A ghost is the past that has not been laid to rest: memories, guilt, unfinished grief or a person still present in your mind. It asks to be heard and released.
When the dream feels light
A calm ghost bringing a message speaks of peace with the past and protection from beyond.
When the dream feels dark
A frightening ghost points to guilt, an unresolved loss or a fear that haunts you.
Ask yourself
What from my past is still not at rest?
Correspondences
- Archetype
- The Shadow — What you have refused to see in yourself, dark but full of force.
- Element
- Spirit — the sacred and the unseen
- Planet
- Moon
- Tarot card
- The Hanged Man
- Alchemical stage
- Nigredo, the Blackening
Unfinished business from the past. What has not been mourned returns until it is.
Words that call this sign
spirit, spirits
Related signs
The Wolf · The Rat · The Bat · The Goat · The Storm · The Forest · Night · The Shadow
The card of this dream
The Hanged Man. A sacred pause, a surrender that shows the world upside down. The Hanged Man hangs upside down from a living tree by one foot, calm, a halo around his head. He is surrender, a pause and a new perspective: by letting go and seeing the world upside down, you understand what you could not see before.