the dreamer's condition
Dreaming of birth
Read two ways. Let them disagree, the truth often sits between.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
Drawn up, it speaks of 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.
Drawn down, it warns of 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
Drawn up, it speaks of 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.
Drawn down, it warns of 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.
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.