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The future yet to be revealed
Hiding or self-concealment
‘Getting sacked’ – losing your power

Martyrdom
Feeling at the effect of life rather than the cause
Feeling that you are not in control of your destiny

Feeling saddled to a situation you wish you were free of
Feeling bound

Exploring unknown parts of yourself

Navigating through emotional change
Moving quickly and easily indicates you are soaring through your emotional changes with ease

Guardian angel or protector
Higher self manifest within your dream

Healing
Nature
Simplicity
Health

‘The salt of the earth’
The element earth
‘Putting salt on a wound’

‘Sands of time’
‘A house built on sand’
Changes – things changing and shifting
Unstable foundation

‘Cut one down to size’
Construction
Building
Creating
Pruning

Is your life in balance?
Are you weighing in on a heavy situation?
Are you feeling concious of trying to find balance in your life?
Guilty vs. Innocent
'The scales of justice'

Reminders of past battles
'Battle scars'
Has a tough situation from your past holding you back?
Are you dwelling too much on a past situation and being prevented from moving on?

Not real – false
Being afraid
Being scared off
Small brained – little intellectual abilities

Protecting or decoratingyour throat/neck area
Are you restricting your emotions by cutting off your ability to communicate?

‘School of life’
Lessons you have chosen for yourself in this life
Allowing life to be your teacher

Left brained
Analytical thinking
Rational
Intelligent
Discovering
Uncovering secrets or the unknown
Discovering the how and the why of a situation

Cutting away the unwanted
Releasing the unnecessary in your life
Feeling cut off from others or from yourself

'Scorpion's sting'
Are you feeling stung by a situation or person?
Can symbolize Death and Rebirth
May represent someone you know who is born under the astrological sign of Scorpio

Brushing away / What's underneath?
Mystery
Process / Practice
Making an idol

See Ocean

‘Coming apart at the seams’
That which binds together

Wants / Needs
Concentration / Effort
Mystery
Something missing

see 'Dreaming and the Seasons'

New beginnings
‘As you sow, so shall you reap'

Feeling as though you are going up and down but not getting anywhere

Power
Potency
Strength
Creative potential

Mending or repairing of a situation

Union
Spiritual communication
Unity of Spirits
Release
Balancing of the Ying/Yang
Divine Union

 

The latent potential of an individual
Fear
Illusion
Unknown parts of your self

Something unformed or not quite solidified in your life

Deception
Ruthlessness
'There's a shark in the water' - someone who is unscrupulous and cuthroat

‘A close shave’ – a close call

Emptiness – ‘Empty shell of a man’

Shelter from the elements
Protection
Are you seeking to be sheltered and feeling vulnerable?
Does someone you know need you to shelter them?

Guardian of the spirit
Guardian of the inner way

Protection allowing you to stay balanced and centered amid change
Can be a defense mechanism

Yourself navigating uncertain emotions

Steps to be taken in life
Grounding – connecting you to the earth
‘Don’t judge another until you walk in their shoes’
Filling too many shoes – filling too many roles

Focusing energy on a particular goal

Decisions
Choosing
Feeding your soul, mind and or body

Public place
Wants / Needs / Choices
On display
See "Shopping"

Strength
Burdens
‘Shoulder to cry on’
‘Shouldering responsibility’
‘Weight of the world on your shoulders'
‘He's got a chip on his shoulder'

Emotional cleansing
‘Cleaning up your act’
Are you being 'showered with gifts'?

Walking on the sidewalk is the 'safe' way to walk through life
Is it refering toyour path in life? Your direction?
What is your destination?
What is the condition of the sidewalk? Newly made, or cracked and worn?

Luxuries
Riches and wealth
Excellent conductor of bio-electrical energy
Sensuality
Ability to flow

Celebration
Joy
Uplifting spirit
Harmony

Religious aspects of self - Sisterhood - Nun
Aspects of self
Relatedness

Structure
Support
Connection
‘Skeleton in the closet’
Things unacknowledged
Can indicate emptiness – devoid of content

Can be a sign that you are going to fast
Feeling out of control
Can be spiritual alignment

Sensitivity
Barrier
Protection
Sensual

Are you feeling youthful and carefree?
Have you 'skipped' over something important and need to go back and pay attention?

