The goat climbs where others cannot: ambition, stubbornness, vitality and earthy desire. In older imagery it is also the scapegoat and the horned god of nature.
When the dream feels light
A goat climbing high speaks of ambition, endurance and progress through difficult terrain.
When the dream feels dark
An attacking goat may point to stubbornness, lust out of control or someone who makes you carry the blame.
Ask yourself
Where am I stubborn, and where am I carrying blame that is not mine?
Correspondences
- Archetype
- The Shadow — What you have refused to see in yourself, dark but full of force.
- Element
- Earth — body, matter and the real
- Planet
- Saturn
- Tarot card
- The Devil
- Alchemical stage
- Nigredo, the Blackening
Earthly appetite and stubborn will. What binds you may be a chain you hold yourself.
Words that call this sign
ram, rams
Related signs
The Wolf · The Rat · The Bat · The Storm · The Forest · Night · The Shadow · The Stranger
The card of this dream
The Devil. The chains of desire, habit and fear that you have agreed to wear. The Devil crouches above a man and a woman chained to his pedestal, yet the chains are loose around their necks. He is attachment, temptation, addiction and the shadow: what binds you can be released, if you see it clearly.