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creatures, instincts

Dreaming of crow

Read two ways. Let them disagree, the truth often sits between.

Artemidorus · Oneirocritica

Drawn up, it speaks of The crow is a long-lived bird and signifies old age reached, patience rewarded, and an old woman whose counsel proves true.

Drawn down, it warns of Cawing crows foretell quarrels and delay, and an old debt or an old grievance coming back to be heard.

Jungian · the collective unconscious

Drawn up, it speaks of The crow is the trickster messenger between the conscious life and the dark one, clever, watching, carrying scraps from one world to the other. Its arrival means the unconscious has something to say and has chosen a bird smart enough to deliver it.

Drawn down, it warns of A crow that circles or will not leave is a thought doing the same, the carrion mind, picking at what is already over. Something dead is being kept as food.

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.

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