Snow

Snow is the quieter sibling of rain — emotion turned still. Japanese aesthetic tradition treats snow (yuki) as one of the four great beauties, valued precisely for the hush it imposes on a landscape. Jungian dream analysis reads snow-dreams as grief held quietly, or as a season of inwardness in which ordinary activity slows. A dream of heavy snowfall often arrives during periods of reflection or mourning; a dream of the first snow, at times when a season of life is ending. Fresh snow shows every footprint — notice whose tracks you see, and whether you make your own.