things in hand
Dreaming of ladder
Read two ways. Let them disagree, the truth often sits between.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
Drawn up, it speaks of To climb a ladder foretells advancement step by step, honors gained through labor rather than luck, each rung a season.
Drawn down, it warns of To fall from a ladder, or to descend one, warns of a setback in standing, and a broken ladder denotes help withdrawn midway through an endeavor.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Drawn up, it speaks of The ladder is the work of rising rung by rung, no leaps, consciousness climbing toward what it can't yet see the top of. To climb steadily in a dream is growth happening at the only speed it truly happens.
Drawn down, it warns of A ladder missing rungs, or leaning on nothing, is ambition without footing, a climb begun before you asked what wall it's set against.
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