The river is the flow of life and of time: it carries you, separates two shores and leads to the sea. Crossing a river in a dream often marks a decisive passage from one stage of life to another.
When the dream feels light
A clear river flowing gently speaks of things moving in their own time; let yourself be carried.
When the dream feels dark
A flooded or blocked river points to obstacles, an emotional crisis or a passage you are afraid to make.
Ask yourself
Which shore am I trying to reach?
Correspondences
- Archetype
- Death and Rebirth — The great transformation: something ends so that something else can live.
- Element
- Water — feeling, dream and the unconscious
- Planet
- Mercury
- Tarot card
- Six of Swords
- Alchemical stage
- Albedo, the Whitening
Time and the passage of life. You cannot step into the same moment twice; let it carry you.
Related signs
The Serpent · The Butterfly · The Frog · Fire · Rain · Blood · Bones · The Dead
The card of this dream
Six of Swords. Passage to calmer waters, troubles left behind. A ferryman carries a woman and a child in a boat toward the far shore, six swords standing in the boat. It is transition: leaving troubled waters for calmer ones.