Well

The well is the deepest water a person can reach with a bucket — the unconscious made drinkable. Celtic tradition is full of holy wells, each with its guardian and its petition. Norse mythology gives us Mimir’s well beneath the world-tree, where Odin gave an eye for one drink of wisdom. Jungian analysis treats the well as a symbol of ancestral memory: what the long generations have known, available now through a small opening. A dream-well that is full and clear suggests access to deep resources; a dry well, a source that has gone underground; a well you dare not look into, material ready to be faced.