Death
Skull and Cross bones - Danger

Heavens
No limitations to success
‘The sky is the limit’
Cosmic Consciousness
Freedom
Expansion

Being a slave to old habits, old ideas and old beliefs

Dreaming that you are sleeping may be an indication that you are in face astral travelling and observing your body from the outside

Feeling out of control

Slave to other people’s habits
‘Where there is smoke there is fire’
Can be a warning of danger
Lack of clarity – things are confused

Male sexuality
Trickery and cunning
Knowledge
Snake in the Garden of Eden represented sin/evil

Cleansing of emotions

Purity
Cleansing
Untouched virgin
Fresh new start/beginnings
A new look at the world
Blanket
Beauty
Death / Desolation
Natural Cycles
Fun

Cleansing
Purification

War within and without
Can be indicated organization and discipline

A binding together – integration of ideas, feelings, different aspects of a project

Going too fast or too slow

See Semen

Spiritual understanding

Entrapment
Detailed and delicate work
Hard work
Spinning a web of lies

Image of evolution
Can represent DNA and RNA helix – intricate components of all of life
Powerful transformational symbol

‘A ghost from the past’
Haunting memories from the past
Spirit within you

Do you need to spit something out?
Are you spitting on someone as a sign of disgust or disrespect?

Soaking up everything around you
Learning indiscriminately
‘Sponging off of other people’

‘Born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth’
‘Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down’
Spooning – hugging or making out

Glory / Pride
Humiliation / Defeat
Self-mastery
Strategy
Competition / Violence

see 'Seasons'

Not feeling safe
Being intruded upon or intruding upon others
Being too concerned with another’s development rather than your own

Stability
Old-fashioned
Not in touch with the times – out of step
Boxed in – controlled

Hoarding
Gathering
Are you 'squirreling' away your money?
Jumpiness
Running around in circles

Stages of life
‘All the world is a stage’ - Roles you play in life

‘Stairway to heaven’
Ascending stairs – a rise in status
Descending stairs – loss of recognition, or confidence

'Stamp of approval'
Putting a stamp on a letter - trying to communicate

A birth
Significant symbol representing light, guidance and insight
You are your own star, your own life

Are you trying to see intently into a situation or a person?
Are you feeling embarrassed because people are staring at you?

Frozen feelings and emotions
Feeling immobile – can’t move
Lifeless

Strength
Immobility – inflexibility
Determination

Is something in your life just not 'sticking'?
Are you yourself not letting something go?
What kind of sticker is it?

Digestion of information
‘I just can't stomach it'

‘Leave no stone unturned’

New arrival
New birth

Are you trying to 'weather a storm'?
Are you in a 'stormy relationship'?
Are you in need or taking 'shelter from the storm'?
Repressed/or unleashed anger
Emotional turmoil
Conflict
Disturbances
The 'calm after the storm'
The 'calm before the storm'

‘This is the last straw’
Stuffing
Nourisment for some animals
Tool used to aid in drinking
Used to keep floors dry

'Battle scars' from childbirth
Sign of weight gain
Can be a source of embarrassment
A reminder of a great transformation/undertaking

Depth of your emotions
Repressed emotions
Sneaky-ness/sneaking up on people
Is there something buried deep in your subconcious?
The ability to stay safe within your troubling/or deep emotions

Feeling suckered into something

Nursing
Nurturing
Sustenance
New beginnings

Self-guilt – self-persecution
Killing off aspects of yourself
Giving up
Can be a warning – know that you are never given anything in life that you can’t handle, do or accomplish – Don’t give up

see 'Seasons'

God - Great Spirit - Christ
The god within
The source from which all flows
Your inner light
Power, strength and clarity

Joy
Embracing life

After the sunset - at the end of it all
The end of a cycle or situation
A beautiful and colourful occurance
Romantic situation

Deep trust
Healer
Special knowledge / Skills
Help
See "Surgery"

"Cut it out"
Healing
Operation
Fixing / stitching a problem
Anxiety / anticipation
See "Surgeon"

Feeling overwhelmed or swamped with work
Feeling bogged down with absolutely no clarity or way out

Grace
Dignity
Elegance
Swans are said to mate for life
Lifelong bonds/mates
Are you singing your 'Swan song'? - Feeling like everything is over?
'Ugly duckling' turns out to be a beautiful Swan

‘Sweetness of life’
Lovers
Honoring oneself

Staying afloat amid emotional changes
‘Don’t swim against the current’

Defense
Attack
Power, truth and honor

Stickiness
Overly emotional to the point of insincerity