Horologium Nyx

I had a dream last night that started something, my dreams never quite behaved the way that they seemed to for most. For most dreams are just abstractions of our day to day lives played out as would a story through the usage of emotional and symbolic imagery to portray the nature of our Inner Worlds, but for me there was always something...strange. My dreams behaved like a second life, with continuity and established form rotating between different, yet familiar, settings and characters. Last night the cyclical nature became painstakingly apparent.

I was with a team of explorers in an ever changing world, the Horologium Nyx, the Night Clock, which essentially behaved like a music box, where the melodies were instead worlds shifting from setting to setting, story to story. These worlds carried the illusion of continuity, and would behave as if they were independent of the dreamer, and it soon became apparent what the function of this dream machine was.

The consciousness of humanity is bound together, and throughout the ages we go through peaks and troughs in our awareness as a collective consciousness. These peaks and troughs play out through the Zodiac through something called the Dreamspell.

As the Earth wobbles on its axis, the north pole faces a different constellation of the Zodiac. The entire cycle takes around 26,000 years, which is divided into twelve parts called Ages. So, how does this apply to this Night Clock, the Horologium Nyx?

Astrology determines our place in relation to the cosmos, our signs determine how the motions of the planets through the Zodiac interact with us on a day to day basis. It is possible that this interaction does not happen when we are awake, as we are so sensitive to such forces and their interactions with us that our day to day interactions and energy levels would not be able to sense it except on some subliminal level. It is possible that this interaction happens when we are most vulnerable psychically and energetically, when we are asleep.

So the Night Clock is our own internal Zodiac, which also has its own twelve signs which we cycle through in our sleep when our mind is on autopilot so to speak. The interactions of this personal Zodiac in our sleep manifest the dream world around us as an attachment and machination of the Dreamspell that keeps our Consciousness asleep. When we are asleep and go through the motions of the dream as a mere character in what appears to be some predetermined narrative that we have no awareness of, it makes it easier to play into this celestial narrative when we wake up; in other words, our Consciousness "goes back to sleep" and we become an extension of the Zodiac like our Horoscopes and Natal Chart would suggest. Essentially, when our Consciousness is asleep, we become proverbial cogs in a celestial clockwork, extensions of a machine playing through the motions in accordance to our Natal Charts. The Horologium Nyx theoretically would be what causes this to happen.

This is the theory at least, on this thread I will be discussing potential workings with this Night Clock and how this information can be used to wake consciousness up and affect dream recognition.

The Oneiroi: Watchtowers of the Night

Some basic figures to know in these workings are the rulers of this Dreamworld, that I call Nyx. The Horologium Nyx is the machination of Nyx that causes the transition of the realms that make it increasingly difficult for us to realize that we are dreaming. This is because in my belief we are Gods who have forgotten our power because of the Dreamspell, it in a manner of speaking keeps the Gods within us "asleep".

If the Horologium Nyx creates the settings, the Watchtowers of the Night, the Oneiroi, creates the characters and the stories. It is easier to play along with a story, similar to how easily we get lost in a work of fiction or a good game. I call these beings the Watchtowers of the Night because the four are the keepers of the Life (Morpheus), Death (Thanatos), Light (Phantasos), and Darkness (Phobetor) of the Dreamworld. There is also a reason why I say these four instead of the Cardinal Elements that everyone is familiar with.

The Four Cardinal Elements (Earth, Air, Fire, and Water in accordance to the Cardinal Directions) are the materials of the world itself, they are the components of the Horologium itself. The four elements not so familar, are the Syncretic Elements of Darkness (Earth and Air), Death (Air and Fire), Light (Fire and Water), and Life (Water and Earth), they are the components and nature of all that resides in the world created by the Horologium.

The Domains of the Oneiroi

Morpheus (Dreams) : Ruler of Light in the Horologium Nyx, creator of shapes and personalities of prophesy, friendship, and guidance, but also as loved ones who offer words of profound wisdom and solace. Is a facilitator of the waking up of Consciousness when the time comes through the dream state.

Phantasos (Fantasy) : Ruler of Life in the Horologium Nyx, creator of shapes of pleasure, desire, satisfaction, but also shapes of confusion and disorientation. He ensures that the Dreamer is unaware of the experience of the dream by lulling them with trance inducing forms and distracting imagery. Can also use imagery of the mundane to fascilitate the confusion of waking in the dream state to keep the Dreamer unaware.

Phobetor (Nightmares) : Ruler of Darkness in the Horologium Nyx, creator of shapes of terror, discomfort, paranoia, and shock. He ensures that the Dreamer stays enfeebled using panic and fear to keep the Dreamer from feeling to at ease or too powerful to maintain the state of humility when the Dreamer wakes up.

