Dreams give us many clues about our deepest desires, fears and hopes, a hint for a healthy mental drive.
Power and freedom: The eagle is known for its strength , power and freedom, a hint for looming danger. If you dream about seeing an eagle, it mean that you are longing for more freedom and independence in your life, a message for ducking some issue or situation, instead of confronting it head-on. Maybe you're feeling limited in a relationship, job, or situation and are looking for ways to break out, refers to being framed for something you did not do.
Boldness and Courage: The eagle is also known for its courage and courage Audacity, a premonition for the self. Watching an eagle in a dream mean that it is time to step out of your comfort zone and be bolder, an evidence for your social personality. Perhaps there is a challenge or an opportunity waiting for you, and it will take courage and determination to grasp it, unfortunately an alert for your ambivalence, confusion, or ignorance in a situation.
Overview and wisdom: The eagle is able to see the whole picture from a bird's eye view, a message for freedom, tranquility, restoration and renewal. If you dream about seeing an eagle, it mean that you are looking for a greater understanding or perspective, a hint for the rhythm of need to keep a steady pace in the pursuit of your goals. Perhaps you need more clarity or wisdom regarding a particular situation or decision, a hint for the need for you to take a look at things.
Spirituality: In some cultures, the eagle is considered a symbol of spirituality and transcendence, states pure emotional desires. If you dream of seeing an eagle, it mean that you are searching for spiritual fulfillment or a deeper connection with the divine, also this dream about financial frustrations.
As with any dream, it is important to note that the meaning of the eagle symbol different for each dreamer, indicates a part of yourself that is repressed and hidden. It also help to consider other elements of the dream, such as where the eagle was, what it was doing, and how the dream made you feel, you are feeling defensive about something.
General Interpretation: To dream of an eagle represents your strong willpower and determination to overcome obstacles and rise above the situation, hints your frustrations about not being taken seriously. It symbolizes the freedom, power, and possibility of new opportunities, symbolises your readiness for change. The eagle also signifies spiritual growth and enlightenment, indicates complete control over your emotions.
Interpretation by Symbols: If the eagle is soaring high in the sky, it means you feeling confident and have a sense of freedom about your life, signifies your set path. If the eagle is perched on a tree branch, it signifies prosperity and success in your career or personal life, expresses your vulnerability, confusion and frailty. If the eagle is attacking or hunting, it indicate forthcoming danger or obstacles, a hint for your desires to be someone from your present problems and responsibilities. Seeing a dead eagle in your dream signifies the loss of power or a significant failure in life, your leadership ability to shape the minds of others.
Interpretation by Religions/Beliefs: In Christianity, an eagle represents resurrection and spiritual renewal, signifies having a better line of communication with your family. In Native American tradition, it symbolizes courage, power, and freedom, a message for your ability to easily convey your feelings, beliefs or ideas to others. In Hinduism, an eagle is seen as a messenger of knowledge, wisdom, and spiritual enlightenment, you are too domineering.
Interpretation by Cultures: Eagles are often seen as national symbols in many cultures, such as the United States, Germany, and Austria, where they represent freedom and strength, a symbol for a balance of opposites. In ancient Greek mythology, the eagle was seen as the bird of Zeus, the king of all gods, and a symbol of the highest rank and power, an indication for love, bliss. In Egyptian mythology, the eagle was seen as the guardian of the sun and represented the power of the gods, symbolises an issue that you are moving confronting head on.
Psychological Interpretation: Seeing an eagle in your dream also symbolize your inner desires and aspirations, sadly an alert for your limited resources. It a representation of your hidden talents and your urge to use them to succeed, a message for feelings of guilt, eternal punishment and damnation. The dream telling you to be fearless in expressing yourself and standing up for what you believe in, hints your need for some relaxation.
Suggestions: To interpret your dream better, try to reflect on your life and what it means to you, states a loss of faith, opportunity and trust. Think back on the emotions you felt within the dream and connect them with your present-day emotions, a premonition for your vulnerability, confusion and frailty. Consider the different symbols in your dream and how they relate to your life experiences, signals spiritual lessons you have learned. Embrace the strength and courage the eagle represents, and use it to soar through your life's journey with full power and grace, points to the warmth of friends.
