Wednesday, April 01, 2009

ALL DREAMS DAY 2009

If you are not familiar with my campaign to transform All Fools Day, or April Fools Day, to All Dreams Day, you can read about it here:

http://conjurings.blogspot.com/2008/03/power-of-dreaming.
http://conjurings.blogspot.com/2008/04/all-dreams-day.htmlhtml
http://conjurings.blogspot.com/2007/03/all-dreams-day.html

So…the Fool is crowned King for a day, and the King is to play the role of court jester. Anything is possible today, and the normally iron clad rules of karma are (mostly) suspended.

In the spirit of jokes and merriment, freedom and laughter, and the type of child-like play that produces genius creativity, what would you do if you ruled the world for a day?

What if you could change any law? Establish any policy? What if all the world was ready to do your bidding?

I am not suggesting this as an idle exercise. Everything in civilization was created first in the dreams and musings of the human mind. If we are to rescue the planet from the destruction modern developed nations have wreaked upon it, if we are to finally solve the most long-standing of problems: poverty, malnutrition and hunger, violence and war, rape, racism, etc—then we need a day like All Dreams.

Over the last four years I have talked about what I would do if I were the omnipotent Queen of all the nations on earth. This year I am going to explore what the world would be like if All Dreams were a reality.

Teachers would have been prepping their children for the last few weeks to write their “If I Could Rule The World” essays. Of course, these would be due the day before, because to really celebrate All Dreams properly, it would have to be a global holiday.

An active, social holiday. Like Mardi Gras, or Saint Patrick’s, but without the alcohol. That sounds impossible, I know. But I think the appeal of make believe and pretend would overcome the urge to obliterate one’s imagination with alcohol. (For most people, anyhow.)

In the morning there would be many conferences and public seminars and meetings. World leaders would gather- but not together. Rather, they would go to the playgrounds and sandboxes of the world and consult with children on perplexing matters of state.

Since this holiday is also one of “opposites” the scientists would gather in churches, and the meta-physician would listen to the opinions of the empiricist. Everyone would just go and look at the side of things that was not “their” side, or the “right” side of things. Not just look, but actually try to understand and appreciate.

In the afternoon there would be parades and general silliness. People—especially adults--- would dress up in costumes. There needs to be more than one holiday a year where people can be someone, or something, else. And Halloween is just so much gloom and graveyards.

Truthfully I picture something along the lines of Renaissance Faire, with Morris dancers skipping through the streets, but more outrageous and Mardi Gras-esque. Not to the point of Britt Ekland naked, pounding on the wall, as she did in the original Wicker Man. A film about Bealtaine, or May Day, by the way.

All Dreams’ Day is the natural precursor to Bealtaine, because it is the creative breath of conception.

Bealtaine is the second major Pagan festival of the year. Like its’ brother Samhain, or Halloween, it is a time when the veil between the worlds is lifted, and the spirits move among us freely. But at May Day it is the new spirits coming in, not the old going out.

At May Day the crops have broken through the soi, the bull roams among the herds, and the life of the year is growing. But at All Dreams’ Day we only know that we have just made it through the cold, dark winter. Whatever hopes and wishes we have been able to keep alive during those barren months we must plant now.

We must breathe our warm breath onto them, like precious seeds in the palm of our hands. Place them gently in the soil with a little pat and some water.

We will see if they have sprouted at May Day, at Bealtaine.

But today is a day of dreams and hopes and wishes. A day of Dreams. A day when a Fool can be King, and a King can be a court Jester.

A day when anything is possible.

...I suspect this holiday might have a high incident of hallucinogenic drugs, as opposed to alcohol...

HAPPY ALL DREAMS’ DAY!!!

PRAISES, THANKS, AND BLESSINGS!!!
Conjurewoman1@yahoo.com

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