The sea is the great mother and the vast unconscious: depth, mystery, the origin of life and the infinite. Standing before the sea in a dream is standing before something larger than yourself.
When the dream feels light
A calm sea speaks of peace, freedom and openness to the great mysteries.
When the dream feels dark
A stormy sea or great waves mean emotional turmoil, a situation larger than you or fear of being swallowed.
Ask yourself
What vast feeling or mystery am I standing before?
Correspondences
- Archetype
- The Great Mother — Nourishment, protection and the depths that both give and take.
- Element
- Water — feeling, dream and the unconscious
- Planet
- Moon
- Tarot card
- The Moon
- Alchemical stage
- Albedo, the Whitening
The great mother of all life and all forgetting. You stand at the edge of something larger than yourself.
Words that call this sign
sea, seas
Related signs
The Spider · The Bear · The Bee · Earth · The Cave · The Mother · The Queen · Bread
The card of this dream
The Moon. The night road of illusions, dreams and hidden fears. The Moon shines between two towers over a path that winds into the distance, while a dog and a wolf howl and a crayfish climbs from the water. It is illusion, dreams, intuition and fear: not everything is what it seems; walk carefully by the light you have.