Pamela Ball Interpretation: 1- In dreams a shell represents the defences we use in order to prevent ourselves from being hurt. We can create a hard shell in response to previous hurt, or a soft shell which would indicate that we are still open to being hurt. Shells were also once a unit of currency and in dreams can still be seen as this.
2- A shell carries within it so much symbolism. It can be seen as a magical symbol which holds within it the power of transformation.
The spiral of the shell suggests involution and evolution (going inwards and coming outwards).
The ability to shelter is also symbolised, and being a receptacle it also links with the feminine, emotional side of nature.
3- Spiritually a shell is a miniature representation of the process of life and death.
The spiral of the shell suggests both going inwards and coming outwards.
The ability to shelter is also symbolized, and as a receptacle it also links with the feminine, emotional side of nature.
Material aspects: In dreams a shell represents the defences we use in order to prevent ourselves from being hurt. We can create a hard shell in response to previous hurt, or a soft shell, which would indicate that we are still open to being hurt. Shells were also once a unit of currency and in dreams can still be seen as this.
Shells represent the treasures of the sea and point to your creativity. With their spiral structure, they often reflect the process of moving inward, as in self-exploration. They represent the window into the feminine and into creativity itself.
Spiritually a shell is a miniature representation of the process of life and death. You might also like to consult the entry for snail as well as the information for spiral in shapes and on transformation in the introduction.
See Mussels and Oysters.
A dream wherein you are gatherig shells at the seashore warns that you are wasteful and need to practice thrift.
They symbolise wealth of little or no benefit at all. At times they symbolise knowledge of no benefit, if they are few, it many sumbolise women and servants.
Nutshells signify success, providing they are full. If they are empty, frustration is ahead. Seashells indicate that you are in for surprises. Listening to a seashell suggests unusual news coming from afar.
There is a connection with water, probably the sea, so refer to those if apposite. Shells themselves have sometimes had a sexual connection, representing the female genitals; there is that possibility too. The conch shell has, from time to time, been important to various peoples: sometimes as the counterpart of a trumpet: was one being sounded, in your dream? There has been a Christian connection, too, shells playing a part in the ceremony of baptism (the water connection, again). A shell is one of the emblems of Venus; could there be a reference there?