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| CABBAGE | The complexities of a person or situation (what is shown on the outside does not expose all of the qualities or feelings taking place inside) / A situation or emotion that is coming to a head |
| CABLE | Supporting a heavy internal weight; situations that may prove hazardous if not handled properly |
| CACTUS | A difficult or prickly situation / Being defensive or inaccessible |
| CAFE | (see RESTAURANT) |
| CAMERA | Impressions you have, how you picture things; something you've noticed (about self, others, life) but not yet processed into waking awareness / Focusing your attention on something; wanting to distance yourself from a situation, memory or emotion / (see PHOTOGRAPH, MOVIE, LENS) |
| CAMP | A temporary phase; taking a break from regular routines / Wanting others to share your cause; acting in a deliberately artificial, vulgar or banal way |
| CAN | Giving yourself permission; having a 'can do' attitude; accomplishing a task; wanting to preserve something / Lack of freshness or spontaneity (e.g. canned laughter); being fired or quitting something |
| CANAL | Attempting to direct or control your emotions / Rebirth / (see WATER) |
| CANDLE | Your inner light, energy; sexual drive / If lighting: Hope, prayer, not giving up; seeking someone's blessing / If burning: Reaching understanding, enlightenment; seeking truth; awareness of aging / If blowing out: Disappointment; a sense that you're 'blowing it' / If unlit: Lack of vital energy; surrendering an important part of yourself / (see WAX) |
| CANDY | Pleasures; something that is appealing / Trying to sweeten a situation; pleasures that make you feel guilty if you indulge in them; easy victories; bribery |
| CAR | Your motivating drives / If a driver: Taking responsibility for your direction in life / If a passenger: Being passive; letting others influence your decisions / If watching: Unwilling to take control or accept responsibilities / If stalled: Lack of motivation, direction / If parked: Taking time out; giving yourself a break |
| CARDS | Something that requires skill, strategy, or luck; something that 'suits' you (consider the meaning behind clubs, hearts, diamonds, or spades for further clues) / Bluffing your way out of a situation; something that is unlikely to succeed (cards are stacked against you); something falling apart (house of cards) / If a greeting card: Receiving or sending a message; communication / (see LETTER, GAMES) |
| CARNIVAL | Dropping social or moral restraints; letting go / Cheap thrills; feeling like a 'freak' / (see GAMES) |
| CARPENTER | The creative but practical part of self / The tendency to construct new ideas or attitudes using old methods / Wanting to repair or restore something / (see WOOD, FURNITURE) |
| CARPET | Comfort, or lack of it, in life / Feeling of being walked on / Covering up your true nature / Expanding beyond your basic needs |
| CARRY | Using your abilities; carrying out a plan / What you 'carry' with you in life (as in carrying a grudge or carrying things too far) / If carrying a person: Treating someone, or some part of self, as a child or invalid; feeling you are 'carrying the load' in life / If being carried: Avoiding responsibilities; a return to childhood |
| CARTOON | Holding onto an illusion; perceiving yourself, those around you, or a situation as comical, or as not having much validity or seriousness / Desire for lightheartedness, fun / Feeling like you should become more animated |
| CASTLE | Security; a defensive attitude / Attitudes forged in childhood that no longer fortify you / Ambition, extravagant behavior |
| CAT | Your intuition, instincts / Exhibiting sensitivity, grace, agility, femininity, independence, resiliency, mystery or playfulness / Your secret desires, sensual pleasures / Being aloof or 'catty' / If young: An immaturity in any of the areas described above / (see ANIMALS, PET) |
| CAVE | Entrance to your unconscious parts / Rebirth; discovering hidden treasures within yourself / Exploring your deepest fears; withdrawing, retreating, seeking refuge |
| CEILING | Reaching your limit |
| CEMETERY | Putting something or somebody to rest; reaching completion or peace / Buried feelings |
| CEREMONY | Important change; formal acceptance of something / Calling attention to something that may appear trivial in your waking life; wanting public recognition or acknowledgment |
| CHAIN | Feeling bound or restricted by something or someone / Being overly attached to, or dependent on, something or someone / A bond or link; teamwork |
| CHAIR | Needing to sit down and discuss something; relaxing a stance; staying in your comfort zone / Inactivity; adopting a passive attitude; feeling weak / Your sense of status |
| CHASE | Being pursued by fears or emotions that you need to confront / If chased by thing or shadowy creature: Past traumas; a childhood hurt / If chasing: Something or someone you are aggressively pursuing in life |
