figures encountered
Dreaming of baby
Read two ways. Let them disagree, the truth often sits between.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
Drawn up, it speaks of A healthy baby foretells a venture that will grow, and to the anxious it promises relief and a fresh start.
Drawn down, it warns of A sick or weeping baby warns of a small undertaking that will demand more care and worry than its size suggests.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Drawn up, it speaks of The baby is the Self in its newest form, a fresh possibility, a part of you only just born and asking to be carried carefully.
Drawn down, it warns of A neglected or forgotten baby is a new potential the dreamer is failing to tend, left crying in a back room of the psyche.
When it appears with another
Baby in company
baby + house
The new self and the psyche’s whole structure. Something is being born into the very center of your life; make room for it.
Did you dream this?
Keep it before it fades
Write the dream down in your journal and the cards will name its symbols for you, or have the whole dream read in full.