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Salt

Preservation, flavour, and what keeps things real

What it often means

Salt in dreams is one of the oldest preserving agents — it keeps things from decaying, brings out true flavour, and marks hospitality. In excess, it poisons. In dreams, salt often marks what is essential, what has been preserved from a former life, or what is being added that changes the taste of everything.

When it tends to appear

  • When something essential or preserving is present
  • When wisdom earned through experience is the theme
  • When something is being added that changes the whole flavour of a situation

Sit with these questions

  1. 1

    What wisdom have you preserved from past experience that is still seasoning your life?

  2. 2

    What are you salting to protect — and is that preservation still needed?

  3. 3

    Is there too much salt, making everything bitter, or just enough?

Did this symbol visit your dream?

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