You live on the edges of my life
at the margin of the tame land and the wild
and your appearances are always edgy for me.

You know when to hide and when to hunt.
Men chase you on horseback, with dogs,
yet turn chicken when you turn up unannounced.

You are tricky. I doubt I’ll ever be at ease with you.
But you are a determined messenger
and a necessary link to old and sacred things.

You call women I care for to reclaim lost soul
and become foxy girls, immune to glass ceilings,
setting their own boundaries, living unbounded life.

— Robert Moss, “Brushes With the Red Fox”

You’ll begin this journey the way ancient and Indigenous wisdom says to start every day — by paying your respects to the sacred powers that open and close your paths in life...

As you’ll discover, The Gatekeeper is one of the most active archetypes in your life. It opens and closes your doors and roads.

The Gatekeeper is personified in many traditions — as the elephant-headed Ganesha in India, as Eshu/Eleggua in West Africa, as Anubis in ancient Egypt, and as Hermes and Hekate in ancient Greece.

The Trickster, the power that opens the doors in your life, is the mode the Gatekeeper adopts when you need to change, adapt, and recover your sense of humor.

Robert explains how, if you’re set in your ways and wedded to a linear agenda, the Trickster can become your devil. However, if you’re open to the unexpected, the Trickster can be a very good friend.

The Trickster is personified in many figures. In this session, Robert pays particular attention to its brushes with Fox. When Fox is around, the message is always pay attention...

The fox is a liminal animal, and its appearances suggest that you’re entering an edgy time.

In this first module you’ll establish a place of sanctuary and vision, a place of encounter with spiritual allies — and a launchpad for deepening explorations of the world-behind-the-world.

At the start of your journey, you’ll be invited to:

• Adopt simple rituals to honor the Gatekeeper, including an everyday invocation that works
• Savor Fox tales and dance with the play of the Trickster in your life
• Make a shamanic journey to deepen your connection with the animal spirits — and grow your Tree of Vision as a bridge between the worlds
• Break a dream drought and learn to dream in the liminal space between sleep and awake
• Keep a personal journal as a magical diary, a log of your dreams and encounters with everyday oracles — and a place to dialogue with your many selves
• Practice a fun, fast way to share your stories with a friend that makes it easy to offer helpful feedback and guide each other to take appropriate action

How does one learn to tell stories which please kings?

— Fatema Mernissi, Dreams of Trespass

You’ve probably heard of Scheherazade, who creates the thousand and one stories of the Arabian Nights. Her life depends on it! If she can’t come up with new entertainment, the tyrant king will kill her in the morning...

In this module, Robert shares how Scheherazade’s story is more relevant to your life than you may have realized. You need to approach each day as a fresh adventure.

You’re being called to find the right stories and tell them so that they shift people and things around you — just as Scheherazade was eventually able to heal the mind of the tyrant, transforming the world and its people.

Your dreams, like Scheherazade, give you a new story every night — if you will only remember them, then learn to take creative action to bring the new story into the daylight world.

As Robert explains, you have a personal film production company that makes dream movies just for you.

As you move into mythic life, you'll be guided to recognize, and revise or discard, some of the old stories you’ve been living.

In this module, you’ll be invited to dream on some often-told tales that may hold gifts for you, including:

• The Tale of the Forgetful Envoy — You were sent here on assignment from another world. To carry out your mission, you have to fit in with the people around you. You manage to fit in so well you forget why you came here. Now a new envoy must be sent to remind you.
• The Challenge of the Demon Parrot — In an amazing story from Persia, the greatest challenge in the hero/heroine’s quest is posed by a Demon Parrot. This bird represents repetition, the human tendency to play things safe and stay in old grooves.
• The Garden Behind the Moon — In a lovely old children’s story that’s not just for kids, young people play in a garden behind the moon — and it may dawn on you that this is a story about where parts of your vital selves may go when you suffer soul loss. You’ll be invited to journey to that garden and see who and what is there for you.

Nothing happens in which you are not entangled in a secret manner, for everything has ordered itself around you and plays your innermost. Nothing in you is hidden to things… The stars whisper your deepest mysteries to you, and the soft valleys of the earth rescue you in a motherly womb.
— C.G. Jung, The Red Book

Most human cultures have long believed in a hidden hand that’s at work in coincidence.

Through the play of unusual or unexpected conjunctions, and natural phenomena, gods — or angels, animate forces of nature, or other dimensions — send messages to humans or actively intervene in our world.

Jung came to believe that we move through life within a “circumambient atmosphere” that connects us to the realms of gods and archetypes, generating synchronistic phenomena.

