SOLVED - Sci-Fi YA(?) Orange-eyed matriarchy fights earth colonists with dreams [s]

[Eloise]

First came across this book in about '99/2000 when it was being read to my class just before the school year ended and we were going to Secondary/High School. Came across it later in the Secondary School library - mid noughties. Stylisticly I'd say it was published 80's+

Orange eye/s and planet earth on the cover(?)

It's majorly irritating that I can't remember the pertinent details because I can recall the plot.

*Spoilers*


Book starts with teen boy looking out from his space station at earth before they leave on a colonising mission, he has a vision of a wierd girl with ORANGE eyes. We shift to her perspective as she wakes up from *her* dream of the boy with the creepy blue eyes and there's something about her getting trained to be a priestess/ witch/ dreamwalker. The eye colour was a thing that stuck with me, not sure if it was a plot point.

*SPOILER WARNING*

The psychic matriarchy is represive as I think they took over from the "old cult" that was V phallo centric, I think the men don't appreciate being mind whammied into conformism (which girl has to help with?) and someone in her family (?) turns it down and opts to get banished to the moon/siter planet with the phallic statues and the apocoyptic survivalist patriarchy (????)

There's lot's of shifting back and forth between the protagonists perspectives as they dream share and "come-of-age" in cultures/societies they start to realise are problematic.


Book ends with (view spoiler)[ the psychic matriarchy fighting off the colonists (who think the planet is empty) by peacefully making them hallucinate their worst nightmares and getting them to crash-land on planet phallus-statue. (hide spoiler)]

These aren't very good search terms to google.
Thanks for any help.

[Abby]

Good luck finding it; it sounds like it's a good read.

[Tab]

Dream-Weaver fits.

When her frightening dreams about a blue-eyed, alien boy come to the attention of the Dream-Weavers Guild, Eth is accepted for training even though she is unusually young. As she learns the arts of healing and weaving dreams that maintain harmony and stability in her society, a spaceship from Earth is carrying 3,000 colonists to her planet, among them 17-year-old Troy, who fears the colonists' intentions for their new world. (view spoiler)[ A disastrous psychic encounter blasts Eth's dream-body into space, where her encounter with Troy aboard the spaceship, also makes the colonists and Vashlian, the powerful psychic who rescues her, aware of the damaging capabilities of each other's culture. (hide spoiler)]

[Eloise]

Yes that's it! Thankyou