A shepherd alone means losses or diminished prosperity.
Depth Psychology: The shepherd is your guide. He has the power to unite the contradictions in your personality.
The dream is a challenge to accept your own conflicting attributes and strengthen your inner equilibrium. [1]
If the shepherd is seen with a flock, the flock represents those people whom you guide, or the characteristics within yourself over which you are exerting management.
Gentle love and concern that always maintains a respectful distance. [2]
To see them in idleness, foretells sickness and bereavement. [5]
(2) It may be an animus figure (See also: Brother/ Sister, sections (4)-(6)). [7]
If the flock is there also, then the presence of the Shepherd increases your difficulties, but will not stop your ultimate success. [8]
See also: farmer within this entry; Christ under archetypes. [12]
2. Someone is leading the dreamer in a good direction. [13]
being far away from his flock: misfortune wil be brief, leading to a long and healthy life.
farmer dreaming of a: need outside support from your unusual y bountiful harvest.
leading herd of sheep to pasture: are ful enough to give spiritual nurturance to others.
through a forest: wil find valuable things if you dig in the underbrush.
living in a forest: profit from a secret wel -kept and wel -cultivated.
losing some of his flock: your preoccupation with your own affairs neglects your work.
several, gathering flocks: honor of short duration on your route to success.
watching: good earnings ahead if you take yourself seriously.
very young: prosperity and good reputation wil take years of minor upsets to develop.
whose flock is scattered: big earnings wil be taken from you bit by bit. [18]
A shepherd in a dream also represents a high rank, a position of authority, or justice toward others.
(See also: Righteous people) [19]