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Hands
Your power in the world
What it often means
Hands in dreams symbolise capability, expression, and the way you act on the world. Bound, missing, or wounded hands point to felt limits on your agency.
When it tends to appear
- When you feel you cannot act
- During reckonings with capability or skill
- When something needs to be done that you have been avoiding
Sit with these questions
- 1
What did your hands do — or not do?
- 2
Where in your life do you feel your hands are tied?
- 3
What capability is asking to be used?
Did this symbol visit your dream?
Decode the whole dream