Dream Interpretation: Cattle Symbolism and Meaning
Overview of Cattle in Dreams
Cattle in dreams often symbolize prosperity, happiness, and relationships. However, their physical condition and behavior in the dream provide more specific interpretations.
Good-Looking and Fat Cattle
Seeing healthy, well-fed cattle contentedly grazing in green pastures is a positive omen, indicating prosperity, happiness, and harmony. This dream also suggests that a pleasant and congenial companion will contribute to your overall joy.
Lean and Poorly Fed Cattle
If the cattle are lean, shaggy, or poorly fed, it serves as a warning about misspent energy and a dislike for the details of your work. This dream encourages you to correct your habits and pay more attention to your tasks to avoid a lifetime of toil.
Stampeding Cattle
Dreaming of cattle stampeding suggests that you will need to use all of your commanding powers to keep your career on a profitable course. It's a call to exert control over your professional life to avoid potential pitfalls.
Herd of Cows at Milking Time
Seeing a herd of cows during milking time signifies wealth and success, particularly in business. This dream implies that you will benefit from the hard work of others, leading to substantial profit.
For Young Women
For a young woman, this dream suggests that her romantic affections will be reciprocated by her chosen partner, ensuring a happy and secure relationship.
Milking Cows with Full Udders
If you dream of milking cows with full udders, it indicates great fortune and prosperity in the near future. This is a sign of success and abundance.
Calf Stealing Milk
If the calf has stolen the milk in your dream, it signifies a potential loss in love or business. The dream warns that you may lose a lover due to slow reciprocation of feelings or lose property from neglecting business matters.
Young Calves
Seeing young calves in your dream is a positive sign of becoming a favorite in society and winning the heart of a loyal person. It also indicates profit in business and strong bonds in relationships.
Poor Calves
If the calves are in poor condition, it suggests that while success is possible, the object of your desire will be harder to achieve.
Vicious Long-Horned and Dark Cattle
Dreaming of vicious, long-horned, and dark cattle indicates the presence of enemies. These adversaries may challenge you, so be cautious in your personal and professional life.
See Also: Calves.
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To dream of milking a cow is an indication that you will be fortunate in both business and love, in proportion to the amount of milk secured.
If the cow proves to be dry, or nearly so, coolness is likely to develop in your affair of the heart, and your business will probably decline.
It is a fortunate augury to sec calves in a dream, and yearlings indicate prosperity.
[2]If your dream is of cattle with long horns and black, or black and white, it is an omen to keep a close watch on your business to prevent losses.
A herd of cattle feeding in a pasture denotes that your life and your income will be easy. But if you are forcing the cattle to go somewhere they do not wish to be, you will find you must work harder and harder to maintain your present level of income.
[3]Dreams of cattle symbolize that you are going along with the crowd, following the leader, and feeling a lack of individuality. This dream may be telling you to maintain your individuality as you proceed with your projects and relationships. Alternatively, you might be discovering strength and power in your affiliation with a group or tribe. Consider the feeling tone.
See Also: Cow.
[4]Dream Interpretation: Cattle and Its Significance
Overview of Cattle Symbolism in Dreams
The meaning of dreaming about cattle depends largely on the action taking place within the dream. Cattle symbolize prosperity, effort, and business affairs, with different interpretations depending on their behavior and appearance.
Peaceful Cattle
If the cattle are peacefully grazing, this is a good omen, indicating that prosperity will come easily without much effort. It represents a period of comfort and success with minimal challenges.
Driving Cattle
If you dream of driving cattle, success is still possible, but it will require hard work, diligence, and perseverance. The dream suggests that through effort and determination, you will achieve your goals.
Black or Large-Horned Cattle
Seeing black or large-horned cattle in a dream indicates that your business affairs need closer attention. There may be risks or potential losses that can be avoided if you carefully manage your professional endeavors.
See Also: Prosperity, Success, Business, Hard Work, Effort
[5]Dreaming of any kind of cattle augurs wealth and abundance. The larger the cattle the greater this heritage. (See Also: HERD)
Grazing cattle promises fortune. Thin animals foresee hard times; fat ones,
prosperous future; a large herd, agitation.
[6]A cow gives birth to a calf: your wildest dream will come true • A cow or a group of cows climb uphill: your good fortune is rising • A cattle comes to your home: prosperity and nobility enter your life • A buffalo comes
[7]A sign of prosperity in business, but if you see yourself driving Cattle, it shows that you have to work hard. Black Cattle, however, show trouble in business, owing to the unfortunate colour.
[8]A dream of prosperity (Gypsy); “cattle over a thousand hills/’ we read as the symbol of success in the Old Testament.
A sexual dream, declares Freud.
[9]You may expect a prosperous and interesting future if you dream of well-conditioned cattle grazing in pleasant pastures.
[10]You will become rich and fortunate. Black and big-horned cattle indicate enemies of a violent nature.
[11]To dream you see cattle feeding, denotes great prosperity and unexpected success; to a lover it foretells a happy marriage, with many children, and to the man it shows that his wife will receive some unexpected legacy. To dream you are driving cattle, denotes that you will become rich by industry; if you are in love it shows that you have many rivals, but that you will distance them all.. To dream you see fat cattle, also denotes a plentiful year. To dream you see lean and hungry cattle, denotes scarcity and famine.
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black: troubles ahead in business.
drinking, one steer: object sought wil be difficult to acquire.
driving: must work hard for future ahead of you.
fat, grazing: wil have a fruitful year with a jol y companion.
fighting: happiness within the family.
fire, killed in a barn: infirmity and stalemate of affections.
followed by: correct your habits.
herd of, a: are entering into a contract that wil gain you respect.
gathering together: a fortune from sales of futures.
many: wil lose lover by not responding to his advances.
milking: wil earn money.
skinny, having: wil be very short of money from misspent youth.
lean: wil be in want of provisions.
many: prosperity according to the number of cattle.
other colors, of: wil be adored by a loyal society person.
running steer: must stampede to keep your career profitable.
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