figures encountered
Dreaming of stranger
Read two ways. Let them disagree, the truth often sits between.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
Drawn up, it speaks of To welcome a stranger foretells unexpected profit or news from far off, for the old readers held that fortune often travels in unfamiliar clothes.
Drawn down, it warns of A stranger in your house uninvited warns of interference in your affairs, a matter entering your life that you did not agree to and must now manage.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Drawn up, it speaks of The stranger is the part of yourself you have not met yet, arriving in a borrowed face. A helpful stranger is the psyche introducing you to your own unknown kindness or capacity.
Drawn down, it warns of A threatening stranger is the shadow at the door, everything disowned and unnamed, and the more it frightens you the more it is asking to be recognized as yours.
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.