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Bones

What remains under everything

What it often means

Bones in dreams symbolise core structure — the essential, ancient, irreducible parts of you. They appear when you are being asked to consider what remains when surface concerns are stripped away.

When it tends to appear

  • During essential life questions
  • When values are being clarified
  • During grief or after loss

Sit with these questions

  1. 1

    What in your life is structural rather than decorative?

  2. 2

    What must remain even after everything else is laid down?

  3. 3

    What ancestral or essential strength are you tapping into?

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