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Dreaming of weeping

Read two ways. Let them disagree, the truth often sits between.

Artemidorus · Oneirocritica

Drawn up, it speaks of By the rule of opposites, to weep in a dream often foretold joy, tears in the night, laughter in the day, burdens lifted. Weeping that ended within the dream was best.

Drawn down, it warns of But to weep at a wedding or a feast warned that a joy in waking life had sorrow folded into it. Examine the celebration you are planning.

Jungian · the collective unconscious

Drawn up, it speaks of Weeping in a dream is the release the waking self never scheduled, feeling that finally found a room with the door shut. Dreamers often wake lighter, the water did its work.

Drawn down, it warns of Weeping without knowing why, or tears that will not come though the grief is there, is mourning that lost its object, an old loss still filed under unfinished. The dream is offering the appointment, keep it.

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.

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