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Symbols, symbolism definitions, metaphysical meanings

Symbolism & Definitions

This excerpt of Symbolism, definitions and their metaphysical meanings is from 'The Busy Goddess's Hand Book' ©2004, TX 6-016-037, ISBN 0-9725065-0-0, all right reserved.

These are the classic Jungian and Freudian definitions with a little new age theory thrown in. Most of the symbols here are things found from the Tarot cards. These symbols are universal to life and show up everywhere including dreams, psychic insight, spiritualist readings... However when dealing with dream interpretation or spirit communication take the definitions with a grain of salt, they should be a jumping off point, something to assist you in getting the ball rolling in discovering what the symbol or object means to you in the context of dream interpretation or spirit communication.

To help you come up with further explanations and definitions use free word association. Think of something like `car' and then immediately say a word or phrase that pops into your head. You will notice that your associations with the word car, can be very different from your neighbors. When working with dreams, or psychic insight this exercise can be very helpful in discovering a deeper understanding of self.

Air: thoughts, spirit or mental energies

Animal: instinct and intuition, fertility and feeling realms of existence

Apple: tree of fertility, the goddess and her power over life, round form symbolizes perfection and totality

Ball: individualized self and perfection, sun and moon

Basket: feminine containment, protection, woven symbolizes time

Beads: different qualities strung together as one

Bird: vision, keen perception, spirit

Books / letters: learning wisdom and the pursuit them

Bow & arrow: goal-oriented, direct communication

Bowl / cup: feminine, receptive, fertility

Buckeye: good luck, brings in money and healing

Bull: power, energy, fertility

Butterfly: transformation (caterpillar to butterfly) freedom, free flowing thoughts

Camel: independence, sobriety, soul journey

Carpet: protected, sacred space, comfort

Cloud: interaction of water (feelings) and air (thoughts).

Colors:

--black - all colors, good for banishing or absorbing negativity

--blue - wisdom, mental planes, clarity healing, throat chakra communication, spirit communication

--brown - earth, matter, healing of physical health

--yellow - sun, clarity, spirituality, memory, learning

--gold - transformation, divinity, masculine, cleansing & balancing

--gray - feminine energy, enhances other elements

--green - creativity, growth, heart chakra (emotional balance), wealth, money, earth

--orange - wisdom, brilliance, life energy, fast change

--red - vitality, passion, power, element fire

--pink - passive love, gentleness

--purple - royalty, psychic protection & enhancement

--violet - uncalculating warmth, lovingness, egyptian color of the warrior

--white - purity, absence of color

Circle: infinity, containment, keeps things focused, feminine principle and world of nature

Column: the masculine principle, rigidity, stability

Crab: loyalty in relationships, cancer

Cross: four elements, union of opposing realms, four directions, pinpoints location, material plane connecting with spiritual plane

Crown: consciousness, revelation, royalty

Crystal: clarity

Cup: emotions, water element, feminine, receptive, fertility

Day light: consciousness and knowledge

Disks: element earth, materialism

Dove: innocence, purity, peace

Drum: rhythm, heart beat of the magik

Eagle: king of birds, rebirth, freedom

Earth: creative, nurturing, goddess, comfort, home, security

Earth: matter, money, the body

Egg (with serpent) the universe, fruitfulness, creative powers

(with wings) renewal

Eye: perception, recognition

Falconry: only female hawks are called falcons in falconry, the falcon uses the element of air to capture prey in flight. The falcon is domesticated from it's own choice.

Feather: manipulation of air, power over thoughts or the element of air.

Fence: contained place to do magik, focused person

Fire: masculine energy, bursting, vitality, intuition, purification, transformation

Fish: fertility, death, water element

Flag: victory of the spirit

Flower: feminine sexuality, impermanence, related to the cup

Forest: untamed nature, the forest god green man, free masculine fertilizing power

Frankincense: honors egyptian god ra, consecrations, increases prayer power

Grape vines: aboundance, wealth, growth

Head covering or ornament: extended perception

Hill: woman's breast and belly, fertile

Horse: youth, maleness, soul guide, sexuality

House: comfort and happiness; the shelter of the mother

Iris: happiness, fresh ideas flowing & blooming upwards from the sub-conscience, flower can grow in low water levels or swampy setting.

Isbis: egyptian bird, thoth had a head of the isbis, creativity, inspiration, art

Jasmine: make happy, abundance

Lake: passivity, dwelling place of feminine powers, mystery and magik

Lamp: light and truth, guidance, seeing

Lavender: protection, love, purification, happiness, peace, tranquility

Lion: king of beasts, strength, daring, creativity

Lotus (pink): love of a receptive nature

(white): love of a giving nature

Matrix: a situation or surrounding substance within which something else originates, develops, or is contained. The womb.

Mirror: self-knowledge; gateway to another relm

Moon: feminine principle, receptiveness, irrational instinctive part of the being - creative

Mountain: striving (climbing) towards spiritual aspirations, dwellings of the gods

Musical instrument: joy, dance, pipes are masculine, strings feminine

Nakedness: vulnerability, openness, trust, one with nature, committed to a direction

Night / darkness: unconscious, creative well of mankind, primordial chaos that precedes creation

Oak: tree of kingship, masculine strength, power, vitality, courage, and endurance

Obelisk: obelisks safely disperse built up energies, crystal

obelisks are also storehouses of knowledge.

Passion flower: peace, sleep, friendship, calms troubled emotions

Pentagram: symbol to attain ones goals, health, harmony

Pomegranate: one of the 7 fruits named in the torah, fertility and prosperity.

Rainbow: diversity of life, bridge from earth to heaven, material and spiritual united, wholeness, completion, harmony, union

Ram: power, new beginning, pioneer

Ribbon: thread of life, destiny

River: life flowing, changing nature, death, journey to new self awarness

Rock: solidity, stability, permanence, bones of the goddess

Rose: love, passion, paradox / duality pretty flowers sharp thorns, recognition, clarity, truth wisdom

Sage: purification, removes negativity

Salamander: being able to walk through fire unharmed

Scorpion: death and rebirth, first rung on ladder of transformation-scorpion, snake, eagle.

Seed: potential, the triple goddess; virgin, mother, crone

Serpent: transformation, shedding of old skin

Shell: feminine symbolizes the womb

Sky: transcendence, freedom, heaven

Snail: masculine water form. Continued growth through consistant patient movement.

Snake: immortality, renewal and birth, related to the spiral and circle

Spider: the creative weaver goddess, cutting the thread of life

Spider web: entirety of creation, wheel of time and life, goddess weaving our existence

Spiral: journey of life to death and then back, associated with the circle

Square: structure, order and form, connected to foundation of houses and property, associated with the number 4

Standing stone: earth power, powerful place, ring of stones indicate calendar

Star: individuality, consciousness, hope

Sun: male principle, creative energy, son of the great goddess of creation. Individuality of the self

Sunflowers: sacred to sun gods, increase happiness

Swords: element air, thoughts, intellect, consciousness, division from nature

Thoth: egyptian god, creation, art, inspiration

Tiger: fear(s)

Tree: takes earth and water up to the sky(air) through its roots, sun (fire) down into the earth. Manifest divinity, dynamic action

Triangle: movement and action of the great goddess who brings change, mind body spirit

Valley: protective, fertile ground for farming, place to make a happy life

Wand: directed power, living energy, phallus, element fire, primal energy

Water: unconscious, feminine, emotions and feelings, cleansing and purification, birth and beginnings

Wheel: passage of time, rotation, fate

Willow: tree of the moon, because of its connection through water

Wings: embodiment of the non-material, soul, ascend or transcend adversity.

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