Generally, an eagle represents freedom, power, and courage, symbolises a problem or issue that you need to pinpoint. Seeing an eagle in your dream symbolize that you need to take control of your life and be more independent, states your to give up. It also mean that you have a strong desire to achieve your goals and reach new heights, states unresolved problems that need to be worked out with your friend or family.
If you see an eagle flying high in the sky, it represent success and accomplishment, refers to feelings of inadequacy, lack of self-esteem. You feel that you have finally achieved a long-standing goal, or you are on the verge of achieving it, an omen for marriage. The eagle's soaring flight also signify that you are capable of overcoming any obstacle that comes your way, a premonition for your nervousness about an issue.
On the other hand, if the eagle in your dream is attacking or threatening you, it represent an impending danger or a feeling of vulnerability, unfortunately a warning for dishonorable towards people who trusted you. You feel that someone or something is trying to harm you or prevent you from achieving your goals, you are still adjusting to a new situation in which the are ever changing.
In some cultures, an eagle is considered a symbol of spiritual guidance and represents a connection to a higher power, an evidence for worry-free attitude. If you are going through a difficult time in your life, dreaming of an eagle indicate that you need to seek spiritual guidance or trust in a higher power to guide you through the challenges, denotes rejected aspects of yourself or of someone’s character.
It is a strong animal that portrays our strength on the intellectual or spiritual field. This bird indicates that we have high aspirations, usually of conquest, power, and command. The dream will be positive if you identify with the animal, and negative if it transmits fear or pain.
If you have the impression of being an eagle and contemplating everything from above, your oneiric thoughts are denoting feelings of liberation.
If you see an eagle’s solemn flight high on the sky, it means that in real life you are about to give everything up for the sake of a goal or an ideal. Now, if you imagine an eagle flying while holding its prey, it is warning you that a relationship is about to turn to enmity.
If the eagle attacks you, there is a chance you will suffer a misfortune. The altitude of the bird’s flight is proportional to the importance of the events that are being planned. Similarly, the speed of such flight indicates the pace of those same events. Finally, if an eagle appears before a teenager attacking her in a dream, it could symbolize the emotional problems she is facing, as well as her inability to take on the responsibilities of mature love.
Formerly, it was believed that eagles were the messenger of the sun god. In this sense, your oneiric eagle may be the messenger of your unconscious. On the other hand, many mythological stories refer to this animal (the eagle and the lion, the eagle and the snake). It regards opposing psychologies: the spiritual against the animal; masculine against feminine; the conscious against the unconscious; reasoning against instinct...
It is also said that dreaming of an eagle portends fame and fortune. To see a calm eagle and to hear it speak is a favorable dream. A dead one is a sign of difficulty. Shooting it always signals loss. To lock it up in a cage: a great family shame. To take it off the nest: danger or threat. A white eagle promises a sizable inheritance.
(2) Eagles live in high places and have been associated in primitive societies with the Sun God. An eagle may therefore appear in a dream as a messenger from a helpful source in your unconscious. Does it ‘say5 anything to you? If so, take it seriously and act accordingly. (Sun may symbolize your true self.) See also Sun.
(3) An eagle has strong wings and may, therefore, symbolize something within you that can lift you - perhaps out of depression, towards the ‘light’.
(4) The sun may be a symbol of consciousness, and so the eagle may signify a need to extend your conscious awareness. Perhaps you need to get better acquainted with the contents of your unconscious and integrate them into your conscious active life.
See also Sun.
(5) Eagles have sometimes been associated with fertility. Psychologically speaking, fertility means bringing to life latent powers in the psyche.
(6) Is the eagle paired in some way with a snake - holding a snake in its talons, for example? In mythology, eagle and snake represent the conflict of opposites. In psychological terms the opposites may be conscious / unconscious; thought / instinct; ‘spiritualYanimaP; masculine / feminine. The dream may be pointing out an area of inner conflict that needs your conscious attention.
