Honey in Dreams: Symbolism of Abundance, Prosperity, and Divine Favor
General Meaning: Honey symbolizes the sweetness of the Lord, along with richness, abundance, prosperity, and luxury. It was considered a food of wealth and a delicacy, often associated with blessings and divine favor.
Positive Symbolism of Honey
- Honey is often associated with the promises of the Lord, as He spoke of giving honey as a sign of abundance.
- In ancient times, consuming honey was a symbol of luxury and wealth, as it was considered a delicacy.
- The Lord’s presence is often compared to honey, symbolizing His sweetness and beauty. It represents consuming His word and being filled with His anointing and goodness.
- Honey is also linked to knowledge and wisdom (Proverbs 24:14), and speaks of blessings and prosperity.
- In Numbers 13:27, the land flowing with milk and honey signifies the fruitfulness and abundance of God’s promise.
- The Song of Solomon 4:11 describes the Lord’s nature as sweet as honey, symbolizing love, intimacy, and His blessings.
Negative Symbolism of Honey
- In Revelation 10:10, a prophet eats a scroll that tastes of honey but becomes bitter in the stomach. This represents the fleeting sweetness of worldly pleasures.
- Those who seek after worldly pleasures may find temporary satisfaction, but it leads to bitterness and emptiness. The initial sweetness of sin turns sour, leaving behind a void.
- The taste of worldly pleasures may seem sweet for a moment, but it ultimately results in dissatisfaction, unlike the lasting sweetness of Christ.
See Also: Milk
[1]Honey Dream Interpretation
(Love) In a dream, honey represents lawful money, love, prosperity, or wealth which is accumulated from a business partnership, or from a successful business. As for a pious person, honey in a dream represents the delight of his religious life and good deeds, while for profane and worldly people, it means little earnings which are acquired through toiling and hardships. Ifone sees the skies raining honey in a dream, it means confirmation of the social order, fostering proper moral standards, easiness, religious assiduity, blessings and plenitude. Honey in a dream also could represent a husband and a wife, or their private moment, taking a rest, or engaging in a marital relationship. However, honey in a dream also means distress, trouble, bad-temper,jealousy, or worrying about people’s perfidy, for honey also attracts flies and wasps. Purified honey in a dream means relief after suffering from a depression, or recovering from a nervous breakdown, or giving birth to a child after completing a full pregnancy, or it could mean marrying a woman after she had observed her Iddah of either the passing of her husband or divorce (See Also: Iddah), or it could represent clean money, or earnings which are purified through paying the due alms and charities, or it could mean knowledge that is free from innovation, doubt or suspicion, or a final guidance after which there is no heedlessness. Purified honey in a dream also means hard earned money, a medicine, or the embrace and kisses of lovers. Licking honey in a dream means getting married. Eating bread and butter with honey in a dream means living a rich life.
[2]Honey Dream Interpretation
(See Also: Bees, Bread, Eating)
Fertility and productivity. In Egypt, honey was offered to Min, the goddess of productivity and abundance, to help people conceive children. Note, however, that fertility can apply to any project in which you’re currently engaged.
Youthful outlooks and energy. Tlie ancient Greeks ate honey believing it would extend life.
Creative inspiration. In Rome, this was an emblem of poetry and eloquence, especially with words.
For a writer or speaker, this is an excellent omen.
Honey also has strong associations with the sun, having mythologically been formed by the tears of the Egyptian sun god Ra, and therefore represents strength and authority.
Love, romance, and commitment.
The term honeymoon comes from the Teutonic tradition of celebrating marriage with a month of mead drinking; mead is a wine made with a base of honey.
[3]Honey Dream Interpretation
(1) Honey may symbolize sweetness, nutrition - that is, something within you offering you happiness or personal growth.
(2) It may symbolize the power of life or the force of nature within you. (In mythology, honey - like milk or the Hindu soma - is the life- giving fluid in all things: sap in trees, milk in mothers’ breasts, blood, etc.)
(3) Mythologically, honey is the food of gods. Eating it in a dream may therefore mean participating in divine consciousness - which in psychological terms means that total awareness that results from assimilating the unconscious; the total psyche’s (or seifs) awareness. (For Jung on ‘the SelP)
[4]Honey Dream Interpretation
1- Honey almost inevitably represents pleasure and sweetness.
To dream of honey and particularly eating it can be to recognise that we are needing to give ourselves pleasure. Equally, it can indicate the essence of our feelings, that we have been through some kind of joyful experience which can now be assimilated as part of ourselves.
2- Honey is supposed to impart fertility and virility.
To be dreaming of honey would indicate that we are perhaps entering a much more actively sexual or fertile time.
3- Immortality and rebirth are two symbols which belong to honey. As a healing substance it has the power to regenerate.
[5]Honey Dream Interpretation
An ancient symbol for rebirth. Wealth, food, and, from antiquity to modern times, it has had a special sexual implication.
