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Dreaming of searching
Read two ways. Let them disagree, the truth often sits between.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
Drawn up, it speaks of To search and find, a ring, a road, a familiar face, foretold recovery of what waking life had misplaced, goods, favor, affection. Finding at dawn was surest.
Drawn down, it warns of To search and not find warned of a suit or petition that stalls. The old interpreters asked first what was lost, the answer named where the trouble sat.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Drawn up, it speaks of Searching dreams are the psyche in honest motion, you know something is missing and you have agreed to look. That agreement is half the finding.
Drawn down, it warns of Searching for the same lost thing night after night is a mourning that has not been allowed in daylight. The dream will stop asking when you start grieving.
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.