If so, bear in mind that a lasting resolution of conflict is never achieved by denying the right of one of the conflicting parties. Some balance of forces in the psyche is called for, so that every psychic component gets its proper share of attention and expression without threatening the rights of other components.
Eagle and lion (or some other animal) may have the same symbolism.
If one dream that an eagle Lights upon his head, it signifies death to the dreamer; and the same if he dreams that he is carried into the air by an eagle.
If a woman dreams that she brings forth an eagle, it portends that the child she goes withal will be a great person, and have many persons under his command.
If one dreams that he sees a dead eagle, it signifies death to great peers and profit to the poor.
To see an eagle flying over a stone or a tree, or in a high place, is good for those which would undertake business; but to those who are in fear, it is evil; also it signifies the return of him that is in a far country. And if his flight be far, and at ease and pleasure, it is good and signifieth that the business shall have an end, but not so sootl An eagle flying strongly, and failing upon the head of him that dreameth, certainly signifies to kings, princes, and mighty and rich personages, death; but to the poor it is good, for they shall be welcome and received of all rich men, from whom they shall receive great profit Oftentimes it causeth changing one’s country, and going to another nation.
The eagle threatening, signifieth the threatening of some great personage. But to dream of his being gentJe, or giving anything, or to dream that he spake, hath been found a good dream by experience.
To see an eagle that is dead is good for a servant and him that is in feart for it denotes the death of the master and threatener; and unto others it shows that a stop shall be put to their affairs, for a dead eagle can do nothing.
Dreams Positive:
There are so many positive connotations for the eagle, that you might have many of your own in addition to this book.
• My favorite is a personal revelation the Holy Spirit gave me concerning hiding in the shadow of His wings.
• I saw myself standing alone, facing the many attacks and pressures that I am used to facing daily. Then I saw a huge eagle come and stand behind me and extend its wings. As it stood behind me, I was covered by its shadow.
• When I stood alone, I looked very small when others looked at me. But when that eagle was behind me, the size of His very shadow made them stop dead in their tracks! • Alone I was helpless, but as I stood in His shadow, they saw His magnificence, and so I was protected! • Psalms 63:7 Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings I will rejoice.
• Here is another passage that describes the Lord as an eagle: • Deuteronomy 32:11 As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them, bears them on her wings:
Negative:
In a negative light, an eagle can also speak of destruction.
The eagle is a bird of prey, and it tears that prey apart with its powerful beak and claws.
• Here is a passage that indicates that an eagle in a vision or external dream, can indicate destruction and an attack from the enemy: • Habakkuk 1:8 ...and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle [that] has to eat.
See also: Birds, Dove.
If you are the eagle in your dream, or associate yourself with it, this represents your wish to dominate.
If you feel threatened, someone may be trying to dominate you.
Eagles symbolize nobility, pride, fierceness, freedom, courage, and powerful intellectual ability. Eagles also indicate persistence, and the desire to realize your highest ambitions and greatest desires.
If the eagle is chained or has its wings clipped, this suggests that you may be feeling trapped in a desperate situation where you feel you can’t express yourself. To discover what is holding you back, consider what the eagle is chained to. To see a nest of young eagles in your dream signifies social advancement.
If you kill an eagle, this suggests your ruthless determination to succeed: nothing is going to stand in your way even it if means upsetting people around you.
If someone else kills the eagle, then your power may be taken away from you.
If you eat an eagle in your dream, this shows that your strong and powerful character will lead you to success.
Vision: Dreaming about an eagle means that you are yearning— unconsciously—for freedom.
An eagle flying high in the sky: you have ambitious plans, and with courage and vision you will increase your independence.
The eagle catching prey: you feel physically inferior in the presence of a stronger person. Seeing an eagle in a cage: you are feeling restricted by friends or by your environment. Being attacked by an eagle: either you are in considerable danger or you are interfering with someone’s plans. Seeing an eagle land close to you: the impending death of a good friend.
