Symbols / Fire

Dreaming about fire

A reading for meaning, not prophecy

Fire is transformation and intensity — in the East fortune, passion, or warning (火), in the West the energy of the psyche and purification, in Ibn Sirin's tradition strife or swift news, by its form.

Three readings

Chinese · 周公解梦 · 火

周公解梦 reads fire by its manner: a steady, bright fire is fortune and vitality (火 rising); a destructive blaze, a warning about something burning out of control. Warmth is prosperity; conflagration is a caution to tend what is overheating.

Western · archetypal

Fire is libido in the Jungian sense — raw psychic energy, passion, anger, or the purifying flame of transformation. To watch it calmly is to hold your own intensity; to flee it is to fear a force in yourself that wants expression.

Islamic · Ibn Sirin

Ibn Sirin read fire variously — strife, a harsh tongue, or swift news — its meaning turning on whether it gives light and warmth or destroys. Framed as meaning: what intensity in your life is warming, and what is consuming?

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