Harvesting
Gathering in a ripe crop — the active work of taking in what has been growing.
Harvesting in a dream is the dream's image of the active work of taking in what has been growing. The harvest is not the only work of the year; the harvest is the brief intense window when the long preparation is converted into supply. The dream brings harvesting when something in your life — the end of a project, a long discipline finally yielding, a relationship at its fruiting — is at the moment when the patient labour is being collected into a useful form. A harvest brought in on time is the dream affirming the right timing. A harvest left in the field past the rains, the crop spoiling on the stem, is the dream noting that the window was clear and was missed.