Symbols / A book
A reading for meaning, not prophecy
A book is read as knowledge and the record of a life — in the East learning and destiny written (书), in the West the accumulated wisdom of the Self, in Ibn Sirin's tradition one's record, knowledge, or a matter set down.
Three readings
周公解梦 reads the book as 书 — learning, cultivation, and at times destiny written down; to read one marks knowledge or guidance arriving, a closed or lost book a wisdom not yet opened. It is the page your fortune is written on.
Jung would read the book as the accumulated knowledge of the psyche — the Self's wisdom, or a chapter of your life story. The book you read, or cannot read, marks the understanding available to you and the parts of your story still unopened.
Ibn Sirin read the book as one's record, knowledge, and a matter set down — to receive a book in the right hand good news and good standing, an unreadable one a knowledge or a fate not yet clear. Framed as meaning: what is being written, or waiting to be read?
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