Green in Dreams: Meaning in Depth Psychology
The color of growing. Green is the life force in leaf: healing, fertility, things ripening. It can also be the unripe and the envious. Ask what in your life is green right now, in either sense: growing well, or not ready yet.
THE CORE MEANING
Growth, nature, the life force in its vegetative form, healing, the Great Mother's fertility. Also: envy, rawness, immaturity. What hasn't ripened yet.
VARIATIONS: CONTEXT CHANGES THE MEANING
- lush green: Abundant growth, psychic fertility, the Mother providing
- dark green: The deep forest, nature's shadow side, growth that's wild and uncivilized
- new green: Spring, new growth, the first signs of life after a psychological winter
- sickly green: Growth gone wrong: envy, poison, something that should be alive but is toxic
CONNECTS TO
The MotherThe Great MotherThe Divine ChildSensation (Function)
All of that is the universal meaning. But what does green mean to you? Your personal association matters more than any dictionary.