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States & actions
Death
Transformation, not loss
What it often means
Death in dreams is rarely literal. It is usually transformation — a part of life or self that is ready to be laid down so something else can rise.
When it tends to appear
- When a chapter is closing — sometimes before you have noticed
- During inner-shedding of an identity or belief
- When grief is moving through you in symbolic form
Sit with these questions
- 1
What part of your life is asking to be laid down?
- 2
Whose absence in the dream felt strangely peaceful?
- 3
What might rise once you allow this thing to end?
Did this symbol visit your dream?
Decode the whole dream