elements, landscape
Dreaming of Tree
Two traditional perspectives
These are symbolic interpretations from different traditions, not facts about your life or forecasts. Your associations may be different.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
A flourishing tree, especially one bearing fruit, foretells long life, a strong family, works that outlast you. To rest in its shade denotes protection from a person of substance.
A tree struck, uprooted, or barren warns of loss touching the family's elders, or the failure of a long-nursed hope. Dead branches counsel pruning your affairs before the season turns.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
The tree is the Self in its slow, living form, roots in the unconscious, crown in the light, the whole life held in one growing body. A great healthy tree in a dream means the deep process is going well, whether or not the surface days feel like it.
A felled or hollow tree points to growth interrupted, a life force cut off at some earlier ring. Being stuck in the branches, afraid to climb down, is height without ground, spirit that lost its root.
a few quiet questions
A gentle guided reflection
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When it appears with another image
- Tree + Snake
Eden's image. The serpent at the world-tree, the kundalini at the spine. A renewal of consciousness through encounter with what was forbidden.
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