Birth

Birth-dreams mark the arrival of something new. They are rarely about literal pregnancy, though pregnant dreamers often dream vividly of birth. More commonly the dream-birth is creative, vocational, or spiritual: a project preparing to be born, a self emerging from an old skin, a relationship beginning. Notice who gives birth, where, and who is present. A difficult birth in a dream usually reflects genuine resistance in waking life to something wanting to come through; an easy birth, the readiness of the psyche to welcome it. The infant’s condition on arrival is often significant — healthy, strange, speaking, covered in caul all carry classical meanings worth sitting with.