Fighting Albatross in dreams
A long-distance ocean bird — a burden you carry, and the long journey it implies.
How fighting changes the reading
Fighting in the dream layers in active conflict — the symbol's energy has been mobilised against something. Take note of what it is fighting; the dream is often naming the actual conflict that has been below the surface of your waking life.
The base reading of Albatross
An albatross in a dream is two old images at once. It is the long-haul traveller who can stay aloft for weeks without landing, and — through Coleridge — the weight a person earns by harming what should not have been harmed. The dream brings the bird when something you did, or failed to do, is now travelling with you for a long way. An albatross flying freely is the dream telling you the burden can be released. An albatross hung around the neck is the dream naming a guilt you have not yet found a way to set down.