Vision: Seeing an ox at work in the field: you will meet a very influential person and the relationship will be useful to you. Seeing an ox pulling a cart means hard work and a handsome payoff. Hearing the bellowing of the ox: be careful, there is danger afoot. Being attacked by an ox: an influential person becomes hostile. Watching an ox being slaughtered: beware of an impending illness; watch for physical symptoms. This dream also urges you to be less selfish and think more of others.
Depth Psychology: The ox represents clumsiness and being earthbound, and sometimes also being naive.
For older people, the dream is a sign of diminishing sexuality. Are you working like an ox? Acting like one? Do you think of yourself as a “dumb ox”? [1]
To see fat oxen in green pastures, signifies fortune, and your rise to positions beyond your expectations.
If they are lean, your fortune will dwindle, and your friends will fall away from you.
If you see oxen well-matched and yoked, it betokens a happy and wealthy marriage, or that you are already joined to your true mate.
To see a dead ox, is a sign of bereavement.
If they are drinking from a clear pond, or stream, you will possess some long-desired estate, perhaps it will be in the form of a lovely and devoted woman.
If a woman she will win the embraces of her lover.
Symbol of physical strength—though docile and subjected to reason—the ox occupied in ancient Egyptian religion a key place: Apis, of bovine appearance, was the god of fertility. According to modern esoteric interpretation, dreaming of oxen signifies that the subject feels obedient; eating it, loss and suffering; letting them graze, happiness; to see them yoked to plow augurs success and profits; and to see them dragging a cart, emergence of influential friends and professional unions. [3]
Hard work.
Ability to make progress.
Reliability.
Service or servitude.
The idea of thankless work.
Oppression or repression (by self or others).
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 man who dreams of seeing a fine yoke of oxen may look forward to success both as a business man and a lover. He will probably receive more attentions from the gentler sex than he will appreciate.
Lovers’ devotion is indicated by a dream of oxen drinking at a pleasant stream of water. [5]
2. Toilsome change;
3. Strength of man;
4. Believer;
5. Time to plough; 1 Kings 19:19; Job 1:14; Prov. 7:22. [11]
2. Ability to bear or carry a burden, emotionally or physically. [13]