Color · Black

Black Hawk in dreams

Focused attention — the moment of sighting a goal and committing to it.

How black changes the reading

Black colour pulls the symbol toward the not-yet-known — depth, hiddenness, the part of the situation that has not yet come into the light. The dream is rarely warning you; it is showing you that there is more to the picture than the part you have been looking at.

The base reading of Hawk

A hawk in a dream is the dictionary's image of focused attention. The eagle takes the long view; the hawk takes the specific shot. A hawk circling is the dream noting that you have a clear goal in mind and are choosing the moment for it.

A hawk striking is the moment of decision. A hawk flying away empty is the dictionary's image of a chance that has passed — usually not the catastrophe it feels like; usually a redirect.

Where you often see it. A hawk circling overhead. A hawk on a fencepost. The dream uses the hawk for focused attention — the moment of sighting a goal and committing to it.

What it is not. A hawk is not always predation. The dictionary reads it as the dreamer's committed attention.

Related in the dictionary. Read hawk with eagle, falcon, and any scene of focused looking.

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