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| WAITER/ WAITRESS | Expecting others to wait on you (or wait for you); having your needs served; feeling you are being made to wait on others, serving someone else’s needs; laziness / Wordplay for ‘wait’ |
| WAITING | Being passive; looking to others for your cue; looking for circumstances to change before taking action |
| WAKING | Realization; something that dawns on you; becoming alert; taking leave of something that is no longer serving you; coming out of a period of withdrawal |
| WALKING | A period of experience you are passing through; personal effort being made (where you are walking, the pace, the surface, and level of comfort offer further clues as to what your present concern is) / Needing to practice what you preach; being proud (walking tall); being disrespectful or dominating (walking all over somebody); feeling threatened (walking the plank), etc. / If walking down a lane: Same idea as above, but may be ‘memory lane’ / If walking on air: Euphoria, glee / If walking the streets: Selling yourself short; prostituting a part of yourself |
| WALL | Your self-defense mechanism - boundaries of thought or behavior that you are fearful of extending beyond, are trapped by, or erect to maintain privacy / An inner obstacle that prevents your progress; feeling excluded or shut out; feeling frustrated or cornered; allowing something to go to ruin; protecting something that is important to you |
| WAR | A heavy internal conflict; an open display of aggression; repressed memories of actually being in a war |
| WAREHOUSE | Memories; past experience / Aspects of yourself put into storage (such as ambition while raising children) |
| WARMTH | Physical comfort and well-being; supportive family feelings; hopefulness |
| WARNING | If a bell or signal: Intuition that you need to pay attention to something in your life / If a person or voice: Sense of not living up to your own standards; something you are vaguely aware of but need to incorporate consciously |
| WASHING | Trying to clear up something; ridding yourself of negative feelings or thoughts; something that will become clear later on; something that is not logical or believable; being awash in emotions / If washing hair: Changing the way you think / If washing pubic area: Clearing negative sexual feelings; dealing with the results of pent up drives / If washing hands: Getting rid of feelings about something you have done or been involved in |
| WATCHING | Taking notice of something; being more observant; taking care or watching over something; being cautious; needing to pay attention to how you spend your time; being concerned with the timing of something; wasting time |
| WATER | Your emotions, moods, and flow of energy. The type of water, what it is doing, and how you relate to it offers further clues / Something valid or true (holds water); being in trouble (hot water); suppressing or discouraging something (throwing cold water on it); making too much of something (water it down); trying something out before deciding (testing the water); reaching your limit (high water mark); survival (keeping your head above water), etc. / (see OCEAN, RIVER, POOL, AQUEDUCT, FLOOD, FLOATING, BOTTLE, LAKE, etc.) |
| WAX | Something building up in you; needing to polish your act or skills; removing an unwanted feature; stripping something down to the bare facts; being a ‘drip’ / Your capacity for change; molding something to fit your needs / Eloquence; polished behavior / Wrapped up in something complicated (ball of wax) / (see CANDLE) |
| WEALTH | Your inner wealth; what you treasure / Abundance or prosperity of any kind / Pursuing something at any cost |
| WEAPONS | The situation in which the action takes place defines what the weapon expresses: Desire to hurt somebody, defending yourself against getting hurt, feelings of inadequacy, etc. / (see GUN, KNIFE, ATTACK, MURDER, etc.) |
| WEATHER | Fluctuating moods or emotions; exposing yourself to prevailing conditions or circumstances; wanting to change external situations or your internal responses; enduring something or putting a great deal of effort into it; your state of health / Wordplay on ‘whether’ |
| WEB | A complex or sticky situation you’ve gotten yourself into; being caught up in something; being caught in a lie; feeing trapped or tricked; wanting to feel connected; needing to clean up or reactivate something (shake off the cobwebs) / (see SPIDER) |
| WEEDS | Misplaced energy; attitudes, emotions or behaviors you have developed in life that are not contributing to your health or well-being; something that has cropped up in your life, which is draining energy or stifling positive growth / Concerns involving marijuana |
| WEIGHT | Feeling a sense of burden or responsibility; being too domineering or feeling oppressed / Something of great importance or seriousness; owning your share of a responsibility (pulling your weight) / Wordplay on 'wait' |
