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Dreaming of Burning
Two traditional perspectives
These are symbolic interpretations from different traditions, not facts about your life or forecasts. Your associations may be different.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
A hearth or lamp burning bright and steady promised prosperity in the household and honor for the dreamer. Tended fire was always read as life.
To see your house or goods burning warned of loss, lawsuits, a fortune consumed. Yet for those in bondage or misery, the old readers said burning sometimes foretold release, nothing left to hold you.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Something burning in a dream is energy demanding transformation, the old form giving itself up as heat and light. What burns clean was ready to go.
Fire that spreads, or burns without consuming, is feeling the ego stopped tending, anger or longing left near dry grass. The dream is showing you where the fireline should be.
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