| CHEESE | Feelings that are ‘churning’ inside you; ripening ideas; wanting to be in charge or on top (the big cheese) / Something tacky or of poor quality (cheesy) |
| CHESS | Playing complicated mind games / Using strategic moves to render somebody or something powerless (checkmate); feeling used by someone (pawn); cheating, being conned (rooked) / (see KING, QUEEN) |
| CHEST | Pride; stored up emotions / If part of the body (as in breasts): Sexual desire or dependency; social confidence |
| CHICKEN | Ideas being hatched; using your intellect; trying to solve a riddle; seeking an environment that fosters growth / Nesting instincts; security / Lack of courage; ‘featherbrained’ ideas; ‘pent up’ emotions; something foul (fowl) |
| CHILDREN | Vulnerable, naive, or innocent parts of your personality seeking to develop, open up / Immaturity, childish attitudes / Fun, joy, spontaneity; the desire to return to a simpler, less complicated life / (see BOY, GIRL, YOUTH) |
| CHOKING | An inner conflict; repressing an emotion, urge, or thought / Failing to speak the truth; feeling ‘choked up’ about something / (see NECK) |
| CHURCH | Your religious beliefs or feeling about organized religion / Dogmatic thinking |
| CIGARETTE | Anxiety or release from it / Dependence; wanting support or help in alleviating stress / May be associated with feelings about cancer |
| CINEMA | (see THEATER, MOVIE) |
| CIRCLE | Something that has come full circle; wholeness, harmony, completion / Being unfocused; running in circles |
| CITY | The mental and emotional environment in which you live / Seeking communication or commerce with others, or other parts of self / Your relationship with society; your sense of community / Concerned about acting in a civilized manner; feeling crowded / If an unknown city: Introducing yourself to new, different attitudes or way of life / If lost: Feeling uncertain regarding your place in life or position in society / If alone: Feeling isolated, out of touch |
| CLIFF | Heightened knowledge; high ideals; on the brink of a major decision / Self-imposed, dangerous barriers that separate you from a wider view of life; distancing yourself from difficult thoughts, emotions or choices; feeling on edge / (see MOUNTAIN) |
| CLIMBING | Desire to move beyond your present circumstances; growth with effort; ambitions / Progress; reaching an understanding / (see MOUNTAIN, STAIRCASE, LADDER, TREE, UP) |
| CLOCK | Restrictions you put on yourself in terms of duty and timing: meeting a deadline, managing time more effectively, taking action before time runs out, dealing with something that is long overdue, or that it’s time for a change / Boredom; a sense that you are merely ‘passing time’ or ‘wasting time’ |
| CLOSE (NEAR) | What you feel connected with or have ties to; intimacy / Nearing a decision or solution to a problem / Familiarity |
| CLOSED | Protecting something you do not want discovered or shutting out something you do not want to face / Making a decision to end a stage of your life / Lack of access, opportunities |
| CLOSET | Stored-up emotions and attitudes which may need cleaning out / Closing yourself off; not allowing your true self to emerge; hiding from something; secrecy |
| CLOTHING | Your persona; the stance or attitudes you use to interact in public (the way you want others to view you) / Self-respect, confidence / If undressing: Revealing your true character; a move towards intimacy; rejection of old roles / If dressing: An exploration of new roles or ways of thinking; fear of being exposed / (see PANTS, SHIRT, SKIRT, SHOES, BELT, JACKET, etc.) |
| CLOUDS | If bright: Spiritually uplifted feelings / If dark: Depression, feeling overshadowed by something |
| CODE | Trying to decipher a message or figure something out |
| COFFEE | Something that stimulates you; a wake-up call / Somebody or something that is giving you a hard time (a roasting) / If a coffee shop: Wanting social stimulation |
| COINS | Change taking place in your life / Token gains being made; needing to make a choice / (see SILVER, GOLD, MONEY, PENNY) |
| COLD | Held back emotions, especially fear / Loneliness; feeling neglected or ‘left out in the cold’ / Acting coldly; being frigid; needing to ‘chill out’ |
| COLLEGE | (see UNIVERSITY) |
| COLOR | Strong feelings; emotional tones. Where a dreamer is largely intellectual, the color would stand in place of the emotion instead of alongside it / (see individual colors) |
| COMB | Trying to straighten something out; getting your thoughts in order; searching your memory |
| COMPANION | A projection of yourself, offering a rounder perspective of the journey underfoot - a companion point of view / (see YOUTH, OLD, MAN, WOMAN) |
| COMPUTER | Logic; discipline; taking a mental approach; downloading your thoughts; committing something to memory / Crashing; experiencing a ‘system overload’; anxiety about technology; pretending to be smarter than you are (artificial intelligence) |
