creatures, instincts
Dreaming of deer
Read two ways. Let them disagree, the truth often sits between.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
Drawn up, it speaks of To see a deer at peace foretells grace and swift good news, matters moving light-footed in your favor.
Drawn down, it warns of To hunt a deer and lose it predicts pursuit of a person or prize that will keep escaping, the fleet thing is telling you it will not be caught this way.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Drawn up, it speaks of The deer is the gentle anima, the soul-life that comes to the edge of the clearing only when you hold still. To see one and be allowed to keep seeing it means something shy in you is beginning to trust the open.
Drawn down, it warns of A deer forever bolting is the startle become a way of life, tenderness that runs before it checks whether this danger is real or remembered. The dreamer has learned flight so well they no longer notice the meadow.
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.