The mirror shows you yourself: self-knowledge, identity, vanity and the soul. In folk belief it is also a door to another world. What you see in the mirror is how you see yourself.
When the dream feels light
A clear reflection speaks of self-knowledge, acceptance and truth.
When the dream feels dark
A broken mirror or a strange face in it points to a crisis of identity, a fear of seeing yourself or self-deception.
Ask yourself
Do I like what I see when I look at myself honestly?
Correspondences
- Archetype
- The Mask — The face you show the world, useful but not the whole truth.
- Element
- Water — feeling, dream and the unconscious
- Planet
- Moon
- Tarot card
- The High Priestess
- Alchemical stage
- Albedo, the Whitening
The face you show and the face you are. Look again: who is looking back?
Related signs
The Dog · Snow · Teeth · Hair · The Face · The Friend · The Tower · The School
The card of this dream
The High Priestess. The secret knowledge behind the veil, an intuition that knows before it can explain. The High Priestess sits between the black and white pillars before a veil, the scroll of hidden law in her lap and the moon at her feet. She is intuition, silence and secret knowledge: the answer is not yet visible, and it will come from within, not from outside.