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Dreaming of Graveyard
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 walk peacefully among graves foretells long life and the settling of old matters, the ancestors counted as friends. To tend or garland a grave denotes a blessing or inheritance from those gone before.
An open or disturbed grave warns of old affairs unearthed, disputes over what the dead left behind, quarrels revived. To fall into a grave signals entanglement in another's unfinished business.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
The graveyard is the psyche's honest field, where the dead things of a life, old selves, finished seasons, loves that ended, are given ground instead of denial. Walking one calmly means you are in right relation with your endings, grief with a gate and a path through it.
Finding your own name on a stone points to a part of you buried alive, a self declared dead ahead of the fact. Untended graves are losses never mourned all the way down.
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