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Dreaming of Mother
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 see one's mother alive and well foretells protection in your affairs and good news of home; to be embraced by her signals a safe return from any venture.
A mother weeping or turned away warns of trouble in the household or the land you come from, and calls you to attend to what raised you.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
The mother in a dream is rarely just your mother; she is the great origin, the ground you grew from, the part of you that nourishes and holds. Meeting her kindly means being on good terms with your own beginnings.
A devouring, cold, or looming mother is the origin that will not release, comfort become confinement. The dream asks where you are still a child in a grown life, and who benefits from keeping you one.
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