If the witch in your dream is evil or threatening, it indicate that someone is feeling threatened or harassing you, unfortunately draws attention to disappointments or misunderstanding in some situation or relationship. This person a real adversary or a situation in which you feel trapped, stands for your beliefs. It also mean that you feel threatened by the dark or negative aspects of your own personality, also this dream about an obsessive behavior.
If the witch in your dream is kind or helpful, it indicate that you feel protected or supported by someone or something, a signal for a worrisome issue that you need to work through. It also mean becoming more aware of your own natural powers and using them to achieve your goals, a message for relaxation, pleasure and ease.
Witches are often referred to as agents of change or contemplated magic, refers to good luck, life. If you dream about a witch, it mean that you are ready to make changes in your life to achieve your goals, unfortunately a warning signal for someone who is cold or distant. It also mean using your own powers of manifestation to achieve your dreams and desires, a hint for warmth, values.
If you feel uncomfortable or threatened, it indicate that you need to confront a challenge, perhaps you need to be careful about what you or someone else is saying. However, if you dream of a friendly or supportive witch, it mean that you are on the right track to achieve your goals, draws attention to oppression, fear, manipulation of control.
Dreams about witches unsettling and leave you feeling disturbed, signifies the many that you will experience in the world.
A witch in a dream often represents negative emotions, such as anger, malice, jealousy or hatred, signifies spontaneity. It indicate that you are struggling with these emotions in your daily life, and your subconscious is sending you signals to confront and deal with them, a clue for your passion. Alternatively, the witch in the dream represent a person or situation that you perceive as threatening or malevolent, represents some hurtful action or remark.
If the witch is riding on a broomstick, it represent the need for you to "sweep away" negative energies or past experiences in your life, stands for your need to get rid old ways of habits. Seeing a witch casting spells suggest that you feel someone is trying to control or manipulate you, an indication for an emotional outlet to help ease your mind. A cauldron in the dream symbolizes your ability to create and transform, while seeing a black cat represent bad luck, misfortune, or deceitfulness, an indication for your hospitality and sociability.
In many cultures, witches are seen as beings with supernatural powers, making this dream an impressive spiritual one, and the interpretation will depend on your religious beliefs, an indication for how you like to whine about things. For example, in Christianity, witches are associated with Satan and evil, sadly an admonition for bad luck and harsh, vulnerable times. In contrast, some pagan religions view witches as healers and defenders of nature, states ease, while rough texture means a difficult situation. The interpretation, in this case, will depend on your perspective on spirituality and religion, a signal for mass chaos or confusion occurring in your life.
In Western cultures, witches are seen as evildoers related to witches of the past, such as those who were punished during the Salem witch trials, means your with others toward a common cause. In contrast, in African cultures, witches commonly represent ancestors and are associated with supernatural abilities, a harbinger for a spiritual gift. Therefore, the meaning of the dream differ based on the culture you belong to or your cultural background, a metaphor for a spiritual rebirth.
From a psychological perspective, witches are viewed as the embodiment of the "Shadow" (Jung), manifesting the dark, unacceptable parts of one's personality, hints your far-fetched imagination. Therefore, dreaming about a witch suggest the need to explore, acknowledge and embrace your darker emotions and hidden aspects of yourself, a hint for you cold feelings.
Reflect on your daily life, and see if you identify any negative emotions you carrying around, signals your lack of self-worth or lack of inspiration. Assess if you are feeling threatened or manipulated by someone or a situation in your daily life, indicates your intimate of your emotions. Find ways to express and recognize the shadow sides of yourself, expresses the basic necessities and comforts. If you practice religion, assess your beliefs and how they impact your interpretation of a witch dream, unfortunately a warning alert for pent up anger, hostility and shame.
