AS Katoch

Biography

AS Katoch, MA (University of Nottingham), British-Indian dream researcher affiliated with the Warburg Library, London, divides his time between Staffordshire, UK, and Himachal Pradesh, India. His practice is Jungian Arts-Based Research (JABR) — a transdisciplinary fusion of active imagination, yoga nidra, mythopoetic improvisatory method as artist-researcher, psychodynamic counselling, divination, meta-iconography, literary linguistics, and cognitive poetics that treats dream images as alive, enlivening, and vitalising where wonder is both affective driver and telos, generating re-enchantment of the cosmos, the image, and the lived life.

He has lectured internationally on this evolving body of work:

  • June 2024 · International Association for the Study of Dreams conference, Netherlands — archival research at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, on the astrological Lot of Dreams (klêros oneirōn) and oneiros, dreams, and divination in Hellenistic culture

  • September 2024 · Astrological Association conference — improvisatory arts-based research in the Warburg Institute's Photographic Collection on Albrecht Dürer’s 1525 Dream Vision as prophecy, divination, material culture, and the role of dreams in art history

  • March 2025 · India’s inaugural IASD ‘Dreams and Spirituality’ conference, Bangalore — illustrated lecture on dreams and divination in Indian art history of miniature painting

  • June 2025 · IASD annual online conference — illustrated lecture on the 18th-century Shakunavali, dream omen miniature paintings.

  • November 2025 · London Arts-Based Research Centre’s ‘Alchemy’ conference, St Anne’s College, Oxford — divining dream omens, active imagination as yogic Indian alchemy in miniature painting, and Ashmolean Museum archival research (delivered within his Jungian Arts-Based Research training at the LABRC)

  • January 2026 · LABRC’s online conference on ‘Astrology in Focus: Navigating Art, Psyche, and Knowledge’ through JABR method at the Ashmolean Museum archival research of his ancestral astrological art of Pahari miniature paintings in the Kangra idiom from Himachal Pradesh.

Services

In the Vedic traditions of my ancestors, life itself is a dream of the cosmic Self.

Every question is never only about the future — it is about waking up inside the dream while the dream is still happening. I offer 90-minute oracular consultations (200 GBP) in which I witness your question through the interwoven arts of depth psychology, oneiromancy (dream divination), ancient and medieval astrologies, tarot, I Ching, rhapsodomancy, and active imagination. Every session is entirely bespoke; nothing is pre-scripted. Together we allow the images, symbols, planets, cards, or lines of poetry to speak until your question answers itself.

“Dream” here is not limited to what happens at night. We may explore any of these living strands of your dream-life:

  • Nocturnal visions, recurring dream patterns, precognitive glimpses, or difficulties with dream recall

  • Spiritual encounters and visitations from ancestors or the departed

  • Lucid dreaming, déjà rêve, and the cultivation of conscious dreaming

  • Life aspirations, fantasies, career, love, sexuality, or creative projects as waking dreams

  • Nightmares, night terrors, or periods when life itself feels nightmarish

  • The soul’s deepest longings — the “dream” you are afraid to admit you still carry

Recent bespoke commissions have included:

  • Mapping concatenating animal synchronicities with Hellenistic astrology and oneiromancy

  • Navigating complex familial karma through a series of tarot/I Ching readings using Benebell Wen’s syncretic method (which she personally taught me in 2018)

  • Illuminating the next six years of health and vitality via the rare tribhagi dasha technique in Jyotish

  • Guiding erotic and sexual becoming with Jungian/post-Jungian dreamwork combined with Wen-method tarot and I Ching

  • Activating the Lot of Dreams (klēros oneirōn) in natal charts to deepen the querent’s relationship to dreaming itself

  • Rhapsodomantic bibliotherapy using sacred or poetic texts as living oracles

  • Elective astrology (Hellenistic, Bonatti, Lilly, Vedic) for the successful launch of albums, exhibitions, novels, and poetry collections

  • Oneiromancy for blocked creative projects — allowing the dream to finish the painting, the poem, or song that the waking mind could not

All sessions are held via Google Meet and recorded for you. See my Terms & Conditions.