If you've been visiting my website for long, you know I look at things differently and I think you do, too.

Many, many people don't like change. In fact, I can't think of anyone who likes change that isn't self-initiated. Often in my consultations, however, I have to help people deal with change and on this page you'll find some of the wisdom I've accrued.

It might surprise you to know that many people dream that their teeth are falling out. This is as common a reoccurring dream as the one where you are late to class for the final or it's finals day and you haven't begun to study yet or you can't find the classroom. These are performance anxiety dreams of high achievers.

The teeth dream, however, has a different meaning. It is a precognitive dream relating to periods of tremendous change in a person's life. You see, our teeth are closely related to critical times in our physiological development.

It is also associated with a time in our evolution when we lived in tribes and traveled. When baby teeth came in a child was ready to eat meat. When someone's teeth fell out, they couldn't eat meat any more and were left to die as the tribe moved on.

Teeth falling out in a dream can also be a dream about not feeling cared for or not taking good care of yourself.

Baby dragon with eye tooth
Our first tooth comes in and that is a very exciting thing!!! You can even think of the eye tooth of the baby dragon or the tooth that baby chicks use to peck out of the shell.

At 5 or 6, we lose our first "baby tooth" and continue to lose and replace baby teeth throughout the early school years.

At about the time we're finishing school, we get our wisdom teeth. Sometimes this is painful and they have to be removed.

Around 40, teeth can become stained from cokes, tea, coffee, smoking, certain medications and other things in our society and lifestyle. (Time to get the teeth whitened!! It can take years off your looks.) Click MamaGums. She's the greatest!

In "old age" traditionally teeth would fall out. And so we have very old people with toothless gums.

The overall health of our teeth depends on genetics, but also on lifestyle and choices in food.

To continue, now, with the human beings under discussion. The important part symbolically is that the teeth come out at critical stages in development and this is what relates the dream to a fear of change.

The person most likely to have the teeth dreams is a person with significant Capricorn energy. As you recall, they also tend toward back problems, neck and shoulder pain, knee injuries and problems.

The spiritual path of the Capricorn is to learn to kneel before God ... to humble themselves in other words. To get down on my knees in front of God is to humble myself. This can be difficult for the Capricorn who fears humiliation, failure and admitting vulnerability

The cycle from fragile, vulnerable and toothless baby to fragile, vulnerable and toothless elderly is Cancerian. You'll find people with Saturn in Cancer, for example, strongly attracted to these two age groups.

People with Saturn in the 8th house and Saturn in Scorpio can have a complicated relationship with change because subconsciously they equate it with death.

It is important to realize and be conscious of the fact that when 8th house changes take place, something does indeed die, but it is not "you", it is just you as you currently know yourself. Your ego, some part of you that you have outgrown and that now impedes your further growth does die. This must be grieved.

In some cases, the thought of this is so frightening that the person becomes confused and actually chooses physical death instead. For example, instead of learning to live without an inheritance that has been squandered -- in other words learning new things about life, finding new resources within, creating something of worth on one's own -- a person can become confused, depressed, guilt ridden, etc., and end their life in any number of different ways, often by contracting a fatal disease.

This is not to be confused with conscious suicide which has been well covered in James Hillman's book, Suicide and the Soul.

This is a sensitive and thought-full treatment of a very difficult subject.

You will find your Scorpio clients often use the words "kill", "die", "hate", "destroy(ed)", "devastate", "ruined" but rarely will they actually kill themselves or another. It is a state of mind, more than anything else. They think in extremes of life and death.

Pisces on the other hand, sighs and says, "what's the use", "it just doesn't matter", "I never wanted to be here anyway". Often they lack the will to live. What they need is a good Aries in their life!!!

The people in the Zodiac who should like change are the Cardinals signs. They like to change the course of things and the direction of their lives.

The Mutable Signs like constant change and variety, for example, nomads are a good example of mutable happiness.

However, I find that even with these groups, when the change is imposed, it is a rare person who welcomes it.

This is something we learn to do with spiritual wisdom. All the great teachers in the world said the same thing, "Go out ahead of the change and make it your own." We are taught to remember that we evoked or created this change for our greater good and then forgot. That is the way it is with the ego.

Interestingly, Queen Elizabeth II of England has Saturn in Scorpio in the 8th house. When people remark that she is a private person, only an astrologer would smile at that! I have treated her chart in some detail in The Royals, Part II, upon the occasion of Margaret's recent death.

An astrologer who did some excellent work on change as it relates to the Taurus/Scorpio axis was Richard Idemon. Pleases click here to visit the Richard Idemon Memorial (he is deceased).

Mr. Idemon was very strong on the psychological level of interpretation. He is deceased but his work lives on. Pegasus Tapes distributes his tapes. I recommend

• R1-104 Why is Change so Difficult?
• R1-103 Pluto and Eros

Both of these tapes deal with Pluto and its relation to change.

All Mr. Idemon's tapes are good, though. These tapes were made before good acoustics were the norm so there is background static. Still, in my opinion, it's worth it.

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Recommended books for dealing with change:

The Astrology of Fate by Liz Greene. When the change looks more like death, destruction, fate or mayhem, who do you call? Liz Greene, of course!

The Art of War by Sun Tzu is full of ancient Oriental wisdom about the nature of things and their tendency to change. It was one of the first books written down.

The oldest book in the world, The I Ching, the Book of Changes. All things are always changing to their opposites.

Quotes about death, dying and change:

The first three are from Judythe, The Queen of Great Quotes:

"Without remaining open to change, we cannot remain open to life."

"The desire to control change is our greatest obstacle to wisdom."

"Change, from the Ego's point of view, is suffering. Change, from the Soul's point of view, is just change." --Ram Dass

"What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imaginations and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it." -- Carl Jung after his heart attack in 1944

"Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead." --Lilly Langtry

"If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction."
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you."
--Carlos Castenada

"What doesn't kill me makes me stronger." --Albert Camus

"Nothing endures but change." --Heraclitus (said over 2,000 years ago)

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