Letter

The letter is a message arriving — from a part of the self, or, in some traditions, from another psyche entirely. Folk tradition holds that receiving an unexpected letter in a dream foretells actual news. Jungian analysis reads letters more carefully: the sender, the contents, and whether the letter is read all carry weight. An unread letter often marks a message the dreamer is not ready to receive; a letter from a dead person, the continuing presence of that person in the dreamer’s inner life; a letter whose contents change as you read them, a meaning still forming. Notice whose handwriting the letter is in and whether you answer.