figures encountered
Dreaming of king
Read two ways. Let them disagree, the truth often sits between.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
Drawn up, it speaks of To be received kindly by a king foretells favor from the powerful, petitions granted, and business prospering under protection.
Drawn down, it warns of A king wrathful or dying warns of upheaval in whatever house rules your fortunes, an employer, an institution, an elder, and counsels keeping your own counsel while thrones settle.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Drawn up, it speaks of The king is the ruling principle of your life given a face, the sovereign part of you on its throne, and a just king in a dream means the thing governing you, a value, a love, a calling, is worthy of the seat.
Drawn down, it warns of A tyrant king is a single principle grown too large, work, image, fear, ruling territories it was never crowned for. Ask what in you goes unheard at that court.
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.