Deer

The gentle harmless aspects of your involuntary or instinctive urges and functions. It might also refer to the softer side of your feelings that can be hurt or wounded by your aggressiveness and cynicism; or by other people’s criticism. Love-sickness.

In a man’s dream the deer may represent a woman he is in pursuit of.

The soul, the gentle harmless self that is often hurt or wounded by our aggressiveness and cynicism, or by other peoples criticism; vulnerability; the unsocialised or wild, but gentle side of our instincts; love-sickness. In Greek mythology the deer was associated with the virginal huntress Artemis. So the female deer in a dream suggests the qualities of female gentleness and the connection with nature and the hidden world of the unconscious with all its strange wisdom. While the stag often links with bold and powerful masculinity and sexuality in a natural and potent form.

In a mans dream: The deer may depict a young woman the man is in pursuit of, or a daughter if you have one.

In a woman’s dream: The deer may link with you as a young woman, or to a daughter if you have one.

Useful questions are:

What are the qualities of the deer in your dream?

Does it link in any way with a feeling of entering the magical realm of nature or the unknown?

Are you feeling about it as you would with a female?

If a stag, are there symbols linking it with sexuality, such as its horns or its attraction to you?