If the eagle is sitting on top of your head, you can’t solve a current problem “in your head.”
Depth Psychology: The eagle is a symbol of freedom and always points to a tendency toward intellectual “flights of fancy.” If the eagle is flying high in the air: you want extraordinary intellectual powers; also far-reaching decisions are possible.
See Bird.
American: Freedoms and liberties in which everyone deserves to share Soaring with an eagle: A type of flying dream.
Many solar gods are equated with this symbol (see Sim), giving the eagle associations with the lifting ot depression or a more conscious awareness.
Lofty ambitions that require great skill to achieve.
Jungian: Your father or another masculine authority figure.
Leadership skills. Among the Romans, this bird became a kind of totem for the emperor, who was thought to reincarnate as an eagle. Alternatively, this may also symbolize traditionally masculine characteristics like pride and fierceness developing.
An alternative lightning emblem. In ancient Greece, people placed eagles on temple rooftops to protect the building from lightning, as they felt this creature controlled the fire from the sky.
Riding on the back of an eagle represents a spiritual voyage, possibly an astral journey or OBE.
The eagle can, like the phoenix, rejuvenate himself and thereby become immortal.
The eagle possesses superior viewing power, but there is also a warning connected to the symbol—bold plans and actions can turn dangerous.
The eagle is an ancient symbol of freedom. As an endangered species, it symbolizes a rare but also most powerful animal. Like all Birds, it points to the connection between heaven (spirit) and earth.
A white eagle is a symbol of happiness and spirituality. With a lame wing, the eagle points to constriction and restrictions, similar to the symbols of Amputation and Cage.
Freud saw in the eagle a distinctive and powerful sexual symbol.
For C. G. Jung, it was a symbol of transformation.
For William Blake, it was the marriage between Heaven and Hell.
The eagle is also viewed as the symbol of the (high-flying) genius.
An eagle is a powerful bird and the unconscious message may be prosperity, success, and liberation from tedium.
The eagle is also a bird of prey and some negative connotations can be made.
If the eagle is on the attack or the dream is frightening, reflect on your own aggressive and predatory thoughts and tendencies.
See young eagles in their nest shows you are advancing up the social ladder to the “top.” It also denotes inheritances and wise counseling.
A soaring eagle tells you that you will realize your highest ambitions and desires. Kill an eagle in your dream and this shows you are ruthless and will let nothing stand in your way.
If you see an eagle killed by someone else your fame, fortune and power will be taken from you.
1- An eagle appearing in a dream signifies inspiration and strength.
It mav also indicate our need to ascend, in order to release ourselves from old ideas or attitudes. As a bird of prey, the eagle is capablc of making use of all the opportunities available to it.
Dreaming of one shows we can do likewise.
2- From a psychological point of view, we have the ability to use our intellect to succeed. We can take authority for our own lives. We may need to become objective and to take a wider viewpoint than we have done previously.
3- T he eagle also represents a form of Spiritual victory.
A common mythological motif is an eagle in combat with an earthbound animal, which symbolizes the spirit or the mind (the eagle) struggling with more mundane needs or desires. Eagles are also traditionally associated with nobility (especially with kings) and authority, which in dreams can be a symbol for the father or for the animus. Other traits commonly associated with eagles include pride, fierceness, and courage.
To see one soaring above a lonely place js a sign of pleasantly and honestly acquired wealth.
Nesting eagles are a portent of appointment to a position of trust that you will fill with admirable success.
Fighting eagles arc an omen that you will be able to clear yourself of an accusation of wrong doing.
To hear an eagle scream augurs wel! for the success of a musician or other artist Such will achieve distinction in their profession.
It is also a good sign for those active in politics.
The eagle, however, is perhaps the most majestic of these air creatures and their medicine is very powerful.
It is one of the largest birds and its size and power have led many aboriginal cultures to consider it an earthly incarnation of a godlike presence.
