Dreams about death: a Jungian reading

Dreams about death are not a prediction and a Jungian reading has never treated them as one. They tend to be an image of something ending — a period, a role, a way of relating to yourself. That is exactly why they come back during big changes, including good ones.

It depends on how it looked

• you diea version of you is ending, not you
• someone close to you diesmore often about your bond with them than about them
• a funeralsomething is closing and it wants a goodbye
• a dead person who speakssomething from the past still has something to say

A question for you

What is ending in your life right now — and has it been said out loud anywhere yet?

And yours is read symbol by symbol

This is what a dream dictionary cannot do: it reads the dream you actually had. You write it in your own words — a house you had never lived in, a small door under the stairs, a key that did not fit — and each of those images is taken separately, with what it may be carrying for you.

Then comes the archetype the dream is standing in — the Threshold, say — a reflection that ties it to your own chart, and at the end a question to sit with. Not an answer. A question.

A dream reading needs an account, because the dream is stored — that is the point: the meaning shows up when the same image comes back a third time. The account is free and the first readings are free too.