Worthiness (e.g., “a man worth his salt”). This saying actually dates back to ancient Rome where soldiers were paid in salt because it was so valuable.
Zest, or spicing things up.
Longevity and endurance. Salt is a natural preservative.
Cleansing. In the Middle Ages, priests commonlv consecrated altars with salt, and salt can be used as an effective cleanser because of its gritty nature.
Painful reminders (e.g., “throwing salt in an open wound”).
Being true to self and others, in word and deed (e.g., people who are the “salt of
the earth”).
Tossing salt over your shoulder in a dream is a protective gesture, so look to see on what or whom the salt lands.
Arabic: Promises made and kept. In ancient times, travelers in Arabia would take an oath of salt upon entering a home, as a way of saying they wouldn’t harm anyone therein, or overstay their welcome. [1]
If it appears in dreams, it could indicate that your ambitions are stagnated and immobile. Generally, it would be convenient to abandon passivity and try to nourish your dreams. The dream reflects that you live too conservatively. On the other hand, salt in dreams could also have other meanings, such as the spiritual essence of life: preservation and indestructibility, what remains after the decomposition of the body. It may also refer to sadness or to the subconscious, as it is in tears and seawater. Lastly, if you are offering or receiving this product, it is a sign of friendship.
Salt has been used throughout history as a symbol of spiritual illumination. When it is mixed with water and the crystals are dissolved, the salty taste remains. The same occurs with the soul: the individual can die or disappear, but the essence remains intact. [2]
2- As a symbol of permanence and incorruptibility salt is important in dreams. As in the old days salt was paid as salary; so nowadays to be given salt is to be given one’s correct worth. There are many customs associated with salt. Il is thrown over the shoulder, supposedly in the face of the Devil. In Scotland, along with coal and bread, it is the firsl thing to pass over the threshold to greet the New Year.
3- As a distillation of everything we know, salt represents wisdom. [3]
If salt and pepper figure in a dream this signifies duality and a balance of positive and negative elements. A salt shaker relates to an opportunity you may have recently had to improve a situation or a relationship. [4]
Dreaming of salt will denote that things around you will get a little fouled up and slightly askew, to put it mildly. You will find quarrels in the family and with friends break out at the drop of a hat with little or no provocation. Should you be salting meat in your dream then will you find that debts you owe begin to fall behind and you get continually harassed over them. [5]
To salt meat, portends that debts and mortgages will harass you.
For a young woman to eat salt, she will be deserted by her lover for a more beautiful and attractive girl, thus causing her deep chagrin. [7]
Adding salt to food might represent making things more interesting or “spicing things up” somehow in your life.
Salt used to melt ice or snow could represent: dissolving or getting rid of something unwanted (problems, nuisances, etc.), the ability to “get traction” to make progress somehow in your life (or a desire for such).
If you associate an individual with the salt in your dreams you may be giving that person the attributes that were just mentioned. [10]
As one of the three primary elements of matter in alchemy representing—in contrast to mercury and sulfur—the principle of fixity and solidity, salt symbolizes someone who is steadfast and dependable, “the salt of the earth.” [12]
If you see yourself salting meat in your dream, you’ll soon find yourself falling behind in debts you owe, and being harassed because of them. [13]
2. If tasting salt, one is bitter over something.
3. If salt is being poured into an open wound, one is experiencing some type of agonizing situation in waking life. [15]
2. Covenant acceptable;
3. Rejected;
4. Memorial;
5. Barrenness (over dosage of salt) Mark 9:50; 2 Chronicles 13:5; Gen 19:26; Ezekiel 47:11; [19]
The person who holds the salt in your dream is dependable and has your best interests at heart. [21]
2. Covenant;
3. Seasoning
4. Believers as we are the salt of the earth; Prov. 12:3; Exod. 20:5. [23]
See also: Attic Salt, etc. [24]
If common salt becomes spoiled in a dream, it means that a plague, injustice, or a drought will befall the people of that locality. Salt in a dream also signifies hard work, or an illness. Table salt in a dream also means asceticism, renunciation and detachment from the material world. It also means blessings, honesty and comfort. Eating bread with salt in a dream means contentment with little from this world.
A salt shaker in a dream represents a good and a dutiful woman. Discovering salt in a dream means adversities and a severe illness. Salt in a dream also represents balance, usability of things and acceptability of everything. This includes knowledge, religion, wife, money, child and lawful earnings. Salt in a dream also means appeasement of one’s fear, peacefulness, developingpatience and forbearance. Salt in a dream also represents a medicine, a remedy, drugs, love, tenderness, unity, compassion, earning suspicious money, or a conspiracy. Receiving a fish preserved in salt in a dream means good news. Olives treated with salt in a dream means recanting one’s promise. [32]
adding, to food: entertain, but do not interfere with another’s affairs.
being a, merchant: wil make a fixed amount of money as need is steady.
buying: dependable earnings wil last a long time for steadfast work.
cooking food with: wil receive a mild attack of food poisoning.
of: share your abundant vitality on solid foundations.
pillar of: bury past hurts caused by jealousy on your part and move on.
spilling: are on the right path to money if you throw salt over your shoulder.
others: give no one an opportunity to quarrel over their dissatisfaction.
sprinkling, on a bird’s tail: wil feel a deep dampening of your social exposure.
using a, shaker: wil throw yourself wholeheartedly into the study of science.
on food: religious arguments over errors you wish not to be downcast about.
too much: wil miss the perfect opportunity amidst the many offers. [33]