Usually, a castle is the symbol of spiritual strength and vigilance. Its analysis is complex because it also derives from HOUSE; and the fact of being located on the top of a hill adds additional information. Furthermore, its shape, appearance, and color, as well as its darkness or luminous appearance, provide the final details for its interpretation. Therefore, the meaning of this dream is usually protection and transcendence. The condition of the castle as a solid fortress allows introspection, creativity, and spiritual contemplation. While the house represents the body, the castle symbolizes the soul.
Dreaming of a castle can also demonstrate a need for isolation that depending on the castle’s aspect, it may be positive or negative. To see the castle from the outside means that you still have some way to go but at the end of it, you will reach your goal. Conversely, if you dream that you live in the castle you will soon get spiritual wealth.
If the castle is impenetrable it will be equally difficult to get to know yourself.
To see a fortified castle means protection and virtue; and if it is closed, resistance. To enter it, uncertain hope or unexpected adversity. To live in it portends wealth. To besiege them is a sign of victory over enemies, both physical and spiritual.
[1](Fortress, Stronghold) In a dream, a castle means using the vehicle of truth. That is how the proverb “Truth is a castle” came about.
A castle in a dream also represents its owners, an army’s fortification, or it may represent knowledge, the Qur’an, or it could mean seeking refuge in God’s protection from the evils of the accursed Satan and his armies, such as deities, preposterous or exaggerated titles, etcetera.
The towers of a castle in a dream represent the leaders. Its battlement represents the solders and spies. Its gates represent the guards. Its fortress represents the minister. Its hospices and barns represent the clan or the coffers.
It is also said that a castle in a dream could represent an infallible and a strong person. Seeing it from a distance. means rising in rank or guarding one’s chastity.
[2]A castle in a dream may be symbolic of the “cavern of the heart.” It represents the home of the human spirit (yours) and the natural self. Dreams with castles in them may come from deeper levels of the unconscious, or the collective unconscious. They may represent spiritual transcendence and the mysterious and intangible force that seems to quietly, but firmly, direct our lives.
A castle in a dream may also represent feelings of security, protection, isolation or remoteness. You may have a castle dream when you have realized a desire or accomplished a goal. Darkened castles may be symbolic of unconscious or unfocused desires, at times, black castles represent our failures and white, or lighted castles, symbolize achievement and awareness. Home and ruling authorities within.Contained life.Group consciousness.
[3]To dream of a castle indicates that you will receive appreciation, admiration, and credit from your peers for a job well done. You will be showered with great joy and bliss and endowed with a large circle of close friends and family. You will enjoy prosperity and an elevated social status.
To dream that you live in a castle represents your desire for solace and safety. Be careful that you don’t distance yourself from those who love and care for you.
To dream of standing outside a castle indicates the awakening of a powerful source of wisdom within you at this time.
To dream of standing inside a castle suggests there may be a visit or connection with an authority figure. Be sure to listen to any advice given as this may lead to the unlocking of powerful energy and information leading you to fulfillment.
[4]When a castle features in your dream, it symbolizes honor and power, as well as recognition for things that you have accomplished. Dreaming of a castle also connects to the feminine principles of enclosed and defended spaces, and it can represent problems reaching your goals or the need for more security in waking life.
If you are trapped in a castle in your dream, this may indicate that you have problems freeing yourself from old habits or attitudes. Trying to enter a castle may signify obstacles that you need to overcome before you can progress in waking life.
See Also: BUILDINGS.
[5]See Also: Buildings
1- Dreaming of a castle links us right back to the feminine principle of the enclosed and defended private space. It can represent the fantastic or perhaps difficulty in obtaining our objectives.
2- Before we can be fully open to other people, we normally have to let down our barriers, and being trapped in a castle may represent our difficulty in freeing ourselves from old attitudes. Trying to enter a castle signifies that we recognise obstacles which have to be overcome.
3- Spiritual testing; overcoming obstacles in order to gain greater understanding.
[6]To dream of being in a castle, you will be possessed of sufficient wealth to make life as you wish. You have prospects of being a great traveler, enjoying contact with people of many nations.
To see an old and vine-covered castle, you are likely to become romantic in your tastes, and care should be taken that you do not contract an undesirable marriage or engagement. Business is depressed after this dream.
To dream that you are leaving a castle, you will be robbed of your possessions, or lose your lover or some dear one by death.
[7]Living in is an indication that you will have a suitor who is undesirable.
Entering is a premonition of marriage with someone you have known only a short time.
Leaving a castle alone betokens the breaking of an engagement; with a party, it is the sign of a quarrel that may or may not turn out disastrously.
