Earth

Earth is the great ground. Greek tradition gives us Gaia; many Indigenous traditions speak of the Earth as mother, sacred and ensouled. Jungian analysis reads earth-dreams as grounding returning to a dreamer who has been living above the body. Digging in earth is classically the work of the unconscious; being buried, a genuinely frightening dream that often reflects either deep rest needed or a real fear of being overwhelmed. Notice the color and fertility of the soil.