| WELL | Searching your inner depths; looking for the source of your ‘well-being’ or what sustains you; feeling healthy / Feeling ungrounded; not feeling good about something; something building up in you; an additional thing to consider (as well) / If a wishing well: Letting fate decide the outcome of a problem; ‘going with the flow’ rather than being proactive (wishing things were better) / If endless: Feeling there is no end to a current situation |
| WEST | Setting something to rest; erasing personal history / Blazing a new trail; exhibiting your wild side; acting or thinking independently |
| WHALE | Compassion; emotional healing and intelligence; your unconscious feminine nature in its mother role; the womb; wisdom; sensitivity / Something that is too large to handle; learning to avoid conflict; needing to trust your intuition or inner knowledge / Wordplay on ‘wail’ |
| WHEAT | Wholesomeness, goodness, nourishment / Something ingrained in you; thoughts or feelings cropping up |
| WHEEL | A cycle or phase; your ability to meet change or mobilize (setting the wheel in motion); thinking very hard about something (spinning your wheels); taking charge of a situation (at the wheel); seeking power or influence (big wheel); feeling deflated or going in circles |
| WHISPER | Being afraid to speak; incomplete communication; hinting at something; excluding others from a piece of information; secrecy |
| WHITE | Awareness; clarity of mind; benevolence / Wanting to hide or conceal defects (whitewashing); making peace or surrendering (white flag) / If wearing white: A sense of wholeness, purity; professionalism (white collar) / If white animal: Urges that have been accepted or integrated with conscious activities |
| WIFE | (see SPOUSE) |
| WIND | Ideas or concepts that ‘move’ you; the hidden influences in your life; a hint of something that is imminent or about to change; finding new energy / Feeling exhausted; feeling shocked or alarmed; wasting an opportunity (blowing it); blowing your cool, blowing hot air, etc. / Relating to a clock: Feeling ‘wound up’ about something; an aspect of life that is winding down; moving without a fixed direction, or meandering from a goal |
| WINDOW | Your outlook on life; how you see others or view yourself; an opportunity presenting itself; a reflection of your present circumstances or mood / If opening: Letting others see your feelings; releasing something that is no longer important; gaining clarity / (see GLASS) |
| WINE | Celebration, merriment, abundance; feeling a spiritual connection / If overindulging: Avoidance; dulling your senses; feeling dispirited / Wordplay for ‘whine’ |
| WINGS | Freedom; desire to transcend current difficulties / Seeking ‘angelic’ protection; mothering or mentoring someone (taking them under your wing); improvising a plan (winging it); soaring emotions |
| WINTER | Introversion, inactivity, old age, the end of a cycle / Resting, recuperating, hibernating; withdrawing from the outside world |
| WOLF | Loyalty, protection, community; having strong family ties / Feeling fearful or hunted; adopting a pack mentality; dishonesty / If white: Receiving guidance |
| WOMAN | Feminine aspects of self (inner realms of feeling, intuition, vulnerability, creativity, etc.) What the woman is doing - how she behaves, looks, speaks or interacts - indicates what part of you is being characterized / (see FRIEND, LOVER, STRANGER) |
| WOOD | Things made out of wood: The past; structures of thought or behavior you’ve built that originally had life but are now habitual; being ‘wooden’; lacking life or feeling / If a wooden room or house: A part of your nature that has been carefully cultivated or created out of past experience / Wordplay on ‘would’ (e.g. something you would have done or should have done, but did not do) / (see CARPENTER, PLANK. For Woods, see TREE) |
| WOOL | Seeking comfort and warmth; a close-knit family / Having strong or inflexible beliefs (dyed in the wool) / Acting sheepishly; getting fleeced; being deceived (having the wool pulled over your eyes) |
| WORKING | Putting effort into something; being productive; actively trying to change something in your life; something that is functional or serves you; something that is feasible / If at workplace: Concerns or issues connected with your work or field; anxiety over duties or responsibilities; your ability to connect with people; forming alliances |
| WOUND | Hurt feelings; a trauma from the past that has not been sufficiently addressed / If wounding someone: Desire to hurt someone, or destroy some part of yourself / (see WEAPONS, ATTACK, etc.) |
| WRIST | The ability to be flexible; something grabbing your attention / Wanting to grab someone’s attention |
| WRITING | Self-expression; sorting out ideas or emotions; wanting to leave your mark; a message that needs to be heard / If seeing what someone you know has written: What you feel about them, their influence in your life / (see DIARY, BOOK, PEN, PENCIL) |
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