An attic in a dream commonly holds forgotten memory and an older version of who you used to be. Climbing up to look through it can reflect a moment of reconnecting with your history, sorting through what still matters against what you're ready to leave behind in storage.
In the nativities and questions of men, make , and , and their directions; chiefly, in questions concerning kings and great persons, by which their accidents are chiefly known, let them be good, or evil. - William Lilly (1602.-1681.)