elements, landscape
Dreaming of desert
Read two ways. Let them disagree, the truth often sits between.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
Drawn up, it speaks of To cross a desert and reach its far edge foretells profit won through endurance, the hard road that pays. Finding a well or a green place in it denotes unexpected help in a lean time.
Drawn down, it warns of To be lost among the sands warns of barren ventures, effort spent where nothing grows. Undertakings begun under this dream want more provisioning before they're tried.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Drawn up, it speaks of The desert is the stripped psyche, everything unnecessary burned away, the place the ego goes to be emptied so something truer can speak. Crossing it with water in hand is a solitude chosen on purpose, and it will feed you later.
Drawn down, it warns of Wandering a desert with no edge is the inner life dried out, feeling and image withdrawn, the soul on rations. It tends to visit those who have been strong too long for too many people.
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