What does it mean to dream about journey?

The archetypal structure of a path underlying many dreams—movement through trials to transformation.

The Journey as an archetype, as opposed to a specific travel plot, reflects the very basic structure of psychic growth—the cycle of departure, trial, and returning transformed. This is a universal pattern underlying the individuation process.

What it might feel like

anticipation, determination, a feeling of the path's significance

When this dream tends to come

Often arrives at significant stages of personal growth requiring passing through a trial to a new form of oneself. Perhaps you are currently exactly at such an archetypal point on the path—between exiting the old and finding the new.

Questions worth sitting with

At what stage of the journey—departure, trial, return—do you currently feel yourself to be?
What has already been passed, and what is still ahead on this path?
What transformation is happening in you through current life experiences?

Try today

Determine which stage of the archetypal path (departure/trial/return) you are on right now, and what is needed to transition to the next.

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