creatures, instincts
Dreaming of Deer
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 see a deer at peace foretells grace and swift good news, matters moving light-footed in your favor.
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
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.
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.
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