Dreams about fire: a Jungian reading

Fire in dreams tends to be more than destruction. It is a change that cannot be undone — what burns will not be the way it was. So it usually matters whether you are standing beside it or inside it.

It depends on how it looked

• you are warming yourself by itsomething gives you strength even though it is demanding
• something of yours is burningit is ending and not all of it can be saved
• you light it yourselfa change that started with you
• it cannot be put outsomething bigger than expected has been set going

A question for you

What in your life would have to burn for there to be room?

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.