(Mick Jagger’s “I Am a Honey Bee,” for example. Honey stands for the term “loved one.”) This symbol represents, in addition to sensuality, pleasure, luxury, well-being, and a general feeling of satisfaction. But it may also point to much work (“busy as a bee,” needed to collect honey). It may also be a sign of wellness, particularly in connection with milk, as in paradise, the land of milk and honey.
[6]Honey Dream Interpretation
Vision: Looking at honeycombs means good fortune in business matters. Eating honey means a lack of self-knowledge, the reason for your emotional complications, but recover)’ is in sight.
See Also: Bee.
Depth Psychology: Honey in a dream promises “sweet rewards” for emotional work you did.
The rewards are the direct result of the profound self-knowledge you have been able to achieve. Honey is also a symbol of serenity (which in itself is a symbol of emotional healing)!
[7]Honey Dream Interpretation
It can represent two things: first, sweetness, well-being, wealth, and happiness; secondly, honey is also the product of a complex process of production that bees follow in order to make it. Its meaning, therefore, is associated with personal growth, with effort in work. Finally, in the Far East, lies are called “poisoned honey.”
Honey is the food of the gods. This dream may indicate your desire to possess divine consciousness.
[8]Honey Dream Interpretation
To dream that you see honey, you will be possessed of considerable wealth.
To see strained honey, denotes wealth and ease, but there will be an undercurrent in your life of unlawful gratification of material desires.
To dream of eating honey, foretells that you will attain wealth and love.
To lovers, this indicates a swift rush into marital joys.
[9]Honey Dream Interpretation
The sweet taste of honey is like the sweet taste of success.
As a symbol, honey also means too much sweetness (“dripping like honey”).
A dreamer who experiences this symbol might need to be less vulnerable and more honest in communicating with others.
[10]Honey Dream Interpretation
It presents a person’s accumulated wealth. At times it is wealth that he hs inherited or will inherit. It also symbolises Islamic and Qur’aanic knowledge.
Any sweetmeats made of honey or sugar symbolises a person’s wealth and halaal rizq.
[11]Honey Dream Meaning
1. Strength;
2. Power; The power and enlightenment of the Holy Spirit;
3. Wisdom;
4. Partaking of the Promised Land
5. Pleasant experience. (Judges 14:14; Romans 5:6; Prov 24:5; Prov 27:7; 1 Samuel 14:29)
[12]Honey Dream Meaning
1. Purity and pleasure.
2. Great success in endeavors and industry, especially with the help of others.
3. Repressed need for better communication, assertiveness in expressing needs.
[13]Honey Dream Meaning
Most ancient as well as modem sources agree that this is an unusually favorable dream predicting domestic, social, and temporal sweetness which is manifestly as lucky as anyone can get
[14]Honey Dream Meaning
Dreams of honey signify sweetness, pleasure, flattery, healing and the nectar of life. You are connecting with the essence and substance of your soul.
[15]Honey Dream Meaning
Ealing honey is a prediction of the early realization of the joys of married life; or for married people a straightening out of difficulties with their inlaws.
[16]Honey Dream Meaning
Honey often indicates a sweet and pleasant nature.
To dream of honey suggests honesty in communication. It also reflects your delight and joy.
[17]Honey Dream Meaning
Dreaming of honey means you need to learn to be more honest with your friends. It also suggests a sensitive, emotional nature.
[18]Honey Dream Meaning
A dream of prosperity (Artemidorus). “A land flowing with milk and honey,” was the promised land of the Hebrews.
[19]Honey Dream Meaning
If you eat Honey, it is a good sign. As the Bees are industrious, so must you be, and then you will thrive.
[20]Honey Dream Meaning
Sweet experiences and good health are in your subconscious and most likely in your life.
[21]Honey Dream Interpretation
Symbolic of the law, teachings, testimony, and judgments of the Lord, Ps. 19:7-10
[22]Honey Dream Meaning
Sweet, nourishing words and deeds which draw the approval of others
[23]Honey Dream Meaning
Honey symbolises pure and lawful wealth and cure from sicknesses.
[24]Honey Dream Meaning
The essence of one’s experience; pleasure; sweetness.
[25]Honey Dream Interpretation
Sweetness in life; abundance.
See Also: Gold.
[26]Honey Dream Meaning
See Also: Food Fruit trees Metaphors.
[27]Honey Dream Interpretation
See Also: Eating/ Drinking.
[28]Honey Dream Interpretation
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being given: your fitness al ows you more independence and health.
eating: lack of self-knowledge wil deny you the sweet smel of success.
fingers sticky with: some of your group are so slow and deliberate they are embarrassing.
honeycombs: your vulnerability threatens your honesty in community affairs.
making, in the yard: your mate is kind, affectionate and attentive; honor that.
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