Abstract

Betrayal

A trust broken by the one trusted — the specific harm of being acted against by an insider.

Betrayal in a dream is the dream's image of harm done by someone who was inside the line of trust. Betrayal is not the same as injury; an enemy injures, only an insider can betray. The dream brings betrayal when something in your life — a friendship, a partnership, a confidence — has been turned against you by the person who was supposed to hold it. Betrayal acknowledged and named is the dream telling you the honest accounting is being made and the relationship is being put on its real ground. Betrayal denied or rationalised is the dream noting that the inside line has already been crossed, and the cost is being paid in your own clarity rather than in the relationship.

Related symbols

A dream within a dream

Awareness doubling on itself — the dream pointing at its own structure.

Ambition

A held intention to reach a higher level — a forward orientation that directs the use of one's energy.

Anger

A hot energetic response to a boundary violated — a signal that something not okay has happened.

Anticipation

The forward lean toward a coming event — present time coloured by what is expected next.

Autumn

Harvest and letting go — the phase that is fruitful and falling at once.

Awe

The response to something larger than the self — humility produced by accurate perception of scale.

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