Vision: Seeing doves: you are either lucky at the game table, or you will receive very pleasant news. Feeding doves: your altruism is much appreciated. Seeing doves on a roof: a warning to be satisfied with what you have. Hearing doves cooing: you are making peace with a loved one; also you will be given advice and you must follow it. Watching doves in the sky: your contact with important people makes new connections possible.
Depth Psychology: The dove is the bird of Eros, and also of Venus, a symbol of tender love. Are you longing for more peace, contentment, or harmony? Follow your inner voice! See Bird. Flying. [2]
A symbol of peace and creative thoughts. Doves can also be experienced as spirits or demons that one is unable to shed. In that sense, the dove is also a symbol of fear and disgust.
In the Christian Church the white dove is the symbol for the Holy Ghost and is usually female. According to Early Christian understanding, the dove is also the opposite of the Snake. According to Jewish tradition, the dove is the messenger of God. Today the “Christian- influenced” image of the dove of peace is a particularly favorite notion, as described in the best-selling book Jonathan Livingston Seagull. [3]
(2) It may also symbolize love, including sexual love. (Doves were sacred to goddesses of love - Astarte, Aphrodite, Venus - and appear today on Valentine cards.)
(3) If the dove speaks, take this as a word of advice or warning from your unconscious. (In ancient times doves were regarded as having oracular powers, bringing messages from the spirit-world. In psychological terms the ‘spirit-world’ is ‘the unconscious’.) [4]
Someone with gentle, loving words.
Peaceful offerings and reconciliation, as in the Biblical story of Xoah and the Ark.
A common emblem of the Holy Spirit among Christians. Cooing: A Victorian emblem of love or romance.
In Asia Minor, these birds represent the fertile, feminine aspect of our personality or the Universe.
Among Slavic peoples, doves bear the souls of the departed. As such, this may be an alternative ghost dream. [5]
Hope.
Commitment or loyal partnership.
A promise.
Optimism.
Dreaming of this animal can represent too much or not enough of one of those qualities, or someone or something you associate with the quality or animal.
Consider also the animal’s actions, context, and your feelings about it.
A flock of doves predicts sudden travel or the return of an old friend from a distance.
The cooing of doves promises reciprocal love, but the voice of a turtledove heralds some approaching sadness. [7]
Its presence in dreams predicts happiness in romantic relationships.
If you see the dove in flight, you may receive new from a loved one. [9]
A dove is also a messenger of peace. In that doves coo, they may bnng the power of romantic love into your life.
Feeding is an augury of a happy outcome to a love affair.
A dead dove portends the death or unfaithfulness of a husband or wife. [13]
A dove is also the Christian symbol for Jesus and/or Christ consciousness as well as the Masonic symbol of power. [14]
It is also a representation of the anima. [15]
A dove may also be symbolic of a young woman, Song. 2:14 [16]
2. A message, usually of a spiritual nature.
3. Peace, often domestic in nature. [17]
See also: Bird.
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2. Innocent; Matt. 10:16 [21]