Symbols / Swimming
A reading for meaning, not prophecy
Swimming is read as how you move through feeling — in the East navigating the waters of fortune (游), in the West engaging the unconscious by choice, in Ibn Sirin's tradition coping with a great matter.
Three readings
周公解梦 reads swimming as moving through the waters of fortune and emotion — strong, easy swimming marks affairs handled well and wealth navigated, struggling or sinking a situation harder than expected. You are in the water of your own fortunes.
Jung would read swimming as actively engaging the unconscious rather than being swept by it — meeting deep feeling with skill. Swimming with ease is emotional mastery; struggling to stay afloat, the effort of not being overwhelmed.
Ibn Sirin read swimming as coping with a great matter or authority — to swim and reach shore a difficulty overcome and safety reached, to flounder a trial that tests you. Framed as meaning: how are you faring in the deep thing you are in?
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