| Symbol | Meaning |
| Anima | Disorders of beauty (James Hillman) |
| Bath / Birth | Images of new beginnings |
| Black cat | Carries the instinct of individuation |
| Blood | Life essence. In particular it refers to the affect life, desirousness, passion, violence. |
| Bra | Maternal attitude |
| Bull | Masculine primordial energy, fertility, power of nature |
| Burglar dream | It occurs when there is something outside that wants to get inside but is kept outside with the greatest cunning. |
| Christmas tree | "... [S]ignifies the genesis of the inward, the greater, nobler man, that is, the man who comes into being when a
person has drawn all the numina out of the world and into himself; then he notices that he contains a microcosm
within himself a "treasure" hid in a field. Man and his soul become miraculous." Quoted by C. G. Jung |
| Cat | Symbol of the feminine |
| Child | Self, prima materia |
| City | Symbol of the Self |
| Clothing | Persona. Images of the incarnated condition. Modes of coagulatio |
| Crystal | Consciousness, Self |
| Daemonic | Generally speaking, the daemonic is that moment when an unconscious content of seemingly overwhelming power appears on the threshold of consciousness. It can cross this threshold and seize hold of the personality.
Then it is possession which can naturally be personified in many forms. |
| Devil | Can appear as an angel of light, an ugly or a beautiful person, a priest, a roaring lion, a ferocious dragon, a serpent,
an ape, a goat, a wolf or a black dog. Bats, rats, mice, vermin and flies are his consort animals. His true identity is
always betrayed by a limp. Colors: black, red, blue |
| Dragon | Negative mother imago. The dragon image expresses resistance to incest, or the fear of it. |
| Father | The embodiment of the traditional spirit as expressed in religion or a general philosophy of life, collective consciousness |
| Faeces / Toilet | Creative material not properly realized |
| Feminine·symbols | Garden, round temple, tower, gate, well, fountain, palm trees, cypresses (symbolizing trees of life) |
| Fig tree | Symbol of man's genitals |
| Fingers | They represent things one is in touch with or is not. Details of life |
| Fire | Emotional excitement, sudden bursts of impulse (James Hillman), libido, warmth, passion |
| Food | Symbol of creation, manna |
| Foot | As the extremity nearest the earth the foot in a dream represents the relation to the earthly reality.
Furthermore, it often has a generative or phallic significance. |
| Forest | Symbol of the unconscious |
| Four functions | Blue thinking • Red emotions • Yellow intuition • Green sensation |
| Hat | Allusion to a mandala, general sense of the head, ideas |
| Hair | Hair stands for something primitive, instinctive and animal like. Hair is reminiscent of one's animal nature.
Hair growning on one's head carries the projection of unconscious thoughts and fantasies. |
| Head | Symbol of virility |
| Helmet | Hope, invisibility |
| Horse | Non-human psyche, subhuman animal side, the unconscious, closely related to the mother archetype, lower part of body, animal impulses which are subject to panic, sorcery, magic spells, animal life of the body. Black night horses herald death. Greek god Chiron |
| Holy Spirit | Wind, fire, birds, especially big birds |
| Hotel | Symbol of freedom |
| House | Symbol of personality and its conscious field of interest |
| Images·of·the·Self | Wise old man or woman, young man, prominent public figures, stones, crystals circle, cross, square, diamond, mandala, flower, treasure, golden ring, helpful animals, androgynous |
| Jewelry | Possibly a symbol of the Self, one's wholeness |
| King | Symbol of the Self, ruler of the conscious attitude |
| Knife | A knife in a dream may mean a sharp tongue or dogmatic judgment. It is used to cut away shadow-based conflicts. |
| Libido symbols | Light, fire, sun and more |
| Mars | Principle of individuation as in hot, violent, sulphurous. Mars is power and anger in the rudimentary concrete form.
