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Waterfall

A release of energy; emotion made kinetic.

ShintoFolkJungian

The waterfall is emotion made kinetic. Shinto tradition treats certain waterfalls as the home of kami and as sites of purification (misogi). Jungian analysis reads waterfall-dreams as sudden releases — of grief, creativity, or love — that had been building behind a dam. Notice whether you stand under the waterfall, approach it, or are carried over it. The pool at the base is often the destination the dream cares about: where the released energy collects.

Themes
release energy flow
Related symbols
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