Black Navel in dreams
The scar left by the umbilical cord — the literal mark of the first attachment.
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 Navel
A navel in a dream is the dream's image of the literal scar of the first attachment. Every body carries the mark of where it was once connected to the body that made it; the dream brings the navel when something in your life is returning you to the question of where you originally came from. A navel observed neutrally is the dream telling you the origin is acknowledged and at rest. A navel that hurts in the dream is the dream noting that the original attachment is sore — that something from the earliest part of your story is back in the room and asking for attention.