BUTTER

To see or taste butter in your dream suggests that you are looking to be gratified in some area of your life. It suggests the richness of simplicity and the unaffected perspectives that come with it. You need to indulge yourself in life’s simple pleasures. Bread and butter mean your livelihood, that which provides your basic needs, whilst butter and eggs represent optimism. Butterball portrays excess, an overblown or fattened aspect of yourself, whereas a butter churn denotes aspects that create life’s simple riches. Buttermilk refers to life’s spiritual rich rewards. Butternut points to receptivity to others and butterscotch flavor suggests something that has a rich flavor to it, rich as in emotional intelligence. Be aware too of the phrase ‘butter fingers’, which suggests that you have let something slip through your fingers and denotes a need to get a grasp on some important aspect of life. Margarine implies an effective substitute for the dreamer to use.

Vision: Fresh and delicious butter: everything is uin balance, ”Old, rancid butter: slander, intrigue, and hypocrisy. Eating butter means good health. Making your own butter: you want and need more love and tenderness in your life.

Depth Psychology: Sometimes, dreaming about butter is a sign of real worries, like: “will I have enough to eat even’ day?” The dream may also be a symbol of unacknowledged sexual needs. Or have you discovered the real reason why other people flatter you? See Cream.

(see Bread, Eating)

A favorable sign of accomplishing your goals and having continued good health. Selling butter portends small gains in business (e.g., making your “bread and butter”).

Spreading butter may indicate that you are somehow trying to “butter someone up” instead of taking a more direct tact.

Worship and sacrifice given to the Divine. In Mesopotamia, Tibet, and India, butter is considered a seemly offering.

Among Tibetans, also an emblem of prosperity soon to follow.