated and outside my “ken” or experience are afoot. They are socio-political. I know that I would be out of my depth in that happenstance and shenanigan but that I have zero need to fear it because I am not directly convolved or convoluted in to it.

In the dream I remember that I have felt one of these women at the edge of consciousness for a while and she has been getting closer over time.

The dream ends.

I hold Tarot 12 to consciousness on waking and bring it through to mind. It is here in the mind’s eye now.