Divine Child

The Divine Child is the Self arriving small. Jung traced the motif across cultures: the child Krishna, the child Horus, the Christ child, the child Dionysus. The archetype holds the paradox that the most important thing is also the most vulnerable — that newness enters the world as something that could easily be lost. A dream of finding a baby in an unexpected place (a drawer, a car, a riverbank) is nearly universally understood as the discovery of the Self in a form you had forgotten to tend. A dream of a child in danger often signals a creative project or a part of the self that needs care.