See Ball, Wreath.A symbol of wholeness, a magic defense against danger: whatever takes place within the circle has special meaning. Ghosts and demons always move in a straight line...

Dreaming about this interesting and amusing animal may have several different and opposing interpretations. Therefore, it is very important that you pay attention to the details an...

The symbols of the mother have a remarkable versatility. On the one hand, the mother appears as an image of nature (i.e., life) and, conversely, as a representation of death (for t...

1. If killing, the desire to eliminate a certain aspect of one’s personality as symbolized by the particular animal (e.G., One might kill a lion to eliminate aggressiveness).2. A...

Dreams can be fascinating windows into our subconscious, revealing hidden emotions, desires, and insights about our lives. When you dream of a cat giving birth to seven kittens, it...

Death may be symbolized in different ways; see “blood”, “casket”, “asleep”, and “landlord”...

One may be symbolized as an idiot when they act like one...

Symbolized as friend or foe, not literal nations of ethnic groups...

May be symbolized as a spouse, and vice versa; see “marriage”...

A victim of foul play may be symbolized as an animal; research type and color...

1. Maternal figure.2. Desire for safety and comfort as symbolized by pouch.3. Something odd and playful.4. Ability to move very fast.5. Highly creative.6. Encountering unconven­t...

You may be experiencing feelings of helplessness and an inability to get out of a situation in your daily life. This common sense approach can easily be applied and with some effor...

Pleasant meeting of old friends symbolized by this dream. Superstition holds this insect as a pleasant omen. Pliny mentions it much esteemed among the ancient magicians....

Loss of friends and wealth are shown by this dream (Artemidorus); loneliness and isolation are plainly symbolized....

A dream of happiness, to dream of riding signifies success (Gypsy). Jung regards this as an erotic dream; courage and generosity are symbolized by the horse, while Swedenborg regar...

To carry a bright one, success, an especially favorable dream for lovers; a dim lamp, sickness; a light that goes out or is extinguished, death; or at least danger (Raphael). In an...

A dream of a love affair in which the dreamer will suffer betrayal (Gypsy). The proverbial moth and flame is symbolized in this dream....

An ox in a dream signifies the yoke of obedience; a pair of fat oxen predicts a year of plenty, lean oxen threaten scarcity and famine. Oxen plowing a field presage gain and plenty...

To dream of a green poplar denotes fulfilled hopes, if withered it denotes disappointment (Gypsy). It was once held sacred to Hercules. Afterwards it symbolized the Holy Rood of th...

This dream signifies marriage to the maid, but jealousy to the wedded (Gypsy). In eastern lands it symbolized the tree of life....

Hat. Symbolizes power, fame, and influence. Points to a high level of awareness that is related in yoga to the Crown chakra (Sahasrara).See Head, King.Since the Middle Ages, a crow...

Some emotions, characteristics, and behaviors need to be given up.If you are making a sacrifice in the dream, or giving something away, ask how easy it is for you to let go in real...

Winning a bid at an auction portends fair treatment in your business endeavors. It also shows that you feel confident about the value of something (symbolized by what you bid on). ...

(see Incantation, Languages)Dedicated religious observance. Numerous civilizations recognized chanting as a viable expression of veneration, or a means of communing with greater po...

Lover. Archetypal symbol for father / mother, dependency on father / mother. Also always the dreamer himself.See Dictator / Ruler. May also represent the Great Father and Great Mot...

See Poisonous Snake. More than anything else, this is a symbol of fear.It is also often a sexual symbol, and a symbol of wholeness, transformation, and rebirth, as in Ouroboros.A s...

Ivy leaves on or near your head reflect being overly intoxicated by an idea or dream without any firm foundations upon which to build.Ivy is an emblem of striving for notoriety and...

Your attitudes, symbolized as clothing, are often hung in the closet.The clothing may also represent a new self-image you may want to embrace.The closet may indicate something that...

Vision: Seeing a leper means worries, resdessness, or danger in the near future. Becoming a leper: you are unable to see your true self. You feel separated from the people around ...

Dreams of pineapple represent a juicy and delicious reward that comes after arduous labor, as symbolized by the prickly exterior and its delicious interior.The pineapple can also r...

Life, fertility and immortality are symbolized by the acorn, as is the androgynous. In the seed cup is the feminine and in the nut the potential for all life.The two together sugge...

Throughout history societies have believed that if their gods are displeased they will show their anger.If a dream figure is angry, therefore, we may feel that we are offending our...

(see Body, Face)As the window of the soul, these reveal truth to us. So, how do the eyes appear? Are they fully open to see things as they are really?Judgment from others, or judgi...

(see Disasters, Fire)As the child of a volcano, this stone represents creative eruptions of some type. This is a flash of insight, bridging artistic obstacles, and resulting in tru...

