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Dreaming of waiting
Read two ways. Let them disagree, the truth often sits between.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
Drawn up, it speaks of To wait and then be received, at a door, a harbor, a great house, promised that patience would be paid, a favor granted after delay.
Drawn down, it warns of To wait as the light fails warned that the awaited thing, ship, letter, friend, may not arrive at all. Artemidorus counseled such dreamers to make other provision.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Drawn up, it speaks of Waiting in a dream can be the psyche's own patience, the pause before something is ready to surface. Not everything in you moves at the speed of your calendar.
Drawn down, it warns of Waiting for someone who never comes is the image of a life deferred, authority handed to an absent other. The dream asks how long you have sat on that bench, and whose permission you are waiting for.
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.