The prison is restriction: guilt, obligations, a relationship or a belief that holds you captive. The key is often in your own hands.
When the dream feels light
Escaping or being freed promises liberation and new freedom.
When the dream feels dark
Being imprisoned points to feeling trapped, guilt or self-imposed limits.
Ask yourself
What holds me captive, and who holds the key?
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
- Eight of Swords
- Alchemical stage
- Nigredo, the Blackening
Confinement, inner or outer. Find the bars you made yourself.
Words that call this sign
locked in, trapped
Related signs
The Wolf · The Rat · The Bat · The Goat · The Storm · The Forest · Night · The Shadow
The card of this dream
Eight of Swords. Bound and blindfolded by your own thoughts. A woman stands bound and blindfolded, surrounded by eight swords planted in the ground, yet the way out is open. It is restriction, fear and a mental prison: you are more free than you think.