This ritual helps integrate the inscrutable parts back into a sensible whole again. Because the 3rd house is in aversion to the intensity of the 8th, it does not see this picking apart of ideas as any threat, but to the 9th, this is insanity and sacrilege. Here, the association between right and left is often made in terms of good and evil, right and wrong, light and darkness in an attempt to gain perspective after a reality jarring experience. Since reason requires the picking apart of ideas, faith and orthodoxy gain the upperhand here. Dreams and prophesy were also mentioned by Paulus.
Dreams provide insight into the future, a form of inner voice of prophesy.
The outer representation of this voice comes in the form of a guide or teacher who helps us to understand these strange experiences. Yoda typifies this type of individual. The other interpretation of this would be visions and mystical experiences which would defy explanation and must be taken on faith. This is because as soon as you analyze a mystical experience, its visionary qualities fall apart. In modern texts, this place is about seeing and surveying, hence the signification for living abroad.