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From: MSN NicknameLadySylvarMoon  (Original Message)Sent: 11/8/2006 5:54 PM
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Symbols and Significations

"No one but you know - really knows - what symbols mean to you. They are a very personal thing, dredged up from your subconscious mind, and other's interpretations can be quite wrong."
     - Earth Power by Scott Cunningham (some of sybmbolic listing below from the same book)

To find what the symbol really means to you, look at the symbol, what first comes to mind? Look only at the qualities associated with your question, or if you didn't ask a question apply the symbol's meaning to your life.

Below are some traditional / suggested meanings of symbols, if you disagree with the meaning, disregard it and go with what it means to you...

    Abbey: future ease and freedom from worry
    Acorn: Men, youth, improvement in health, continued health and strength
    Airplane: Travel, new projects
    Anchor: Voyage, rest, a lucky sign, Success in business and love
    Angel: good news, especially good fortune in love
    Apes: secret enemies
    Apples: long life, gain by commerce
    Apple Tree: change for the better arch, a journey abroad
    Arrow: a disagreeable letter from the arrow's direction, misfortune overcome by patience; or a legacy axe, difficulties overcome, news

    Badger: long life and prosperity as a bachelor
    Basket: Gift, an addition to the family
    Baby: New interests
    Bat: fruitless journeys or tasks
    Bear: a long period of travel
    Beasts: other then those mentioned, foretell misfortune
    Bees, honey comb, hive: Industry, frugalness, hard work
    Bell: Celebrations, marriage (Bells ring in the new but also ring out the old. The bell may be tolling hard times as well.)
    Bird: Psychic powers, movement, motion, good luck, a lucky sign; good news if flying, a fortunate journey
    Boat: Discoveries, a friend will visit
    Book: Wisdom
    Bouquet: one of the luckiest of symbols, a happy marriage
    Bridge: a favorable journey
    Broom: Cleanliness, feminity, domesticity, purification, healing, warfare with negativity
    Building: a removal
    Bull: slander by an enemy
    Bush: an invitation into society
    Butterfly: Frivolous things, non-essentials, success and pleasure

    Cage, prison bars: restriction, isolation, solitude
    Camel: a burden to be patiently borne
    Cannon: good fortune
    Car: approaching wealth, visits from friends
    Cart: fluctuations of fortune
    Castle: unexpected fortune or legacy
    Cat: Wisdom, intellectualism, aloofness, difficulties caused by treachery
    Cathedral: great prosperity
    Cattle: prosperity
    Cauldron: Transformation, great change, women, new beginnings, endings
    Chain: an early marriage; if broken, trouble in store
    Chair: an addition to the family
    Church: a legacy
    Circles: money or presents
    Clock: Death, time in any manifestation, change
    Clouds: Headaches, mental problems, the mind, thoughts, a serious trouble; if surrounded by dots financial success
    Clover: a very lucky sign; happiness and prosperity
    Coffin: Surprise its not death! A long and boring but not serious illness
    Comet: misfortune and trouble
    Compass: a sign of traveling as a profession
    Cow: Money or a prosperous sign
    Cradle: Strangers
    Crescent: Freshness, newness, mother, women
    Cornucopia: Fertility, protection, prosperity, animals, containment
    Cross: The forces of nature, the elements, great energies at work, a sign of trouble, delay or even death
    Crown: Success and honor
    Crown and Cross: good fortune resulting from death

    Dagger: favors from friends
    Deer: quarrels, disputes; failure in trade
    Distaff: Creativity, change, sexuality, transformation
    Dog: Love, fidelity, faithful friends
    Donkey: a legacy long awaited
    Dove: a lucky symbol; progress in prosperity and affection
    Dragon: a great and sudden change
    Duck: Wealth, plenty

    Eagle: honour and riches through change of residence
    Egg: Increase, fertility, luck
    Elephant: a lucky sign; good health
    Eye: Introspection, inspection, evaluation

    Falcon: a persistent enemy
    Ferret: active enemies
    Fish: Sexuality, riches, lucky speculation, good news from abroad; surrounded by dots, Immigration
    Flag: danger from wounds inflicted by an enemy
    Flame, fire: Purification, change, the will, domination, driving forces
    Flower: good fortune, success, happy marriage
    Fox: treachery by a trusted friend
    Frog: success in love and commerce

    Gallows: a sign of good luck
    Glove: Luck, protection
    Goat: a sign of enemies, and misfortune to a sailor
    Goose: happiness; a successful venture
    Grasshopper: a great friend will become a soldier
    Greyhound: good fortune by strenuous exertion
    Gun, pistol, rifle: Discord, disaster, slander

    Hammer: triumph over adversity
    Hare: a sign of long journey or return of absent friend
    Harp: marriage, success in love
    Hat: Rival, honors, success in life
    Hawk: an enemy
    Heart: Love, pleasures to come
    Heavenly Bodies signifies happiness and success
    Hen: increase of riches or addition to the family
    Horns: Fertility, godliness, spirituality, forces of nature
    Horse: Strength, travel, grave, desires fulfilled through a prosperous journey
    Horseshoe: Luck, protection, travel, a lucky journey or success in marriage
    Hour glass: Caution, imminent peril
    House: Success
    Human Figures: judged by what they appear to be doing
    Hummingbird: Communication, visitors

    Interrogation (mark of), doubt or disappointment
    Ivy: honour and happiness through faithful friends

    Jackal: a mischief maker of no account
    Jug: good health

    Kangaroo: a rival in business or love
    Kettle: death
    Key: Mysteries, enlightenment, security, prosperity, fertility, money, increasing trade, a good husband or wife
    Kite: a sign of lengthy travel leading to honour and dignity
    Knife: a warning of disasters through quarrels and enmity
    Knot: Manifestation, hindrance, marriage, binding, restriction

    Ladder: Turmoil, sun, ascent, descent, evolution, initiation, a sign of travel
    Leopard: a sign of immigration and subsequent success
    Letters: signifies news
    Lily: on top of cup, health and happiness, bottom, anger, strife
    Lines: indicate journeys and their directions
    Lion: Influence, royalty, power, strength, ferocity, greatness through powerful friends
    Lock: Obstacles, protection, safety, security

    Man: a visitor arriving
    Mermaid: misfortune, especially to seafaring persons
    Mirror: Reversal, moon, women, love, reflection, beauty, knowledge, transference, communication
    Monkey: deception in love
    Moon: (as a crescent), prosperity and fortune
    Mountain: Journeys, hindrances, powerful friends; many mountains, powerful enemies
    Mouse: Theft, danger of poverty through death or swindling
    Mushroom: Shelter, food, sudden separation of lovers after a quarrel

    Nail: Pain, anguish
    Numbers: very lucky, long life, good health, happy marriage

    Oblong figures: family or business squabbles
    Owl: Wisdom, an evil omen, indicative of sickness, poverty, disgrace

    Palm tree: good luck, children to a wife, marriage to a maid
    Parrot: Brashness, color, scandal, a sign of emigration for a lengthy period
    Peacock: Luxury, splendor, vanity, success and acquisition of property; a happy marriage
    Pear: great wealth and improved social position
    Pheasant: a legacy
    Pig: good and bad luck mixed
    Pigeons: important news if flying, if not, domestic bliss
    Pineapple: Hospitality, easy life
    Pine cones: Food, sustenance, winter
    Pine tree: continuos happiness
    Pistol: disaster
    Purse: Gain, money

    Rabbit: fair success in a city or large town
    Rat: treacherous servants, losses through enemies
    Raven: death for the aged, divorce, failure in business
    Razor: lovers quarrel and separation
    Reptile: Quarrels
    Rider: good news from oversees regarding finances
    Rifle: a sign of discord and strife
    Ring: Marriage, containment, eternity; if near clouds an unhappy marriage
    Rose: Love, lost love, richness of life, the past, a lucky sign denoting good fortune and happiness

    Salt: Purity, purification, money, stability, foundation, cleansing, healing
    Saw: trouble brought about by strangers
    Scales: Balance, justice, lawsuit
    Scissors: Quarrels, separations, illness, separation of lovers
    Serpents: spiteful enemies, bad luck, illness
    Shark: danger of death
    Sheep: success, prosperity
    Shell: Creativity good luck, money, prosperity, emotional stability
    Ship: Increase, travel, news, successful journey
    Skull & Crossbones: Death, resurrection, comfort, consolement
    Snake: Wisdom, eternity, masculinity, a man, secrecy, knowledge, or a bad omen. Great caution should be exercised
    Spider: Very good fortune, cunning, secrecy, hidden things, a sign of money coming
    Spoon: Luck
    Squares: comfort and peace
    Star: Excellent luck, divine protection, fortune, wealth, high honors, respectability, success, surrounded by dots foretells great fortune
    Straight Line: a very pleasant journey
    Straight Lines denote peace, happiness and long life
    Swallow: a journey with a pleasant ending
    Swan: Good luck, a lover, a happy marriage
    Sword: Life, death, conflicts, arguments, negativity, disputes, quarrels between lovers
    Sword (broken): Victory over an enemy

    Timber: Logs of timber indicate business success
    Toad: deceit and unexpected enemies
    Tree: Good luck, forces of nature, age, stability, power, prosperity, and happiness
    Triangle: One point up-good luck and unexpected legacies, one point down-bad luck
    Turtle: Sluggishness, fertility, retreat, stagnation
    Twisted Figures: disturbances and vexation

    Umbrella: annoyance and trouble
    Unicorn: scandal

    Vulture: bitter foes

    Wagon: a sign of approaching poverty
    Wavy Lines: Denotes losses and vexation
    Well: Spirituality, inspiration, Mother Nature, love
    Wheel: Seasons, reincarnation, completion, endings, forever, an inheritance about to come
    Windmill: success in enterprise
    Wolf: beware of jealous intrigues
    Woman: pleasure and happiness, several women indicates scandal
    Wood: a speedy marriage
    Worms: indicate secret foes, pleasure and happiness

    Yew Tree: death of an aged person leaving his legacy to you

    Zebra: travel and adventure in foreign lands

 

Although included in the above lists, there are certain figures and symbols which are a common occurrences and bear such definite interpretation that it is advisable to refer to them here in detail.

* Invariably signs of approaching good fortune: triangles, stars, clover leaves, anchors, trees, garlands and flowers, bridges or arches, and crowns.
* Invariably signs of threatened ill luck: coins, clouds, crosses, serpents, rats and mice, some wild beasts, hourglasses, umbrellas, church steeples, swords, guns, ravens, owls, and monkeys are all ominous symbols.

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From: MSN NicknameLadySylvarMoonSent: 11/17/2006 10:02 PM
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Divination Symbols

Reading symbols (archetypes) is subjective at best. When interpreting symbols, use your psychic abilities to get more information. You can also use a Dream Book or a book that details symbols and archetypes to get further clarification of the images you see. As consciousness is evolving, so too are the meanings of most symbols. Try to view them as holograms.

List of Symbols

ACORN - at the top means success and gain: At the bottom means good health.

AIRCRAFT - journey; if broken means danger of accident; can also mean a rise in position

ANCHOR - cross, Jesus, at top rest, stability, constancy; at bottom means clouded, inconstancy

APPLE - computer, knowledge, achievement

AXE - difficulties; if at top overcoming of difficulties

BABY - something new, pregnancy

BALL - completion, variable fortunes

BELL - harmonics, creation, spiritual, unexpected news

BIRDS - ascension, good news, bird headed beings

BOAT - lifepath, (note size and speed of boat), and visit from a friend, protection

BOOK - you will find your answer by something written, if open it's good news; if closed you need to investigate something

BUTTERFLY - transition, transformation, Butterfly Effect

CANDLE - sacred light, creational flame, help from others

CAT - deceit, a false friend, Cat Headed Beings

CELEBRITIES - To see the face of a celebrity, may link to that person's destiny or the initials of their names

CHAIN - DNA, engagement, a wedding, chain link, karma

CHAIR - a guest

CIRCLE - success, completion

CLOCK - alchemy of time and consciousness, better health

COIN - change in financial status

CROSS - protection, sacrifice

CUP - reward, bloodlines

DAGGER - warning, danger from self or others, power

DOG - friend, Sirius, celestial connotation, Egyptian god, Anubis

DOOR - opening (to something new) or closing (old issues and relations), spiritual (portal)

DUCK - money coming, a man named Bill, 'ducks in a row'

EGG - good omen, creation, new beginnings, sacred geometry

ELEPHANT - wisdom, strength, luck, Ganesh, trunk up indicates overcoming obstacles

ENVELOPE - message coming, positive or negative

EYE - creation - open (awakening) - closed (something not seen)

FAN - hand held (pleats) - rotary (4, time divination, numerology)

FEATHER - ascension

FENCE - limitations, minor setbacks, not permanent

FINGER - which finger, pointing in what direction,pointing to god

FIRE - sacred flame, at top achievement; at bottom danger of haste

FISH - Jesus, Creation - Vesica Pisces, Amphibious Gods, good fortune, Christ Consciousness, return of the soul to higher frequency or god

FLAG - denotes nationality

FLY - domestic annoyance

FORK - speak with false tongue, false flattery

FORKED LINE - decision

FRUIT - fruitful, prosperity (depends on the fruit which goes to seeds and planting something new)

GATE - opportunity, future success, ancient civilization, portal, doorway

GLOW - enlightenment

GOAT - be careful of enemies

GUN - anger, sex

HAMMER - hard work needed, getting a point across

HAND - of god, creation, if open means friendship; if closed means an argument

HARP - creational harmonics, love, harmony

HAT - head, consciousness, improvement

HAWK - Horus, jealousy

HEART - chakra, pleasure, love, trust, compassion

HORSE - if galloping means good news; if just the head means a lover or nebula, new

HORSESHOE - good luck, attraction, Earth's magnetics, Omega or Leo, closure

HOURGLASS - time running out, need to decide something, synchronicity, illusion, creation

HOUSE - security, change, success

ICEBERG - danger, planetary meltdown, ice age, consciousness frozen in Time

INSECT - depends which one

JEWELS - DNA, Pearls, Diamonds, Star Tetrahedron, sacred geometry, gifts

KANGAROO - harmony at home

KITE - wishes coming true, flying free

KNIFE - broken friendship, hidden enemy

LADDER - promotion, a rise or fall in life, DNA

LAMP - turned on means enlightenment, at the top means a feast; at the side means secrets revealed; at the bottom means postponement

LEAF - new life

LINES - if straight means progress; if wavy means uncertain path

LION - Leo, Omega, Closure, influential friends, strength, Zoroaster

LOCK - obstacles if closed - new information unfolding if open, lock and key are phallic symbols of creation

LOOP - loops of time and creation, avoid impulsive actions, slinky effect

MASK - something hidden

MOUNTAIN - obstacles or a specific area

MOUSE - theft, computer

MUSHROOM - at top means journey or moving to the country; near bottom means rapid growth; if reversed means frustration, psychedelics

NAIL - injustice, unfairness

NECKLACE - DNA, complete, admirers; if broken means danger of losing a lover

NEEDLE - recognition, admiration, sewing, eye, weaving

OAK - health, long life, tree of life

OCTOPUS - danger, 8, infinity

OSTRICH - travel, not seeking a truth

OWL - gossip, scandal, aliens owl symbology

PALM TREE - success, honor, place were they grow

PARASOL - open (you will glean insightful information), closed (something hidden), raining (water symbology of creation)

PARROT - repeating something, a twin, a journey, people talking and saying nothing

PIG - greed

PURSE - at top means profit; at bottom means lose

QUESTION MARK - need for caution

RABBIT - need for bravery, time and illusion, Alice in Wonderland

RAKE - watch details, planting seeks, reap what you sow

RAVEN - bad news, death that leads to new beginnings

RING - phone call, coming full circle, near the top means marriage or the offer of marriage; at bottom means long engagement; if broken means engagement broken off

ROSE - Rose bloodline, creation, flower of life, love, may be accompanied by a fragrance in the room

SAW - interference, tear apart, something viewed

SCALE - legal issues; if balanced means just result; if unbalanced means unjust result

SCISSORS - quarrels, possibly separation

SHEEP - good fortune

SHELL - good news, nautilus, golden ratio, sea of creation

SHOE - sole/soul, condition of shoe is important, transformation

SNAKE - DNA, wisdom, or if the snake is attacking, an enemy

SPIDER - weaving together, Spider Woman Prophecies

STAR - health and happiness, hope, heavens, Isis and other goddesses, female energies,

SUN - happiness, success, power

SWORD - arguments

TABLE - social gatherings, UFO platform, outside the box

TENT - travel, cover, hidden truth

THIMBLE - changes at home

TORTOISE - criticism, usually beneficial, slow moving, Turtle Island (Earth)

TREE - improvements, of life, creation, book of life, your life path

TRIANGLE - something unexpected, 3 in a relationship, pyramids, 3, third dimension

URN - wealth and happiness

VASE - a friend needs help

VOLCANO - harmful emotions

WAGON - a wedding, wagon wheels (wheels within wheels)

WASP - romantic problems

WATERFALL - prosperity

WHEAT - abundance

WHEEL - if complete means good fortune; if broken means disappointment

WINGS - messages, winged beings

WOLF - jealousy

YOKE - domination

ZEBRA - adventure, especially overseas, black and white


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