Angel

When we are very small, someone who loves us appears to us to be an angel. So the angel can represent the positive side of relationship with your mother.

The Hebrew word for angel is malak, meaning messenger. As a symbol it would therefore represent your intuition of a wider truth than that encompassed by your present personal experience.

So dreams often use the figure of an angel to depict information, intuitions or knowledge being given us from a wider awareness than our waking life. It  can also bring healing and peace of mind.

An angel can also depict religious concepts; feelings or intuitions about death; a need for a parent figure to guide or instruct you in decision making; or wisdom arising from your wider awareness. Of course angels are often associated with death or dying.

Traditionally there were many angels, and some of the greatest were said to be messengers for particular things, like the angel of death, or the angel of love. Such archaic concepts still hold sway in our unconscious, so it is helpful to consider if the angel in the dream has some particular quality, or is communicating a particular message.

Also consider whether you are in accord or in conflict with the angel. If in accord it suggests that some deeply felt intuition is accepted by you. If in conflict then something that is powerfully influential deep within you is being rejected and is creating an internal conflict.

Idioms: Guardian angel; like an angel; on the side of the angels; fools rush in where angels fear to tread. See: religion and dreams.

Useful questions are:

How does the angel appear and how?

What is my own belief about angels?

Am I aware of receiving a message or information?

Did the angel, even without words, communicate something to me?