Fire is passion, will, purification and change: it warms and it destroys. In dreams it shows the energy of something burning in you, love, anger, inspiration, or the need to burn away the old.
When the dream feels light
A warm hearth or a controlled fire promises love, inspiration and the energy to act.
When the dream feels dark
A house on fire or flames out of control point to anger, burnout, a conflict that is spreading or a passion that consumes.
Ask yourself
What is burning in me, and does it warm or destroy?
Correspondences
- Archetype
- Death and Rebirth — The great transformation: something ends so that something else can live.
- Element
- Fire — will, passion and change
- Planet
- Mars
- Tarot card
- Ace of Wands
- Alchemical stage
- Rubedo, the Reddening
Purification and passion. Something burns away so that what is essential remains.
Words that call this sign
ash, ashes
Related signs
The Serpent · The Butterfly · The Frog · The River · Rain · Blood · Bones · The Dead
The card of this dream
Ace of Wands. A spark of fire, a new passion, a beginning full of force. A hand emerges from a cloud holding a sprouting wand, a castle on the hill beyond. It is the spark of fire: inspiration, a new venture, creative energy and desire that ask to be put into action.