Lightning

Lightning is revelation that cannot be slowed down. Greek myth gives the thunderbolt to Zeus; Taoist tradition treats lightning as the moment yang overpowers yin in the storm cycle. Jung described lightning as ‘the sudden illumination of the unconscious’ — an insight arriving with such speed and force that the old conscious structures crack to receive it. A dream of being struck by lightning, counterintuitively, is often a positive omen: the psyche reports a breakthrough that could not have come through gentle means. A dream of watching lightning from far away suggests an insight still forming. Notice what the lightning illuminates.