Ocean

If water is the unconscious, the ocean is the unconscious at its largest scale — Jung’s collective unconscious, what the psyche shares across all human life. Vedic cosmology describes the ocean of milk, churned by gods and demons to produce amrita, the elixir of life. Greek myth gives us the Titan Oceanus, who surrounds the world. Ocean dreams usually arrive at times of great psychic movement — grief, love, creative opening. The state of the sea matters. Calm ocean suggests a depth you can enter; storm, an emotion the psyche is releasing; black water, a region you have not yet made conscious.