Starless night
A night with no visible stars — overcast or city-lit sky that has lost its usual reference points.
A starless night in a dream is the dream's image of a night sky that has lost its usual reference points. The stars are there; the cloud, or the city's own light, is between you and them. The dream brings the starless night when something in your life — a long-held sense of orientation, a tradition of finding your way by old lights, a private set of guiding principles — is currently obscured by intervening conditions. A starless night accepted as a temporary obscuring is the dream affirming the honest patience. A starless night read as the stars being gone is the dream noting that the obscuring is being mistaken for an absence, and a long search may be started for something that has not in fact left.