Seeing a castle forecasts an impending change in your circumstances, either in love affairs or in finances.
[8]If you dream that you live in a magnificent castle and everyone obeys your every command, and grants your every wish, this foretells that you will have a happy, comfortable home with a loving and generous spouse. On the other hand, if the castle is old, and the brick work is crumbling, you will do well to curb any actions you are taking that may jeopardize your marriage, whether it be cheating, or temper fits.
[9]Vision: Looking at a castle: you have too much imagination and unrealistic dreams—a recipe for disappointment. Living in a castle: “pride goes before a fall.’’ Being a guest in a castle: you will meet a distinguished, influential person.
Depth Psychology: The castle is a warning of being too vain and ambitious.
[10]To dream of being in a castle, great ambitions and, by pursuing them, great wealth may be yours.
If you see an old castle, dilapidated but still beautiful, disappointment and frustration may disturb you temporarily.
If you live in a dream castle, tradition promises vast riches and holdings.
[11]If your dream involved visiting or living in a castle which was in habitable condition, it forecasts a comfortable future with interesting travel; however, if the castle in your dream was in ruins, you are being warned to curb your romantic pas* sions and/or your temper, whichever applies.
[12]As a house of royalty, a castle may show reward or honor bestowed to the dreamer in the form of recognition and praise for outstanding achievements. Alternatively, a castle may carry the same connotations as a fort, in which one defends oneself or walls oneself off from others.
[13]Ambition. You have high ideals and a great desire to advance yourself. Some Gypsies say that to dream of castles can also mean a coming journey that will take you where you have never been before. It could lead to adventure, opportunity mystery. Be ready for anything!
[14]Feelings of security or insecurity, our defensive attitudes; the way we defend ourself against ‘attack’; past attitudes which may have been necessary in childhood to defend ourselves while strengthening our identity.
[15]Dreaming of a castle links us to the principle of an enclosed and defended private space. Spiritually it suggests some kind of test or challenge or overcoming obstacles in order to gain greater understanding.
[16]This omen has varying meanings, but is generally held to indicate a quarrel through your own bad temper. In some places, it is said to show a marriage that opens well, but drifts into difficulties.
[17]Gives gender-specific: The castle represents the essential feminine wisdom so a woman is more likely to dream of being in a castle.
A man will tend to dream of trying to enter one.
[18]Dreaming of a castle indicates that you’re currently having a problem with controlling anger.
Dreaming of visiting a castle indicates you’ll soon be traveling.
[19]Castles are fortresses designed to keep enemies out. Thus, to dream of a castle indicates we may have built up a fortress to our perceived vulnerabilities in life.
[20]To dream of owning or living In a castle foreshadows a luxurious life in which your resources will enable you to live according to your personal desires or whims.
[21]Dreams of a castle forecast wealth and prominence. Also, dreams of a castle are a sign that your wishes will come true.
See Also: Fairy Tale.
[22]Material aspects: A castle can represent the fantastic, the unattainable or perhaps difficulty in obtaining our objectives.
[23]1. Fortress,
2. Fortified,
3. Stronghold (good or bad)
4. Beautiful Christian; John 14:2; Heb. 12:22;
[24]1. Fortified city; stronghold;
2. Safe refuge;
3. Name of the Lord;
Gen. 25:16; Acts 21:37; 23:10;
[25]1. If one is living in the castle, one has been rewarded for something.
2. One is dreaming of glory.
[26]Reach for your dreams. You can create all your dreams and bring them into reality.
[27]A secure fortress and retreat; the promise of future blessings
[28]To dream of a castle means good fortune is coming to you.
[29]Symbolic of a stronghold, 2 Kings 15:25
[30]See Also: House
[31]To dream of being in one, signifies that you will receive a legacy. To leave a castle, signifies desertion of friends and heavv loss. To view a castle from a distance, signifies that after expecting a legacy for years you will be disappointed about receiving it. If an unmarried person dream of a castle, he or she will remain single. To see a castle fall or besieged, signifies that you will suftr great losses from lawsuits.
[32]lucky numbers: 15-32-36-42-45-47
ancient: long-term investments need to be reviewed.
being a guest in a: a distinguished person wil influence you.
entering a: are madly in love with yourself; bring yourself into reality.
fortress of a: are wal ing yourself off from opportunity.
living in a: your overblown pride presages your fal .
looking at a: your expectations exceed your means.
of a: expect friends to visit your life of fewer restrictions and greater richness.
on fire: quarrels result from your bad temper; move to a better neighborhood.
residing in a: wil receive recognition for your outstanding achievements.
small: your imagination needs some realism.
under siege: are defending your quest for creative freedom.
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