Age · Old

Old Dove in dreams

Peace, gentleness, and a message of reconciliation arriving.

How old changes the reading

In its old form, the symbol carries long history — accumulated knowledge, accumulated weight, and the kind of presence that does not need to assert itself. Old versions of symbols in dreams are often offering you a sentence you needed to hear from someone who has seen many cycles.

The base reading of Dove

A dove in a dream is the dictionary's image of peace arriving — sometimes between two people, sometimes between two parts of yourself. A pair of doves is a relationship in its tender, working state.

A white dove with an olive branch is the dictionary's most literal image of reconciliation. A wounded dove is the inverse — peace that has been damaged, often by a small unkind action that is still costing more than its size.

Where you often see it. A dove on a rooftop. A dove released at the end of a scene. The dream uses the dove for peace, gentleness, and a message of reconciliation arriving.

What it is not. A dove is not always cliché peace. The dictionary reads it as the small specific reconciliation the dream is naming.

Related in the dictionary. Read dove with bird, the colour white, and any scene of small peaceful arrival.

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