the dreamer's condition
Dreaming of Birth
Two traditional perspectives
These are symbolic interpretations from different traditions, not facts about your life or forecasts. Your associations may be different.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
To witness a birth foretold new undertakings prospering, the household increased. For the hopeful it was read straight, good news coming to the body or the business.
Strange births, animals, objects, things reversed, warned of plans emerging misshapen, begun under the wrong signs. The counsel was to delay the venture, not abandon it.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Birth in a dream is new psychic life arriving, a project, a capacity, a self that did not exist last season. Whatever is born needs exactly what a newborn needs, warmth, attention, time.
A hard or endless labor in a dream is something in you ready to be born and not being let. Ask what the delivery is waiting on, usually it is permission.
a few quiet questions
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