creatures, instincts
Dreaming of mouse
Read two ways. Let them disagree, the truth often sits between.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
Drawn up, it speaks of The mouse signifies a household servant, for it lives under your roof and eats your bread, and many mice foretell a prosperous, well-fed house.
Drawn down, it warns of Mice gnawing at cloth or grain predict small persistent losses inside the household, look to what is being carried off crumb by crumb.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Drawn up, it speaks of The mouse is the small neglected thing living in the walls of the psyche, the detail, the minor feeling, the quiet need. Noticing it kindly in a dream means you are finally attending what the grand narratives of your life kept stepping over.
Drawn down, it warns of Mice gnawing unseen are the small anxieties working at night, none big enough to name, all of them together hollowing the beam. It is never the one worry, it is the not-looking.
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.