Symbol dictionary / C

Cross

The meeting of opposites; sacrifice and sovereignty.

ChristianIndigenousJungian

The cross is the meeting of opposites. Christian tradition gives the cross its most charged form — sacrifice at the center of meaning. Indigenous medicine-wheel traditions use the four directions crossed to mark completeness. Jungian analysis reads cross-dreams as the psyche at the intersection of its horizontal (relational) and vertical (spiritual) axes. Where the arms meet is the Self. Notice what kind of cross it is, and whether you stand before, under, or on it.

Themes
meeting sacrifice axis
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