
Cross
Difficulties or tribulations we carry, perhaps unnecessarily. It can also indicate human life and its whole spectrum of experience, physical, sexual, mental emotional, cosmic – painful and delightful. The body, upon which consciousness is nailed or fixed during life.
The cross can also point to meeting death as an initiation into a new awareness and a spiritual life – the death being a psychological one, followed by rebirth or resurrection. See archetype of rebirth.
In Christianity the cross also has many meanings. It represents the religion as a whole; Christ’s suffering; man’s suffering in the name of his religious beliefs; the strength of his beliefs; a sign of spiritual goodness and power to ward off evil. It also means the agony faced in surrendering individual will to the will of the community/communion. See archetype of crucifixion
Lastly, it can symbolise perfect union, balance, equality and atonement of the the different parts of your being. Dreaming about the cross can be a sign of a personal destiny led by the best in us, Christ or a sense of the Divine. So a turning point in ones life.
A cross can also indicate wrongness as with tick being correct, cross being wrong or
forbidden, or completion as when crossed off list.
If cross upright as + : Being upright; correct; self assertion; balanced.
If cross as X : The four extremities; reaching out; crossing out. Like the square, it can also represent wholeness, solidity, especially if the arms are equal length. See: crossing.
Idioms: cross my heart and hope to die; cross over Jordan; cross over to the other side; cross paths; cross someone; cross that bridge when I come to it; cross your fingers; paths will cross.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Does the dream cross have any religious significance/feelings for me?
Have I met great change or even depression that I am passing through?
What feelings are evident in the dream?
See Associations Working With – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Life’s Little Secrets
Comments
I had a dream where some attempt to open a negative portal was happening and I’m not sure why I was doing it in the first place. Then as soon as I started doing it I began to pray and did the father, the son and the Holy Ghost gesture. Right after I engraved a cross over the negative portal and asked god to be with me and forgive me.
I felt very on edge when I woke up. I’m not religious and I was wondering what this dream meant. Was it supposed to be a wake up call? Was it because I’m missing my long distance boyfriend (who is actually religious?) We just saw one another a week ago and it’s hard to be separated from him. Or is it something else entirely.
I have a recurring dream where I am making the sign of the cross, often repeatedly and sometimes rapidly. I am not particularly religious, though was baptised as Catholic. This action has happened in dreams at least 5 separate times.
Hi – I must take time to upgrade the dream dictionary, so must halt from answering your posts – I started revising the dictionary in 2006, and haven’t neared the end yet. I believe someone else may start giving interpretations.
So, for a while I urge you to read http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/i-am-no-longer-interpreting-dreams/ – It describes ways that can help you. And often it would help too if you looked at http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing
Tony
This is often used as a way of gaining confidence or lessening fear. Without knowing the rest of the dream is is difficult to comment further.