In this module, Robert explains how to navigate your life through synchronicity — and awaken to the deeper forces at play beyond the curtain of everyday perception with the help of two masters of the game, Jung and Mark Twain.

Jung not only invented the word “synchronicity,” he lived by it. He was constantly alive to the oracles all around him.

When Jung worked with a patient, he followed patterns of wind and water over the lake, the appearance of a fox on a wooded path, or a green-gold flying beetle at the window...

To Jung, the circumambient atmosphere was charged by the often-unacknowledged archetypes that travel with us, generating synchronistic events.

Mark Twain is famous as a humorist, sage, prolific author, and profound student of the human condition. He was more than an observer of coincidence — he used it as a daily source of guidance and actively experimented with inviting synchronous events.

In this module, you’ll:

• Learn to recognize the archetypal forces at play in your energy fields, and how symbols that live in your mind have magnetic effects
• Track how your emotions generate events with the Pauli effect, named for the quantum pioneer who helped Jung develop his theory of synchronicity
• Grow a daily practice of listening to the Speaking Land
• Discover with Mark Twain that a setback may truly be an opportunity, and that you need to notice what’s showing through a slip
• Be invited to play fun games of Sidewalk Tarot, some ancient and some fresh and original
• Learn to put your questions about your life to the world and receive guidance on a life theme
• Let the world put its questions to you by scheduling unscheduled time to pay attention as you walk in “the forest of living symbols that are looking at you”
• Do divination by the book, in the ancient way of bibliomancy
• Listen for your daily kledon, a favorite oracle of the ancient Greeks

Any goddess can be referred to in kenning by associating her characteristics, possessions, activities, or family members with the name of another goddess.
— Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál (The Language of Poetry)

The above statement, from one of the primary sources on the Norse goddesses and gods, lights a fire in the head. If all the goddesses can be called by each other’s names, it would seem they are all aspects of the Great Goddess.

In this module, Robert shares the story of the goddess Vanadis, the Great Goddess of the Vanir, better known to the world as Freyja...

Also known as Shining Sea, Flax, Sow, the Giver, and Mask, she flies on falcon wings — when not riding in a chariot drawn by cats, or on the back of a wild boar.

As Robert explains, perhaps Freyja is also Gullveig, the “golden” goddess who was toasted on spears by the patriarchal Indo-European gods. She was burned three times — reborn each time stronger and brighter, to create the magic of seidr forbidden to men (although Odin slips in).

In the North, the birds of the Goddess are the falcon, the raven, and the swan. Do you have a bird ally that can lend you its vision and its wings? Perhaps you feel close to other birds — the eagle or the hummingbird, the woodpecker or the heron. Every bird, like every aspect of the Goddess, has its own magic.

In this module, you’ll:

• Deepen your connection with your winged allies and see where they take you — with your sights set, above all, on the Goddess
• Find yourself with Winged Isis, or Ishtar, or the Swan People — considered the greatest shamans of the Beaver Indians… or perhaps in the Goddess culture of Çatalhöyük, or learning the ways of the Morrigan on an Irish hill
• Discover how your own dreams and the stories that seized you in childhood may prove to be your surest guides
• Journey across time and dimensions with the help of bird allies
• Meet the forms of the Goddess that are most relevant for your current life
• Learn how Egypt dreamed with Isis — and how she spread her wings of mystery over much of the ancient world

We live by stories. Our first and best teachers, in our lives and in the evolution of our kind, instruct and inspire by telling stories. Story is our shortest route to the meaning of things, and our easiest way to remember and carry the meaning we discover. A good story lives inside and outside time, and gives us keys to a world of truth beyond the world of fact.
— Robert Moss, Growing Big Dreams

Merlin has a thousand faces. He’s a magician, enchanter, poet, trickster, prophet, wise or scheming adviser to kings — and the hero or antihero of countless dramas.

Merlin is a dreamer, though in some of the ages in which he was remembered this was no term of praise. In Shakespeare’s King Henry IV, Hotspur sneers at Welsh boasts about “the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies” and “such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff.”

Merlin’s company is that of the awenyddion, or “inspired ones,” of whom Gerald of Wales wrote that “their gifts are usually conferred upon them in dreams.”

Merlin is a shaman, perhaps the very model of a shaman of the West. He is at home with the trees; he finds sanctuary inside an ancient apple tree, and feeds on apples and nuts. He knows the animals and can take their forms. He is a master of story, poetry, and song, through which bardic arts he can redefine and so remake the world around him.