Dreaming of a witch a sign of feeling powerless or out of control in your life, a message for your compassion for those who are less fortunate. It also indicate that you are feeling threatened or overwhelmed by something or someone in your daily life, signifies richness and indulgence. The witch in your dream a symbol of a person who is manipulating or controlling you, or it represent an inner fear that you have of being taken advantage of, a hint for your character. Alternatively, the witch represent a part of yourself that you are rejecting or trying to suppress, indicates your latent paranormal abilities.
If the witch in your dream was malevolent, it a sign that you are feeling threatened by something or someone in your life, points at an argument or problem that is not valid. It also be a sign that you are feeling overwhelmed by the amount of responsibility that you have taken on, a premonition for either a new beginning or an ending to a situation. On the other hand, if the witch in your dream was benevolent, it a sign that you are gaining insight into yourself and your own power, a signal for someone that you call or refer to as doll. It also be an indication that you are ready to take control of your life and make positive changes, means a person around you who is callous, ruthless and can’t be trusted.
It also indicate that you are feeling threatened or overwhelmed by something or someone in your life, a premonition for genuine your feelings of horror.
Dreaming Lens: What was the witch doing in your dream? Was she frightening or fascinating? How dangerous did she seem? Was she able to do magic? Were you the witch? How did the witch relate to you in the dream?
Personal Focus: The witch is a creature of relatively modern invention with little, if any, origins in the older mythologies that have shaped Western culture. They are most likely a product of the emergence of Christianity and the growth of European cities. Any woman with Pagan-based knowledge of the healing arts might have been considered a witch by the ever-expanding political powers of the last two millenniums. To avoid punishment, such people lived away from urban centers, often in the woods, adding to the mystique and burgeoning fables of witches as evil, forest-dwelling hags. Today, the witch figures prominently in contemporary fairy tales and folklore, and she is a staple character of Halloween. She no longer heals and ministers; now she casts evil spells and eats children.
Since this is an Archetype, how she appears in your dream is important to your understanding of your own personal development. The areas of life ruled by this Archetype are mysticism, healing, and magic, primarily in the feminine principle, which relates to creativity, receptivity, nurturance, and caretaking. Examine your witch for character, skill, and motivation. Her character will inform you of the levels of good versus evil within your psyche. The power of her skills will inform you of your personal access to the magic in the universe. Understanding what inspires her will get you in touch with your own movement toward integration and away from manipulation.
Any number of hag-like, female characters could be considered the Witch Archetype. In fact, some may be evil, while others may be disenfranchised healers. Given her origins in mysticism and a preponderance of misunderstandings over the centuries, it is important to consider this duality when interpreting the Witch as a symbol. Though she may inspire fear and dread, the witch has powerful magic which, if understood and properly used, can be invaluable to the human experience.
The witch is a creature of relatively modern invention with little, if any, presence in the older mythologies that have shaped Western culture. Today, the witch figures prominently in contemporary fairy tale folklore and is a staple character of Halloween.
The witch no longer heals and ministers to people—now she casts evil spells and eats children. Since this is an archetype, how the witch appears in your dream is important to your understanding of your own personal development.
The areas of life ruled by this archetype are mysticism, healing, and magic, primarily in the feminine principle, which relates to creativity, receptivity, nurturance, and caretaking. Examine your witch for character, skill, and motivation. Her character will inform you of the level of good versus evil within your psyche.
The power of her skills will inform you of your personal access to the magic in the universe. Understanding what inspires her will get you in touch with your own movement toward integration and away from manipulation. Any number of haglike female characters could be considered the witch archetype. Some may in fact be evil, while others may be disenfranchised healers. Given the witch’s origins in mysticism and the history of misunderstandings over the centuries, it is important to consider this duality when interpreting this symbol. Though she may inspire fear and dread, the witch has powerful magic that, if understood and properly used, can be invaluable to the human experience.
(1) A witch may be an internal source of wisdom, healing and growth.
