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Heart

The literal centre

What it often means

Hearts in dreams reflect the state of your emotional centre — its capacity to feel, give, receive. A heart that hurts in a dream often points to a feeling-task in waking life.

When it tends to appear

  • During seasons of emotional work
  • When love — given or received — is in flux
  • When you have been intellectualising your feelings

Sit with these questions

  1. 1

    How was your heart faring in the dream?

  2. 2

    What feeling is asking to be felt all the way through?

  3. 3

    How could you tend your heart this week, without performance?

Did this symbol visit your dream?

Decode the whole dream