Places

Roadside altar

A small shrine built at the side of a road — a sacred place put where the traveller will pass it.

A roadside altar in a dream is the dream's image of a small sacred place built where the traveller will pass it. The altar is not at the centre of a town; it is at the edge of the moving life. The dream brings the roadside altar when something in your life — a brief moment of reverence in the middle of ordinary work, a small prayer placed where it will catch the busy person, a marker on a regular commute — is being made available to you while you are in motion. A roadside altar stopped at and acknowledged is the dream affirming the small pause. A roadside altar passed by daily without seeing it is the dream noting that the sacred opportunity is in place and the traveller has long stopped noticing.

Disclaimer: For entertainment and self-reflection only. Not a substitute for professional advice.