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Food

Fruit

Ripeness and reward

What it often means

Fruit in a dream is the reward of growth — what ripens after patient tending. Ripe fruit suggests something in your life is ready to be enjoyed; unripe or rotten fruit points to timing that is off, or a reward that came too late or too soon.

When it tends to appear

  • When effort is bearing its first results
  • When timing — ripeness — is the question
  • When you are deciding whether something is ready

Sit with these questions

  1. 1

    What in your life has ripened and is ready to enjoy?

  2. 2

    Is the fruit ripe, unripe, or past its time?

  3. 3

    What have you grown that you have not yet let yourself taste?

Did this symbol visit your dream?

Decode the whole dream