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a way of reading your life

What keeps repeating - even when everything else changes?

Add one dream, relationship, thought or situation. MythRadar reads the pattern around it.

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the first instrument

What keeps returning?

Whatever repeats is trying to be read, not solved.

Recurrence is the one signal the mind never sends by accident. Four kinds of it, and each one has somewhere to go.

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  1. 01

    A dream you have had for years

    The same house. The same chase. The same person standing where they should not be. Repetition is the mind underlining something.

    Look it up
  2. 02

    A person who keeps appearing

    An ex. A parent. A stranger whose face you almost recognise. Usually less about them, more about the part of you they carry.

    People in dreams
  3. 03

    A role you always end up playing

    The one who fixes it. The one who leaves first. The one who understands everything and says nothing. That is an archetype, working quietly.

    Read the archetypes
  4. 04

    A question that changes costume

    Ambition one year, restlessness the next, a fantasy of another life the year after. The same question, newly dressed.

    Read the Insights
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archetypes

The role you play before you choose it

An archetype is not a personality type. It is what you reach for first when the stakes rise.

Twelve entries - Seeker, Sage, Caregiver, Lover, Ruler, Magician, Rebel, Everyman, Creator, Destroyer, Innocent, Trickster. Each one reads the same way: what it wants, where it is valuable, where it turns, and how its shadow arrives in dreams, work and relationships.

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dream exploration

Dreams are language, not prediction

A house is not just a house. Being chased is rarely about who  is chasing  you.

The Dream Dictionary reads symbols the way you would read a sentence someone wrote to themselves - carefully, and in context. Places, people, animals, nature, actions, objects, body and identity, each with entries written to be recognised rather than looked up and forgotten.

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people in dreams

The familiar face in an unfamiliar role

When someone appears in a dream, the dream is usually casting, not reporting.

Ex-partners, mothers, fathers, strangers, the people you have lost. The psyche borrows faces you already know to say something about a part of yourself that has no face yet. Analyse every entry where another person is the symbol.

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insights and principles

The reading behind the reading

Why anything repeats at all - and what changes once it is named.

Longer essays on recurrence, shadow, attachment and meaning, plus the principles the whole method rests on. Written to be read in order or wandered through; each one ends by opening the next question rather than closing the subject.

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where it all gathers

Your Personal Mythology

See the pattern taking shape. It begins when you start your journal, and becomes richer as you add more.

  1. 01

    Choose

    You decide where to begin: a dream, a repetition, a sentence you keep saying.

  2. 02

    Add

    A few entries, days or weeks apart. Your own material begins to hold a shape.

  3. 03

    Read

    A shape appears - not a theme, a direction. The way the same idea keeps arriving.

  4. 04

    Name

    Once named, a pattern can be worked with. Not before. The name is a sentence about a self.