LILY

If you dreamed of a lily, you may associate it with a wedding (where it denotes hope and innocence) or a funeral (where it denotes mourning); in dreams, lilies are also associated with purity, peace and rebirth. It is the sacred flower of all the virgin goddesses in mythology. Christ told the Jews that Solomon, their monarch, dressed in all his sumptuous finery, could not equal the majesty of the lilies and told them to consider the lilies of the field—beautiful but unadorned.

The beautiful white arum lily is associated with death or transformation. Lily of the valley, also known as fairy bells, was associated with witches as it was used for healing, so your dream could be linked to some form of healing.

If you dream of lilies in a church, could they be linked to a wedding or a funeral? Or does the image you need to project in waking life need to be more elegant, cool and remote? On the other hand, they may also indicate being lily-livered or cowardly.

Because of their connection with funerals, for some people lilies can symbolise death. They can, however, also symbolise nobility and grace, and the interpretation needs to be carefully thought out.

If we are planting lilies we arc hoping for a peaceful transition in some area within our lives.

If we are gathering lilies, particularly in a woman’s dream we are developing a peaceful existence.

One symbol of lilies is that of purity and, particularly in a teenager’s dream, lilies can suggest virginity. Lilies in dreams, other than the white funerary arum lilv, can suggest aspects of femininity.

Spiritually lilies are a symbol of resurrection and of everlasting life. They arc often used in religious ceremony to denote this.

To dream of a lily, denotes much chastisement through illness and death.

To see lilies growing with their rich foliage, denotes early marriage to the young and subsequent separation through death.

To see little children among the flowers, indicates sickness and fragile constitutions to these little ones.

For a young woman to dream of admiring, or gathering, lilies, denotes much sadness coupled with joy, as the one she loves will have great physical suffering, if not an early dissolution.

If she sees them withered, sorrow is even nearer than she could have suspected.

To dream that you breathe the fragrance of lilies, denotes that sorrow will purify and enhance your mental qualities.