For a young woman to glide in a canoe across a canal, denotes a chaste life and an adoring husband.
If she crossed the canal on a bridge over clear water and gathers ferns and other greens on the banks, she will enjoy a life of ceaseless rounds of pleasure and attain to high social distinction. But if the water be turbid she will often find herself tangled in meshes of perplexity and will be the victim of nervous troubles. [1]
A desire to change. On the other hand, the canal also implies “draining,” which makes land productive. There is a desire to be cleansed and rinsed out in order to become productive again. This cleansing also suggests the desire to reduce feelings (water). In the end, this dream symbol represents a matter of “emotional economy.
The condition of the water is important. Clear water is positive and means health and energy. Cloudy water is negative and means illness and depression, as in Clouds, Abyss, and Ashes. [2]
A means of movement forward in your life.
Movement away from something (a situation, the past, etc.), or getting rid of something.
Movement toward something (a goal, the future, etc.).
A connection, such as between people, situations, or events.
A transition, such as between one phase and the next.
See also: Passageway, Flow or River, Water, Body of, Abyss, Drain [3]
Depth Psychology: The canal is a sign of your ability to consciously manage your cravings and passions, transforming them into intellectual or material goals. [4]
2- We need to structure our knowledge of ourselves to create a workable system.
3- Structure, definition, rigid belief. [5]
If the canal was full of water, the omen is good, especially or the water was sparkling clean.
If the canal was nearly empty or had filthy water, you need to cut your spending and make do with what you have.
If you passed through a lock in your dream, beware of a gossiper or traitor in your group of friends. [6]
If the dream featured canal locks, you*d better look for a cuckoo in your nest of friends.
An empty canal, however, warns of financial troubles - which can, however, be prevented. Look to other symbols in the dream to judge how such problems could be prevented. [8]
If the water is clean and clear, it is a fortunate sign, but if the water is muddy, or covered with weed, then it is an omen of coming trouble. [10]
If a horse pulls the boat, however complicated it becomes, it will eventually even out and flow smoothly again. [11]
2. Pregnancy.
3. Desire to take a trip. [21]
A canal in a dream also could signify a lavatory, sewage, a marketplace, or it could mean a shop. Thus, digging a canal in a dream also could mean prosperity and spending money to support one’s family and dependents. Blocking a canal in a dream means divorce, separation between husband and wife, cutting off one’s blood ties, leaving one’s homeland, or separation from one’s clan. Blocking a canal in a dream also means quitting one’s job or cancelling a debt, or it could mean closing a business. Seeing a watercourse running inside one’s house in a dream means blessings and prosperity. Urinating in a canal or a watercourse in a dream means committing a sin, engaging in unlawfulness or molesting a servant.
A canal in a dream also could represent the housekeeper who cleans people’s dirt, a street sweeper, or it could mean a forbidden marriage.
A dry canal in a dream signifies cessation of business, unsalable merchandise, a dead market or discord with one’s wife, suffering from a urinary bladder, or having kidney problems. Ifone digs a canal and no water runs through it in a dream, it means deception. [22]
clean, clear water: fortune is easily accessible with little variance from the goal.
constructing a: transform your passions into intel ectual goals.
covered with weeds: coming trouble you can’t control.
full of water: security is forthcoming.
lock, traveling through a: eliminate the sour grapes among your friends.
muddy water: minimize quality of life now to save money for old age.
ships passing through a: new contacts wil take you abroad.
walking along with a: your business affair has problematic il egalities.
mule, with a: transport your cravings into material goods.
water flowing in a small: your self-imposed emotional traumas need to flow. [23]