Actions

Forgiving

Releasing a person from what they owe — a decision to stop holding the original injury against them.

Forgiving in a dream is the dream's image of releasing another person from what they owe for an earlier injury. Forgiveness is not forgetting and it is not pretending; it is a deliberate decision to stop holding the debt. The dream brings the action when there is, in your life, a held grievance against a particular person that is now ready to be set down. A forgiveness offered and received is the dream marking that the debt is closed and the relationship can move. A forgiveness offered and refused is the dream noting that you have done the inner work and the other person has not yet arrived at meeting it.

Related symbols

Apologising

Naming a fault you committed and taking responsibility for it — the action of putting yourself, in language, under the harm you did.

Baptising

Marking a beginning through immersion in water — a ritual that names a person into a new identity.

Bargaining

Negotiating an exchange of value — the act of trying to alter the price of something that has been set.

Being chased

Running with a pursuer behind you — energy spent on distance from something you have not turned to face.

Being chased

Avoidance — something you have been refusing to turn around and look at.

Being naked

Exposure — the fear of being seen unprepared.

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