Spiritually, balance represents fairness and impartiality.To be thrown off balance suggests that we have received a sufficiently bad blow or emotional shock for us to lose that imp...

Man is symbolized by the bamboo, inherently perfect yet able to be pliant – to bow before the storm.The bamboo also signifies gracefulness and friendship. In china, the seven-kno...

Material aspects: Money and personal resources tend to be the things with which most people have difficulty. In our everyday life our financial, mental or spiritual resources may n...

Particularly if you yourself are taking a beating, humility, anguish and grief are symbolized, along with the recognition of a degree of cruelty by others....

Material aspects: Our search for knowledge and the ability to learn from other people’s experience and opinions is symbolized in dreams by books and libraries.To dream of old boo...

How the world unfolds before us – and how we can influence that – is symbolized in spiritual terms. Unfolding gently and without force is one way of developing spiritual awaren...

Cakes or buns used in religious and magical rites and marked with the cross originally symbolized the round of the moon and its four quarters. Such cakes later became eastertime ho...

In religious art bondage and slavery, dignity and unity are all symbolized by chains.The links in a chain suggest that we cannot exist in isolation....

Metamorphosis and magical powers are symbolized by the chrysalis. That which is intrinsically ugly and therefore apparently spiritually unacceptable goes through a process of inact...

Being unreachable, clouds symbolized the potency of the ultimate. Similar to smoke, they were previously considered to be the vehicle for divine power. They retain this significanc...

Redemption, resurrection and salvation are all symbolized by the coffin. Contemplation of the death experience can lead to dreams of a coffin, in this case symbolizing the physical...

The forces of nature in us can be symbolized by scenes of the countryside. We can return, without feeling guilty, to a very relaxed state. As our lives become more frenetic we need...

Liberation from the limitations of the world is symbolized by the crocodile. Though we are consumed by our fear of death, or perhaps the death process. We must work through this fe...

The unknown, and therefore the unfathomable, is often symbolized by depth in some way – deep water, deep underground etc....

Clearing evil or decay, or taking in good, is symbolized as devouring it – that is, eating it greedily. Kali, the hindu mother goddess, as the keeper of the graveyard, demonstrat...

Spiritually we need to have access to the characteristics of the unconscious. It will always take effort to uncover such aspects and this is symbolized by digging. Excavating, perh...

Psychological / emotional perspective: To eject an object in dreams is to signify getting rid of a feeling or emotion – whatever is symbolized by the object – in a forcible fas...

Encouragement in dreams is often symbolized by a parental, authority type of figure or an easily recognized spiritual being....

Traditionally the face represented, or rather symbolized, the basic powers of the soul; the eyes are the mirror, the mouth represents expression, the forehead knowledge....

Spiritual fear or forgetfulness is symbolized here, particularly the fall from grace, from a state of innocent bliss to a state of sinful understanding, with its attendant conseque...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Our natural drives such as a need for physical comfort, herd behaviour and territorial rights are best expressed in a safe, conserving enviro...

Psychological / emotional perspective: Emotional difficulties can make our thought processes confused, symbolized in dreams by a fuzziness in the images we perceive....

Psychological / emotional perspective: When we are particularly under stress, we can be overly aware of the running out of time; that it can become an enemy. This is often symboliz...

Spiritually, ice symbolizes a part of ourselves that has become frozen and needs to thaw out before we can progress. Ice cream is an image which can be used to signify impermanence...

In spiritual progression there needs to be a balance between our more spiritual selves – what might be called ideal behaviour – and the physical or material realm. This balance...

A kite represents our need for, or recognition of, forthcoming spiritual freedom. In chinese lore, the kite symbolized the wind. We need to be free of constraints and to be ‘pull...

Material aspects: A leap suggests a particular kind of action, both taking a calculated risk in facing danger, and movement that is somewhat exaggerated – a running jump rather t...

Psychological / emotional perspective: In psychological terms, the lion represents all those qualities it shows: majesty, strength, pride, courage and so on.It is easier to recogni...

Material aspects: A mill extracts what is useful from the crude material it is fed.It is this quality that is symbolized in dreams. We are able to extract from our experiences in l...

The great mother, the darker, unknown side of self, is symbolized by the moon.It is also symbolic of the unapproachable feminine....

Psychological / emotional perspective: Psychologically, when there is a need for renewal or a new growth in understanding, we need to acknowledge the effort we must make. This is o...

Material aspects: When a work or personal situation contains elements that we have difficulty understanding, this may be symbolized by the appearance of a pagan type of figure. Int...

We may not be able to solve a spiritual difficulty immediately.A temporary solution may be necessary and this can be symbolized by the use of a pin....

Psychological / emotional perspective: Psychologically and intellectually, to have integrated ourselves means that we have reached our own centre. This is often symbolized in dream...

