Symbols / Stairs
A reading for meaning, not prophecy
Stairs are read as the direction of your effort — in the East ascent or decline in fortune (梯), in the West movement between levels of the psyche, in Ibn Sirin's tradition a rise or fall in station by the way you go.
Three readings
周公解梦 reads stairs as the grade of your fortune — climbing marks advancement and rising station, descending a return to roots or a dip to weather, stumbling a caution about your footing. Each step is a measure of effort.
Jung would read stairs as movement between levels of consciousness — climbing toward aspiration and the higher Self, descending into the unconscious and the basement of memory. Falling down them is the fear of losing hard-won ground.
Ibn Sirin read ascending as a rise in station, knowledge, or nearness to a goal, and descending as a return or a lowering of circumstance — the manner of the climb the meaning. Framed as meaning: which way are you moving, and is the footing sound?
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