The father is the archetype of authority, law, protection and the way into the world. His image in the dream reflects your relationship with power and with your own authority.
When the dream feels light
A kind, strong father speaks of protection, guidance and confidence in yourself.
When the dream feels dark
An angry or absent father points to conflict with authority, guilt or lack of support.
Ask yourself
What is my relationship with authority, including my own?
Correspondences
- Archetype
- The Father — Order, law and the strength to protect.
- Element
- Fire — will, passion and change
- Planet
- Saturn
- Tarot card
- The Emperor
- Alchemical stage
- Citrinitas, the Yellowing
Law, order and protection, and the authority you must one day hold yourself.
Words that call this sign
dad, daddy, grandpa, papa
Related signs
The card of this dream
The Emperor. Order, authority and the strength to build walls that protect. The Emperor sits on a stone throne carved with rams, armored under his robe, with barren mountains behind him. He is order, authority, structure and the father: build, organize and take responsibility, and stability will follow.