In Chinese tradition · 周公解梦 · 生
周公解梦 reads birth as 生 — bringing forth; a venture, a self, or fortune arriving after gestation. An easy birth marks a project or change coming smoothly into the world; a hard one, the labour of a difficult arrival.
Symbols / Giving birth
Dreaming about giving birth
A reading for meaning, not prophecy
Giving birth is read as the arrival of something new — in the East creation and fortune brought forth (生), in the West a new self or work being born, in Ibn Sirin's tradition relief and a matter coming to term.
Three readings
In Western psychology · Jungian
Jung read giving birth as the new attitude or identity emerging from the unconscious into life — the creative self made real. The pain is the threshold of becoming; what you bear is some part of you ready, at last, to exist.
In Islam · Ibn Sirin
Ibn Sirin read birth as relief and a matter coming to term — the easing of a burden carried, increase, or a turn in circumstances; for the troubled, deliverance. Framed as meaning: what have you been carrying that is ready to arrive?
Common variations
- an easy birth
- a difficult birth
- giving birth unexpectedly
- birth of an animal
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