Material aspects: In pregnancy, a baby ‘quickens’ when it makes its presence felt in its mother’s womb.A project or idea in workaday life takes on a life of its own and this ...

Gives gender-specific: Magical ritual often concentrates on the union of two polarities – male and female, drive and receptivity. Ancient religions symbolized this in the sacred ...

Psychological / emotional perspective: A shell carries within it a great deal of symbolism. It can be seen as a magical symbol which holds within it the power of transformation.The...

Our ability, or otherwise, to be grounded and in touch with everyday life is symbolized in dreams by shoes. Shoes that we, or others, are wearing in a dream are there to alert us t...

There is a basic side of nature that needs to look up to something and this can be symbolized in dreams by a statue, which is representative of an idea or concept rather than a per...

Tpenetrative awareness, as symbolized by the syringe, can suggest a particular way of approaching our own spiritual selves....

Psychological / emotional perspective: For time to be significant in a dream there is usually the necessity to measure it in some way, or to use a period of time as a measurement. ...

Spiritual tools which can be symbolized in a practical way are love, hope, compassion and charity. As tools of understanding, tarot cards, runes and other divinatory devices will a...

We may feel that we need some spiritual guidance, and this can sometimes be symbolized as a torch.A searchlight, in pinpointing and lighting the way ahead, enables us to reject the...

Our early ventures into spirituality may make us feel powerless, and at the mercy of all the elements. This can be symbolized by the tornado. However, within the centre there is pe...

Fears of death and dying are often translated in dreams as entering into a valley – the so-called valley of death.The less fear we have over dying the easier our transition, whic...

Material aspects: In former times the yew tree symbolized mourning and sadness and was a symbol of the old magic. While few people would necessarily recognize a yew tree, there is,...

Psychological / emotional perspective: In modern times, the yule log is often symbolized by a celebration cake. Decorated in a traditional fashion with greenery and candles, it hon...

If you dream of being burglarized, you will need courage to surmount many difficulties in daily life. These are dreams of fear.To women it has a sexual meaning, that of forced intr...

(see also Boat)(1) This may symbolize moving from one phase of your life to another; or a resolve to leave the past behind for a new and better future.(2) If the crossing is to a f...

(see also Sea) (1) The sea may represent your mother.If you need to assert your independence from your mother, therefore, the dream may mean that rescue is at hand - rescue from th...

(see also entries for particular birds: e.g. Eagle, Falcon.(1) A bird may represent the sweet directness and simplicity’ of Nature, unpretentious and contented £is-ness\ In this...

(1) A dream in which you are out in open fields may express a desire or need to get closer to Nature: perhaps to throw off social conventions or neurotic self-imposed taboos arisin...

(1) An island may be a symbol of the conscious ego’s relation to the unconscious (symbolized by the sea).(2) It may symbolize your relations with your mother (represented by the ...

An oven may represent the womb and therefore be a symbol of woman or pregnancy. The symbolized pregnancy, however, may be figurative: some promise of growth in some area of your li...

The new life symbolized by rebirth may be a new kind of life: a new level of awareness; new goals and values; new energy, as a result of releasing pent-up emotion. It may involve t...

(1) As a sexual symbol, a tunnel represents the vagina. A train or car entering it symbolizes the sexual act.(2) It may symbolize the unconscious.(3) It may symbolize death; or (if...

Nurturing, cultivating aspects of self. Working on development of potential; sowing and reaping. Growth is symbolized by what is on the farm and activity going on....

(1) If you are a woman, the birth in your dream may refer either to an unfulfilled desire for a child or - if the associated feeling is bad - to an unwanted pregnancy.’Otherwise,...

(see also Corridor, Crossing)Freud lists four meanings of the bridge symbol:(1) It may represent the male sexual organ, which ‘bridges the gap’ between male and female sexual p...

The hammer is the tool of the blacksmith and is equipped with a mystical power of creation. To dream of this tool means that, although it is a great sacrifice, you are working enou...

According to some psychiatrists, dreaming that you are back in a mother’s womb signifies that you have a great need for protection. Uteruses are also symbolized by caves, rooms, ...

The penis is the ultimate phallic symbol, an image that represents masculine power. An erection is the implication that that power is ready to be put to use. This is so no matter t...

Beavers have many different symbolic possibilities. In particular, our culture tends to associate beavers with industriousness, as in the expression “busy as a beaver.” In slan...

(1) In a woman’s dream the animus may appear as a bull (for animus)-(6)).(2) The bull may refer to your masculinity (whether you are a man or a woman).If you are a woman, it may ...

(1) If the child in your dream is you as a child, the significance of the dream may have to do with a childhood experience. But don’t be too ready to understand it this way.See a...