The serpent is a universal symbol which can be male or female or it can be self-created. It can signify death or destruction or conversely life and also rejuvenation. It is the instinctive nature and is also potential energy. Understanding and harnessing the snake’s power of nature and instinctincts was thought in many cultures to …
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In developing self consciousness and rationality, with its labyrinth of ideas and decisions, humans lost a sense of oneness and connection with the Nature that surrounds them. Thus, gorillas in dreams are often associated with a feeling of sorrow at the loss of a world of experience humans are no longer able to have. We …
As was the horse and carriage of bygone eras, trains are symbols of energy and dynamism, and they have come to occupy a significant place in children’s drawings and dreams as well as in our lives as a whole. The train generally represents your progress toward your goals or what motivates you to keep on …
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Typically, snow represents purity, but if a white blanket of snow covers everything in your dream, this could imply that life’s rich complexities are being hidden. When ice appears in dreams, it represents emotional rigidity or a lack of concern for other people’s feelings. Maybe the image was a warning against narrow-mindedness and a call …
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In dreams, animals are the embodiments of our base instincts and desires such as fear, lust, and anger that can only be understood instinctively. As such, dreaming about a particular animal means that a deeper, more instinct based part of your personality is trying to reach out and manifest itself. Another interpretation is that the …
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Despite its simplicity and basic form, the apple has become a powerful symbol throughout religion, literature, and dreams. Due to the apple’s almost circular shape, it symbolizes totality. Symbolically, it is associated with earthly desires or with the indulgence of these desires. As a warning against glorifying materialistic desires, the supreme being told Adam not …
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The Anjana is a type of witch in Spanish folklore, the name perhaps being derived from Jana or Diana. These witches take on the form of old women to test out the charity of human beings. The Anjana sometimes appears as an old crones, but in their true form they are beautiful young women, fair …
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Quick as lightning, the axe falls and shears. It crashes down and sometimes strikes sparks. Because of this, nearly all cultures associate the axe with thunder and rain, thus turning the axe into a fertility symbol. There are many examples of the development of the axe evolving as a symbol along these lines.
Blood symbolizes all the integral qualities of fire, heat and vitality inherent in the Sun. With these qualities is linked all that is lovely, noble, generous and high-minded. Blood also shares some of the symbolism of the colour red.
Archery a symbol composed of three components: the bow, bow string and arrow. These three components also represent three stages: tension, relaxation and release (or some circumstances, ejaculation). In this case, the sexual symbolism of bows and archery is also closely tied with the symbols of war and hunting. In strongly hierarchical societies, the bow …
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