Symbols / A river
A reading for meaning, not prophecy
A river is read as the current of your life — in the East the flow of fortune and time (河), in the West the movement of feeling and the course of the psyche, in Ibn Sirin's tradition provision, a powerful person, or the course of one's affairs.
Three readings
周公解梦 reads the river as 河 — the flowing current of fortune and time; clear, steady water marks affairs moving well and wealth in flow, a flooding or muddy river a turbulence to weather. To cross it marks a passage between chapters.
Jung would read the river as the current of feeling and the course of a life — the flow between the source and the sea. To follow it is to go with the deeper direction of your life; to be swept, to lose your footing in feeling.
Ibn Sirin read the river as provision and the flow of one's affairs, and sometimes a person of power whose bounty runs through many; clear water blessing, turbid water a hardship to clear. Framed as meaning: which way is the current of your life running?
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