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Dreaming of falling
Read two ways. Let them disagree, the truth often sits between.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
Drawn up, it speaks of To land softly is to be caught by friends or fortune.
Drawn down, it warns of A sudden fall foretells loss of position; falling into water is recovered, falling onto stone is not.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Drawn up, it speaks of Falling and being caught is the moment of psychic surrender that lets the unconscious help you.
Drawn down, it warns of Falling endlessly is loss of psychic ground, the ego unmoored. Often appears at the start of a major transition.
When it appears with another
Falling in company
falling + flying
Inflation and its correction in a single image. The psyche is balancing the rise with a needed humility, neither one is the whole truth.
falling + naked
Loss of standing and loss of persona at the same time. Often appears at the start of a major life ending that the dreamer hasn't fully accepted yet, be gentle.
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.