A carpenter in a dream represents a teacher or an educator. Seeing a carpenter in a dream also means curbing off the intentions of hypocrites and obliging them to comply with what is correct. Constructing a canoe in a dream means travels. Building a water-wheel in a dream means profits from real estate, building a mill in a dream means disputes. Fixing a door latch in a dream means marriage or children. Building a plow in a dream means farming.
(See Also: Construction worker)
[1]Dreams of a carpenter symbolize your ability to take life into your own hands and create your life the way you want it to be. Generally these dreams are calling you to enjoy fully the abundance that surrounds you. Consider the feeling tone of this dream, it may be showing you that you are hammering, controlling and pushing too hard to get the results you desire.
[2]The appearance of a carpenter in a dream may suggest that you arc ready to build something new in your life or make an addition to your present plan for the future. He may come to help you make some changes in your thinking patterns in order to construct a new attitude about yourself or your life.
A carpenter may appear to represent Jesus and his salvation.
[3]The creative but practical part of us; the side of us which tends to create with old ideas and attitudes (the wood) but which perhaps is not very radical; sometimes the self.
See Also: Christ under archetypes.
[4]To see a carpenter, or dream that you are a carpenter, is a very good dream symbol. It implies that you are confronting and overcoming your obstacles, and that you will have love, respect and happiness.
[5]To dream about being a carpenter suggests that you are dealing with difficulties. On the contrary, it also indicates that you should alter your way of thinking or change the way you behave.
[6]This busy fellow is one of the happiest symbols you can dream up.
Whether you were one, observed one, or hired one, you will have love, respect, leisure, and the means to enjoy it!
[7]To exercise a carpenter’s job, good manual skills as well as some artistic sensitivity are needed. The dream is telling you to enhance these qualities in order to progress.
[8]To see carpenters at their labor, foretells you will engage in honest endeavors to raise your fortune, to the exclusion of selfish pastime or so-called recreation.
[9]See Also: Wood. Architect, builder of the roof— in other words, consciousness, intellect, and the mind. One who builds knowledge and awareness.
[10]To watch a carpenter at work denotes the need for diligent application to your own occupation if you wish to succeed.
[11]1. Able to overcome obstacles.
2. Carefully view one’s life with a critical eye (how did one build it?).
[12]Building your life. Repairs, maintenance, additions, subtractions; see what you are doing and what is needed.
[13]To see workmen busily engaged is a sign that you will overcome your difficulties.
[14]A man who subdues people. He has great influential powers.
[15]One who builds up others; see “construction”
[16]1. Jesus;
2. Builder. Matt. 13:55.
[17]lucky numbers: 06-09-13-22-23-45
auger, drilling with an: a tiresome companion wil extend his stay.
bandsaw, using a: wil win praise from your employer before long.
being at work: legitimate success in financial matters for shaping ideas.
chisel, using a: wil mislay important papers that define your design.
buying a: wil obtain desires through energetic work.
drawknife, shaving wood with a: heartening support wil come from creditors.
drill, using a: are overcoming the shyness, which precluded your forming relationships.
fixing the house: forget frivolity, get straight to the source.
hiring: unexpected and pleasant occurrences arriving with a bang.
lathe, operating a: your fortune is in the ideas you favor.
lever, using a: your strength wil be enhanced once the plane is level.
sandpaper, finishing with: your imagination covers too vast an area to be productive.
tack, pounding: care for your reputation; your quick, sharp wit may be infamous.
pulling out a: arguments with your employer.
vise, using a: a task being squeezed to a forced conclusion.
working busily: wil use practical wisdom to unlock the intuitive unknown.
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