| CONFESSION | Opening up, relieving a burden, forgiving yourself / A need to verbalize, express and share the deepest parts of yourself with others |
| CONSTRUCTION | Rebuilding who you are; going through a transformation |
| COOK | Working at making something more palatable or easier to accept / Your ability to nourish others (or self) emotionally, physically, spiritually or intellectually / Family responsibilities; comfort / Inventing something; cooking up a plan / (see FOOD, OVEN, KITCHEN) |
| CORD | Bonds you have with another person; ties to a situation / Something that is holding you back; dependency |
| CORNER | Hidden or unavoidable choices; confrontation; feeling stuck / Changing your direction; passing a critical point / Taking short cuts, cutting corners / If turning a blind corner: Summoning the courage to take a necessary risk in life / (see LEFT, RIGHT) |
| CORPSE | Deadened feelings; something that has expired and no longer serves a purpose; wanting someone out of your way / (see DEATH, CEMETERY) |
| CORRIDOR | Passing from one state of mind to another / If not moving: Not being able to get out of an unsatisfactory situation; stuck between choices, not ready to advance |
| CORSET | Restrictions; holding yourself back in some way / Presenting yourself as you think others want to see you |
| COSTUME | Hiding your true self or inner feelings behind a facade of duplicity / Lack of honesty / The roles you play, or would like to play, in life / (see CLOTHING, MASK) |
| COUCH | Self-analysis; needing to relax your stance / Laziness; concealing something; ‘couching’ your statements or feelings |
| COUNTRIES | If foreign, a different attitude emerging; experiencing a different mental or emotional ‘climate’ than one’s norm. You need to explore your personal associations or ideas about a particular country to gain further insight |
| COUNTRYSIDE | Natural feelings; spontaneity; a relaxed state of mind |
| COURT | Interrogation; feeling judged or judging others; seeing yourself or others as superior; needing to take action (having the ball in your court) / Flattery; courting an emotion, idea, or person |
| COW | Self-giving, nurturing, mothering / Chewing things over / Sucking up to somebody, being servile or passive; getting ‘milked’ by someone; acting bitchy |
| CRACK | A flaw in your thinking; a weakness / Having a breakthrough; figuring something out / Feeling out of touch; experiencing extreme inner stress; something that has reached a breaking point |
| CRASH | Disturbing issues or emotions that you feel you have no control over / A need to slow down before things get out of hand / (see CAR, AIRPLANE) |
| CRAWLING | Trepidation; taking a careful approach / Lowering your standards; infantile behavior |
| CREATURE | An ignored or rejected part of yourself that you need to become acquainted with / (see MONSTER) |
| CRIME | Cheating yourself of your potential; loss of self control / Feelings of guilt, shame, or powerlessness |
| CRITIC | Being judgmental of self or others |
| CROSSING | An obstacle, usually of a feeling nature, to overcome before change can be achieved; bearing a heavy burden; being ‘cross’ with someone or ‘crossing the line’ / Protecting yourself against something you believe to be evil or harmful; being a martyr; indulging in something that is forbidden / Making a choice |
| CROSSROADS | A decision to make regarding the direction your life will take; weighing your options; sacrificing something in order to move forward / A personal crisis; confusion |
| CROWD | A feeling of unity or belonging / Confusion on meeting many opinions (too much going on at once); feeling suffocated / Lacking personal direction; feeling anonymous, misplaced or ‘crowded out’ / Fear of public opinion, expectations |
| CRUISE | An emotional journey / Wanting to form new relationships, connect with others, or become part of other people’s lives / Taking the easy route, not being challenged (as in ‘cruising through life’) |
| CRYSTAL | Breaking through to higher levels of consciousness; something that is clearly understood / Purity; something that transmits enormous healing properties or magnifies your capabilities |
| CUL DE SAC | Sense of efforts leading nowhere; a dead end |
| CUP | Receptivity; offering yourself; female sexuality / Carrying a pessimistic or optimistic attitude (half-empty or half-full) |
| CUPBOARD | Your inner resources; stored reserves / Hidden memories or emotions; being trapped in old feelings or habits; needing to recapitulate / Being ‘open’ or ‘closed’ to other people |
| CUTTING | Feeling wounded, cynical or angry; demeaning someone or using cutting remarks / Removing something unwanted or unnecessary from your life; cutting back on an activity or behavior / Feeling castrated or cut off from sexual feelings / Seeking independence or wanting to sever ties to someone / Initiation; exploration or improvement (cutting through) |
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