The eagle as a symbol embodies strength, courage, and the ability to soar above any difficulty.
The vantage point of such heights is a part of what the eagle brings when it appears in a dream.
An eagle appearing in a dream may express the need to look at your life from a heightened perspective in order to get the overview of a situation or a problem you may be facing. Eagle feathers bring spiritual power to the individual who acquires them.
(See Birds.)
If you can identify with or have sympathy for the eagle, your own wish to dominate is becoming apparent, though there may be some difficulty in reconciling other parts of your nature.
If you feel threatened, somebody around you may be threatening the status quo.
If the eagle is perched on a tree or in a nest, someone close to the dreamer is looking out for her.
If the eagle is caged, the dreamer feels that her spirit, her true self, is trapped in some way. Astrological parallel: Scorpio Tarot parallel: The Hanged Man
Independence.
Personal growth or healing (as in “soaring to new heights”).
Adventure.
Dreaming of this animal can represent too much or not enough of one of those qualities, or someone or something you associate with the quality or animal.
Consider also the animal’s actions, context, and your feelings about it.
See also: Bird; Hawk; Falcon
And should this noble bird happen to be perched in a high place, you will have fame as well as fortune.
If you see it on a mountain- top, you will achieve beyond your highest ambitions.
However, should the eagle attack or frighten you, you will have to overcome some difficult obstacles before reaching your goaL
2. Heroic character.
3. If in a cage, the dreamer believes he or she has eaglelike qualities but is being suppressed.
4. If in a nest of eagles high on a mountain, a dreamer sees him/ herself as part of an elite group.
5. If the dreamer kills an eagle, it is a measure of his/her ruthlessness.
6. Supernatural ability and power.
If you are a golfer, then you may be dreaming of two strokes under par, symbolizing focus, drive and desire to succeed in the pursuit of your goals.
To dream of an eagle fighting with a land animal means you are torn between your ideals and your desires.
The eagle often also represents the dreamer’s father.
If the dreamer kills eagle, frustration and failure may be the result.
An eagle can also be symbolic of an evil spirit depending on the context of the dream, Hosea 8:1
2. Jesus; Exod. 19:4;
3. Reference to America
attacked by an: your partner sees your contribution as interference.
bald: after great difficulty, wil have a more prominent political position than you do now.
cage, in a: your friends restrict your vision; impending death of one of them.
carrying you, an: shame and sorrow through serious accident you caused.
catching prey: a stronger person makes you feel physical y inferior.
dead: decline of your physical strength amidst victory.
eaglets, birth of: wil have a very prosperous future in a foreign country.
in a nest: great responsibility wil be entrusted to you with wise counsel.
falling on you: the threat is in your inability to relate to yourself.
finding your hiding place: wil be exposed by fierce competitors.
flying: yearn for freedom that others have taken.
high up on a statue: your farsightedness wil realize high ambitions.
killing an: nothing wil prevent you from achieving your goal.
landing: the spirit of the mind has descended to supervise mundane needs.
on your head: the power of inner life to carry us away.
owning an: honors and business profits wil be quickly squandered.
perched on a mountaintop: victory of the loftiest elements of power.
on top of your head: present your problem for group solution, so that you control.
standing up: many soldiers wil die in triumph of spirit over matter.
woman dreaming of several: wil have famous sons of liberty.
wounded, a: have lost your ability to perceive that you cause the loss of love.
The scratch of an eagle in a dream means a sickness. Akilled eagle in a dream means the death of a ruler.
If a pregnant woman sees an eagle in her dream, it means seeing a midwife or a nurse. In a dream, an eagle also may be interpreted to represent a great ruler, a prophet or a righteous person. Hearing the cry of an eagle in a dream means a fight. Eating the flesh of an eagle or getting hold of some of its feathers in a dream means receiving money from a ruler. Ifan eagle catches someone and soars away with him horizontally in a dream, it means travels.
If he flies away with him vertically in the dream, it means death. In a dream, an eagle also means longevity, prosperity, innovation or heedlessness.
(Also see Vulture)