Estuary
Where a river meets the sea — fresh water mixing with salt in a slow, daily exchange.
An estuary in a dream is the dream's image of fresh water meeting the sea in a slow, daily exchange. The river arrives with its own current; the tide pushes back; the meeting place is its own ecosystem. The dream brings the estuary when something in your life — a private thinking meeting a public role, a personal history meeting a new partner, a small tradition meeting a larger culture — is currently at the long meeting place where the two waters are mixing. An estuary honoured as its own kind of place is the dream affirming the productive meeting. An estuary classified strictly as either river or sea, with one side claiming the whole, is the dream noting that the meeting is being denied the recognition of its own identity, and one of the two waters is being asked to disappear.