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Hunt / Huntsman Dream Meaning

1- Dreaming of being hunted is mostly taken lo be to do with one’s sexuality. Its even older meaning is linked with death, particularly a death containing an aspect of ritual killing or sacrifice. By association therefore, to dream of a hunt is to register the necessity for a change of state in everyday life.

To dream of being a huntsman alerts us to the part of ourselves which can be destructive and vicious.

Death and destruction, but in a ritualised setting is part of the spiritual journey VVe must ‘kill off” that part of ourselves which prevents us from going forward. [1]

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  1. Ten Thousand Dream Dictionary by Pamela Ball [Back to dream]

What does HUNT / HUNTSMAN mean in a dream?


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