Cellar

If you have not explored vour unconscious, the ‘cellars of your mind’ will be the whole of the unconscious mind.

If you have begun to explore, the ‘cellars’ will be the parts or levels of your unconscious that you have not yet explored.

Cellars are sometimes dark places; so are the unemployed layers of the unconscious, since they have not been illumined by the light of consciousness.

Because they are dark, and because they may harbour spiders and other creepy-crawly things, cellars may be frightening places. Similarly, unfamiliar parts of our mind may present a forbidding aspect. There are, in the unconscious, things we are afraid to face: that is why they are in the unconscious - we repressed them, banished them from consciousness, because they frightened or disgusted us or made us feel guilty and ashamed. But these repressed feelings or desires will rum out, on better acquaintance, to be quite innocent products of natural instinctive drives, requiring appropriate expression in our life.

It is the depository of such emotions as hate, anger, fear, cravings, etc.

The dream is challenging you to “clean out your basement”—to look at issues from the past that interfere with your life. This dream symbol appears frequently and taking the advice it gives is not easy—after all “cleaning the basement” is a dirty job! See Basement, Cave, Grotto, Tomb.

A wine cellar portends marriage with a person of gambling instincts or ooe in a hazardous occupation.

A cellar well stored with foods, canned foods, fruits or vegetables, is an indication of success in business or love, or both.

A musty cellar indicates disappointment.

Being unable to get out of a cellar foretells that you will find yourself with difficulties of a serious nature.