A grave or cemetery is the place of endings and of memory. It rarely announces death: it speaks of what you must bury, an old phase, a relationship, a habit.
When the dream feels light
A peaceful cemetery speaks of acceptance, honouring the past and closure.
When the dream feels dark
An open grave or being buried points to fear of an ending, depression or something buried too soon.
Ask yourself
What must I lay to rest?
Correspondences
- Archetype
- Death and Rebirth — The great transformation: something ends so that something else can live.
- Element
- Earth — body, matter and the real
- Planet
- Saturn
- Tarot card
- Death
- Alchemical stage
- Nigredo, the Blackening
Endings and the honouring of what was. What is buried can become seed.
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.