![]() ![]() This illustrates how one’s personal life energy can branch out from its source in the basic drives, and become creativity, fruitfulness, some- thing given to others. In some old manuscripts pictures show a man lying on the ground and his penis growing into a tree, with fruits, birds, and perhaps people in its protective shade. It depicts the force or process which is behind all other life forms -but seen as it expresses in our personal existence. The tree is our whole life, the evolutionary urge which pushes us into being and growth. The leaves may represent our personal life which may fall off the tree of life (die) but what gave it life continues to exist. The top of the tree, or the ends of the branches, are our aspirations, the growing vulnerable tip of our personal growth and spiritual realisation. The tree can also symbolise new growth, stages of life and death, with its spring leaves and blossom, then the falling leaves. The branches are the abilities, directions and many facets we develop in life-varied and yet all connected in the common life process of our being. Its roots show our connection with our physical body and the earth, its trunk the way we direct the energies of our being- growth, sex, thought, emotion. The tree depicts the living structure of our inner self. It is also the color of royalty, high rank, and dignity. If violet features in your dream, have you been feeling as if you cannot relate to anyone? Could your dream possibly be trying to give you added inspiration with regard to a new project? Keywords: devotion, healing abilities, loving, kindness, and compassion. Violet is also a spiritual color, and brighter shades of violet in a dream are associated with inspiration and stimulation. Darker shades of violet may suggest misunderstandings or obstacles that need to be overcome. Purple everyday objects in dreams could also indicate the need for more openness and honesty in your dealings with others. If anyone you know was wearing purple in your dream, could this have reflected your admiration and respect for their spiritual or regal qualities? Or did these clothes irritate you because of that person’s self aggrandizement, or because you feel subservient to some authority figure or institution in your life? On the other hand, could the dream have been suggesting that you, or someone you know, is being a ‘shrinking violet’, i.e. Whenever they appear in a dream, they may be seen as indicating compassion, deep intuitive wisdom and, by implication, inner peace. And because purple shades tinge the sky just before dawn and nightfall-times that were once thought to be imbued with mysterious and otherworldly powers-violet, indigo and any shade of purple are thought to possess profoundly spiritual or religious qualities. In dreams, therefore, purple is indicative of loyalty, authority and justice. ![]() Purple is traditionally associated with royalty and the legal profession. Walking through a forest may symbolize a need to get back in touch with your inner self and your instinctual nature. ![]() If you noticed the species of tree, what is that species associated with for you? Did you dream of the mighty, strong oak, dainty cherry tree or somber, dark conifers? Did you dream of a single tree or a forest? If you find yourself lost in a forest, perhaps you ’can’t see the forest for the trees’ or have lost sight of your goals. If you dream of a fruit-bearing tree, take a look at which type of fruit is present and its meaning for you. Perhaps your dream says something about your hopes for the future.Īccording to ancient dream-lore, climbing a tree is said to be lucky. A tree can also represent time the root, the past the trunk, the present and the branches, the future. And in Islamic belief a tree symbolizes a spiritually mature person. These Judeo-Christian images have their counterparts in other cultures and myths, with divine trees that sustain knowledge, spiritual growth and divinity, perhaps the best known being the mighty ash Yggdrasil of the Norsemen. The dream image of a mature flowering tree can evoke the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life at the heart of Eden or the cross on which Jesus was sacrificed, which is also called a tree and is a symbol of redemption. ![]() People have worshipped trees for centuries and profound symbolism is associated with them. ![]()
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