Dreaming of the dead, especially of loved ones who have passed, is one of the deepest dreams. It can be grief, a message, a farewell or a memory asking to be honoured. The dead in a dream rarely announce death; they speak of the bond.
When the dream feels light
A peaceful dead loved one who speaks to you brings comfort, a blessing or a message.
When the dream feels dark
A troubled dead person or one who wants to take you away points to unresolved grief, guilt or exhaustion.
Ask yourself
What do I still need to say to those who have gone?
Correspondences
- Archetype
- Death and Rebirth — The great transformation: something ends so that something else can live.
- Element
- Spirit — the sacred and the unseen
- Planet
- Saturn
- Tarot card
- Death
- Alchemical stage
- Nigredo, the Blackening
Contact with ancestors and what has ended. The dead often speak of life.
Words that call this sign
dead, deceased, died
Related signs
The Serpent · The Butterfly · The Frog · Fire · The River · Rain · Blood · Bones
The card of this dream
Death. An ending that clears the ground for what must be born. Death rides a white horse beneath a black banner with a white rose; kings fall, while the sun rises between two towers. It is rarely physical death: it is an end that clears the way, a transformation, a door that closes so another can open.