Dreams of severed hands

A friend regularly dreams that her hands are being cut off. This angsts her greatly: she knows her hands are going to be cut off, and they are. She retains no other memory of the dream.

I couldn't find a sensible explanation for this symbol. Do you have any idea?

Hello Tom,

I will have to propose two options

The first is that hands represent work; when they are cut, it may indicate serious financial problems.

The second is that hands are the symbol of strength and skill; the left hand is feminine, the right hand is masculine, and it may mean: infidelity of the best friend.

In relation to your friend's experience, you may perhaps find what suits or best informs you. Unless one of our friend members provides us with other information.

Hello Tom,

Dreaming of amputated hands signifies misfortune, illness, or the loss of a loved one.
Which hand is it, the right or the left?
In any case, it's a sign of death…

The magician.

:o Hello Tom,

Would it be possible for you to explain the context of the dream

For example: what is happening around her, what instrument is used to cut off her hands, whether she sees the blood spurting or not, etc. It may seem a bit barbaric when I ask whether there is blood or not, but these are very important dream details for the analysis.

Rolande

When she is beheaded, are her hands open, closed, white, dirty? Does she see the palm of her hand, the back of her hand, etc.? Are her hands raised with fingers extended, etc.? Are her hands small, large, etc.?

At the moment, I can offer you this interpretation (since the dream's context is not very detailed), and of course, we agree that the woman must take things into perspective; these are not absolute truths but rather avenues to explore and analyze as hypotheses.

The hand asserts action and intention; it manifests creativity and increasing supernatural elevation. The right hand represents action, while the left hand represents passivity and secrecy. Injured hands announce a major emotional wound that slows down activities, requiring that one replan their life.

Having both hands cut off indeed signifies a betrayal; it is a sign of impossibility, and the rupture will be shown publicly.

I would need more details about this dream.

This person will need significant emotional support and to be well supported by others.

P.S.: The fact that she becomes anxious in her dream and that she knows her hands will be cut off means she is aware of what is coming (preconscious/latent in her real life; she feels it, so it will not be a surprise to her. However, as she is experiencing intense anxiety, she may become very anxious when she learns this news, but she will not be surprised to hear it.

The amputation of the hands foretells a deep, temporary stagnation (action–passivity) on the symbolic level, of course. She will feel a great inability to act effectively for a few days due to extreme fatigue. This fine lady will need to rest.

You know what, Tom, she has all the strength she needs to succeed, even to get through this major breakup.

tenderness
Rolande

Hello Tom,

It seems that she is in a state of being unable to act or express herself fully in the face of a situation.

She has the means to do it, she has the resources, but something prevents her from acting.

The fact that someone from outside cuts them for her seems to indicate that she is facing an old, repetitive pattern in which she is once again projected, making her vulnerable to others' projections and will.

The means to get rid of it are there, but she has absolutely no idea how to do it. So she tirelessly repeats it, over and over again, acknowledging the fact, but having absolutely no idea what else to do.

It would be a matter of her better understanding the intention of the certainly unintentional "executioner" who is committing an abuse of power, and of knowing the intentions of her own hands before they are cut off.

That would be a good start for her. But at this stage, just a start

Hello Kostos,
Intuitively, I quite agree with you. It’s as if we would like to take action, but something or someone stronger is opposing it…

It’s a bit like a sore throat (without the dream): you’d like to speak up, but you can’t for fear of being poorly received… or misunderstood. And you have to swallow… your words… hence the sore throat…

Is that it?

See you soon, ClaudiaC

Thank you very much for all these elements.

I hope that reading your contributions will provide him with some clarity.

As Rolande suggests, I will still try to pry a few details out of him.

Thanks to your question and the quality of the interpretation, I managed to get more information.

So here is more description of the aforementioned dream of Caroline's:
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It's Olivier who cuts off my hands and sometimes my feet (Olivier is a former boyfriend of Caroline's, the grief not yet resolved)

In that case, he is determined, smiling, and calm, but I am not reassured at all.

The hands are white, on the back, resting on a table, not tied, and I am on my knees, pleading and crying not to have my hands sawed off, without being saved nonetheless.