Thanatos (Death) : Ruler of Death in the Horologium Nyx, creator of final destinations and ends for dream characters in the dream world to remind the Dreamer that they are mortal and capable and afraid of death. His function in regard to the Horologium Nyx is also particularly strange, when someone dies in the dream world, it causes their position and progress in their conscious development in the cycle to reset. The characters we see in dreams that reflect other living beings are also Dreamers, but mirrors weaved by Phantasos who act in accordance to their prescribed nature as if they were asleep. When they die in Nyx, their material is recycled and then becomes another Dream form.

I understand this is a bit of an unorthodox interpretation, but next I will be discussing what determines when these forms and worlds appear, such as what causes the Horologium Nyx to create nightmares.

Dream Calculations

This is where the actual calculations come in, and brace for impact, this can be a bit tricky. These calculations take into account the average Sleep Cycle throughout an eight hour sleep period, the Planetary Hours through the days of the week, and something I call the Zodiac of the Hours, which is what happens when you divide an hour into the 12 Signs of the Zodiac (5 minutes each).

Here are some sources that will be pertinent to understanding the rest of the post.

The Stages of Sleep :

http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/the-stages-of-sleep.html

Planetary Hours chart :

https://parayournormal.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/planetary-hours.jpg

Planetary Hours info site (for more information):

https://parayournormal.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/magic-by-the-planetary-hours/

Premise of Horologium Nyx Calculations:

According to this idea, the REM (Rapid Eye Movement) stage of sleep is a doorway into a world created by the Horologium Nyx, but this world takes on the attributes given to it from the Planets and the Zodiac through the Planetary Hour and the Sign of the Zodiac from that hour to determine what that dream world will be like.

The Zodiac of the Hours has a simple premise, which I have charted below; in this chart I have also included the logic behind determining the Sign of the Year by translating the years used in the Chinese Zodiac cycle into the Western Zodiac (this will come into play later):

I will continue to post on this information and my results on here where possible. Thank you for your time in hearing me out in this theory as it could carry wondrous fruit for future cognitive research and insight into the nature of the mysterious field of Oneirology (study of dreams).

Astropsychological Transmutation (APT)

Premise

The mind can be seen much like the atmosphere of the Earth, the Mental State is ever an ever-fluctuating sequence of thought and response, expressed in the Active Mind through emotion while deeply felt through intuition much like the weather on Earth in that at any particular location there is a naturally expected array of cloud formations, pressure systems, and precipitation levels. On the other side is the Psychic State, which is the baseline of the mind in its responses, conditioning, thought patterns, habits, and overall sense of personality much like how climate is the range of weather patterns capable at any given location based on topographical factors like mountains, water bodies, and such large factors as longitude and elevation affecting how the weather in that area can be predicted.

With this interpretation of the weather and climate of the mind one can use this visualization and a basic understanding of the Clockwork Heaven, the Horologium Nyx, to essentially alter the astrological baseline of a person's consciousness. The concept is that when we are born we have an established baseline as to how our Astrological environment of subtle influences affect us which then compound into the personality we have now in relation to our experiences and the environmental and genetic factors that provide us with an array of experiences and conditions to respond to psychologically, creating the person we are.

How It Works

If a person could create an internal model of the solar system in their mind and then tune it to when they were born, associating their present personality with that position of the planets, they can then "save" that configuration as a baseline to return to for later.

With an understanding for how the planetary positions and their signs affect the present self, one could proceed to create new planetary configurations resulting in the creation of new personalities that the individual would have been had they been born with the planets in that configuration. This will take a bit of experimentation to figure out the nuances and subtleties realization that Personality Augmentation is no light matter.

Potential Concept

Let's say a particular Astropsychological configuration (which is drawn as a Natal Chart) resulted in the creation of a personality that was depressed or anxious, the genetics of that individual and environmental factors would create the circumstances ideal for that state to occur which could have began with a genetic or circumstantial trend in that personality's environment, but the Astropsychological configuration (APC) essentially enabled that depressed state to finally manifest. The idea with APT is that while one cannot change their past, they can change how their personality responds to it on a deeply Psychic level by changing the precursor that lead to their initial reaction to the stimulus that resulted in the onset and provocation of the depression. Once a person is able to see how another more empowered personality would react to the stimuli resulting in their depression that personality could then return to their original APC with the new insight that they felt firsthand and apply it to beginning the healing process and taking preventative measures to ensure that the onset does not recur.

Soon to Come

I will be establishing a table of the planets as they are when in each sign, and some general mechanics into the Astrological Aspects and how they can be used with this concept to create more compatible charts.