You likely dream of Merlin, and it may be that he brings dreams to you.

Merlin travels with a magic orchard that goes with him everywhere. If you’re very lucky, he may offer you an apple, either silver or gold. When you bite down, you’ll taste not only the sweet juice of the apple, but the heady power of a story that will inspire you and give juice to your life.

In this module, you'll be invited to:

• Visit Merlin’s enchanted apple orchard
• Explore other portals through which you can seek the wise ones and the greater stories that are waiting for you at this stage in your soul odyssey
• Access a magic library whose doors are never closed to you, though you may be required to show some ID and put down your baggage
• Discover inspiration and information in any area that attracts you — as you’ll see, the guides available to you may include master teachers in any field
• Find your own Merlin
• Find your personal entrance to the Akashic Records, or quantum information field
• Find the big story you need to recognize and embody in your life right now

Let’s see... I’m a man on Wednesday and Friday, a woman on Sunday and Thursday, and I have the rest of the time off for independent study. Actually... this is somewhat more complicated. Each life is lived in a different area of time to which various designations are given. As Lydia I’m in the twentieth century, as Josef in the seventeenth, as Ma-ah in 35,000 B.C., and as Proteus in the twenty-third century A.D.
— Jane Roberts, The Education of Oversoul Seven

The stories that bind us are not only from our current lives and family relations. In the larger universe, our present dramas may be related to those of personalities living in other times...

In this module, Robert explains how these personalities living in other times can include ancestors of your bloodline, of the lands where you live and travel, and your soul family across time and place.

At this point in your journey, you’ll be ready to discover that you stand at the center of all times — and need not be bound by past histories, or karma you’ve acquired in your present or past lives.

Jane Roberts and Seth (who she called the “interdimensional teacher”) are excellent guides to this territory.

As you study the core teachings of Seth and Jane Roberts’ own Oversoul Seven series, you’ll:

• Learn that you’re living continuous lives in other realities that you glimpse in dreams
• Discover how you can connect with other personalities in your multidimensional soul family for mutual benefit
• Explore the powerful truth that reincarnation is real, but only one of many after-death options — and you mustn’t get trapped in linear conceptions of karma, because any past or future is a probable reality that can be accessed and changed now
• Learn that your most important life teacher may be your oversoul, or greater self — and when you rise to view your life issues from its perspective, you awaken to a hidden order of events and may bring in a blessed sense of divine comedy
• Make a shamanic journey to an extraordinary locale in the Imaginal Realm known as the House of Time
• Find that many doors can open for you here, to clarify and heal your relations with other members of your soul family across time and place
• Be invited to make a journey of ascent to interact with the aspect of your oversoul that’s ready to receive you, if it’s the right time for you

If you’re going to bring something new into your world, find the field you will marry, as the poet marries language, as the artist marries color and texture, as the chef marries taste and aroma, as the swimmer marries the water.
— Robert Moss, Sidewalk Oracles

A kairomancer is someone who is poised to recognize and take action in the kairos moment of synchronicity when the universe gets personal, time works differently, and you feel the presence of the powers of the invisible world.

To follow the way of the kairomancer, you need to trust your feelings as you walk the roads of this world, develop your personal science of shivers, and recognize that you know far more than you hold on the surface of consciousness.

As Robert explains, you’ll need to take dreams more literally and the events of waking life more symbolically. You’ll need to take care of your poetic health, reading what rhymes in a day, or a season...

Expect the unexpected, make friends with surprises, and never miss that special moment.

In your final module, you’ll play some wonderful new games and bring alive more of the kairomancer’s way of conscious, creative living:

• Keep Your Edge — To create is to bring something new into the world, and that involves risks. The greater powers that support your life draw closer when you are willing to dance on the edge. Everything interesting happens on the boundaries.
• Marry Your Field — Do what you love, give your best to that, and trust that the universe will support you.
• Bring a New Story from Every Day — The Kabbalah teaches that we must find our story, tell our story, and have our story received. This is an assignment you are now well prepared to fulfill every day.
• Take Care of Your Poetic Health — A talent for resemblances is essential for a kairomancer, as the Greeks said it was for a good dream interpreter. Notice recurring symbols and situations. Observe what rhymes in a day or a life.
• Remember the Time Is Always Now, Except When the Time is GO — All times, past, present, and parallel, are accessible to you now, and may be revisioned for the better
• Choose Your Attitude — However difficult your circumstances, you always have the ability to choose your attitude and this can change everything, including the health of your mind and body, and your experience of the world.