Symbols / A bird
A reading for meaning, not prophecy
A bird is read as the spirit and news from afar — in the East messages and freedom (鸟), in the West the soul and transcendence, in Ibn Sirin's tradition travellers, tidings, or one's deeds taking flight.
Three readings
In the Eastern reading birds carry messages and mark freedom; a singing bird is good news and harmony, a caged bird a longing to be released, a bird flying into the home fortune or word arriving. Their colour and song shade the meaning.
Jung read birds as the soul and the transcendent — thought, aspiration, and the link between earth and sky. A soaring bird is the spirit rising; an injured or grounded bird, an aspiration that cannot yet take flight.
Ibn Sirin read birds as travellers and tidings, and sometimes a person's deeds or fortune in flight; a fine bird caught, a gain or a matter secured. Framed as meaning: what news or aspiration is on the wing?
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