(2) Alternatively, a witch may be a destructive unconscious force: for example, a repressed part of yourself. In a man’s dream a witch may symbolize the negative aspect of his anıma (on anim a, see Brother / Sister, section (4)-(6)). Do you suffer from moodiness and a conviction that nothing can ever come right for you? This may be because you feel in some way let down by your mother. The character of a man’s anima is as a rule shaped by his mother5 (M.-L. von Franz, in Man and His Symbols) (on ‘femme fatale’, see Woman).
NB Seemingly destructive forces in the psyche invariably reveal themselves, on fuller acquaintance, as positive and life-enhancing.
See also Demon, Devil, Evil.
The word witch is usually used to describe a mean and heartless person, and in your dream you may be making associations in regard to yourself or someone else that fits that description.
A witch could also represent power, magic, and goodness. “White magic” is as popular and culturally significant as darker witchcraft. However, whether good or evil, the witch always tries to defy natural law and uses a short cut to accomplish a task. Ask yourself questions about the general message in the dream; is it about revealing negative characteristics or about solving your problems and getting what you want out of life by using shortcuts? The most positive connotation of this dream could be that it encourages you to solve difficulties by using creativity and intuition and brings you closer to finding powerful and magical parts of yourself.
A particular situation in which you’re feeling challenged or you’d like to have more power or assistance.
A desire for more freedom or autonomy in your life, perhaps an attempt to rebel against an authority figure.
Consider also the type of witch, spells, or powers (for example, correcting a wrong could represent a desire to do the right thing, controlling people or situations might represent a desire for change, and the power to disappear could represent a wish to “escape” a responsibility or rule).
A witch coming after you can represent a feeling or fear of victimization or manipulation somewhere in your life.
Someone accusing you of being a witch can represent a feeling or fear of being falsely accused or persecuted.
See also: Magic; Spell; Curse; Powers; Monster
Witches often presage diseases.
A negative symbol for Mother, the overpowering, malevolent woman who is feared. Often points to a mother who does not care properly for her children (particularly in children’s dreams). Less often, the image of a witch points to the wise woman (particularly in women’s dreams) who exudes great magnetism.
The witch is almost always a symbol of the power of the unconscious—Magic. In fairy tales as well as in dreams, the witch plays an important, archetypal role, because she separates the hero or dream-self from his (usually royal) origin, which can then only be recaptured after he passes a certain test.
If the dreamer is a man, he needs to take a good, long, honest look at his attitude toward women. He may be caught up in the notion that all women are out to get him.
If the witch is friendly in the dream, whether the dreamer is a man or a woman, it augurs an increased social life.
If the witch is the ominous Halloween figure, rough times in romance lie ahead.
If you dreamed of stumbling upon a coven of witches in your dream, did you recognize any of them in waking life? If you did you may suspect them of being in a secret pact in waking life that is either benign or malignant.
If you do not recognize them, this suggests a need for protection, concealment or togetherness in real life.
See also SPIRITS AND GHOSTS.
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The fears or difficult feelings and habits we have developed in relationship with our mother. Because these feelings are now pan of ourself, if female, we can of course become the witch in relationship to someone else. Also vindictiveness, jealousy, etc.
Depth Psychology: The witch represents people with ill intentions—and perhaps also your own nastiness.
It is a sign of your fear of the irrational, and suspicion of the unconscious forces that often influence your actions. Was the witch in the dream good or evil? Is there a witch inside of you? If so, what part of you does she represent? The witch might also stand for certain, strictly sexual emotions.
If you feel weakened or scared by this dream, then you are running from your power, and are afraid of the negative influence it could have. Keep in mind that the shadow aspect of you is only a shadow until it is embraced by the light of your being.
See Crone.
The meaning of this symbol depends on the tone of the dream as well as how the dreamer relates to a certain kind of witch.
Dreaming of warts, which are often associated with witches, links with that part of ourselves which remains superstitious and afraid of an energy we have not fully comprehended.
A man may use the appearance of the witch to overcome his fears of the powerful woman.
2. A person with seemingly magical powers.
See Hyena)