The knife cuts: separation, decision, aggression or the precise action that is needed. It can heal like a scalpel or wound like a weapon.
When the dream feels light
A knife used to cut cleanly speaks of a clear decision and freedom from what is useless.
When the dream feels dark
Being threatened or wounded with a knife points to conflict, sharp words or fear of betrayal.
Ask yourself
What do I need to cut out of my life?
Correspondences
- Archetype
- The Shadow — What you have refused to see in yourself, dark but full of force.
- Element
- Air — thought, word and message
- Planet
- Mars
- Tarot card
- Ace of Swords
- Alchemical stage
- Nigredo, the Blackening
Separation and decision. Cut clean, or be cut.
Words that call this sign
cut, cuts, cutting, knife, knives
Related signs
The Wolf · The Rat · The Bat · The Goat · The Storm · The Forest · Night · The Shadow
The card of this dream
Ace of Swords. The sword of truth, clarity, a breakthrough of the mind. A hand emerges from a cloud holding an upright sword crowned with a wreath, above barren mountains. It is the power of the mind: clarity, truth, a breakthrough, a decision that cuts through confusion.