Stone

The stone is a symbol of being, of cohesion and consistency with yourself. Its hardness has always been seen as the opposite of the biological, subject to the laws of change, decay, and death. Despite appearances, the stone also has an inverse meaning to SAND. This element, in short, is an emblem of resistance, tenacity, perseverance, and eternity of being. Similarly, these qualities can lead to coldness, stubbornness, and the refusal of renewal. As a heavy element, a stone can symbolize the harsh burdens and responsibilities you have in real life. On the other hand, when broken into many pieces a stone represents dismemberment, mental disintegration, illness, death, and defeat.

If you dream that the stones rain down from the sky it means that your heart is hardened. Finally, gemstones symbolize transmutation from opacity to transparency, from imperfect into perfect. (See ROCK)

Stones in the road may be a reference to the clumsy and difficult-to-handle people who impede your progress.

If you throw stones, the dream indicates accusations. According to some oracles, if you collect them, you will inherit properties. Finally, to find precious stones augurs good luck.

To see stones in your dreams, foretells numberless perplexities and failures.

To walk among rocks, or stones, omens that an uneven and rough pathway will be yours for at least a while.

To make deals in ore-bearing rock lands, you will be successful in business after many lines have been tried.

If you fail to profit by the deal, you will have disappointments.

If anxiety is greatly felt in closing the trade, you will succeed in buying or selling something that will prove profitable to you. Small stones or pebbles, implies that little worries and vexations will irritate you.

If you throw a stone, you will have cause to admonish a person.

If you design to throw a pebble or stone at some belligerent person, it denotes that some evil feared by you will pass because of your untiring attention to right principles.

See Rock.

(Rock) Adiscarded stone in a dream represents a dead person. It could also represent people with hardened hearts, heedless, or jobless people.

It is common among the people of knowledge to describe an ignorant person as a stone. Owning a precious stone in a dream could mean buying one in wakefulness, or it may mean gaining a strong foothold over someone of the same caliber, or it could mean a marriage to a compatible person.

If one sees himself petrified in a dream, it means that he disobeys his Lord, in that sense, ifhe is sick, it means that he may die from his illness, or he may be inflicted with a stroke that will leave him paralyzed.

A falling stone over the world in a dream means the wrath of God Almighty, a calamity, or that an unjust person will rule the land.

If the stone splits asunder or explodes after falling in the dream, it means that the harm will touch every house. Carrying bags full of stones or moving mountains in a dream means attempting to do something difficult. Hanging a stone around one’s neck as a charm in a dream means that an affliction or an evil will take place.

If a poor person sees himself hitting a rock with a staff to split it, then if water gushes forth in the dream, it means that he will strike it rich. Stones in a dream also may represent devotion, asceticism, or godly people.

If a godly person or an ascetic sees himself possessing a stone in a dream, it means that the blessings he receives will show in his community, and people will seek him to pray for their needs. Owning a wheat grinding stone, ajuicer, porphyry, or any therapeutic or medicinal stones in a dream represent a respected or a revered person such as one’s father, one’s master, teacher, shaikh, friend, relative, physician, gnostic, a learned person, honorable people, a property, comfort, profits, benefits, or a rewarding trade. Such stones also may be interpreted as extensive travels.

(Also see Pebbles, Rocks) 414