It is the urge to actualize one's individual identity in the world. |
| Mirror | Could be the intellect, projection, shadow |
Moon
Its rapacious aspect''' | Represented by the lion or the panther |
| Mother | Collective Unconscious, the source of the water of life, place of origin, nature, to that which passively creates, hence to substance and matter, and materiality, the womb, vegetative functions, natural and instinctive life, physiological realm, the body in which we dwell or are contained, the matrix, the hollow form, the vessel that carries and nourishes, foundation of consciousness, being inside or contained in something, suggests darkness, something nocturnal and fearful, hemming one in |
| Naked | Often means being accessible to all influences, having no persona, is a state of self being regardless of the world of conditional relations, vulnerable, exposed, open |
| Phallus | Creative mana, bull, ass, he-goat, horse's hoof, pomegranate, yoni, lightning, dance, magical cohabitation in the furrow, menstrual fluid |
| Sea | Collective Unconscious |
| Selbst | Disorders of meaning, shadow aspect (as per James Hillman) |
Sexual aspects /
Eroticism | Murder, lance, sword, dagger, gun, rifle, cannon, fire hydrant, watering can. The assault may take the form of a pursuit, a burglary, a robbery. Danger could be represented by wild animals like a wild horse, a lion, tigers, elephants with threatening trunks and snakes of all kinds. |
| Shadows | Disorders of morality (James Hillman), repressed parts of oneself, usually negative but not always, projected out |
| Shoes | Covering of the understanding, one's standpoint or attitude towards reality, humility |
| Shirt | Intimate attitude |
| Shop | Modern symbol of an ancient temple |
| Sweets | It usually indicates a regressive tendency toward childish pleasure seeking. Sometimes a needed coagulatio. Reference to sweets (candy, cookies) |
| Sword | The word of God |
| Teeth | Organs for gripping, concepts by which things are grasped and dissected and discriminated |
| Losing one's teeth | Can mean losing one's grip, a loss of reality, a loss of relationship, a loss of self control, getting old or older |
| Temenos | A piece of land, often a grove, set apart and dedicated to a god, holy place |
| Throat | The throat is the necessary life spirit between body and mind or understanding. To lose the throat (by a knife)
means to go unconscious. |
| Tree | Mother Earth, psychic life. The tree is the symbol of the process of individuation. |
| Trousers | Sexual attitude |
| Urine | Expression of power |
| Walk | To go for a walk is to wander along paths that lead nowhere in particular. Walking is both a search and a
succession of changes. |
| Water | Much water means affect. One's inner child is called forth. There can be no full healing without contacting the inner child. One needs to connect back to that child that one lived and then to make a new beginning forward. |
| Wolf | Often represents the animus or that strange devouring attitude women can have when possessed by the animus. The wolf represents an indiscriminate desire to eat up everybody, everything which is visible in many neuroses where the main problem is that the person remains infantile because of an unhappy childhood. It's not really that they want it, it wants them. The ID of such people is never satisfied, so their inner wolf [hungry ghosts] creates a constant resentful dissatisfaction.
The wolf is also called "lykos" (light). It represents greed that is mastered or directed onto an appropriate goal. The wolf is the Greek god Apollo in his theriomorphic aspect. |
| Wood | Tree of life aspect, the mother |
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| Number 2 | Two stands for difficult, unstable, incomplete, something coming into consciousness. One can get stuck in the duality (Robert Johnson). |
| Number 3 | Three is the symbol of urgency, incompleteness, restlessness, striving, process. |
| Number 4 | Four refers to the life process operating at present within the earth's biosphere, wholeness, completeness, peace, stability, timelessness. The number 4 represents the Greek god archetypes Hermes and Aphrodite. |
| Number 5 | Five is man's essential destiny to develop as a five-fold being, a pentagram or a five pointed star.
The number 5 symbolizes the mind in its most creative and penetrating aspect. |
| Number 6 | Six is the symbol of the circle (C. G. Jung). It is associated with the completion of a creative task.
Six is the number of the goddess Artemis. |
| Number 7 | Seven is the number of the evolutionary process. |
