Pruning
Cutting back a plant for its own future shape — removing growth so the remaining growth can succeed.
Pruning in a dream is the dream's image of cutting away what is alive in order that what remains can do better. The pruner is not destroying; the pruner is choosing. The dream brings the act when something in your life — commitments, relationships, branches of a project — has reached the size where the energy is being spread too thin and a deliberate cut would let the rest thicken. Pruning done knowledgeably, at the right season, is the dream affirming that the cuts you have made were the right ones and the plant will be healthier for them. Pruning done in panic at the wrong time of year is the dream noting that the choice to cut was correct in principle and the timing has weakened what was meant to be strengthened.