creatures, instincts
Dreaming of lion
Read two ways. Let them disagree, the truth often sits between.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
Drawn up, it speaks of The lion signifies a king or a powerful man, and a friendly lion foretells favor and advancement from someone of standing.
Drawn down, it warns of A lion threatening predicts danger from a ruler or an illness with the beast's own force, the dreamer should walk carefully near the great.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Drawn up, it speaks of The lion is sovereign strength, the ego in its rightful measure, power that does not need to roar to be believed. A calm lion in the dream means the dreamer is coming into an authority that is actually theirs.
Drawn down, it warns of A lion that menaces or devours is that same power inflated, the inner tyrant, pride grown large enough to eat the rest of the psyche. Strength that answers to no one ends up alone in the den.
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