where the dream is set
Dreaming of house
Read two ways. Let them disagree, the truth often sits between.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
Drawn up, it speaks of Your own house in good order is the augury of inner balance.
Drawn down, it warns of A ruined or unfamiliar house warns of trouble at the foundation of your affairs.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Drawn up, it speaks of The house is the Self. Each room is a faculty of psyche; the basement is the unconscious, the attic is the higher mind.
Drawn down, it warns of An abandoned room or a discovered hidden room in your own house is the most common dream of latent content awaiting integration.
When it appears with another
House in company
house + fire
Passion arriving in the structure of the self. If welcomed, transformation of the deepest patterns. If feared, an old form of self resisting its own ending.
house + lost
Disorientation inside the self. The dreamer has lost track of which faculty of psyche is in charge, sit with the dream-house and ask which room you keep returning to.
house + death
An ending in the structure of the self. A whole way of being is closing. Watch the rooms of the dream, which ones are losing their door, which ones are being painted.
house + baby
The new self and the psyche’s whole structure. Something is being born into the very center of your life; make room for it.
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.