Gold Golden

The best or most valuable in oneself or in opportunity, or the eternal in your life. Something that stands the ‘acid test’ or does not tarnish with time, in terms of personal qualities, such as love, patience or care in work or something you value or want in your life.

Gold can sometimes indicate riches, as in an increase in money, opportunity or way of life. Or is the real power you are seeking your life – the power to help, to heal, to see.

If cheap or false: Something you valued but does not deserve respect.

If tarnished: Something beautiful and valuable in yourself, perhaps your spirit, that you have let become soiled. See: gold under colours.

Gold crown: If it is on a baby’s head it shows the child has a great soul, and will probably do well in life. I on an adult suggest achievement or wonderful ideas, even great wisdom.

Gold letters in name: It can mean that you see yourself as important, or that your dream is telling you that your future is assured.

Gold teeth: Often relates to words you speak that have wisdom.

Losing gold: Suggests that you are worried about your future, or have lost a great opportunity or a valued relationship.

Mining gold: It often means that you are finding the greatest value through your efforts. One man in reviewing his life’s work dream that ngiht he had found gold. It was the recognition that there were some things of great value in what he had done. Mining also meant that one sometimes had to chip away at the rockface of life to uncover the gold.

What that means is that you have chip away at the difficulties that face you and by doing so you gradually clear them and arrive at the gold. See Life’s Little Secrets

Painting gold: If the body it represent healing old hurts or misunderstanding. Or it can mean changing something into a promise of the good.

Example: I had a dream where the outline of a heart appeared and one half of the heart was ruby crystals and the other half was diamond crystals. Then as I watched, the colour gold outlined the heart again. Then all of a sudden a bright white light burst out of the heart at me. It was so bright it actually woke me up. I had just learnt to do Reiki at the time and had done quite a lot that day, so I’m assuming it had to do with that. Is that the case or can I attach other meanings to this dream as well. I would appreciate your input.

The dream is about initiation, and is certainly bought about by opening to your core self. And by core I mean the drama of how humans long for a connection with life that transcends time, space and death. It is a desire for wholeness. But another way of defining it is that which doesn’t change, what does not shift in human nature, what remains as the foundations of existence. The lovely images of your dream shows the heart, the centre of you, filled with jewels. And jewels mean something that have been formed through ages and are usually dug out of the rocks – and so are very precious. So to have many of them tells you that you have such a treasure in you to uncover and allow to express. The gold outling the hear shows it is a lasting gift that cannot be tarnished.

Example: I was standing on a bridge overlooking railway tracks. Young women dressed in bridal gowns and blindfolds were struggling to climb the steep embankment. People threw the brides gold coins as they got to the top. They thought it was good fun, but I decided it wasn’t worth the risk of injury. I am getting married next month, although I am not a ‘young’ bride – nor a ‘middle aged’ one!

This illustrates the mixed feelings you have about marriage. You fear you may get hurt or disillusioned in the process. The bridge represent the link you are making with your man, and the railway track is the social norm ones life conforms to in some degree – you grow up, get married, have 2.5 kids, retire at 65.

But the gold coins and the scramble show another side to yourself. This is more of an unconscious wisdom you have. You see life has risks, you may get hurt. But the pain and the joy, the struggle and the peace are all parts that together can lead to a whole and mature you. The gold and the roundness of the coins represent this wholeness you might achieve. It says life is not about being safe, but about daring to grow.

Idioms: pot of gold; worth their weight in gold; a golden opportunity; golden age; golden rule; golden years; kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; silence is golden

Useful questions and hints:

What does the gold in your dream represent?

How did you come by the gold; hard work, a gift, by reviewing, or by daring?

Was the gold a promise of a new life, an initiation into something better?

See Life Changes – Dreams are Like a Computer Game – Facing Fear – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams