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Dreaming of Feet
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Dreaming of feet is about your capacity to leave a situation. In the psyche, movement is never merely physical; a journey is the act of departing from one condition and entering another, and the means of that departure is what this symbol represents. Something about your ability to go elsewhere has entered the dream. If they carried you well, ask what freedom of movement you possess in your life and have not been using. If they were painful, examine what it has been costing you to keep moving. If they would not take you where you intended, notice how a person can be prevented from a departure by something in themselves. To be able to walk away is one of the great freedoms. This dream asks where you are trying to go, and whether you are able.
There is a question of ground in this image, and the psyche is precise about what you are standing on. What is beneath you determines everything about what you can do. If it was solid, ask what foundation in your life has been reliable and unremarked. If it shifted, examine what certainty has become unstable underneath you. If it hurt to stand, notice what position you are holding that is causing you damage simply by being maintained. If you could not feel the ground, the dream may be describing a disconnection from the practical basis of your own life. Everything a person does rests on what they are standing on. The dream asks what is under you, and whether it will hold.
There is a cancellation implied whenever this symbol appears damaged, and it is one of the most serious statements the inner world can make. To lose the means of departure is to lose the option of departure. If they were injured, ask what has removed your ability to move away from a situation you need to leave. If they were bound, examine what is holding you in a place you have already decided to go from. If they were taken from you, notice that the psyche is describing a loss of alternatives rather than a loss of limbs. If you could not move at all, the dream may be describing an entrapment in which no other course remains available to you. When a person cannot leave, everything else in their life changes shape. The dream asks what departure has become impossible, and who or what has closed it.
There is an exposure in this symbol that has nothing to do with modesty. What touches the ground is what has no protection, and to be bare in this way is to be in direct contact with a reality that most people insulate themselves from. If you were unshod, ask what situation you are meeting without any of your usual defenses. If it was painful, examine what you have been made to walk through without any protection at all. If it was pleasurable, notice how a person can be starved for direct contact with their own life. If you were ashamed, the dream may be describing an exposure of your circumstances that you have been concealing. Nothing is closer to the truth of a life than what has no covering. The dream asks what you have been walking through, and what it has done to you.
Dreaming of Bare Feet
Dreaming of walking without protection names a passage through your life with nothing between you and it. Everything is being felt directly. If it was joyful, ask what immediacy you have recovered that you had lost. If it was agonizing, examine what you are being made to endure without any of the buffers other people have. If you had no choice, notice how a lack of protection is very often a lack of resources rather than a virtue. If others were shod and you were not, the dream may be describing an inequality you have been quietly absorbing. To go unprotected is either freedom or deprivation, and only the dreamer can say which. The dream asks what you are feeling directly, and whether you chose to.
Dreaming of Injured Feet
Dreaming of damage to the means of departure names a loss of your ability to change your circumstances. You are hurt exactly where your options live. If you could not walk, ask what has removed your capacity to remove yourself. If each step cost you, examine what it is costing you to continue in a direction you have already committed to. If nobody helped you, notice the abandonment of a person who cannot move and is not carried. If the injury was old, the dream may be describing a limitation you have organized your entire life around. An injury to the means of leaving is an injury to every choice you have. The dream asks what has crippled your options, and what you have accepted as a result.
Dreaming of Feet That Will Not Move
Dreaming of an intact capacity that refuses to function names a paralysis that comes from inside. Nothing is stopping you but you. If you willed them and they would not obey, ask what departure you have decided on and are unable to execute. If something was approaching, examine what you are watching arrive while remaining immobile. If you were not frightened, notice how a person can be held in place by something that is not fear at all. If you had been standing there a long time, the dream may be describing a stasis that has become a way of life. There is a paralysis that fear causes and a paralysis that ambivalence causes. The dream asks what is holding you, and whether you have ever named it.
Dreaming of Washing Feet
Dreaming of cleaning the means of travel is a dream about tending to your own capacity to move. Something is being cared for, and it is the very thing that carries you. If someone else washed them, ask who in your life has attended to your ability to keep going. If you did it yourself, examine what self care has been quietly restoring you. If they were filthy, notice everything you have walked through and never washed off. If it was a relief, the dream may be describing a tending you have been badly in need of and rarely receive. The thing that carries you also has to be cared for. The dream asks what has been tended in you, and who did it.