Dream symbols · Weather · Introspection

Snow

Stillness laid over everything, and the covering is the point: snow does not remove what is underneath, it makes it uniform and quiet and unusable for a while. The tradition reads it as a dormant period rather than an ending, with the specific note that what is under the snow is unchanged and will be found again.

Where the reading comes from

The winter of the year is the oldest calendar for this, and the alchemical texts have a corresponding phase in which the work is held rather than advanced. The blizzard form, where the dreamer cannot see or move, is read closer to the fog entry than to this one.

Versions of the dream

Falling gently

The quiet form, usually a rest rather than a threat.

Blizzard

When it takes visibility and movement, read it alongside fog and storm rather than as snow.

Melting

Thaw is one of the more hopeful weather images there is, and it tends to arrive at the end of a held period.