(See Also: Bowl, Cauldron, Chalice, Circle)
The shape of a basket makes it a natural symbol of the womb, the feminine aspect, and pregnajicy.
If the basket is full, a sign of productivity and providence. Conversely, an empty-basket speaks of something in your life that is wanting for fulfillment.
WTiat specifically does the basket contain? If it’s filled with eggs, this can either portend productivity, or act as a warning not to “keep all your eggs in one basket.”
Harvest, fertility-, or unexpected surprises. Several important legends center around children found in floating baskets filled with rushes, including the story of Moses, and Romulus and Remus.
[1]Symbol: The basket is an ancient symbol for the womb. Vision: Holding an empty basket: be prepared for a disappointment in matters of love. Handing a basket to someone else: you are denying someone’s request or deciding against something. Looking at a flower basket: good times, great happiness, and a gift. Looking at a laundry basket: dishonest people are taking advantage of you.
Depth Psychology: A basket reflects an unconscious fear that you are going to be denied something or meet with rejection.
The basket also represents “the harvest of life,” the work you have accomplished.
[2]Container. Warmth and marriage.
The contents of the basket are important. Symbolically, the basket is connected to the element Earth, the same way the chalice is to water. In that sense, the basket always is connected to being grounded. Ask yourself if you are doing all right in your everyday existence. Do you have reason to be dissatisfied, or are you looking for security and more acceptance? According to psychoanalysis, the basket represents the female sexual organ in a man s dream.
[3]Dreams of an empty basket symbolize either receptivity or feelings of emptiness.
If the basket is filled, then whatever the basket is filled with represents the type of abundance you are experiencing in your life. Also, if you dream of weaving a basket, then this symbolizes your ability to weave together seeming random and misplaced aspects of yourself together into a unified, wholesome container. Consider the feeling tone.
See Also: Goddess Athena, Integration Dreams.
[4]A basket is a container, and the purpose it exhibits is the essence of the symbolic meaning. When you put things in a basket, you are more able to take them with you. In this way, a basket is a symbol of organization and efficacy around keeping with you what you desire. In a dream, a basket is asking you to consider how well you are able to contain all that you need. There is also an implication with this image that something will be or has been transported.
[5]For traditional psychiatrists, baskets, like almost any receptacle into which something can be put, can represent the female principle. Baskets have more general connotations with harvests, babies, baked goods, and so forth, any of which could be indicated, depending on what the dreamer sees in the basket during her or his dream. An empty basket, on the other hand, can symbolize a feeling of emptiness or a sense of lack. (See Also: Bag).
[6]1- To dream of a basket, particularly a full one, is to dream of full fruition and abundance. It can also represent the feminine closing principle.
2- To be attempting to fill a basket can mean that we are trying to increase our talents and abilities.
3- If the basket is full of bread it can represent sharing - as in a sacramental meal.
[7]As a symbol of the womb, if a woman dreams of a basket in which there is a baby, this points to a possible pregnancy.
If it is seen by a man, it is a sign that he should carry out projects he had in mind. A basket with flowers indicates joys for the couple; with bread, economic problems; and with spoiled fruit, long-term litigation.
[8](1) Like other receptacles and hollow things, a basket may be a symbol of the feminine.
See Also: Woman.
(2) A basket full of fruit or other provisions may symbolize well-being. An empty basket, besides symbolizing the feminine, might represent (unconscious feelings of) personal emptiness.
[9]To dream of seeing or carrying a basket means you will meet with unqualified success, if it is full.
If you see a brand-new basket in your dream, you are eager for more interesting experiences in your life.
If you carry an empty basket, you will meet with discontent or sadness.
[10]Gives gender-specific: Because of its connection with the feminine, in a man’s dream a basket can suggest domesticity or his caring nature. In a woman’s dream, if she finds the basket heavy, she may be finding her responsibilities a burden.
[11]Material aspects: If the basket is full of bread it can represent sharing – as in a sacramental meal.
If the contents are spilt, it signifies the possible failure of a venture or sometimes the premature ending of a project.
[12]1. Good business, wealth (full basket).
2. Poverty (empty basket).
3. Skill and versatility.
4. Feelings of emotional instability, turmoil (as in “basket case” or “to hell in a handbasket”).
[13]Baskets traditionally represent the seasons.
A full one, for instance, is full fruition and abundance, a time of harvesting. As a container, a basket can also represent the feminine closing or receptive principle.
[14]As a container made of natural fiber, a basket may refer to sharing your natural qualities with others. When holding fruit, a basket represents receiving or giving the bounty of nature or the fruits of your labor.
[15]Psychological / emotional perspective: To be attempting to fill a basket can mean that we are trying to increase our talents and abilities. Somehow we feel we do not have ‘enough’.
[16]A full basket predicts new opportunities are coming towards you.
An empty basket, or one that is damaged, implies that you will lose money due to some aspect or behavior of yourself.
[17]A straightforward dream.
If the basket was full and useful, you.
will have new opportunities; if it was empty or damaged, you are in danger of loss through your own carelessness.
[18]To dream of seeing or carrying a basket, signifies that you will meet unqualified success, if the basket is full; but empty baskets indicate discontent and sorrow.
[19]If you are carrying a full basket, you will be offered a better paying job.
If the basket is empty, you will lose your present job.
[20]Symbolic of carrying a burden, Ps. 81:6.
A basket can be symbolic of blessing and prosperity if you are carrying good fruit
[21]An obstacle dream, since it is so easy to upset the contents. Be careful of your business ventures or you will lose money.
[22]To dream of a basketful of goodies, groceries, and the like augurs good fortune and position.
An empty basket, sadness.
[23]1. First-fruits;
2. Fruitfulness; Deut. 28:5
3. Provisions; Gen. 40:16-17; Amos 8:1-2.
[24]In a dream, a basket represents a woman who guards people’s secrets.
[25]Programs, ideas, and beliefs you’re holding onto.
[26]A carrier of intergraded purposes
[27]For a man to dream of baskets is evil it denotes decay of business to a merchant, and want of employment to a mechanic, and loss of place to a servant; but if a woman dreams she receives a number of baskets, it is good, and especially so if well filled ;
to a maiden it denotes that she will have many new lovers; to the wife that she will have an increase in her family; and to the widow that she will soon marry again.
[28]lucky numbers: 16-18-24-33-38-44
another’s: your family wil increase in number.
empty, having an: you wil lose money through carelessness.
full: plenty in al its forms.
flower: another wil have an accident.
full, of a: everlasting life through birth, death and resurrection.
giving away your: don’t help that friend.
laundry: doubly confirm another’s honesty before placing your trust.
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