The left hand is the first (she is left-handed) to be amputated; blood flows but does not spurt.

And Olivier quietly departs with both hands, delicately placed in a basket.

End of quote

Mmh, I think Caroline must have been in a state of shock when she woke up.

Hasn’t Olivier left with a part of her? Or is he still taking away her means?

After that dream, how did she feel?

What do you think?

ClaudiaC

Thank you, Tom, for this additional information.

It’s Olivier who cuts off my hands and sometimes my feet (Olivier is a former boyfriend of Caroline’s, the grief not yet having been resolved)

Dreaming about your ex-boyfriend and having ended that relationship for serious reasons places the dreamer in the same situation right now with another person.

The parts of the human body are linked to three dimensions in our dreams: The feet are linked to everything material, earthly desires, (survival) and the feet have powers identical to the KEY. The key serves to open doors to the supernatural or to the temporal, moving from the unattainable to the attainable. The foot decides where it will place its evolutionary step. In this sense, agility is marked by wings on the feet. The foot is a manifestation of the soul that decides its life trajectory on earth. It is a power, above all, of its realization, asserting itself through material, sexual, and social life. Cut feet represent a great emotional wound.

In that case, he is determined, smiling, and calm, but I am not reassured at all (I wouldn’t have been reassured either,

The hands are white, on the back: symbolizes an omen, an open declaration,

placed on a table: In a dream, the table symbolizes the dreamer's stability
It places the dreamer within their affective and romantic life. This love is nonexistent.

Not attached, and me on my knees: Finding oneself on one's knees before a person symbolizes the recognition of their values toward a person in a position of power and authority.

Begging in tears: symbolizes suffering and pain. Not to saw off my hands, yet not to save me either. (A feeling of powerlessness here; I acknowledge the arcanum 16, The House of God, which I interpret below.)

The left hand is the first (she is left-handed) to be amputated; the blood flows but does not gush. The left hand represents passivity, secrecy, the unconventional, and what is hidden. The right hand represents the active and the will.

And Olivier calmly departs with both hands, delicately placed in a basket. Here I see the number 2 (The High Priestess) and a basket. Moreover, he leaves and steals his hands from him:

A bad omen, for he appropriates things that are not rightfully his; sooner or later, he will suffer the consequences or the unpleasant repercussions (see below for ICARE). He takes, he steals, he takes love, both in the passive and in the active.

Interpretation according to the arcanum I see in his dream

The House of God due to its manifestation of powerlessness: the House of God in a dream signifies fragility, collapse. Unlucky, it promises reckless objectives, falls in position. Card houses crumble. Collapse is necessary to open up to greater awareness, and more experience. The House of God is the sixteenth arcanum of the Marseille Tarot; this arcanum expresses punishment, Ruin, but temporary. It is a sort of necessary crisis in the face of recklessness and Failure related to the errors of others.

The number (2) signifies instability and passivity; it is the opposition in every project, and the confusion it creates prevents continuity through conflicts. The High Priestess in a dream is a mysterious woman possessing the book of mystical truth, of revelation, and the power of the spirit that she does not yet know how to express. As a witness to authentic revelation, she possesses the knowledge of Knowledge. She is devoted to the priesthood. Her power cannot be power; it is knowledge. She can access the Akashic records in the eschatological direction of the world and the destiny of humankind. In the dream, she signals a highly interesting degree of the soul’s growth.

ICARE: Icarus is a mythological figure, the son of Daedalus and a slave. Imprisoned in the labyrinth with his father, he managed to take flight thanks to the wings attached by the latter, with wax on his shoulders. He thus escaped from the prison of the Minotaur, who had been killed earlier by Theseus. Although warned by his father Daedalus not to fly too high near the sun, he disobeyed, flew so high that the wax melted, and ICARE fell into the sea, where he drowned.

On the profane level, it represents the individual harboring unrealistic ambitions, or the intellectual whose mind is warped by the vanity of the intellect, the nervous person who cannot control their emotions. On the supernatural level, it personifies the soul that bases its life on human love, forgetting that divine love can make the true source of affection for the human person enduring.

Rolande